If you’re looking for an easy read, a book you can speed through on cruise-control, something you can put down or pick up at will, you should probably skip Marjorie M. Liu’s The Red Heart of Jade. If, however, you’re looking for an engagement, something to really sink your teeth into, then this is the…
I’ve been on an Urban Fantasy/paranormal kick lately so I was happy to read the new one by Ms. Ward for review. I read her first in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series when it came out, and though it wasn’t a DIK, I did enjoy it enough to be looking forward to the second –…
Is that you, Santy Claus? No, it sure isn’t. Forget everything you know about Santa Claus because I have news for you, he sure isn’t a right jolly old elf. Try immortal, gorgeous and fey instead – a death fey to be exact. For those that haven’t read the previous books in Melanie Jackson’s lutin…
Reading this series has been an interesting experience. I’m never quite sure what the next book will bring to Crimson City. Although I liked the basic elements of this, the fifth book in the series, I disliked the heroine. Also, the combination of bleeding and sex just doesn’t do it for me. Yech. For those…
Through a Crimson Veil is the third installment in the Crimson City series. Instead of involving werewolves or vampires, this introduces readers to the demon realm, Orcus. With the uneasy truce between humans, werewolves and vampires, adding demons into the mix could shift the balance and cause an all out war among the already wary…
Marjorie M. Liu made quite a splash with her 2005 debut Tiger Eye. I have to admit that while I liked the first few chapters well enough, the story didn’t grab me enough to make me pick it up again after I set it down and I never finished it. Shadow Touch, the second book…
A Darker Crimson is the fourth book in LoveSpell’s multi-author Crimson City series and Jewel’s departure from historical romance. As an author, I think Carolyn Jewel shows promise, but sometimes her execution is flawed. She does some good things here with world-building and plotting, but her characterization is a bit spotty, and her pacing and…
Ever watch an episode of Charmed on tv? It’s a show about three sisters (at least initially, I think they’ve added a cousin or two) who find out their mother was a witch and they’ve inherited her abilities. The three of them live together and fight evil wherever it appears. Sounds interesting, and it was…
What a difference a book makes. Ms. Liu’s debut book Tiger Eye was a bit of a disappointment. Though many loved the shape-shifter/X-Men plotting, what I came away with was more akin to frustration than anything else. The imaginative storyline was appealing (indeed, it motivated me to read this sophomore effort) but all I could…
The first time I picked up this book, I put it down after reading the back. It was one more vampire book, one more series, one more niftily-named secret group…and the hero’s name was Wrath. The book didn’t sound bad, but with other books featuring similar elements gathering dust on my shelf, I didn’t know…
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