I can’t say I would happily die tomorrow, but if I did, I could rest a little easier in the knowledge that Michael from Meljean Brook’s Guardian series finally got his well-deserved HEA, and that one of my favorite series ended on high note. Guardians are super-powered humans, conscripted upon their death by Michael, their…
Look up complex in the dictionary and one of the definitions will be “novels by Meljean Brook, esp the Guardian series.” Ms. Brook can also be found in the thesaurus under antonyms for “brain candy.” Hers are not the type of books that you read between phone calls or on your lunch break. Concentration is…
In a way, Meljean Brook’s latest installment to her Guardian series reminds me of the grand tradition of oral mythology. It has the same epic quality, with myriad storylines, races, motives, and degrees of good and bad, and I read Demon Blood with the same breathless anticipation with which one might await the next installment…
Demon Bound is the first novel I’ve read by Meljean Brook and I must admit that I probably shouldn’t have jumped into this series mid-steam. However, this book can be read as a stand-alone, although I believe the experience would have been richer had I read the three previous books in the series. While still…
When an author has the ability to make a reader lose herself in a story and to create characters who are so overwhelming that every word or action has a double meaning, you know you have a winner. And if the reader wants to go back and re-read the story a second time because the…
Sometimes the problem with a great beginning is that the rest of the book has trouble living up to it. Such is the case with Meljean Brook’s debut single-title Demon Angel. The first few chapters had me eagerly turning the pages, hungry for more. But a number of weaknesses gradually lowered my impression of this…