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Fearless: John Charming joins a fight club

Fearless by Elliott James Fearless is the third novel in Elliott James’ PAX ARCANA saga (following Charming and Daring). John and Sig are back together working to protect Kevin Kichida, a young man with some magical blood in his heritage who’s being hunted by a greedy ancestor. The investigation leads John and his supernatural friends […]

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A Second Chance: Are there no rules?

A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor I was disappointed in A Symphony of Echoes, the second book in Jodi Taylor’s CHRONICLES OF ST. MARY’S, but I had already purchased most of the rest of the series at Audible, so I read the third book, A Second Chance (2014). Unfortunately, it has all of the problems […]

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Voyage of the Basilisk: Science and curiosity

Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan Warning: Some inevitable spoilers for the previous novels, A Natural History of Dragons and The Tropic of Serpents, will follow. Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent (2015) is the third in Marie Brennan’s series A NATURAL HISTORY OF DRAGONS, and I found it falling somewhere between books […]

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One Fell Sweep: The Inn under siege

One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews Note: This review contains some spoilers for the two earlier books in the INNKEEPER CHRONICLES series. As One Fell Sweep (2016) begins, Dina DeMille, the Innkeeper of the Gertrude Hunt Inn, a secret way-stop on Earth for galactic visitors, is recuperating from the life-and-death peace summit that her inn […]

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Vision in Silver: Keeps readers guessing

Editor’s note: We thank Sarah Chorn of Bookworm Blues for contributing this review to our site. Kat did not like the first two books, Written in Red and Murder of Crows, but the series is extremely popular, so we are pleased to have Sarah’s opinion of the third book, Vision in Silver. Vision in Silver […]

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Calamity: A fun end to the series

Calamity by Brandon Sanderson The RECKONERS series finale is — for better or for worse — very much the typical Brandon Sanderson novel. Longtime fans will be fairly familiar at this point with the steps we take in Calamity, from meticulous build-up to carefully situated hints to action-packed confrontation to final twist. It may feel […]

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Raising Caine: Like a dish of Neapolitan ice cream

Raising Caine by Charles E. Gannon Neapolitan ice cream with its three stripes of flavor, vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, was a favorite in my house when I was growing up. Charles E. Gannon’s latest novel Raising Caine reminds me of that. Do you like rollicking high-tech military SF? Get yourself a bowl. You want multi-planetary […]

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The Price of Valor: Wexler’s strongest work so far

The Price of Valor by Django Wexler Warning: May contain mild spoilers for the preceding books. If The Shadow Throne combined war and politics, the amalgam of these elements Django Wexler presents in The Price of Valor is much more effective and well-balanced. The latest installment in THE SHADOW CAMPAIGNS, The Price of Valor sees […]

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The Autumn Republic: A good but not perfect conclusion

The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan As a military fantasy fanatic, I found Brian McClellan’s The Autumn Republic to be a good but not perfect conclusion to his POWDER MAGE series. With The Autumn Republic, we follow Taniel’s and Tamas’ journey to save the city of Adro not only from invading armies, but from the […]

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Waistcoats & Weaponry: A fresh steampunk parody

Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger “It’s most annoying of you to order me to do something I’m going to do anyway. Now it’ll look like I’m obeying you.” ~Miss Sophronia Temminnick I absolutely adore Gail Carriger’s FINISHING SCHOOL series in which spunky Miss Sophronia Temminnick and her friends are being finished while they learn […]

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Tainted Blood: Fortitude is getting soft

Tainted Blood by M.L. Brennan Editor’s note: This review may contain spoilers Book three of M.L. Brennan’s GENERATION V series and Fortitude Scott is starting to annoy me. Why? Because Fort’s progressive, do-gooder attitudes are eventually going to get a lot of people killed if he keeps siding with groups other than his family. After […]

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Islands of Rage & Hope: This series takes a bad turn

Islands of Rage & Hope by John Ringo  How is it possible to remain interested in the somewhat plodding description of how mankind slowly tries to save itself after a zombie apocalypse? The first book in the BLACK TIDE RISING series, Under a Graveyard Sky, had the novelty of describing how the world was falling […]

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A Wonderlandiful World: A great series for preteen girls

A Wonderlandiful World by Shannon Hale In A Wonderlandiful World, Shannon Hale’s story about the teenage children of famous fairytale characters shifts focus from the conflict between the Royals and the Rebels about their “happily ever after” destiny to the problems caused by one of the students’ previous misadventures. They had accidentally let the Jabberwock […]

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Robin Hood: This is an excellent series

Robin Hood by Neil Smith Robin Hood is one of the generally excellent series of MYTHS AND LEGENDS by Osprey Publishing, this one written by Neil Smith. It follows the same general format as the others, with a brief intro, retellings of the stories, examination of historical background to the stories and the setting, a […]

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