Claimed by Shadow is the second book in Chance’s Cassandra Palmer series. Cassie is a powerful, unique heroine who has more than her share of talents. She hunts murderers, communes with ghosts, travels through time, possesses vampires, and much more in a series chock-full of all kinds of supernatural powers and beings. Cassie is a…
The Devil Inside is Jenna Black’s first urban fantasy (she also writes paranormal romance for a different publisher). The book isn’t perfect, but it’s good – and highly original. Humans offer themselves up as hosts to Demons. Some demons, though, take possession of humans without their consent. This is against the law in the Morgan…
Karen Marie Moning is best known for her romances blending historical, paranormal, time travel, and fantasy elements. Some authors are successful with such hybrids while others aren’t. I think Moning falls into the former category, at least with Bloodfever. Bloodfever is the second novel in Moning’s new series, after Darkfever, so there’s a fair amount…
Now I’m worried. I love this series, but the ending of this book leaves the reader hanging in some crucial areas, and Arthur’s next book, due out in February, isn’t a Riley Jensen book at all! I might start hyperventilating. Seriously. As has been mentioned in previous reviews, the books in this series need to…
Blood Bound is the second book in what could become a great new urban fantasy series starring a tough, non-human heroine. Mercedes Thompson is a VW mechanic, which gets her a lot of jokes. She is a “walker”, which is similar to the Skinwalkers of Native American folklore. Mercy can turn into a coyote, but…
The seventh book in Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries series, All Together Dead, wasn’t altogether great. The book started off with human telepath Sookie Stackhouse attending a meeting of vampires. It wasn’t the most thrilling way to start a book, especially one of Harris’, because those meeting were basically catching everyone up on their forthcoming summit….
“You take what you can get.” That is what Joanne Walker tells herself towards the end of a mind-numbing journey, and it encapsulates her essence. Joanne is a half Irish, half Cherokee officer for the Seattle Police Department. As detailed in the two previous books in the series, she started out as a garage mechanic…
Why, Oh Why is it that previously wonderful series’ take a dramatic downhill turn when moving to hardcover? I have waited not too patiently for each installment in the Hollows series and never been truly disappointed until now. With A Few Demons More I feel like the author chopped up the characters and threw them…
To put it plainly, Changeling disappointed me. One of its main problems is an overabundance of plot. There are just too many things vying for space and time here. The first book in the series, Witchling, also suffered from this problem. I keep coming back for more because I genuinely like the characters, but it’s…
No Humans Involved is the seventh book in the Women of the Otherworld series, a series that has maintained a readable quality, but not managed to exceed – or really match – the quality of its first couple of books. This book fits into that pattern very neatly. This time around our Otherworld Woman is…