Summary: Contemporary fantasy in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, whose family has been keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well for generations. When Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, is unexpectedly called to Paris to present at a medical conference, she expects nothing more exciting than professional discourse on zombie reconstructive … Continue reading Book Review: Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw
Tag: urban fantasy
Book Review: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Summary: Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to … Continue reading Book Review: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Book Review: Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews
Summary: Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She's made friends and enemies. She's found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players of the world to let … Continue reading Book Review: Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews
Book Review: Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
Summary: Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although barely making ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's been groomed for … Continue reading Book Review: Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
Creatures of the Night Book Tag
I saw this one over at Another Book in the Wall and thought it was such a fun tag, especially for October, so couldn't pass it up. This book tag was originally created a few years ago by Katytastic. Talk about a book featuring the creatures listed, wee! Vampire Interview With the Vampire by … Continue reading Creatures of the Night Book Tag
This Week in Reading: More of the Same and a Couple New Things
Last week started out well, and I got the first two books off of my list read with no issues, but then I got distracted by other books. I loved Strange Practice so much that I had to immediately read the sequel so Neverwhere got pushed back. Also, I received a last minute ARC of … Continue reading This Week in Reading: More of the Same and a Couple New Things
Book Review: Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews
Summary: Mercenary Kate Daniels knows all too well that magic in post-Shift Atlanta is a dangerous business. But nothing she’s faced could have prepared her for this… Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official. But there are some steep obstacles standing in the way of their walk to … Continue reading Book Review: Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews
Book Review: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Summary: While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help … Continue reading Book Review: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Book Review: I Was a Teenage Weredeer by C.T. Phipps & Michael Suttkus
Summary:Â Jane Doe is a weredeer, the least-threatening shapechanger species in the world. Blessed with the ability to turn furry at will and psychically read objects, Jane has done her best to live a normal life working as a waitress at the Deerlightful Diner. She has big dreams of escaping life in the supernatural-filled town … Continue reading Book Review: I Was a Teenage Weredeer by C.T. Phipps & Michael Suttkus
This Week in Reading: Post-Apocalyptic Urban Fantasy, Finishing up LitRPG, More Dresden, and Magic Powers
Well, I made progress, but I didn't finish up all of my reads from last week (this is becoming a reoccurring theme here since summer started...). In part this is because of being able to do less audio-booking while at work, but also summer is just really busy! I'm only about 50 pages into Trail … Continue reading This Week in Reading: Post-Apocalyptic Urban Fantasy, Finishing up LitRPG, More Dresden, and Magic Powers