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SFF Author: Linda Robertson

Linda Robertson is an artist and used to play lead guitar in a hard rock band. She’s still a fan of all those 80’s hair metal rockers. She’s also the mother of four wild boys, and they have one big dog, a rottie mix named Bela. She knows more about Star Trek and Star Wars than is socially acceptable. Learn more about the author at Linda Robertson’s website.

Vicious Circle: Persephone is not the misanthropic heroine you might expect

Vicious Circle by Linda Robertson

The bare bones of this story will be familiar to urban-fantasy devotees: Werewolves, vampires, faeries, and witches all exist and have become public knowledge in recent years. Girl, tough and feisty, takes it upon herself to dispense justice in a supernatural murder case. Girl is chosen against her will to play a major role in paranormal affairs. Girl is wooed by attractive werewolf and attractive vampire. I was worried Vicious Circle would be just like a hundred other novels with a similar premise,

Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Linda Robertson | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |

Hallowed Circle: Passes the Bechdel Test with flying colors

Hallowed Circle by Linda Robertson

Linda Robertson’s first novel, Vicious Circle, was a fun read, and its sequel, Hallowed Circle, is even better. In this second installment, Robertson spins a highly original plot (if this has been done in urban fantasy before, it was in a book I missed!), further develops her characters and the relationships among them, and as an added bonus, passes the Bechdel Test with flying colors.

Persephone Alcmedi is still reeling from the discovery that she is the Lustrata,

Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4.5 | Linda Robertson | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |

Fatal Circle: Unusually rich family relationships

Fatal Circle by Linda Robertson

Persephone Alcmedi stirred up a whole cauldron of trouble when she killed an irate fairy at the end of Hallowed Circle. Now, the fairies want Seph dead, and Xerxadrea thinks there’s a traitor in the ranks of the witches. So, in order to protect Seph and her family, Menessos will name Seph his court witch so that it looks like she acted on his orders, thereby bringing the fairies’ wrath down on him instead. Meanwhile, Xerxadrea will use this as a pretext to exile Seph from the witches (also for Seph’s protection),

Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 3.5 | Linda Robertson | SFF Reviews | no comments |

Arcane Circle: Contains Robertson’s best writing yet

Arcane Circle by Linda Robertson

Fatal Circle ended on a cliffhanger, with Menessos’ fate uncertain after a sacrifice he made during the battle with the fairies. In Arcane Circle, the fourth in Linda Robertson’s Circle series, we learn what has become of Menessos and see some of the battle’s repercussions in vampire politics. We also briefly revisit witch politics, as the lucusi react to a revered crone’s death, and encounter a new Homeland Security agency devoted specifically to dealing with the paranormal.

Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Linda Robertson | SFF Reviews | no comments |

Where the Veil Is Thin: A mixed bag of fairies

Where the Veil Is Thin edited by Cerece Rennie Murphy & Alana Joli Abbott

Where the Veil Is Thin (2020), an anthology of stories about fairies and spirits, began as a Kickstarter. The project was successful, and the book is now widely available. Editors Cerece Rennie Murphy and Alana Joli Abbott have brought together a diverse group of authors with a wide variety of writing styles and approaches to the fae. While the tag line on the back cover says “These are not your daughter’s faerie tales,” some of the stories do read as if they might be intended for a youthful audience,

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SFF Author: Linda Robertson

Vicious Circle: Persephone is not the misanthropic heroine you might expect

Hallowed Circle: Passes the Bechdel Test with flying colors

Fatal Circle: Unusually rich family relationships

Arcane Circle: Contains Robertson’s best writing yet

Where the Veil Is Thin: A mixed bag of fairies

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