Summary: It’s been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Diné monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, she’s lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and she’s somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange clan power. … Continue reading Book Review: Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
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Book Review: Part-Time Gods by Rachel Aaron
Summary: Life in the magical mess of the Detroit Free Zone is never easy. When you’re laboring under the curse of a certain prideful, overbearing dragon, it can be down right impossible. My name is Opal Yong-ae, and I’m a Cleaner. At least, I used to be. Thanks to the supernatural bad luck that turns … Continue reading Book Review: Part-Time Gods by Rachel Aaron
Book Review: Under Ordshaw by Phil Williams #20BooksofSummer
Summary: Welcome to Ordshaw. Don’t look down. Pax is one rent cheque away from the unforgiving streets of Ordshaw. After her stash is stolen, her hunt for the thief unearths a book of nightmares and a string of killers, and she stands to lose much more than her home. There’s something lurking under … Continue reading Book Review: Under Ordshaw by Phil Williams #20BooksofSummer
Book Review: Lace and Lies by Nancy Warren #20BooksofSummer
Summary: Cardinal Woolsey’s Yarn Shop has been chosen to appear on TV Great publicity! Until a murder stops the cameras… Celebrity knitting designer Teddy Lamont is coming to Cardinal Woolsey’s knitting and yarn shop in Oxford to run a special class that will be televised. Lucy Swift can’t wait to host the popular, flamboyant designer … Continue reading Book Review: Lace and Lies by Nancy Warren #20BooksofSummer
Book Review: Straight Outta Fangton by C.T. Phipps
Summary: Peter Stone is a poor black vampire who is wondering where his nightclub, mansion, and sports car is. Instead, he is working a minimum wage job during the night shift as being a vampire isn’t all that impressive in a world where they’ve come out to mortals. Exiled from the rich and powerful undead … Continue reading Book Review: Straight Outta Fangton by C.T. Phipps
Can’t Wait Wednesday: Grave Importance by Vivian Shaw
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very … Continue reading Can’t Wait Wednesday: Grave Importance by Vivian Shaw
Book Review: Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron
Summary: The DFZ, the metropolis formerly known as Detroit, is the world’s most magical city with a population of nine million and zero public safety laws. That’s a lot of mages, cybernetically enhanced chrome heads, and mythical beasties who die, get into debt, and otherwise fail to pay their rent. When they can’t pay their … Continue reading Book Review: Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron
Book Review: Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews
Summary: No day is ordinary in a world where Technology and Magic compete for supremacy…But no matter which force is winning, in the apocalypse, a sword will always work. Hugh d’Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs, Warlord of the Builder of Towers, served only one man. Now his immortal, nearly omnipotent master has cast him … Continue reading Book Review: Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews
Friday Favorite Five: Urban Fantasy Series
For previous posts and future FFF topics check out my Friday Favorite Five page here. Favorite Five Urban Fantasy Series I used to read a lot more Urban Fantasy than I do these days, but I still really enjoy the subgenre. Something something vampires and werewolves. 😀 One of the things that I think drove … Continue reading Friday Favorite Five: Urban Fantasy Series
Book Review: The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren
Summary: Vampires who knit A troublemaking witch Who killed Granny — and is she really dead? At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past (Todd the Toad) and an uncertain future (she's not exactly homeless, but it's close), Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. With Gran's undying love to count on and Cardinal … Continue reading Book Review: The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren