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Have you ever gotten the feeling when you were reading a book that the only reason the book was published was because the author was a “name”? You know the ones I mean. You bought it because John Doe is your favorite author and you just had to read his latest book in a favorite series, then you dive in and go “Um, what?” Welcome [...]
This review is for the eighth book in The Hollows series, so it contains spoilers for books 1-7. If you haven’t read this series yet, start with the first book, Dead Witch Walking. Publisher’s summary of Black Magic Sanction: Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter—and lived to tell the tale. But [...]
After listening to the amazing fifth book in the Rachel Morgan/The Hollows series by Kim Harrison, I couldn’t wait to get the next one, The Outlaw Demon Wails. Unfortunately, unlike books 1-5, book 6 isn’t narrated by the talented Marguerite Gavin. I love her narration so much that she’s become Rachel to me (it’s her voice I hear saying “Crap on toast!”), so I decided [...]
Holidays Are Hell is a collection of four supernatural novellas that take place around the solstice, Christmas, New Year’s, and Thanksgiving. As you can probably tell from the title, these stories are about characters kicking some hellish bad guy ass—not drinking cocoa and caroling. They might not put you in the traditional holiday spirit, but they do put a fresh spin on holiday fiction. [...]
I’m continuing to work my way through Kim Harrison’s The Hollows/Rachel Morgan series, and I’m up to the fifth book, For a Few Demons More. The books are about Rachel, witch and bounty hunter, who lives in a church with her partners—Ivy, a vampire, and Jenks and the rest of his pixy family. It’s a few months after the gang’s spring road trip to Mackinaw, [...]
Nowadays, it seems like you can’t swing a dead mummified cat without hitting a book involving monsters, vampires, or zombies. That’s why it’s so important to call attention to a book that stands out from the pack with a great read with a good story. Night of the Living Trekkies delivers on both counts, and does so by bringing us the scariness of zombies [...]
The world is going to end soon, as the damage done to the environment by humans has sealed its fate. People are coming down with crazy diseases. Oh, and aliens are coming. Those stories about alien abduction? All true. With all these crazy events happening, families are being torn apart and ordinary people must make impossible decisions. When a chance at salvation presents itself, [...]
The death of the world’s most successful computer game designer, Matthew Sobol, sets into motion a series of events that has everyone in Silicon Valley on edge. After the bizarre murders of two of Sobol’s co-workers, Detective Pete Sebeck comes to the conclusion that the murderer is Sobol himself via a Daemon, an autonomous computer program. As the Daemon uses the technology we find in [...]
Specific Impulse features Carin Gonzales and Jake Sabio, who are brought together by chance at the base of a crater in Arizona, where a mysterious explosion kills everyone else in the crater but them. Carin and Jake begin to deal with the consequences of the blast, and it turns out that they are not all good. Soon the duo (who meet up with an unexpected [...]
Witch and Wizard is a book by James Patterson for young readers (grades 5-9). It tells the story of a brother and sister pair, Whit and Wisty. While the adults of their world were busy not paying attention to the nightly news, a new government (New Order) got elected right under everybody’s noses. The bad news is this new government is basically like the Gestapo. [...]
