Tag: battle

Book Review: David, Weber, Timothy Zahn, and Thomas Pope’s A Call to Insurrection

Yesterday, the Star Kingdom of Manticore was a small, unimportant interstellar backwater with little need for a navy and even less interest in paying for one. But now Manticore is a target. The invitation to the Andermani Empire is welcome and yet Travis, Lisa, and Gavin find themselves squarely in the path of the storm, and before Travis, Lisa, and Gavin can accomplish anything else, they first have to survive.

Posted February 13, 2023 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Lynn Kurland’s A Dance Through Time

A park bench unexpectedly took Elizabeth Smith, a starving writer, into her dreams of romance, into 1311 Scotland where she would turn Jamie MacLeod’s ordered world upside-down.

Posted November 21, 2022 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Larissa Ione’s Bond of Passion

He was an assassin. She was his lover. And his victim.
Now, years later, she’s back from the dead and looking for vengeance.

Posted November 14, 2022 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Nalini Singh’s Archangel’s Resurrection

A legendary love story driven by the primary energy of two archangels in a cycle of love and heartbreak, one that ends when Zanaya chooses to Sleep. Both woken in the Cascade, this is the last beat of their passionate, angry dance. The final song for Alexander and his Zani.

Posted November 11, 2022 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar

An anthology of sixteen short stories in the Tales of Valdemar fantasy series by a variety of authors, including Mercedes Lackey.

Posted October 3, 2022 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Christine Feehan’s Dark Whisper

There is a fire building inside Vasilisa Sidkorolyavolkva. As a Lycan of royal blood she knows what is expected of her. As her mother’s daughter, she knows a man will claim her, but there is a dreadful restlessness growing in her and in the earth. When she meets Afanasiv Belan, they both realize they will become something more — something feared by both of their kinds.

Posted September 14, 2022 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Nalini Singh’s Archangel’s War

The world is in chaos as the power surge of the Cascade rises to a devastating crescendo threatening to wipe out entire populations and leaving Elena and her archangel irrevocably changed. These same events prove that even the archangels are not immune to this deadly evil. Even the combined power of the Cadre may not be enough . . .

Posted June 6, 2022 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Ilona Andrews’ Bayou Moon

William, a changeling soldier forced back into service crosses paths with Cerise Mar and her unruly clan of the Edge who are out for revenge and to save her parents.

Posted May 4, 2022 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Ilona Andrews’ One Fell Sweep

A race, desperate to avoid extinction, is sent to Gertrude Hunt B&B for help from Dina. Only a dread enemy is determined to destroy them and will go through anyone and anything. Fortunately Dina and friends has already rescued her very capable sister.

Posted November 29, 2021 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: David Weber’s The Shadow of Saganami

Captain Aivars Terekhov follows in Duchess Harrington’s footsteps as he maneuvers to protect the Talbott System and the Lynx Junction with the help of Lt. Abigail Hearns, the first Grayson woman to go through Saganami, and Helen Zilwicki who is on her first snotty cruise, bringing her already vast experience with hand-to-hand combat and her father’s spycraft aboard.

Posted November 3, 2021 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments