Science fiction and fantasy books of all sorts – from the Lord of the Rings to Kate Daniels and everything in between
A wild and enjoyable trip… I loved Elizabeth Hunter’s Cambio Springs series, and have now started reading and enjoying some of her Elemental Universe books. So when I got a chance to skip to the most recent Elemental book, via a review copy of Tin God, I jumped on it. Tin God is described as […]
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Lots of fun, but the ending is way too abrupt… Only Hard Problems is the third “book” in Jennifer Estep’s Galactic Bonds series, written from the point of view of one of the previous apparent villains, Zane Zimmer. And it is a lot of fun to get into Zane’s head, and find out he’s much
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Over the past year or so, Jessie Mihalik made her readers happy by offering a couple of short fantasy/romance stories for free on her website: Books & Broadswords in early 2023, and then later, in early 2024, Rocks & Rapiers. These were web-serials, both set in the same world, but not really linked other than
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And now for something a little different… A while back I ended up with a review copy of one of Julie Mathison’s mysteries, The Starlet Letter, and really liked it, even though I hadn’t realized until I was part way along that it was “officially” a YA mystery. After all, who says adults can’t enjoy
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If you like the Elemental Assassin books, you’ll like this short story collection… I’ve been a fan of Jennifer Estep’s books for a while, although I came rather late to her writing. (I started with Kill The Queen, from the late 2010s.) So I missed out at first on her Elemental Assassin series, but over
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A welcome new addition to the Cambio Springs series After a looooong eight-year gap, Elizabeth Hunter has written another Cambio Springs book, and I, for one, am quite happy she has. Like the other books in the series, Dust Born is a smooth-reading blend of mystery, romance, and urban fantasy. Although, if we’re honest, the
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I’ve read several of Elizabeth Hunter’s books, and my favorites definitely are the books in her Cambio Springs series, which, although they are technically romances, in my mind are also a very enjoyable mix of urban fantasy (actually, I suppose, desert fantasy) and mystery. And right now, per an email from the author, the newest
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Trouble will always find Kate – or maybe the other way around… Magic Claims is the second book in the Wilmington Years series spin-off from Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels books. And it’s another rip-roaring adventure, but with some moments of seriousness as well. In the first book in the series, Magic Tides, readers learned that
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A fun finale to the Starlight’s Shadow series… Capture the Sun is the third, and presumably the last, in Jessie Mihalik’s Starlight’s Shadow series. And it’s a very nice finale, wrapping up the overarching Federated Human Planets (FHP)/Valovian Empire storyline, while somehow also managing a happy ending for a “new couple”, Lexi Bowen and Nilo
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Some people probably won’t ever relax, even if they think they want to… Author duo Ilona Andrews have written a follow-on novella featuring Kate Daniels, set about eight years after Magic Triumphs, which is the last formal book in Kate’s series. The new story, Magic Tides, takes place in Wilmington, NC, where Kate has moved
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