With a smart and very engaging heroine and interesting world-building, Eve of Darkness came very close to being a winning read for me. However, my frustrations with the men in Eve’s life and with having too many important questions either left unanswered or simply glossed over made this one that I cannot quite recommend. Evangeline…
The third book of the Cassandra Palmer series, Embrace the Night, takes you on a wild ride through time and space as Cassie attempts to break a spell that will destroy both her and Mircea, the vampire in her life, if it’s not undone. If you like non-stop action and an intensely supernatural world, you…
Second Skin is the third book of Kittredge’s heroine-centered Nocturne City series. This book joins the growing number of urban fantasies out there with aggressive kick-butt female leads. Luckily, this one rises above the middle of the pack with intelligent writing and scary, action-packed adventures. The series should be read in order, however – if…
More than most books, I think, this one isn’t going to change any minds. If you’re expecting to like it, you will. If you’re not, then you probably won’t. And, yep, to put to rest an issue that’s still out there, this first hardcover in the author’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series definitely qualifies as urban…
Note: This review contains series spoilers. This one is tough to write because…well, gee, because I just can’t tell you much of anything about the plot without spoiling the book for Sookie readers – something I really, really don’t want to do. For those new to the party, my advice is to not even think…
I’ll admit it. The main reason that I wanted to read the first book in Lori Handeland’s new series had to do with the title. Any Given Doomsday certainly beats the title-ing socks off The Alsatian Tycoon’s Latest Acquisition, Banging the Baron or other similar imagination-deficient titles that run together in my mind when I…
I’ve been on and off Kelley Armstrong for a while and now it’s official: I am off. S-o-o-o-o-o off. This one, the latest in what’s turning out to be the interminable Women of the Otherworld series, is a textbook example of how not to engage a reader. You take multiple stories and every few pages…
Though I’ve been in a bit of a “been there, done that” slump with regard to urban fantasy lately, Storm Born, first in the Dark Swan series, was definitely good enough to shake me out of it somewhat. This tale of a shaman on a quest in the Otherworld (a land quite reminiscent of the…
Deja Demon is the latest in Julie Kenner’s series featuring demon-hunter and suburban mom, Kate Connor. I found this entry – one that I don’t feel would stand alone well – to be a much darker read than 2007’s Demons Are Forever, which I reviewed earlier this summer. And, be warned, if you’ve not read…
In the interests of full disclosure, I’m a fan of Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries, and with the exception of the previous installment, I’ve enjoyed it in its entirety. After the disappointment of All Together Dead, though, I wasn’t sure if Harris had jumped the shark, or as the kids say these days, nuked the…
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