Kelley Armstrong gives us more characters and complexity with every novel. At times it feels like you are biting off more than you can chew, but she always manages to steal you back before you fall over the edge and become overwhelmed. Haunted has a little something for every paranormal reader. But if you are…
Industrial Magic is the fourth book in Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series, and the Otherworld grows more and more complex with each installment. Paige Winterbourne, first introduced in Dime Store Magic (which LLB, btw, enjoyed), is a witch without a coven. As told in that earlier story, her ward, Savannah, a powerful witch…
Julie Kenner’s Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom has a killer premise that’s neatly summed up in the title. If the book itself isn’t quite as killer, it’s still pretty good, a light, fluffy read perfect for summer. Kate Connor used to work as a demon hunter for the Vatican, until she left…
C.E. Murphy makes an impressive debut with her first novel, Urban Shaman, a book that kept me up way past my bedtime. I knew I was going to be exhausted the next day, but couldn’t tear myself away from this fun ride. It was worth the lost sleep. Half-Cherokee/half-Irish Joanne Walker had little use for…
Dead as a Doornail is book five in the Southern Vampire series told in the first-person by telepathic small-town Louisiana bar waitress Sookie Stackhouse. I’ve enjoyed all the books in this series and am happy to report that Dead as a Doornail is a worthy follow-up to the last in the series, Dead to the…
Who said vampires can’t be fun? Charlaine Harris clearly doesn’t buy it as she proves once again in the latest entry in her delightful Sookie Stackhouse series. Since bad boys have always held immense appeal for me, fans of the series won’t be surprised that I’ve always had a major Jones for Eric, the sexy…
Sookie Stackhouse is back. Those of you who have been waiting anxiously for the sequel to Dead Until Dark will be pleased to know that Living Dead in Dallas is another cleverly unique story with the same high quality writing as Harris’s first Southern Vampire novel. Sookie, for all that she enjoys her association with…
An unread Dead Until Dark is a smile waiting to happen. This crossover book is appealing on a variety of levels, which makes for a very nice change. Usually, if I have a long list of things I want to point out, they generally have to do with the problems in a book. Not so…