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Thin Air (Weather Warden, Book 6)

Rachel Caine

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Weather Warden Baldwin is Back on Track 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a much better book than its predecessor! The story moves along at breakneck speed and there are lots of unexpected twists and turns along the way. The memory-aspect of the book is done well, and Rachel Caine's method of revealing bits of Joanne's past by delving memories out of other characters' minds let's us see Joanne Baldwin in a new light, as others in the cast see her.

Good action, strong story line, and believable dialogue make this a winner.

Should be named Hot Air..... 2 out of 5 stars.
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This book was a bit of a disappointment to me. It just seemed repetitive. Sought of like a replay book for those who haven't read the previous books. The book picks up from the end of Windfall where Jo has lost her memory or rather someone is trying to erase her existence; starting with whipping out her memory. Next, comes the long recap, which I hate! (I know I'm not the most patient person in the world but I do hate repeats) Somehow Lewis and Dave catch-up to Jo before she freezes to death; from being lost and naked in some forest. The adult demon we met in Windfall, coincidentally now wants to become Jo and is hell-bent on taking Jo's place. Jo's sister Sarah and Eamon are a match made in hell. I hate to see Sarah not have progressed and is still as pathetic since we first met her in Windfall. I am so disappointed about the situation with Imara. Why did they bother to introduce us to her in the first place? After we barely get to know her, now she's some oracle? What a waste of a good character. I pretty much sped through this book. Hopefully the next in the series, Gale Force will not disappoint. Anymore installments like Thin Air and I'd have to stop reading the series. Very few series are 100% perfect but this book was a total let down.

Editorial Review:

After preventing Mother Earth from destroying the planet, Joanne Baldwin lost her memories thanks to Ashan the djinn-and they will remain lost forever unless Joanne can recover her identity-and destroy the demon who is impersonating her, fabulous shoes and all...

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel)

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Total reviews: 35 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Guilty! 1 out of 5 stars.
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Once upon a time, before the Anita Blake series became cheap porn with surreally well-endowed vampires and werethingies, there was "Guilty Pleasures."

And like many a successful fantasy/horror novel before it, Laurell K. Hamilton's breakout horror/fantasy story has been adapted into graphic novel form, with "Guilty Pleasures, Vol. 1" compiling the first six issues of her first novel. The results... are not so good. Slack-paced and self-indulgent, it comes across as a goth teen's daydreams, wrapped in indifferent artwork that doesn't seem quite to match the storyline.

Anita Blake is a vampire hunter and an animator, able to raise zombies from the dead. Nickname: the Executioner. She also isn't too fond of vampires or werecreatures, even though St. Louis is swarming with them. So when a vampire acquaintance comes to hire her, she turns him down. But at a bachelorette party, she soon finds herself hip-deep in vampire politics -- and a dangerous enemy who is trying to kill her.

Things only get more complicated when she ends up facing the Master of the City, the deceptively childlike Nikolaos, and a dungeon full of wererats. To find who is offing vampires in St. Louis, she'll need to relax her "no vamps" rule -- and join forces with the mysterious, seductive Jean-Claude. But as she investigates further, she finds herself delving into the dark world of vampires, and the "freaks" that worship them....

This graphic novel is pretty faithful to the original novel, sticking closely to Hamilton's storyline -- which admittedly is tough, since the whole mystery is only pursued in random fits and starts. Stacie M. Ritchie and then Jess Ruffner provide some pretty good adaptation of the first-person dialogue ("You don't have to be undead to be evil, but it helps"), which is never easy.

But... a big but...

A graphic novel is more than its words -- it's art too. Brett Booth has done some decent artwork in the past, but he doesn't seem to have his heart in this one, perhaps because Hamilton oversaw the entire process. Parts of it are decent at the core, but the little details make it silly, including the cartoonish illustrations (Anita's GIANT lips, which make Angelina Jolie's look positively skinny) in a realistically-drawn comic.

In fact, these become more prominent as the comic proceeds. Often the action described doesn't match the illustrations (while thinking, "I'm not a coward," Anita huddles down and wrings her hands). And we get other visual quirks, like giant thick thighs -- they pop up on lots of people like Anita and the rat king, but Madge's enormous thunder thighs (each is thicker than her waist) are the funniest thing in the whole book.

Anita Blake herself is the most comically drawn -- she's as pale as an albino, has ultra-red lips, and ridiculously curly hair. The hair is the biggest distraction since it's always snaking down over her eyes and occasionally drapes itself six inches in front of her face. And her personality cannot make up for the artwork -- she acts less like a tough, gutsy vampire hunter and more like a sulky Hot Topic teenager. Her "tough" one-liners, which she lobs at all the wrong people, don't hurt this impression.

Perhaps as a reflection of Booth's own mood, our doughty, not-too-bright protagonist also always looks bored -- even when pinned to the ground by a vampire, she looks incredibly bored. Worse, her eye-rolling facial contortions make her look even more alien.

Nor does it help that Jean-Claude looks exactly like a breastless Anita, right down to the pasty chalk-white skin and artificially flowing black hair. That might be okay, if he had a personality beyond "sexy French dude." The other characters don't fare that well either: Bert looks like a blond Frankenstein's Monster, Philip looks like he's covered with herpes, and the deadly Edward looks like a wide-eyed pervert. And the lethal Nikolaos looks like a Disney heroine, which I don't think was the intention.

"Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures" takes on a mildly entertaining fantasy book, and transforms it into a thoroughly tepid graphic novel. Interesting for completists, but an exercise in lackluster art for all others.

Editorial Review:

New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton brings Anita Blake to the world of graphic novels. Anita Blake lives in a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves have been declared legal citizens of the United States. Anita Blake is an "animator" - a profession that involves raising the dead for mourning relatives. But Anita is also known as a fearsome hunter of criminal vampires, and she's often employed to investigate cases that are far too much for conventional police. But as Anita gains the attention of the vampire masters of her hometown of St. Louis, she also risks revealing an intriguing secret about herself - the source of her unusual strength and power. This hardcover edition contains an all-new, original, never-before-published short story by Laurell K Hamilton.

Valentine's Resolve (Vampire Earth, Book 6)

E.E. Knight

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Terrifying, Thrilling, Always Interesting 5 out of 5 stars.
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Reviewed by Vicky Burkholder
on 07/10/2008

Knight's post-apocalyptic science fiction series continues with this newest installment. David Valentine has left the Southern Command, one of the main sources of resistance against the Kur--the aliens who have invaded Earth. Knight's strength lies in his detailed and believable idea of how society could evolve after we've been taken over by intelligent but malevolent beings.

The opening chapter - and much of the book - is violently graphic, but that is the setting for the story. It is not gratuitous, but necessary to the plot and the development of the story. The character of Valentine undertakes a difficult mission to infiltrate the resistance in the Pacific Northwest, which he does. The story is about Valentine's struggles, but it is also about ourselves and how we would cope with invaders--and at what cost. Knight does this with a deft hand and amazing skill. His world building abilities are beyond scope.

I have to admit to not having read the other books in this series, but that is not an issue. This is an excellent stand-alone book. I read it and enjoyed it, and understood what was going on without feeling lost, like I often do with other series. I'm probably going to pick up the others to read just to find out what happened earlier. If I had any problems, it was possibly with the darkness of Valentine. He seemed almost too morose at times, though granted, with the story as it is, I'd be morose too. I also found I could not read the book in the evening as I became susceptible to frightening dreams, a weakness of mine that proves good story telling on the part of the author. The story stuck with me.

This is a terrifying, thrilling, at times graphically disgusting, but always interesting book that will not disappoint fans of the Vampire Earth series.

4.5 Books

Editorial Review:

After three years of exile from humanity's war against the Kurians, David Valentine returns to battle. The Lifeweavers, Earth's allies in the conflict, have all but vanished, and without them mankind cannot possibly stand against their alien enemies.

Many of the Lightweavers are held captive by a Kurian overlord. To free them, Valentine must convince the Marshal, a legendary resistance fighter with a grudge against the Kurians, to join his cause. But the Marshal is something of a dictator himself, ruling over his men with an iron fist-and giving Valentine a new enemy to fight.

Night Season (The World of the Lupi, Book 4)

Eileen Wilks

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Too much of the wrong thing. 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Cullen Seabourne, lone wolf no more with friends and a clan, has found comfort and great sex in the arms of Cynna Weaver, Finder and a true skeptic at heart. But when Gnome representatives from Edge, a parallel world that's a 180 from Dis, pop out in a fountain in a DC mall, the real motives begin to unravel. And the goad to get Cynna to say yes without thinking is the revelation that her father, Daniel Weaver, didn't leave her and her drunken mother, but fell through into Edge.

What the Gnomes want is Cynna and Lilly to retrieve a powerful, and stolen, Medallion that controls the magical inertia in Edge. Without a proper holder, it's just chaos and war. And the gnomes believe only they can manage that power. Initially, the goal is to have Cynna Find and use Lilly's immunity to magic to take it, because, the Medallion is kind of alive and can eat its wearer, or turn them psychotic. But Lilly can't follow through because of the mate bond, which is still a secret. But the Edge reps have a trick under their sleeves as well, which backfires. Instead of just Lilly and Cynna and the Edge reps, it's Cynna, Cullen, Reuben, two gov't suites, Gan, Steve Timms and the reps from Edge fall through. And during a time of darkness, what the Edge people refer to as the Night Season.

Which was really a metaphor for Cynna's inability to 'see the light of truth' about her feelings for Cullen, being destined to be the next Rhej, her dad not being so dead-beat, being pregnant and acknowledging it as a person and not out of a sense of religious obligation, and especially, about herself. Midway, we come to find that none of the earthlings can return home until the Medallion is found because it takes a lot of power to open a gate and the Gnomes refuse. And thus, a who can and can't handle the Medallion takes up a great deal of the plot, and also introduces the Faeries, who covet the Medallion. It's a lot of talking and explaining in general.

Juxtaposed and equally uneventful, were two new characters, a Sidhe by name of Nathan Hunter, some sort of Hellhound of the Winter Queen in Faerie land. And his lover, a Gifted human, Kai, who can't control her dangerous Gift. She also has a familiar, a type of feline, Dell, that rings similar to Pullman's daemens. Their role is not really explained and for the, thankfully, brief chapters of them, you're not sure what their purpose is, if at all, though in the end, they end up helping the Earth gang.

The purpose for the journey, the political or magical happenings are usually the backbone to all the other books, with the romance being secondary. Which is fine, to a point, but there are no thrills, a few eyebrow raising, and not always in a good way. The emotional arch of Cynna and Cullen is flat, sprinkled with some cliche dialogue, a few reveals about their past that's not developed very well, and the romance, all of it is not very believable, made more so by a strategically placed 'jealousy' scene that comes more forced than amusing or angsty. In the last chapter everything Cynna was rejecting, she finally accepts in a fairy-tale ending. What irks me is the whole issue with Cynna's dad, who is not at all utilized. His only purpose to be in the book is to get Cynna in the same room with the Gnomes. There are some very brief ponderings about how she felt about it then nothing. She gets over it PDQ. The character least forced and most endearing was Gan, but she alone can't carry a problematic plot with uninspiring characters.

In terms of it being part of a series, it doesn't fit in it at all. You could read this without knowing about the others since there is very little of the Lupi element in it [which I missed and expected more of but alas, no] and Wilks gives several recaps from each book. In fact, I might have liked this one better if I hadn't read the other three.

So. That's it. That's the story in a couple of brief paragraphs and you didn't miss much. And I am somewhat surprised by the good reviews. This new world, while creative and well planned, I had to convince myself to keep reading because Wilks delivered so well in Book 3. I had hopes that the end would make me realize it was worth the read. It's not, just the same old stuff.

Editorial Review:

Lupine sorcerer Cullen Seabourne and FBI Agent Cynna Weaver are just coming to terms with having a baby, when they are lured to another realm where magic is commonplace and night never ends. Their only way home lies in tracking down a missing medallion-one also sought by powerful beings who will do anything to claim it.

Seduced by Magic (Magic Series, Book 2)

Cheyenne McCray

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Total reviews: 29 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Copper Ashcroft is an accomplished D’Anu witch, but the magic she wields is a potent force—strong enough to hurl her into a mysterious Otherworld when a spell backfires. Before Copper can escape, another being is pulled into her realm—Tiernan, a powerfully virile Tuatha D’Danann warrior. Blond, blue-eyed, and shamelessly seductive, Tiernan could be Copper’s savior…and his touch sets her body on fire.
 
Like others of his kind, Tiernan stands alongside the D’Anu witches to battle the demons of the Underworld. Obligation to his cause and his people cautions against any entanglement with Copper, yet each second spent with this beautiful, uninhibited woman stirs an insatiable hunger. Desire explodes into carnal bliss, but the visions that haunt Copper’s dreams are growing stronger, and they foretell a terrifying evil waiting to be unleashed…
 
Saving the city will take more than brute strength…more than witchcraft. Only together can Copper and Tiernan find a way to overcome the dark forces—and seize a passion that has bewitched them both.

Dangerous Games (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 4)

Keri Arthur

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Loved It !!! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

So far i've read all four of Keri Arthur's "Riley Jensen series" and loved them all. Each is packed with action, romance and intrigue. I would highly recommend this series to anyone who is interested in paranormal romances.

Editorial Review:

In Melbourne’s urban underworld, there’s a nightclub for every fantasy and desire. But for Riley Jenson, one such club has become an obsession. Riley, a rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, hasn’t come in pursuit of pleasure but of an unknown killer who’s been using the steamy nightspot as his hunting grounds.

Leave it to Riley to find the only ticket into the heavily guarded club: Jin, a deliciously hot-bodied bartender who might just provide the key to unmasking a killer unlike any other in the Directorate’s experience. Taunted by a former colleague turned rogue, distracted by an ex-lover’s attentions, Riley follows Jin into a realm of pleasure she could never have imagined. And as danger and passion ignite, a shocking mystery begins to unravel—one where Riley herself becomes the ultimate object of desire....

Darkling (Sisters of the Moon, Book 3)

Yasmine Galenorn

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Total reviews: 28 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

It's Menolly's turn! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, Darkling proved me wrong. This entire series has become one of my favorite. This book was interesting from start to finish. No page fillers or down spots. No repeating the same information or overly emotional. Just enough sex and action to keep me from putting it down. Can't wait to see what happens next between Menolly and Narissa. I highly recommend this book and the rest of the series.

My favorite so far 5 out of 5 stars.
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Though I'm not a huge urban fantasy fan, I have really liked these books. I liked this one the best because Menolly is the dark one. Book 1 was my 2nd favorite and book 2 was my third favorite. But I'm enjoying the whole series. Violence isn't my cup of tea but it didn't detract from the book. Great job, Yasmine G! And I love the covers of these books. They're what made me pick the first book up, but I stuck with the series because of the good writing and story.

I am looking forward to Dragon Wytch, which I think is a new series.

Editorial Review:

The D'Artigo sisters, Camille, Delilah, and Menolly, are half-human, half- Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. When humans begin to go missing, then turn up as newly born vampires, Menolly- an acrobat extraordinaire-turned-vampire- must face the demons haunting her memories.

Something from the Nightside (Nightside, Book 1)

Simon R. Green

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Total reviews: 81 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Superficial story for *very* light reading 3 out of 5 stars.
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Having just read the Man with the Golden Torque (pretty good book by the way) by the same author I was interested in reading more of his work and came by this series. The story and characters really have a lot of potential for being really good. I like what the characters could be though the bottom line is they never really reach their potential.
John Taylor is a Private Eye who has a gift for finding things when he's working in the inner heart underground supernatural world of Nightside which he has of course exhiled himself from for the past 5 years. He's down on his luck when he's approached by a woman with a daughter who has been missing for a month. The whole book is really a prolonged search for the daughter while explaining all the wonders and terrors of nightside. This is what all the conversations are about including 5 minute explanations for every person that John Taylor introduces to his client.
The bottom line is it's not a story with characters that you can connect with because there really isn't anything deeper to them than what's on the page. But if you really want a 30 minute read to pass some time and like the neon noir urban fantasy scene you're probably going to like this book. I'm just hoping that he digs a little deeper in the following books.

Editorial Review:

John Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That's why he's been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines.

For John Taylor, there's no place like home...

Magic Lost, Trouble Found (Raine Benares, Book 1)

Lisa Shearin

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Total reviews: 49 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

I can't believe I paid $7.99 for this book! 1 out of 5 stars.
4 of 6 people found this review helpful.

As others have already mentioned, within the first 30 pages or so I got lost in all of the characters that were being introduced. Here are my issues with this book.
1. Too many characters.
2. Too much handed to you via first person narration.
3. Two possible love interests? Enough already! Is this even necessary?
4. Level of the plot is YA!

I'm not sure how anyone rated this anything above three stars! I will not be reading the sequel. The only reason I finished reading this title is that I lived in hope that at some point the author would redeem herself. Unfortunately, the only way I was able to get through the entire book was by reading every other page and then simply skimming the pages that I actually stopped on.

Too much, too fast 3 out of 5 stars.
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I read this because I had heard that it was quite good; similar to the Heart of Stone series by C. E. Murphy.

Like the C.E. Murphy novels Raine is a fully formed character that already has had quite a bit of life rush past her and so she starts off (almost immediately) into a whole heap of trouble.

That might be helpful for some people to get them sunk into the story, but I tend to prefer a little more backstory before a full mental plunge into a character's life and story.

Raine comes into possession of a magical amulet that an employee (and friend) of hers had been hired to steal. This amulet while looking like a plain piece of ugly jewelry is really a powerful beacon to a much more dangerous magical item called the "Soul Thief." Once Raine has the amulet in her possession it won't let her go and so poor Raine goes the whole book trying to avoid all the bad guys who want the amulet and "Soul Thief." With the possession of the amulet Raine also gains all kinds of fun and interesting powers which she definitely needs to be able to survive all the bad guys that don't care if she lives or dies.

I had such a hard time getting into this book, especially at first... However about half-way through the book (once Raine has gotten herself thoroughly steeped in trouble) we really start to get to know and work with this Conclave Guardian named Mychael whose job it is to protect the amulet (and "Soul Thief"). And it was MUCH easier for me to read the back half of the book because of him.

Editorial Review:

Raine Benares is a Sorceress Seeker of average ability until she comes into possession of an amulet that amplifies her powers-and her enemies.

The Man With the Golden Torc

Simon R. Green

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Ok, but not as good as the others 3 out of 5 stars.
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First I read the Nightside series and that was great; it was his best work and that made me a Simon R. Green fan. Then I read (what books I had) of the Deathstalker series; it was very good at parts, but tiresome at others. It was no Nightside. Now, I'm reading the man with the goden torc. It's Ok, but it seems as if the books are going downhill; Nightside is the best, Deathstalker is in second place, and now man with the golden torc. It seems as if he's trying to make another Nightside; same story, diferent people.
It would be great if he did what he's trying to do and write another Nightside, but instead of doing the exact same story with different people, the the Drood line has been going for centuries, so make an earlier version of the family. Have them have cruder versions of the high tec weapons and make them have more limitations on their stuff that they have to work out. Maybe set the whole thing set a few hundred years before they "discovered" America.
Just a thought.

Edward C. Jones III

Editorial Review:

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Deathstalker and Nightside series comes a new kind of hero in an old kind of war.

All those things you hear about as a kid? The boogeyman under the bed? The creature in the closet? They're for real, people.

Eddie Drood knows they're for real. His family has kept humanity safe from the things that go bump in the night. For ages, they've held back the nightmares, locked the doors, barred the gates, and put righteous boot to monster arse on a nightly basis.

But now Eddie's in trouble. One of his own has convinced the rest of the family that Eddie's become a menace, and that humanity needs to be protected from him. So he's on the run, using every trick in the book, magical and otherwise, hoping he lives long enough to prove his innocence. And he knows how dangerous the Droods can be-because he's one of them