Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ Death’s Excellent Vacation
An interesting anthology of thirteen short stories revolving around a theme of paranormals going on a “normal” vacation.
Genre: fantasy
Book Review: Julie Kagawa’s The Iron King
A dark stranger begins watching her, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective, Meghan discovers she’s the daughter of a mythical faery king and a pawn.
Book Review: Deborah Harkness’ A Discovery of Witches
A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together.
Book Review: Jeaniene Frost’s First Drop of Crimson
Denise MacGregor knows too much about the dark and a demon shapeshifter wants Denise; now her survival depends on Spade, an immortal who craves a taste of her.
Book Review: Richelle Mead’s Succubus Blues
Something wicked is in Seattle’s demon underground. And all of succubus Georgina Kincaid’s charms and one-liners won’t help against creatures both heaven and hell want to deny. . .
Book Review: Karen Marie Moning’s Shadowfever
Determined to find the Sinsar Dubh, MacKayla Lane goes from the bed of her lover to that of the Unseelie King, on a journey that will force her to face the truth.
Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s The Reckoning
Fifteen-year-old Chloe Saunders happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be ‘cursed’?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them.
Book Review: Orson Scott Card’s The Lost Gate
Danny North is an outsider in his own family. A boy with no talent in a house of secrets, great expectations, and so many rules, isolated far from town, from other people.
Book Review: Thomas E. Sniegoski’s Where Angels Fear to Tread
Six year-old Zoe York’s crude drawings are her visions of the future and make her a target for evil. It’s a search that takes Remy to dark places – and his soul may pay the price.
Book Review: Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero
A freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to Camp Half-Blood, where Piper will discover why her boyfriend no longer recognizes her and what trouble her father is in.