Kiara’s note: Whoops! I’ve had this review sitting for awhile and forgot to publish it! Sorry about that. Cold Magic Spiritwalker #1 Written: Kate Elliott Published: September 2nd, 2010 Publisher: Orbit ISBN: 1841498815 Obtained via: Publisher (ARC) Blurb: It is the dawn of a new age… The Industrial Revolution has begun, factories are springing up across…
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Review: The Sworn by Gail Z Martin
The Sworn Fallen Kings #1 Written: Gail Z. Martin [website] Published: February 3rd, 2011 Publisher: Orbit ISBN: 1841499137 Obtained via: NetGalley Blurb (via GoodReads.com): As plague and famine scourge the winter kingdoms, a vast invasion force is mustering from beyond the northern seas. And at its heart, a dark spirit mage wields the blood magic…
Review: Pale Demon by Kim Harrison
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.
Review: A Christmas Carroll by Leanna Renee Hieber
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.
Review: Pack of Lies by Laura Anne Gilman
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.