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.
Publisher: Penguin
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: Janet Evanovich’s Twisted Twenty-six
Grandma Mazur is a widow…again, and she gets more than the attention she wants when Jimmy’s former “business partners” are convinced that his widow is keeping the keys to their financial success for herself.
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: Clive Cussler and Graham Brown’s Journey of the Pharaohs
Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew risk everything to stop a cutthroat arms dealer from stealing a priceless ancient treasure.
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.
Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s “Follow the Lady”
Antimony, Sam, Cylia, Fern, and James are on James’ virgin road trip that detours via Buckley Township and an unexpected meeting with Grandma Alice where Annie fills her in.
Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s Imaginary Numbers
Finally, we get Sarah Zellaby’s story! She’s a cuckoo, a telepathic ambush predator adopted by the Price-Healys, and now the cuckoos want her back. To end our world.
Book Review: Lynn Kurland’s The Mage’s Daughter
Neroche is under assault and nightmarish creatures roaming the Nine Kingdoms in a war of evil. Miach of Neroche is torn between his responsibilities and the hunted woman he loves.