Anne McCaffrey is known for her Dragonriders of Pern, a sci/fi-fantasy series that, for me, wore off in direct proportion to its gargantuan growth. So, it is my pleasure to award DIK status to a story that is one of most perfect novellas I’ve ever read. Meanne is a runaway princess. Her father wants to…
The action and adventure of Mystic Warrior take place during the French Revolution and are set in France, England, and the mythical island of Aelynn. The plot revolves around the struggle of a man to take control of his potential and the woman who enables him to do so. As exciting as all this could…
Faeries Gone Wild is a collection of stories about faeries and the love they find and some unusual circumstances these faeries find themselves in. Overall, the stories are cute, with some being better than others.
Well. It’s unusual, at least. Belinda Primrose is a spy and assassin for Lorraine, the queen of a country on a map that looks suspiciously like 1588 Europe. Belinda is also a magician (called witchlords in this alternate historical fantasy), and happens to be Lorraine’s bastard daughter, the progeny of the Virgin Queen and her…
Shana Abe is an author that I’ve been really looking forward to reading. Unfortunately, The Treasure Keeper isn’t the book I should have read first. The lack of momentum and an unsympathetic heroine failed to pull me into the world of Abe’s drakon. Zoe Lane is a female drakon and, although she is unable to…
Jade Lee is a flexible author, indeed. Her previous books have covered the darker side of Regency England, as well as taking readers to Imperial China. Now, she turns her hand to fantasy romance. Dragonbound contains a lot more darkness and tragedy than the average romance I read, but somehow it makes the HEA seem…
After finishing The Pearls and then The Crown, a two-volume fantasy series by Deborah Chester, I thought it okay. It was nicely written overall, but nothing that special. But rather to my surprise, the books stayed with me. I went on considering their plotting and characters, and suddenly I realised that I had in fact…
I’d read some good things about Kurland’s Nine Kingdoms trilogy, so I jumped on the opportunity to read and review the last book, Princess of the Sword. This trilogy deals with the same main characters, rather than a new couple every book, so I definitely came in during the final act. While I would strongly…
I should start right out by saying if you’re looking for a steamy story, this may not be for you. I am very glad to say that 22 Nights is not, as the title and cover suggest, a treatise on 22 very long nights of kinky, purple prose sex. Instead, I was pleased to discover…
The Magic Knot is an imaginative book with a fun premise. Set in contemporary, but magical, Cornwall and Ireland, it features fairies, druids, leprechauns, and intrigue galore. Because I enjoyed the ideas of the book so much, I had a tough time grading it, because the actual execution of the ideas sometimes leaves something to…
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