Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s The Bartered Brides
With Sherlock Holmes dead, it falls to Nan Killian and Sarah Lyon-White with their friends John and Mary Watson to find the madman cutting the heads off young brides.
With Sherlock Holmes dead, it falls to Nan Killian and Sarah Lyon-White with their friends John and Mary Watson to find the madman cutting the heads off young brides.
Dead for 60 years, 16-year-old Rose Marshall only knows the ghost roads until Bobby Cross forces her back. She only wants to get back to life as the hitchhiking ghost.
“Suffer a Sea-change” is from Gillian’s perspective as she begins to question her parents’ views on Toby and discovers how she’s been manipulated.
It’s not what October Daye would choose as a distraction as her self-made family falls apart, with losing Tybalt. But it’s what Toby gets when her daughter is kidnapped.
Warden Torin Kerr has her family around her now, all engaged in using their skills for the good of the Confederation. Until Big Yellow returns and demands its return.
Reports have been arriving of a strange unrest, and Mags, Herald Spy of Valdemar, takes his oldest, Perry, with his Animal Mindspeech gift to discover the truth.
Boning up on alien protocols & navigating the kids’ first day of school is bad enough, but Kitty Katt-Martini deals with robot attacks, the murderous Club 51, and worst of all, the PTA!
A hidden superbeing, android replacements, and an army of Fem-Bots turn the peace talks into a Battle Royale that the team might not actually survive. Earth may not make it, either.
Young women are disappearing in the dark of night, reappearing as automatons. Nan, Sarah and the Watsons discover it was no ordinary horror that drove them mad.
Grief and a constant stream of guilt prods the young countess, April O’Leary, a computer dryad, to push at the barrier of death with the aid of Sir October Daye.