Book Review: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
Dark Lover J.R. Ward Signet, 2005 ISBN 0451216954 Mass Market Paperback This isn’t your Twilight tween-vampire-romance. In fact, this book shouldn’t be read by anyone under the age of 21 or at least 18! And don’t let the word “romance” turn you away so fast. Take everything you know about vampires: fangs, feeding on blood, [...]
February 16, 2011
Tags: Black Dagger Brotherhood, dark fantasy, romance, Signet, vampires Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Review: Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong
Waking the Witch Kelley Armstrong Dutton Books, 2010 ISBN 0525951784 Hardcover Ever since I first heard about Savannah, I have been waiting for the brilliant kid witch to strut her stuff. She’s twenty-one now and still living at home with her adoptive parents, Paige and Lucas. When a case comes into the agency while the [...]
February 3, 2011
Tags: dark fantasy, Dutton, half-demon, Otherworld, private investigator, witch Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Side Jobs by Jim Butcher
Side Jobs Jim Butcher Roc, 2010 ISBN 045146365X Hardcover I’ve been a fan of the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher ever since I met Mr. Butcher at Conestoga when he was selling his brand-new paperback, Storm Front. He described that book as “an Anita Blake rip-off with a wizard protagonist.” I quickly learned that [...]
January 17, 2011
Tags: dark fantasy, Dresden Files, mystery, Roc, wizard detective Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Ghost Town by Rachel Caine
Ghost Town (Morganville Vampires #9) Rachel Caine New American Library, October 2010 ISBN 0451231619 Hardcover Ghost Town is the ninth book so far in the Morganville Vampire series. The basis is Claire Danvers, girl genius, who wanted to go to MIT on early entry, but her parents sent her closer to home to Texas Plains [...]
January 6, 2011
Tags: dark fantasy, New American Library, vampires, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman Harper Perennial, 2008 (2005) ISBN 0061342394 Trade Paperback Fat Charlie Nancy is an unassuming American making a life for himself in England, namely away from his father, who has made him the butt of all jokes since he was a child. He has an average job, and a charming fiancée who [...]
October 24, 2010
Tags: dark fantasy, Harper Perennial Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
This and That
And the winner is— Congratulations to Reader Wil in the Netherlands for winning a signed copy of Vicki Lane’s The Day of Small Things and many thanks to everyone else who entered the drawing! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well, I’m $1,300 poorer but now we know a lot about Hamilton’s health. He has good skeletal condition and no [...]
September 23, 2010
Tags: AmazonEncore, contest, dark fantasy, Hamilton, humor, Scholastic Press, young adult, \ Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Hamilton, Tales of a Bookseller, Teeny Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Tomb with a View by Casey Daniels
Tomb with a View Casey Daniels Berkley Prime Crime, July 2010 ISBN 0425235513 Mass Market Paperback Pepper Martin does not want her current assignment. It’s the 179th birthday of President James A. Garfield; there is a Garfield memorial at Cleveland’s Garden View Cemetery. Of course, there will be some celebration of this anniversary. Unfortunately for [...]
July 18, 2010
Tags: Berkley, dark fantasy, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Murder in Vein by Sue Ann Jaffarian
Murder in Vein Sue Ann Jaffarian Midnight Ink, September 2010 ISBN 0738723118 Trade Paperback Somehow, helping vampires catch a rogue of their own isn’t quite what Madison Rose had in mind when she left Boise for L.A.  Apparently, there is a lot more going on in L.A. than most people realize.  The vampire culture is [...]
July 12, 2010
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Book Review: Changes by Jim Butcher
Changes (Dresden Files #12) Jim Butcher Roc, 2010 ISBN 045146317X Hardcover I almost didn’t review the book. Â Two thumbs up, five stars, and an ending that left me in tears for more than an hour and has had me talking to everyone who’s read the book speculating on what’s going to happen next. Â Jim Butcher‘s [...]
July 5, 2010
Tags: dark fantasy, mystery, Roc, wizard detective Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Monster by A. Lee Martinez
Monster A. Lee Martinez Orbit, 2009 ISBN 0316041262 Hardcover (ARC) I am not certain if the following could be called a review of a book or a reaction to a book. Until opening this book, the assumption was, rather naively I now realize, that after over a half century of reading, I had read every [...]
June 30, 2010
Tags: dark fantasy, humor, Orbit Posted in: Guest Reviews No Comments
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