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Andrews, Ilona: Kate Daniels
Kate Daniels by Ilona Andrews “Magic Bites” starts off the series about Kate Daniels, yet another urban fantasy series. As an urban fantasy this series is above average. It follows Kate Daniels, a...
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Briggs, Patricia: Moon Called (Mercy Thompson I) (2006)
This is the image that I feels illustrates Moon Called best and it shows Mercy (Mercedes) as I had imagined her from the words Patricia Briggs has written about her in Moon Called. I am a fan of Ms....
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Briggs, Patricia: The Hurog duology
“The Five Kingdoms” by Michael Enzweiler Patricia Briggs has written the Hurog duology. As you might have surmised from this blog she is quite a prolific writer. Her books fall into the light...
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Price, Kalayna: Haven series
First thing to be said about the Haven series is that the books are very easy to read and they do not take long to finish. In this case, easy is meant as a compliment. Both Once Bitten and Twice Dead...
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Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Hobbit: There and Back Again (1937)
Cover art 1975 ed. by J.R.R. Tolkien I wonder if I came to The Hobbit the same way everybody else has. First I read The Lord of The Rings. I loved it. Then I discovered that Tolkien had written other...
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Briggs, Patricia: Sianim series
Map of Sianim by Michael Enzweiller Patricia Briggs was born in 1965. Her joy in storytelling manifested itself early, and scaring her friends (including her husband Mike) was one of her funner...
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Alexander, Cassie: Nightshifted (Edie Spence) (2012)
Cassie Alexander’s debut into the world of urban fantasy comes in the form of her Edie Spence trilogy. Her real-life job as a registered nurse serves as inspiration for her novels about registered...
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Cheek, Kater: Mean Little Kitty/Waiting Room at the Hero League (2011)
The really great thing about crazy authors is that they are hilarious. I couldn’t help visualising the scene in Mean Little Kitty where the mom in the story looked for her son all over the place and...
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Alexander, Cassie: Moonshifted (Edie Spence) (2012)
Moonshifted is as delightful as Nightshifted. Moonshifted remains as dark and gory as Nightshifted and keeps on being just as fun to read. Edie’s life has changed after all of the happenings in...
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Green, Amanda S.: Nocturnal Origins (Nocturnal Lives) (2011)
I love it when an author gives me good details on their covers. A few include this on their copyright page, others on their websites and some again I have to contact. Thus far each author I have...
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Nilles, Melanie: A Turn of Curses (2008)
A Turn of Curses is a novella about 66 pages long. You can get it in a PDF version on the author’s website. With only 66 (or 29 in PDF) pages A Turn of Curses is a short and easy read (unless you are...
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Leckman, J.R.: Inheritance (The Legend of Kimberly) (2011)
I am really glad I read Inheritance and doubly glad I am not Kimberly. Her father and brothers are crazy violent. Because of the abusive parts of the novel some of the reviewers out there have...
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Alexander, Cassie: Shapeshifted (Edie Spence III) (2013)
The Catholic church is a fascinating church. Within its realm we find people praying to both official and not quite so official saints to get these saints to function as mediators between themselves...
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Hoyt, Sarah A.: Draw One in the Dark (Shifter) (2006)
Draw One in the Dark made me think about what it must be like to be a foster-kid and a homeless kid in the US. I haven’t been a foster-kid anywhere. Nor have I worked with foster-children and am...
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Cane, Laken: Blood and Bite (Rune Alexander II) (2013)
Blood and Bite was given to me as a reviewer’s copy. As you all know I loved the first installment of the Rune Alexander series, Shiv Crew. Talk about dark. I am going to state one major complaint...
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Halpin, Chantal: The Brinded Cat (Witch Hunter) (2013)
I like Sam’s (Samhain) character. Upon beginning this review I looked for further literature about our magically-challenged witch. There is a novel (Death’s Daughter) in the inning, but I do not know...
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Winchester, C.S.: Past Due (Past I) (2009)
CS Winchester‘s Past Due is a romantic, urban-fantasy mystery placed in London. In it we find a major component of the paranormal and magical. Our main character is Frankie (Francis Wright), the...
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Wells, Martha: The Cloud Roads (The Raksura I) (2011)
Moon is an orphan. A 35-year-old orphan, but nevertheless. Orphans are one type of people this world has in abundance. How strange it is that we are so eager to bring children of our own genes into...
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McDermott, J.M.: We Leave Together (Dogsland III) (2014)
We Leave Together marks the end of the story of Joni Lord Jona, Rachel, Djoss, Calipari and the Walkers. The Dogsland trilogy has been terribly painful yet wonderful to read. J.M. McDermott’s prose...
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Jackson, Ros: Melody of Demons (Kaddon Keys I) (2015)
I had an “aha” experience reading Melody of Demons. Asperger that I am, life apparently affects my ability to read a story. A recent family crisis brought out chaos in my head. To deal with that chaos,...
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