The journey is everything in Jon F. Merz’s The Undead Hordes of Kangul. A starter to the new Shadow Warrior series, there is something classically charming within. Merz creates a world that feels familiar, like a classic warrior or fairy tale. These classic elements such as a damsel in distress […]
Intrigue abounds in A Study in Darkness, the second installment of Emma Jane Holloway’s Baskerville Affair Trilogy. Picking up several months after A Study in Silks , the story plays out like a true sophomore entry. While not as thrilling or as creative as the first, Holloway contrasted the prior society […]
Lynn Kurland brings a new entry into her Nine Kindoms series in River of Dreams. Though this was my first foray into Kurland’s writing, I dived right in. Unfortunately, I was simply left wondering how she became such a popular author. With little to hold my interest, I found River […]
And I think it’s finished. I think. Last fall I started doing a massive update to the Upcoming Release Dates page, and it’s been a slow process getting everything caught up. Quite a few titles had changed, release dates were moved, and some had already been published. However, I think […]
Three unscheduled snow days threw my entire week into chaos and I’m still trying to get back on any semblance of a schedule, but since I had all this sitting in my drafts folder, I thought I would get it up. It’s not much, and it’s probably a little old for […]
I love the Chicagoland Vampires by Chloe Neill and Jeff Christopher is easily one of my favorite side characters. So when I heard he was getting his own story, Howling For You, I was so excited. However, while I enjoyed his romance with Fallon, I have to be honest, I […]
I admit, until Lauren Dane’s Blade to the Keep was announced, I had no idea that it’s predecessor, Goddess with a Blade, was going to be the first in a series. So, I hadn’t read it…until Blade to the Keep was approved for review. Um, let me tell you how much of a […]
I fully admit I was a total slacker for well, all of 2013. I could not, no matter how hard I tried, get into a reading groove. I read less than…*gasp*…50 books. I was around 47/48 even with some re-reads of my faves. For me, this is truly a tragedy. […]
Tony Ballantyne weaves together a fantastical world in Dream London. Once you start reading. you are instantly transported to a land of make believe. Ballantyne creates a world where nothing is quite as it seems and the reader is simply along for the ride. The curiosity which Ballantyne inspires is […]
Ellen Larson tells a science fiction tale with In Retrospect. There is something utterly eerie about Larson’s story and how it unfolds. The backstory truly shines and creates an Earth that is as different from our own as night and day. The society which Larson designs is full of mystery, […]
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