Summary: The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning … Continue reading Book Review: The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht #WyrdAndWonder
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Book Review: Night of the Dragon by Julie Kagawa #WyrdAndWonder
Summary: Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has given up the final piece of the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers in order to save everyone she loves from imminent death. Now she and her ragtag band of companions must journey to the wild sea cliffs of Iwagoto in a desperate last-chance effort to stop the Master of Demons … Continue reading Book Review: Night of the Dragon by Julie Kagawa #WyrdAndWonder
Book Review: Popcorn and Poltergeists by Nancy Warren
Summary: Is there a murderous poltergeist on the loose? When an Oxford professor is killed by a fall down the library stairs, rumors fly that it’s the work of a poltergeist who’s been causing havoc at the college. The dead prof was a knitter, and a customer at Lucy Swift’s shop, Cardinal Woolsey’s. But Lucy … Continue reading Book Review: Popcorn and Poltergeists by Nancy Warren
Book Review: The Scar by China Miéville
Summary: Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is … Continue reading Book Review: The Scar by China Miéville
Book Review: The Lightning-Struck Heart by TJ Klune
Summary: Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident. Of course, this catches the attention of a higher power, and Sam's pulled from the only world he knows … Continue reading Book Review: The Lightning-Struck Heart by TJ Klune
Book Review: Jade City by Fonda Lee
Summary: The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates that control the island of Kekon. It's the only place in the world that produces rare magical jade, which grants those with the right training and heritage superhuman abilities. The Green Bone clans of honorable jade-wearing warriors once protected the island from foreign invasion--but nowadays, … Continue reading Book Review: Jade City by Fonda Lee
Book Review: Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur
Summary: A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson and her twin brother, Rhoan, work for Melbourne’s Directorate of Other Races, an organization created to police the supernatural races–and protect humans from their depredations. While Rhoan is an exalted guardian, a.k.a. assassin, Riley is merely an office worker–until her brother goes missing on one … Continue reading Book Review: Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur
Mini Reviews: Vampire Short Fiction
One of my squares for this past year's r/fantasy book bingo was Five Short Stories and since I was doing an all vampire themed card, I read some vampire shorts for it! I actually have a couple of vampire themed anthologies (because I'm me, so of course I do), but all of these are from … Continue reading Mini Reviews: Vampire Short Fiction
Book Review: The Other People by C.J. Tudor
Summary: Driving home one night, stuck behind a rusty old car, Gabe sees a little girl's face appear in the rear window. She mouths one word: 'Daddy.' It's his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees her again. Three years later, Gabe spends his days and nights travelling up and down the motorway, searching for the … Continue reading Book Review: The Other People by C.J. Tudor
Book Review: The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee
Summary: Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer’s image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth that Lehrer forced him to forget—that Lehrer is responsible for the deadly magic infection that ravaged Carolinia. Now … Continue reading Book Review: The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee
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