Fool Moon by Jim Butcher I liked this book. I read the first one a few years ago and found it fine, but nothing special, but so many of my friends and family adore this series that I decided to give the series a second chance. I have a weird relationship with urban fantasy. It’s …
Tag: urban fantasy
Jan 23
Book Review: Hawthorn Hex
Hawthorn Hex by Kater Cheek My rating: 5 of 5 stars When a vampire does blood magic and destroys the existing ward around the city, the Guild Leader tells Kit to create a new ward that doesn’t have the old ward’s weakness. No one has done a ward like this, and the only one who …
Aug 20
Book Review: The Silvered
The Silvered by Tanya Huff This has all the typical paranormal romance/urban fantasy tropes set in a Victorian technology, high-fantasy world. It has sexy werewolves and mages, hot air balloons and cannons and muskets. At times it felt like a regency romance, with the status-mad mother of the female heroine and the description of the …
Aug 21
Book Review: The Magician’s Land
The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman This is, I think, the best of the three of Lev Grossman’s Magician’s series. Even though the main characters are separated in the last book, their stories continue independently and eventually together. Grossman’s greatest strength, I think, is his creativity, and it really shines in this novel. Every scene, …
Jul 03
Book Review – Clean Sweep
Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews Andrews* manages the difficult feat of making “magic-using young woman has interactions with sexy vampire and sexy werewolf” into something unusual. Dina Demille is an innkeeper, which is not as prosaic as it sounds. She has a magic broom, missing parents, and a long-term guest who likes to talk about …