The magical world of an alternate history London is unfolded in The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lillith Saintcrow. This first in a new series introduces us to Bannon and Clare, a not quite harmonious team of logic and instinct. With each chapter of this suspenseful steampunk mystery, Saintcrow’s world becomes more […]
Airships and automatons are abound in The Affinity Bridge by George Mann, the first book that was suggested to me for my Queue the Quipster feature. This entertaining detective story is a delightful piece of steampunk fiction and Mann delivers a fun mystery with the beginning to his Newbury & […]
Magnus Flyte’s City of Dark Magic transported me to another place, if not another world. Prague, the featured city, sets a beautiful backdrop for a tale of Beethoven, espionage and nobility. Though the book tells of a fantasy unlike the one I imagined at first glance, I was soon transfixed […]
I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I started reading The Lazarus Machine by Paul Crilley, but I honestly did not have high hopes. The description mentioned Professor Moriarty from the wonderful books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I was nervous The Lazarus Machine would just be a steampunk, young adult […]
Sometimes when you throw an old idea or concept upside down, it’s not for the best. It makes the reader question things. It makes the reader confused. It can even make the reader laugh, when you aren’t meaning to be funny. That’s what happened to me, when I tried to […]
I admit, when I first saw Bear Meets Girl by Shelly Laurenston, and read the synopsis, I wasn’t too excited to read it. I put it in my pile, and pretty much forgot about it (totally forgetting I needed to read it before it was published) until a few days ago. […]
I am a self-proclaimed nerd and I absolutely love it when I can read about other nerds. Unfortunately, Joan Kilby and I seem to have different definitions of what a nerd is. Because of that, Gentlemen Prefer Nerds was very different from what I expected. As much as I wanted […]
Every time I mentioned LE to my Mother-In-Law, she would start to talk about Nora Roberts’ (aka J.D. Robb) “In Death” series. Then I got jury duty and needed to take a paperback since they wouldn’t allow e-readers at the courthouse, so I borrowed the first of the series, Naked in […]
The beginning of my love affair with Max Savoie began with Chased by Moonlight. I fell hard for this man…er series after only a few chapters. And so, I’ve been waiting in pure torture to read the first book of the Moonlight series, Masked by Moonlight ever since. Once it […]
I discovered a loophole in the New Author Challenge: if an author who’s books you’ve read before writes under a different name, you can read their new stuff and still count it as a new-to-you-author. So that’s why, even though I have already read and loved some of Julie Kenner’s books, I was finally able to […]
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