Big Bad Wolf is a book that I could best sum up as meh. It’s got a lot of sex and fighting in it, but the heroine, Missy Roper is quite a pale and meek character. I guess when you end up as the Mate to an alpha Lupine male, you can’t be too feisty…
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…
While I enjoy urban fantasy, I’m always aware that it’s a genre that will often lack a HEA and is sometimes written in first person, something I can find annoying. Faefever has both of those characteristics, and, though I found reading it occasionally frustrating, I was captivated. MacKayla Lane is a young Georgia woman who…
I’ve enjoyed Jennifer Ashley’s historical romances, as well as the historical novel she wrote as part of the Laurien Gardner team. When this versatile author turned her hand to the paranormal Immortals series, I knew I would have to read it. Immortals: The Redeeming is a steamy romance and, while I had my quibbles with…
Late last year I discovered Marjorie M. Liu’s Dirk and Steele series, and read all but one of the full-length books and her short story from the Dark Dreamers anthology. That short story introduced a family of gargoyle brothers into the author’s urban fantasy romance world, and added one to the ranks of the “detectives”…
A couple of years ago I read, and loved, Christine Warren’s She’s No Faerie Princess. After finishing her latest, however, I have a strong contender for one slot in my ballot for AAR’s 2008 Annual Reader’s Poll. Unfortunately, that slot is Most Disappointing read. This latest entry in The Others series started out with an…
I already had a Dirk and Steele novel in my tbr pile, so I was happy for the chance to review The Last Twilight , the most recent installment in this unique series. Luckily, the story stands on its own, so I wasn’t lost. In fact, the hints of backstory, mixed with the success of…
When I realized that the author of the third book in the Immortals fantasy/paranormal series was the same Joy Nash who wrote two books set in the unusual and not often used time period of the Roman Empire, I boo-hoo’d a bit at the loss of another historical romance author to the paranormal romance bandwagon….
I started reading this anthology right after reading Laurie’s fantastic ATBF column on urban fantasy. It even got me out of lurkerdom on the AAR boards to comment. I spent a good deal of time contemplating why I like urban fantasy so much, because it’s one of the few genres in which I have auto-buy…
This is one of those books that almost hit the wall more than a few times. The heroine behaves badly. The hero behaves badly. And, to make matters worse, much of the action involves characters who don’t even merit the slightest development since I already supposedly know and love them from previous books. And then…