Penny is your typical geek: lives alone, watches too much Doctor Who and Buffy, enjoys whiskey maybe a little more than necessary. Oh, and she’s a woman. And a priest. She ends up performing the last rites on a dragon, and the next thing she knows, she finds herself (to her intense delight) liaising for […]

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Sebastian 2: Dark Times Arising is a paranormal romance that has a lot in common with Twilight and The Vampire Diaries, but with its own unique elements. It’s the second book in a series about the tortured romance between a vampire boy who abstains from human blood and a human girl with unusually strong magical […]

Read more "“Sebastian 2: Dark Times Arising” by Elizabeth Johnson"

The sword-and-sorcery subgenre of fantasy isn’t one of my favorites–okay, it’s one of my least favorite. But I was pleasantly surprised to find a lot to like in this sword-and-sorcery-type novel. This is the second book in a series chronicling the adventures of Kari, a dragon-like demonhunter who, after dying and being resurrected (presumably in […]

Read more "“White Serpent, Black Dragon” by Joe Jackson"

“The Goddess Embraced” is a fittingly epic final to an epic trilogy (or is it the end? Will the story continue?). Despite all the characters’ efforts to avert the prophecies, the world hurtles towards Ragnarok, forcing everyone to make desperate choices, Sigrun in particular. The world building of the series has been impressive throughout, and […]

Read more "“The Goddess Embraced” by Deborah Davitt"

I’m not normally a huge fan of short story collections, but I absolutely loved this one. The stories are emotionally intense in a way that I don’t normally find short stories to be–so much so that sometimes the book was hard to read, even though there was nothing particularly graphic about it. I really felt […]

Read more "“Shadows, Darkness and Light” by P. Zoro"

I was instantly intrigued when I read the premise for this book: billionaire playboy falls for a waitress–because she dominates him in the bedroom. The inversion of the usual relationship for this kind of story promised something interesting. The actual execution of the story is less excitingly different than I’d hoped; however, fans of the […]

Read more "“His Every Desire” by Krista Lakes"

“Of Fear and Faith” is the first installment in what promises to be a very fun, readable paranormal romance/romantic thriller series with a twist. I have the slash because it combines elements of both genres: Sanura, the female lead, is a child psychologist brought in to help with a serial killer case by the male […]

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“Deep Blue” continues the story of the picaresque characters introduced in “Blood Red.” Alliances are broken and reformed as our (anti) heroes have to face an army of undead and mechnological horrors… The book is action-packed, with multiple storylines running at once. This is something I tend to find a little difficult to follow (I […]

Read more "“The Wonder #2: Deep Blue” by James Devo"

In “Blood Red” we are introduced to a steampunk/alternate world that is vaguely Victorian/Edwardian in flavor, but in which humanity has access to Wonder, a form of magic that is used instead of electricity, gunpowder, steam, etc. Different kinds of Wonder are mined or reclaimed from deposits, and the story follows two different groups who […]

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Another entertaining entry in the Melody Jackson series. To her horror, Melody is forced to play hostess to her 5-year-old cousin, who has a penchant for destruction. Meanwhile, is the family being stalked by a hellhound? Or is it just Melody’s over-active imagination responding to reading “The Hound of the Baskervilles”? Melody continues to be […]

Read more "“Melody Jackson vs. The Hound From Hell” by BMB Johnson"