As Shadowfever is the final installment in a five-part urban fantasy series, this is really more of a series review. It’s hard to say too much about the last book, in particular, without throwing spoilers at those who have not yet had a chance to pick up the first book. And you really should pick […]
Category Archives: Book Reviews
If I’m reading it, I’ll write about it here — scifi, fantasy, romance, mystery, non-fiction, or whatever my book club makes me read.
On a Scale of 1 to 5…
When you’re asked to rate your feelings about something, are you the type of person to gravitate toward the middle, or do you tend to the extremes? We each tend to approach these types of questions differently, and yet when a large enough group is sampled, we get fairly meaningful averages. I’ve been rating books […]
Book Review: Abithica
What if you were some kind of disembodied spirit, moving from host to host, living life through other people’s bodies, but never having a life of your own? What if you didn’t know what you truly are, let alone who you are? Could you find happiness or love? A minute ago, she was Claire, who […]
Book Review: Darkfever
Urban fantasy at its best. If you can get past the cover art, which makes the book look deceptively like the type of romance novel people are embarrassed to read (at least in public), what you’ll find is the story of a naive young southern girl whose illusions about the world are suddenly shattered when […]
Book Review: Middlesex
Wow. I cannot remember the last time I read such a wonderful, moving, challenging, and well-told story. This wasn’t light entertainment, and I didn’t read it quickly — I wouldn’t have wanted to. This it the type of book that needs to be digested. But most of all, it needs to be read. Whoever you […]
Series Review: Sookie Stackhouse
A few weeks ago, I shared my impressions of Dead Until Dark, the first volume in the Sookie Stackhouse series, which instantly drew me in with a terrific narrative voice and compelling main character. Since then, I have read through to the latest book in the series, book ten, and while I continue to recommend […]
Romance, Straight Up
I read for an escape. I love fantasy, and even when I read non-paranormal romance, I am looking for a certain degree of magic. Some sense of being somewhere else or doing extraordinary things.Regency romance, no matter how poorly written, is somewhere else, sometime else. Stories (set past, present, or future) with a bit of […]
Book Review: Deadly Night
Title: Deadly Night Author: Heather Graham Genre: Paranormal Mystery Deadly Night is a paranormal mystery set in post-Katrina New Orleans when Aidan Flynn finds two human bones. The authorities are initially uninterested, because graves have been disturbed in the flooding and finding a bone isn’t as unusual as it once was, but Aidan, a private […]
Book Review: Dead Until Dark
Title: Dead Until Dark Author: Charlaine Harris Genre: Contemporary Fantasy All right, all right, I enjoyed a vampire book. I couldn’t help it. I wanted to dislike this book. I kept looking for reasons to put it down, but it wouldn’t let me. So now I have to admit, not that I read a vampire […]
Movie Review: Harry Potter 7 – part 1
I went to see the latest installment of Harry Potter armed with low expectations so that I would not be disappointed. Either my strategy worked wonders or this is the best Harry Potter movie to date. Don’t get me wrong — it isn’t the book. It will never be the book. Like all the movies, […]