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Keeping It Real (Quantum Gravity, Book 1)

Justina Robson

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Total reviews: 31 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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"There's a treat in store for you all, as the new Justina Robson is out. Lila Black is a spy, and a bodyguard, and every so often she breaks into the sheer joy of the toys she carries within her. It's good to see that almost naïve geek love you see among born techies translated into a character so beautifully. The only truly bad thing about this book is that it isn't stand-alone and now I've got to wait until she's finished writing the next one, wanting much, much more." --Starburst (Five Star review)

The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elfin, elemental, and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology. Elves are exotic, erotic, dangerous, and really bored with the constant Lord of the Rings references. Elementals are a law unto themselves and demons are best left well to themselves.

Special agent Lila Black used to be pretty, but now she's not so sure. Her body is more than half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery, a machine she's barely in control of. It goes into combat mode, enough weapons for a small army springing from within itself, at the merest provocation. As for her heart, well, ever since being drawn into a game by the elfin rockstar Zal (lead singer of the No Shows), who she's been assigned to protect, she's not even sure she can trust that any more either.

Wounded: The Second Book of the Little Goddess Series

Amy Lane

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Total reviews: 28 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Wonderful!!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Loved it!!! Loved Vulnerable, too. Miss Adrian!!! :-( However...am really enjoying the series!!!!

Healing the wounded heart, 5 out of 5 stars.
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Returning to the world of the Little Goddess there were hearts to mend, more wrongs to right and some clever political maneuvering to bring safety back to Green's Hill and his beloved people as we find deeper plots behind the insidious attacks from the prevous book. Despite a great deal of suffering for the characters we've grown to love, as they deal with the overwhelming grief caused by the senseless loss of several of their own, there is a loveliness to the story that is hard to explain.

Wounded really struck me on an emotional level. After watching the destructive power of grief in the previous book, there was beauty in witnessing the literal `power' of love and also a strength in the way Cory transforms choices that are made for her here and makes them her own. In Wounded, love begins to take another shape for Cory, Green, Bracken, Remy and the other survivors as they begin to heal, even as much of the happiness in the book is tinged with the sadness of longing for that which can never be fully theirs.

So this one gets five stars from me for heart and soul. I'll leave others to rate commas and typos, I was too caught up in the story to notice. If you are new to the series you probably should know though that as in the previous book, the sensuality that is integral to several of the characters knows no boundaries between species, age or gender but it is, except for a few exceptions, handled subtly.

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Green: "If someone gives their life for you, it is because they can not bear to live in a world without you. This is a great gift and a terrible burden, and if you are going to live, you need to be grateful for the gift and prepared to bear the burden."

Cory: "I do fearsome things, when I'm touching people who love me..."

Cory fled the foothills to deal with the pain of losing Adrian, and Green watched her go. Separately, they could easily grieve themselves to death, but when an enemy brings them together, they find out what a great and terrible force love can be.

Bound: The Third Book of the Little Goddess Series

Amy Lane

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Total reviews: 26 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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Humans have the option of separation, divorce, and heartbreak—for Corinne Carol-Anne Kirkpatrick, sorceress and queen of the vampires, the choices are limited to love or death. Now that she is back at Green’s hill and assuming her duties as leader, her life is, at best, complicated. Bracken and Nicky are rivalling for her affections, Green is gone taking care of his people, and a new supernatural enemy is threatening the sanctity of all she has come to love. Throw in a family reunion gone bad, a supernatural psychiatrist and a killer physics class, and Cory’s life isn’t just complex, it’s psychotic.

Cory needs to get her act and her identity together, and soon, because the enemy she and her lovers are facing is a nightmare that doesn’t just kill people, it unmakes them. If she doesn’t figure out who she is and what her place is on Green’s hill, it’s not just her life on the line. She knows from hard experience that the only thing worse than facing death is facing the death of someone she loves.

Because loving people is easy—living with them is what takes the real work, and it’s even harder if you’re BOUND.

Elvenblood (Halfblood Chronicles)

Andre Norton, Mercedes Lackey

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Total reviews: 26 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Poorly Written/Edited & but decent story 3 out of 5 stars.
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I liked both this book and its predecessor but I thought both were poorly written and edited, the second more so than the first. The beginning of the first book started well, with rich descriptions of the world and the things in them, but by the end of the book I felt like I was being told a story by a child who was making things up as he/she went along. This book had a very similar feeling, except without the rich description in the beginning. Both books seemed rushed toward the end of the story.

It almost seemed that the book was quickly penned during a "rap session" between the two authors but was never "smoothed out." There's even one part in the book when two character's names are substituted for one another. It made me begin to wonder if anyone REALLY read (not just scanned) the book before it was published.

Keep in mind I did really enjoy this book as well as the first, and it was definitely a nice change of pace to see a lot of things happen in one book (unlike the sometimes molasses like pace of the most recent books by Robert Jordan). I just wish the book(s) had a bit more polish and depth to them. It's a very interesting world with a lot of potential, but it just doesn't seem as well developed as some of the others from different series.

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The powerful magic of ruthless Elvenlord masters has for centuries rules the world. Even Shana, the legendary Elvenbane prophesied to deliver the oppressed into freedom, is helpless before such power. She and her ragtag band of outcasts, half-blood wizards, escaped human slaves, and free-thinking dragons have gained only a token victory against the mighty lords.

Only the long-forgotten Iron People, a band of human nomads, have escaped the tyranny of the reigning wizards. How have they survived through the centuries?

As the winds of change sweep the world, and as tensions seething beneath the surface of Elven society threaten to break into open revolt. Shana meets the ancient tribe. Could an age-old secret free Shana and her people...or will its discovery call down their doom.

Dhampir (Noble Dead)

Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee

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Total reviews: 93 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Fun! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I'm not really much for vampire stories normally, but this is a well written set of books. the characters are compelling even the evil ones. The stories have a lot of action, but can get a little moody as is common in vampire and vampire hunter novels. Probably not for someone trying to break into the fantasy or vampire genre.

The 2 main characters are interesting, the story and the writing are terrible 2 out of 5 stars.
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The only thing that kept me moving through this book was that I wanted to find out what happened to the 2 main characters. I give the authors credit for that

Unfortunately, that's all they got right. The writing is unbearably flowery. Nothing is black or red or hot or cold. Instead, everything is "garnet" or "the color of freshly picked dill" or "as warm as a mother's kisses" or something like that, which is both awkward and not particularly informative. In one passage they actually say that a guy has hair "the color of black cornsilk"! Now come on, how is that different than black?

The passages having to do with the various characters' motivations are just as murky in meaning and over wrought in word choice. They take 20 words to tell you something, and then you're not sure what they just told you. In one section they actually take a 5 sentence, with very long sentences, paragraph to tell you that a guy is standing on a catwalk watching his workers work.


The actual story itself is 2 steps forward, 2 steps back, all the way up to the last 20 pages or so. Nothing happens. They fight some vampires, the vampires get away. The vampires ambush them, they get away. You realize things about 200 pages before any of the characters do, then they spend the whole book laboriously hinting at those same things you already figured out, only to stun you with it at the end of the book like you would have had no idea what was coming

All of that adds up to a book that was an incredible chore to slog through. It did get better towards the end, so I bought the next one in the series. I immediately regretted it, since it starts everything all over back at square one, and you have to go through all the boring hints and super descriptive language that doesn't actually describe anything all over again. So discouraging

Take a pass on this one, and on anything else by these two. You could literally teach a writing class on what not to do with their books as examples, that's how bad the plot and prose are

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The launch of a major new vampire series-set in a classic fantasy universe...

A con-artist who poses as a vampire slayer learns that she is, in fact, a true vampire slayer-a dhampir-whose actions have attracted the unwanted attention of a trio of powerful vampires seeking her blood.

Wolf Who Rules

Wen Spencer

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Total reviews: 23 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Kept Looking Like it Would Go Somewhere But Didn't 2 out of 5 stars.
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I really disliked this book for a lot of reasons. The protagonist, who was a brilliant scientist in the prior book, turned into an elf at the end of the prior book, and essentially abandoned what once made her great. Maybe it's the sci fi fan in me, but I have little sympathy for a character who had the ability to give humanity the functional equivalent of an FTL drive and instead decided to play at being a member of the nobility in a feudal society. The author does such a good job of making the problems in the story seem insoluble that when they are solved I didn't quite believe it. Their is a mystery/foreshadowing throughout the book, but when the answers were revealed, they were disappointing.

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The popular fantasy novel "Tinker" introduced the inventor-heroine of the same name, who lives in a near-future Pittsburgh, which shares an interdimensional border with the land of the elves. Now, Tinker and her elven noble lover, Wolf Who Rules, find themselves besieged from all sides. Faced with an oni invasion, he has had to call in royal troops and relinquish his monopoly of Pittsburgh, which is now entirely stranded on Elfhome He struggles to keep the peace between the humans and such supernatural beings as the Stone Clan, the oni dragons, the tengu trying to escape their oni enslavement, and still others. Meanwhile, Tinker strives to solve the mystery of a growing discontinuity in Turtle Creek. She's plagued with inexplicable nightmares that may hold the keys to Pittsburgh's future - the only clue from the Queens oracle to help Tinker is a note with five English words on it: Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Oni, and dragons and tengu-oh my!

A Knock at the Door

Angi Sullins and Silas Toball

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Total reviews: 52 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Must have! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a MUST HAVE for every coffee table or bookshelf! You have to see it!

For Those Who Dream! 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you have ever yearned to live in another era and realm... Get this book & dvd set! This was 0riginaly available as a free download only through The Durwaigh Gallery website in 2004. Costumers that viewed this sugested a book version. The art work showcases some works of the best Fantasy Artists out there today.(Mark Potts,ect.)The dvd is actually the download itself recorded on a disk, and accompanied by wonderful music.

I found that this also makes a great children's book. My 4 yearold neice always wants to watch the dvd and read the book over and over again!This is one thing that you would never get sick of, trust me parents! I also had to wrestle this from my Aunt as well.

Needless to say, this book will make a unique gift and is sure to be a favorite for the whoever you have in mind!

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When was the last time you had a conversation with the moon? Or made a wish on a falling star? Inside these pages is the long-awaited book and DVD version of "A Knock at the Door", the short film which sparked an international internet sensation. Created as a fairy tale to inspire artists and dreamers on the web since 2004. "A Knock at the Door" has circled the globe via weblinks and emails and has been seen by over 1,000,000 viewers. "A Knock at the Door" is a love letter to the Inner Child. If you've ever held your breath during a fairy tale, searched the clouds for hidden friend-shapes, or clapped your hands to bring a fading Tinker Bell back to life, this book is for you. Imagination is knocking... so open the door!

Tinker (Baen Fantasy)

Wen Spencer

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Total reviews: 56 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Two book plots are not better than one 2 out of 5 stars.
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This book was a little disappointing. It kind of felt like the author had two great book ideas he didn't know how to finish, and squished them up into one book. The basic set-up is that an attempt to build a star gate to colonize another plant unexpectedly causes Pittsburgh to oscillate back and forth between our world and the real of the elves.

The protagonist, Tinker, is a brilliant scientist/inventor/ child child protege. I liked the character, there were some great bits in the beginning dealing with her brilliance, but she seemed a little too brilliant. I like genius inventor stories, and could have been persuaded to swallow this one, but then this whole plot was kind of abandoned when Tinker's boyfriend turned her into an elf. There was so much that made me cringe about this whole romance plot, there was lots of creepy subtext. The protagonist basically changed who she was for a man, a guy over 100 hundred married a character who clearly was not really a grown up, there was an underlying message that it was better to be an elf than a human. Giving the super-genius heroine magic powers pushed the entire thing over the top, for me. And if you really are so much smarter than other humans that you can come up with anti-gravity in junior high and are the ONLY human who can understand the FTL drive, don't you have an obligation to use your brilliance for the good of humanity rather than running off to elfland? I'd have preferred to see Tinker really USE the scientific genius the author went to such trouble to say she has, and follow up on the FTL thing more.

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Inventor, girl genius Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves. She runs her salvage business, pays her taxes, and tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with gadgets of her own design. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrap yard, life as she knows it takes a serious detour. Tinker finds herself taking on the Elven court, the NSA, the Elven Interdimensional Agency, technology smugglers and a college-minded Xenobiologist as she tries to stay focused on what's really important - her first date. Armed with an intelligence the size of a planet, steel-toed boots, and a junkyard dog attitude, Tinker is ready to kick butt to get her first kiss.

Lady Cottington's Fairy Album

Brian Froud

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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At last, Lady Angelica Cottington returns, in this mysterious and hilarious sequel to Brian Froud's huge international hit Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book. In this quirky and seductive new volume, 15-year-old Angelica stumbles on an annotated photo album belonging to her long-dead sister, Euphemia. The revelations within tell of fairy enchantments, wanton romance, and bawdy trysts -- and they cast young Lady C's ancestry into shocking doubt. Angelica responds to the album in true character, and her fits of fairy pressings and squashings instigate terrible (if weirdly entertaining) consequences. Along with its mysterious tale of Cottington family deviance, this extraordinary artifact offers near-indisputable evidence of the existence of fairies in the form of letters and never-before-published Victorian photographs of actual fairies, authenticated by Brian Froud, the Cottington Archive, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies. Fairies defiant, fairies au naturel, and, of course, fairies squashed: they're all here. Without doubt, Lady Cottington's Fairy Album will radically alter the study of the fairies' hereto-fore-secret world.

Luthiel's Song: Dreams of the Ringed Vale

Robert Fanney

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Total reviews: 37 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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First Summer's Eve has come and all elves celebrate as the black moon's shadow fades from the world. It is also Luthiel's fifteenth birthday. With it come two extraordinary and dangerous surprises: a Wyrd Stone, its silvery heart a window into a world of dreams and nightmares, and a Blade Dancer, dreaded protector of the Faelands, who bears a dark message. Instead of celebration, Luthiel is given a terrible choice: if she does nothing, someone she loves deeply will die. Or to save a life, she can break the most perilous law of the Faelands, and venture alone to the Vale of Mists. If she chooses the journey, she must race Othalas -- eldest and most feared of all the werewolves -- past great back spiders who weave webs out of nightmares, through glittering mists with the power to reshape flesh, and at last into death by the teeth of dark and ancient Vyrl, who feed on the blood of elves. Either choice will bring death -- unless Luthiel can find the secret in her remarkable Stone, a secret that even the nightmares fear.