Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny

The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny
Simon R. Green
Ace Books
ISBN 0441018165
Hardcover
According to sources as reliable as they get in the Nightside, Excalibur is coming back to town.  John Taylor is hot on the artifact’s trail because in the Nightside something that sounds good here is often lethal.
Meanwhile, the Undead Detective Larry Oblivion has hired John [...]

January 17, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Review: Sins & Shadows

Sins & Shadows
Lyn Benedict
Ace Books, 2009
ISBN 0441017118
Mass Market
When I first picked up the book “Sins & Shadows,” I believed the volume to be from a freshman fantasy author; however, I was only part correct.  In actuality, Lyn Benedict is a pseudonym.  The author also writes political intrigue under the name Lane Robins (See “Kings and [...]

January 10, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Review: Magic Strikes

Ilona Andrews is one of my favorite contemporary fantasy authors because she’s taken a lot of time with her world-building and her characters develop instead of devolving. Add to that, every few pages I am laughing at some snarky remark one of her characters makes, and you have a winning combination to keep my attention.
This [...]

January 6, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  One Comment

Review: Deadtown

Deadtown
Nancy Holzner
Ace Books, December 2009
ISBN 0441018130
Mass Market (ARC)
Victory Vaughn is a demi-human, active.  This bureaucratese translates to a shapeshifter, who also fights demons, or a Ceriddorian, who is literally a Welsh descendent of Ceridwen.   All this classification became necessary after the Plague hit Boston three years ago and turned many of the residents into zombies [...]

January 3, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Review: Magic Burns

Ilona Andrews is one of my favorite contemporary fantasy authors because she’s taken a lot of time with her world-building and her characters develop instead of devolving. Add to that, every few pages I am laughing at some snarky remark one of her characters makes, and you have a winning combination to keep my attention.
This [...]

December 30, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Review: Magic Bites

Ilona Andrews is one of my favorite contemporary fantasy authors because she’s taken a lot of time with her world-building and her characters develop instead of devolving. Add to that, every few pages I am laughing at some snarky remark one of her characters makes, and you have a winning combination to keep my attention.
This [...]

December 23, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Review: Peter and Max: A Fables Novel

Peter and Max: A Fables Novel
Bill Willingham
Vertigo, October 2009
ISBN 1401215734
Hardcover, Graphic Novel
Most of us are acquainted with the tongue-twister: Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers…Ever wonder what the real story is?  Author Bill Willingham and illustrator Steve Leialoha have brought this tongue torturer to life.
Peter’s the younger son of the Piper family, traveling [...]

December 10, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Review: Ballad

Ballad
Maggie Stiefvater
Flux, 2009
ISBN 0738714844
Trade Paperback
James, a teen with a remarkable gift for music, is surrounded by other students with artistic talents at Thornking-Ash School of Music, a boarding school in the mountains of Virginia.   His long-time best friend, Dee, is also a student there but they are estranged, torn apart by earlier events involving the [...]

November 27, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments