Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s Pathways
An anthology of 21 short stories revolving around Mercedes Lackey’s fantastical world of the Heralds of Valdemar, the kingdom’s ancient order of protectors drawn from across the land.
Genre: fantasy
Book Review: Patricia Briggs’ Smoke Bitten
One of the deadly prisoners of Underhill has escaped and is rampaging through the Tri-Cities. In Mercy Thompson Hauptman’s territory. It controls you. It can look like anyone.
Book Review: Lynn Kurland’s Dreamer’s Daughter
Rùnach of Ceangail, his magic restored, is determined to help Aisling of Bruadair fulfill her quest. And after a lifetime of lies, she discovers her past, her family…and her magic.
Book Review: Lynn Kurland’s River of Dreams
Time is running out for Aisling of Bruadair to find a mercenary to save her country. Luckily for them both, Rùnach of Ceangail intends to help her.
Book Review: Kim Harrison’s “Sudden Backtrack”
Back in the shrouds of time, the animosity between elf and demon is revealed, as is the truth of Newt’s descent into insanity.
Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s In an Absent Dream
It’s the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who doesn’t want to live up to the expectations of the world around her. Alas, her paradise turns out to be where she makes the wrong kind of bargain.
Book Review: Benedict Jacka’s Fallen
The Council is getting close to the truth, and Alex Verus, a diviner, could lose everything. To protect those he cares for, Alex will have to become something different. Something darker…
Book Review: Laurell K. Hamilton’s “Wounded”
Be proud of life’s battle scars. It means you were stronger than whatever hurt you, and you didn’t die—and Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and U.S. Marshal will be the first to show you hers.
Book Review: Ben Aaronovitch’s False Value
Peter Grant has gone undercover in a tech genius’ company and finds a secret hidden in its bowels. A technology that stretches back to the past and forward to the future of AI.
Book Review: Lynn Kurland’s Dreamspinner
Aisling of Bruadair has lived an enslaved life, heedless of the evil creeping over her land. But then she is sent to the opposite end of the world to find a master swordsman.