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Book Review: John Varley’s Red Lightning

Book Review: John Varley’s Red Lightning

“Mars sucks.” And if anyone’s allowed to say it, Ray Garcia-Strickland is, since his father was one of the first men to set foot there. Ray’s father is now the manager of the Red Thunder, one of the swankiest hotels on overdeveloped Mars. And Ray has seen his share of gravity-dependent Earthies. Which doesn’t stop him from fearing the worst when Earth is struck by an unknown object, causing a massive tsunami. Living high on his father’s glory was okay, but now Ray must literally come down to Earth—and help solve one of its greatest mysteries…

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Posted July 12, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews, Young Adult readers / 0 Comments

Book Review: Stacia Kane’s City of Ghosts

Book Review: Stacia Kane’s City of Ghosts

Faced with her greatest challenge yet, Chess has to travel to the spirit city to finally lay all her ghosts to rest. She must navigate the underground City of Eternity, killer wraiths, and a lot of seriously nasty magic all while under a death binding spell. And the only man she can trust to help her through it all has every reason to want her dead.

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Posted July 7, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Charlie Huston’s Every Last Drop

Book Review: Charlie Huston’s Every Last Drop

Every Last Dropby Charlie Huston urban fantasy in a paperback edition that was published by Del Rey Books on September 30, 2008 and has 252 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Already Dead, No Dominion, Half the Blood of Brooklyn, My Dead BodyFourth in the Joe Pitt urban fantasy series set in a contemporary New York City about a lone vampire refusing to bow down to any one group of vampires. Joe doesn’t care about anyone else’s agenda. He simply wants to be his own man, um, vampire. But rogues aren’t tolerated and every clan, society, enclave wants a piece of Joe for their own ends. My Take Oh wow. It makes sense. It really does. But still. Oh lord. I hate that I have to wait to read My Dead Body. I am dying to know how they all cope with what Joe has unleashed, hee-hee-hee . . . The Story After burning all his bridges in Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Joe is in miserable exile in the Bronx. Even more of a loner — and alone — than ever. Joe doesn’t even know if Evie made it […]

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Posted July 7, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Charlie Huston’s No Dominion

Book Review: Charlie Huston’s No Dominion

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.No Dominionby Charlie Huston urban fantasy in a paperback edition that was published by Del Rey Books on January 1, 2006 and has 251 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Already Dead, Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Every Last Drop, My Dead BodySecond in the urban fantasy series, Joe Pitt, a new kind of paranormal crime fiction. Yup, the name says it all — gritty, pulp noir about a 17-year-old runaway who gets infected with the Vyrus turning him into a vampire. My Take This was good! I never saw it coming. The truth about Luthor X. How DJ Grave Digga fits into the whole. The past history between Vandewater, Terry, and Predo. Huston had me going back and forth like a ping pong ball! How Huston kept getting Joe out of one mess and into another and then the manner in which Huston wrapped it all up. Sneaky bugger. I ever do a job for him, I’m having my lawyer check out […]

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Posted June 20, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments