Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations edited by Paula Guran – review
Publisher’s Description: Paranormal investigators. Occult detectives. Ghost hunters. Monster fighters. Humans who unravel uncanny crimes and solve psychic puzzles; sleuths with supernatural powers of...
View ArticlePeregrine Harker & The Black Death by Luke Hollands – review
Publisher’s Description: MURDER. SPIES. EXPLOSIONS. REVENGE. Peregrine Harker is about to learn you’re never too young to die. London 1908: A secret society stalks the murky streets, a deadly assassin...
View ArticleUnnatural Acts by Kevin J. Anderson – Review – Douglas Cobb
In the Paranormal Urban Fantasy novel Unnatural Acts, by the best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson, Detective Dan Shamble (aka: Dan Chambeaux), Zombie P.I., takes on the cases of many of these...
View ArticleGeek Girl’s Fictional Junk Food-o-Rama- The Audiobook and the Road trip
About once every four months, I take a road trip that lasts more than seven hours. If you’ve ever traveled that kind of distance in a car with no radio, you know how completely maddening it can be....
View ArticleThe Rise of Ransom City by Felix Gilman – review
History is often reshaped by the ones who lived to tell their stories. It’s all about perspective, and usually the ones who emerge as the winners are the ones who relate the information as they see it....
View ArticleSea Change by S. M. Wheeler – review
Publisher’s Description: The unhappy child of two powerful parents who despise each other, young Lilly turns to the ocean to find solace, which she finds in the form of the eloquent and intelligent sea...
View ArticlePLMII’s Inside Indie Press “Night of Wolves”
Hello Bookspotters….This will be the first installment of my reviews that will cover independent press books. As an indie press author, myself, I understand the need for both exposure and getting a...
View ArticleThe Prose and Short of It – “Hunting Destiny” by Nick O’Donohoe
Publisher Notes: The third book in a series of classic Dragonlance tales, now with a new cover. This re-release of the third volume of Dragonlance short stories ever published features a dramatic new...
View ArticleHunted by Kevin Hearne – review
Publisher’s Description: For a two-thousand-year-old Druid, Atticus O’Sullivan is a pretty fast runner. Good thing, because he’s being chased by not one but two goddesses of the hunt—Artemis and...
View ArticleMist by Susan Krinard – review
Publisher’s Description: Centuries ago, all was lost in the Last Battle when the Norse gods and goddesses went to war. The elves, the giants, and the gods and goddesses themselves were all destroyed,...
View ArticleThe Crown Tower by Michael J. Sullivan – review
Publisher’s Description: TWO MEN WHO HATE EACH OTHER. ONE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION. A LEGEND IN THE MAKING. A warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with a thieving assassin with nothing to lose....
View ArticleAffliction by Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake Series, Book 22) – Review
Affliction is the 22d installation in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series by New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. Some people say this series has gone on too long and that the most...
View ArticleEcho Prophecy by Lindsey Fairleigh – review
Summary: Alexandra (Lex) was a graduate student studying anthropology in Washington State. Her dissertation proposal had been approved and she was getting ready to spend the holidays with her family...
View ArticleMountain Echoes (Book 8 of the Walker Papers) By C. E. Murphy- Review
Publisher’s description: Joanne Walker has survived an encounter with the Master at great personal cost, but now her father is missing – stolen from the timeline. She must finally return to North...
View ArticleGrail of the Summer Stars by Freda Warrington – review
Fantasy has had a long-standing tradition of stories that involve hidden races living among us. Even the earliest fairy tales involve a prickly group of magical beings that are easily offended and...
View ArticleChimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire – Review
Chimes at Midnight author Seanan McGuire wrote that this book marks the start of the second stage in Toby’s journey. I find, after finishing the seventh book in the October Daye series, that I agree....
View ArticleThe Rose and the Thorn by Michael J. Sullivan – review
Editor’s note: This book will be released 9/17/13. Publisher’s Description: TWO THIEVES WANT ANSWERS. RIYRIA IS BORN. For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who...
View ArticleMister Max: The Book of Lost Things by Cynthia Voigt – review
Publisher’s Description: Max Starling’s theatrical father likes to say that at twelve a boy is independent. He also likes to boast (about his acting skills, his wife’s acting skills, a fortune only his...
View ArticleThe Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud – review
Publisher’s Description: Hauntings are our business . . . Ghosts crowd the streets and houses of London. Anthony Lockwood, with his slightly grumpy deputy George, and his junior field operative Lucy,...
View ArticleA Study in Silks by Emma Jane Holloway – review
Publisher’s Description: Evelina Cooper, the niece of the great Sherlock Holmes, is poised to enjoy her first Season in London’s high society. But there’s a murderer to deal with—not to mention missing...
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