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Review: Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Kiara

Pale Demon is the most thrilling book we’ve seen since A Fistful of Charms — and is also the absolute best in the series. If you’re not reading this series, then you are simply missing out.

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Review: A Christmas Carroll by Leanna Renee Hieber

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Kiara

Hieber has a talent for making the eerily supernatural a perfectly normal phenomenon. Reading her words, it is not unreasonable to imagine that one could look up from the turn of a page to see a Victorian ghost come gliding through a wall. The language, like the previous volumes, is lovely and ephemeral and obviously carefully chosen to evoke the time period in question.

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Review: Pack of Lies by Laura Anne Gilman

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Kiara

Making the focus of your mystery a sexual assault is either a very brave or a very stupid thing for a writer to do. Readers are way more uncomfortable with rape than they are with murder or other violent crimes. The success or failure of the story depends on whether you’re a good enough writer to pull it off. Laura Anne Gilman carries the sensitive subject well, resolving it in probably the only way that it could have been.

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Review: The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Kiara

I think Helen Lowe has given us a unique new twist on the old “coming of age” fantasy trope and I can’t wait to see what else she’s going to do with it. Not only that, but now that I know from her website that she’s also a poet, I understand the beautiful imagery of this novel. The language here is gorgeous and unobtrusive.

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Review: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Kiara

The Way of Kings The Stormlight Archive #1 Written:  Brandon Sanderson[website] Published: Tor When: August 31, 2010 ISBN:  978-0765326355 Obtained via: Purchase* (I also won an ARC in a contest, but ended up buying a copy as well.) Cover blurb: Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain…

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