Dixie LePage is at an all-time low. Her engagement has just ended, and she leaves her job as a school librarian to travel to Bringham, a village in southern England, to collect an inheritance left to her by two maiden aunts that she never met. The inheritance includes a substantial sum of money, along with…
Many readers are probably already familiar with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and the other mashups out there. Bespelling Jane Austen does not really fall into that category. Though it reimagines Jane Austen’s work in a paranormal world, the stories in this anthology are original and quite enjoyable.
Between the land of the Broken, where technology is king and magic is a tale told to children and the Weird and where the strength of your magic determines your very existence, lies the Edge. With a terrain as tough as its people, the Edge is no place for the faint of heart. And one…
J.K. Beck gets her new paranormal series off to a strong, intriguing start. Though I am most familar with her writing through her Tales of a Demon Hunting Soccer Mom written as Julie Kenner, she proves in this book that she can write a much darker, grittier world very well. Though her world has a…
Wow. Just, wow. Crave left me almost speechless and pondering the intricacies of the characters and situations. Since I haven’t read Covet yet – something I will shortly correct – I wasn’t sure what to expect. However, I can say that if you go into this one expecting or wanting traditional romance or something similar…
It’s been a while since I read Jayne Castle (aka Jayne Ann Krentz and Amanda Quick). And, while I didn’t expect her to have changed, I wondered if her formula still works. Just because a book is derivative doesn’t mean it can’t be enjoyable, right? Well, if you’ve read AAR before, then you’ve probably read…
This book marks another in a long line of firsts for me; it was my first Christine Feehan experience and one for which I had few expectations. Though linked to other Feehan novels, it marks the first in the new Sisters of the Heart series concerning six adoptive sisters. The characters alone made for a…
Although this is only the second book by Larissa Ione that I’ve read (and reviewed), both entries in the Demonica series struck me as remarkably equilibrated. I didn’t love Sin Undone, but I liked it enough that I can certainly recommend the author as a welcome antidote to the usual run of paranormals. Sinead Donnelly…
In cooking, it’s not just one element that makes a dish succeed since the freshest and finest ingredients only go so far. If the wrong cooking style is used or a dish cooked too long, it may fall flat. So too, in a book, an interesting concept is not the only element needed for a…
I’ll be honest here. I read anthologies for one reason only: Favorite authors. Some obsessive/compulsive element in my personality forces me to read any tale that takes place in a series I am following. This book had one such tale – I am a big fan of the Psy/Changeling books – and the minute I…
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