Confession first: I’m not crazy about the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it either. The first fifty pages of Covet seemed to bear out all the reasons I’d checked out of the BDB. The punctuation idiosyncrasies. The super slow setup. The martyred heroine. And the mean-ass heroes who,…
The Huntress anthology contains a mix of stories that center around characters that are, you guessed it, some kind of hunter. While none of the stories were fantastic, most were enjoyable, with only one that I didn’t care for, so I’d recommend this collection to lovers of paranormals.
This book had the promise to be the sort of fantasy story that I love. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, it’s filled with colorful, funny characters, and the magical element exists in a way that could potentially screw up the whole world – but so far only makes life a little crazy. However, the…
Though I’ve never read Caitlin Kittredge before, as soon as I saw descriptions of this book, I knew I had to read it. I’m a fan of Simon R. Green’s Nightside series, to which this tale bears a few similarities, and the darkness-tinged characters in this book definitely caught my interest. Pete Caldecott is a…
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…
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…