Genre: dark fantasy

Book Review: Charlie Huston’s My Dead Body

Book Review: Charlie Huston’s My Dead Body

Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a private eye, an enforcer, an exile, and a vigilante, but now he’s just a target with legs.

Posted August 1, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Rob Thurman’s Blackout

Book Review: Rob Thurman’s Blackout

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.Blackoutby Rob Thurman dark fantasy in a paperback edition that was published by Ace Books on March 1, 2011 and has 352 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Grimrose Path, Basilisk, Doubletake, Kicking It, Nevermore, Shadowed SoulsSixth in the Cal Leandros dark urban fantasy series set in contemporary New York City. Cal and his brother, Niko, are loners who live to fight the supernatural. My Take I love this series. Yes, it’s dark. VERY dark. Thurman writes so very well that I can feel the grimness of their lives, the grittiness of New York, the peace that Peter Pan brought to Cal as a child. The loneliness he experiences as himself along with the regret he feels for leaving behind that scrap of humanity he got to experience. Yet we also experience the love and respect he has for Niko. Both good men. Cal comes to understand the place he holds for Niko and the support only he can provide. As for […]

Posted July 12, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 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.

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