Sixteen-year-old Seth Quitman has a problem: No one will help him. At all. For any reason. You literally wouldn’t give him the time of day, because that would be helping. If he can’t do it alone, he can’t do it at all. Seth’s is only the latest generation to inherit this curse, which has passed […]
Category Archives: Fantasy
Book Review: Midnight Crystal
Midnight Crystal represents the final installment in the Burning Lamp Trilogy, which covers all of Jayne Ann Krentz’s time periods and aliases. In each book, a descendent of Nicolas Winters, who did alchemical experiments on genetic code, is gifted with multiple talents that seem to be driving him insane. Only with the help of the […]
Book Review: Insatiable
The writer for a soap opera is told that they’re going vampire in order to compete against other shows using the same concept. She hates vampire-mania, and doesn’t believe in vampires, but before long she finds herself introduced to the Prince of Darkness himself — the son of Dracula. I enjoyed this book and found […]
Book Review: The Dark Highlander
Daegus McKelter broke an oath — he used the sacred stones that allowed him to move through time for personal reasons, to save his twin brother’s life. Now, he is cursed with the spirits of 13 evil druids who want to take him over. Chloe is an antiquities expert who loves all things old and […]
Book Review: Quicksilver
Quicksilver is the latest installment in Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz’s Arcane Society series. This one was written under the pseudonym Amanda Quick, which means we went back to Victorian England, where doctors are coming out with revolutionary new treatments for female hysteria, and the paranormal is all the rage. Virginia is a glass light reader, […]
Ghost Story (The Dresden Files)
This may be the most difficult review I’ve had to write, because I love the Dresden Files, and have been consistently rating them 5 enthusiastic stars for a long time now. I am totally a fan of Jim Butcher and will continue to look forward to the next book in the series, BUT… I have […]
Book Review: Kiss of the Highlander
***Warning: This title and my review are not fit for children.*** This is pure, no-holds barred, romantic fantasy at its most basic and primitive level. This entire series is one of those guilty pleasures for me, because if you try to think about it with logic, it falls apart. But if you just let go […]
Series Review: Codex Alera
I offered my impressions of Furies of Calderon back in May, focusing on the contrast between Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series, and this epic fantasy series. Since then, I have finished all six books in the series, and thoroughly enjoyed them. Tavi continued to be my favorite character throughout the series. He’s clever, surprisingly confident […]
Book Review: Son of the Morning
One terrible evening, Grace St. John, an expert in ancient manuscripts, witnesses the murder of her husband and brother. From what she overhears, she’s next — and it all has to do with the documents she’s been translating. Alone, afraid, and on the run, Grace has to use every ounce of cunning she didn’t even […]
Book Review: Bitten
Easily the best werewolf story I’ve ever read…not that I’ve gone out of my way to read a ton of them, but still. I consistently say that good stories come down to characters, and I really sympathized with Elana. I almost said that I really liked her, but that’s not entirely true. She’s rough, hard, […]