The world is once again in peril in Long Hot Summoning, the third installment in Tanya Huff’s The Keeper’s Chronicles. But this time, the danger doesn’t come from a portal to Hell. Oh no, this time it’s worse. Much worse. … Continue reading
Meet Edwina Godz, CEO of E. Godz, Inc., America’s largest and only family-owned clearinghouse for magical power. She’s got a small problem. Two of them, really: her children, vapid Peez (the Dateless Wonder, and Emergency Virgin for several New York … Continue reading
Information specialist Jason Wood never expected his life to get any more complicated than trying to meet bills and avoid embarassing himself around his best friend and psychic hottie, Sylvia Stake. After all, how dangerous can enhancing photos for the … Continue reading
“They don’t make morgues with windows. In fact, if the geography allows for it, they hardly ever make morgues above the ground. I guess it’s partly because it must be easier to refrigerate a bunch of coffin-sized chambers in a … Continue reading
What if the two major cultures of the world were an Arabianesque theocracy and a Viking-like monarchy, and they’d existed in a fragile peace until one small incident threw off a spark which lit a conflagration? What if everyone wanted … Continue reading
In The Battle of Evernight, Cecilia Dart-Thornton brings the saga of the Ill-Made Mute to an ending as epic and enchanting as any fairy tale. What was once a sexless, nameless, voiceless hideous servant slaving in the depths of a … Continue reading
I read this book almost by accident. Well, okay, I purchased The Assassins of Tamurin intentionally, and put it in my car for an undecided time in the near future when I’d get around to reading it. So when I … Continue reading
Once upon a time, long ago and far away, a young woman gave up a chance at immortality to remain with her family. On that day, she vowed that should any of her descendants ever show the right talents, she’d … Continue reading
I’m of mixed opinions where Once Upon a Time… is concerned. On the one hand, I really, really, really wanted to like this. I am a sucker for retold fairy tales; nothing draws me to a book quicker than the … Continue reading
“Once before, my fears had been made manifest in dreams, although it took a trained adept of Gentian House to enable me to see them — and they had proven horribly well-grounded that time. This time, I remembered. I had … Continue reading
