Book Review: Simon R. Green’s Agents of Light and Darkness
A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London…called the Nightside.
A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London…called the Nightside.
Gin’s been picking off Mab’s men for weeks. Now Mab intends for some payback when she hires Elektra LaFleur. Mab will stop at nothing to take out the Spider.
Alisa Perne is the last vampire. Beautiful and brilliant, she hunts alone, living among humans, living off humans. But someone is stalking her. Someone wants her dead. And Alisa has a choice to make – to keep a long held promise or protect the mortal she seems to be falling for.
The haters are camped outside Cadogan House, and the mayor is threatening them when a violent vamp attack leaves three women missing.
Merit has been assigned to the Alpha, Gabriel Keene, as his bodyguard…and as a spy for the vamps. Luckily Ethan’s offering some steamy, one-on-one combat training.
Bad PR causes Ethan Sullivan to insist Merit reconnect with her upper class family and liaise between humans and vampires—keep the more unsavory bits out of the media
Seven suburban misfits are constructing a spaceship out of old tanker cars. The plan is to beat the Chinese to Mars–in under four days at three million miles an hour. It would be history in the making if it didn’t sound so insane.
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Wildwood Dancingby Juliet MarillierFirst in the Wildwood fantasy series for Young Adult readers. My Take This is a lovely fairytale of a merchant family in Transylvania that had my hackles raised. How dare Cezar bully the girls, their servants, the villagers? How could no one see what was happening? How could they tolerate this? And Queen Ileana? I was appalled at her reaction to the girls’ warnings and yet her response made sense. This tale’s events began when Costi, Cezar, and Jena were playing a game in the woods some years ago and each wanted a major role to play. It’s Costi’s dream that comes fatally true after a rescue attempt. Life must progress and to take action against someone’s threats can create even larger problems. The kinds of problems Cezar was creating. I loved the results of the traditional kiss of transformation; it was rather difficult not to see it coming if one pays attention to Jena’s dialogs with Gogu. And how very useful that turned out to be for Jena, having […]
Deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, she is prisoner to the Winter faery queen, and war looms between Summer and Winter with the real danger coming from the Iron fey.
An attack leaves Merit a vampire with no choice but to trade sweating over my thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of vamps loyal to Ethan “Lord o’ the Manor” Sullivan.