Bitten by Kelley Armstrong Kelley Armstrong is a very competent writer and her command of the urban fantasy genre is also really good. She knows how to manage dialogue and keep pace with both action and character development. So, Bitten, the first book of the Women of the Otherworld series, should be a great book, right? Ok, I […]
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Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong is a fine addition to the Women of the Otherworld series. It relays the adventures of Savannah Levine, whom we met as a precocious orphan in earlier novels and who is now a grown woman. The mystery is strong, compelling, and reasonably twisted; […]
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Counterfeit Magic by Kelley Armstrong This year Subterranean Press has published several novellas written by authors who’ve been on my radar but not necessarily at the top of my To Be Read stack. These little books are a perfect introduction to such writers because they’re easy to read in a few hours and I can […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Kelley Armstrong | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Hidden by Kelley Armstrong Upon receiving a review copy of Kelley Armstrong’s Hidden, I realized that I had only read a few books in her influential WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLD series — and that the ones I had read weren’t the ones starring werewolf couple Elena and Clay. However, I had no trouble becoming engrossed […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 3.5 | Kelley Armstrong | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong While Kelley Armstrong is best known for her Women of the Otherworld series, which I have read and mostly enjoyed, I personally prefer her YA-geared Darkest Powers series. The Darkest Powers novels, which begin with The Summoning and The Awakening, detail the stories of Chloe Sanders, a girl raised in a […]
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The Urban Fantasy Anthology edited by Peter S. Beagle & Joe R. Lansdale It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of most urban fantasy. I tend to find problems with almost every urban fantasy book I’ve tried to read. When I got this book in the mail, I kind of rolled my eyes and […]
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Loki’s Wolves by K.L. Armstrong & M.A. Marr I’m going to start this review of Loki’s Wolves, the first book in a new series entitled THE BLACKWELL PAGES, by K.L. (Kelley) Armstrong and M.A. (Melissa) Marr, by saying that there is a good chance it really is a pretty decent Middle Grade book that a […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 2.5 | Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr | Children | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Omens by Kelley Armstrong I have a confession to make. Sometimes, I cheat on the fantasy genre. That femme fatale Mystery is often the one who lures me away. This year I’ve been feeling particularly… polygenreous… and Kelley Armstrong’s Omens was just what hit the spot when I wanted to have my cake and eat […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Kelley Armstrong | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Visions by Kelley Armstrong It always feels weird to write a DNF review for a book that’s not actually bad. There is nothing objectively wrong with Kelley Armstrong’s Visions, at least in the portion of it I finished, and it would be a perfectly fine read. For someone else. For me, it felt like I’d […]
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Lost Souls by Kelley Armstrong Kelley Armstrong’s Lost Souls is that quintessential three-star book. There’s nothing wrong with it, but at the same time, it didn’t blow me away. It’s a CAINSVILLE novella that falls between book three, Deceptions, and book four, Betrayals. If you haven’t gotten that far, you’re in for a slew of […]
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Dark Screams: Volume One edited by Brian Freeman and Richard T. Chizmar Dark Screams: Volume One is the first of at least four volumes of short horror anthologies that are projected for publication through August 2015. The books are being published as ebooks only through Random House’s digital-only genre imprint, Hydra, for a bargain price […]
Read MoreTerry Weyna´s rating: 3.5 | Kelley Armstrong, Stephen King | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Led Astray: The Best of Kelley Armstrong by Kelly Armstrong Kelley Armstrong has published several series of urban fantasy and paranormal novels, including her WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLD contemporary fantasy series, in which werewolves, vampires, and other supernatural creatures live alongside humans, and the CAINSVILLE series, focusing on the lives in and around a town […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 3.5 | Kelley Armstrong | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong A Stitch in Time (2020), by Kelley Armstrong, is a time-slip romance with ghosts. Bronwyn Dale has just inherited the old family home on the English moors. When she visited the house as a girl, she discovered she could pass back and forth between her own time and […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 3 | Kelley Armstrong | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Spring 2014 issue of Subterranean Magazine is as strong as this magazine ever is, and that’s saying a lot. Kat Howard’s story, “Hath No Fury,” stands out as a memorable work about the old gods in the modern age. It is a story about women who are victimized by men, and the women who […]
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Fantasy Magazine was folded into Lightspeed Magazine in 2012, but it came out of retirement in October 2014 for the Women Destroy Fantasy issue, one of the stretch goals of a Kickstarter for an all-women edition of Lightspeed. I was one of the contributors to the Kickstarter, and, as my review last week revealed, I […]
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Our reviews of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. For this year’s Halloween week column, we offer a selection of haunted house stories. (The first story is admittedly pushing the boundaries of that classification, but it was too good to leave out.) “The Man in the Woods” by Shirley Jackson (published 2014, […]
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A Fantasy Medley edited by Yanni Kuznia FORMAT/INFO: A Fantasy Medley is 136 pages long divided over four short stories and is published by Subterranean Press in two editions: A fully clothbound hardcover limited to 3000 copies and a numbered hardcover limited to 200 copies and signed by the authors and editor. Dust jacket by […]
Read MoreRobert Thompson (RETIRED)´s rating: 4.5 | C.E. Murphy, Kate Elliott, Kelley Armstrong, Robin Hobb | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology by Christopher Golden (ed.) FORMAT/INFO: The New Dead is 400 pages long divided over nineteen short stories. Also includes a Foreword by the editor Christopher Golden, and biographies on all of the anthology’s contributors. February 16, 2010 marks the North American Trade Paperback publication of The New Dead via […]
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Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 edited by William Schafer EDITOR INFORMATION: William K. Schafer is the head editor at Subterranean Press, which was founded in 1995. Schafer’s bibliography includes Embrace the Mutation: Fiction Inspired by the Art of J.K. Potter and the first Tales of Dark Fantasy anthology. ABOUT SUBTERRANEAN: TALES OF DARK FANTASY […]
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The Monster’s Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes edited by Christopher Golden FORMAT/INFO: The Monster’s Corner is 400 pages long and consists of 19 short stories. Also included is an Introduction by the editor Christopher Golden, and biographies of all of the anthology’s contributors. September 27, 2011 marks the North American Trade Paperback publication of The […]
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Urban Allies edited by Joseph Nassise I’m always impressed when authors work together, and in Urban Allies, editor Joseph Nassise has managed to pair up twenty authors who not only collaborate, but merge their own characters into ten brand-new and original adventures. Each story shares a similar theme: popular characters from existing series or novels […]
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