Review:Sophronia is a strong heroine in a vivid world. I enjoyed the pacing and characterization of this whole book. There are many cute devices such as Mechanimals and robotic butlers that make me smile. At times, the tone is definitely YA, and as a person who found Gail Carriger's work through her adult work, I found that distracting. But, E&E is a good book and I would recommend it to a friend and I am planning to read the sequel. Read more

Review:Great series ....but I was really sad that the author felt inclined to add a part where the girls discuss seeing men without clothes & though the description is not one that would encourage interest, it was just on the edge of salaciousness & cheapened what otherwise was perfection. It seems that you can't have a book where the characters show growth towards adulthood without some sort of inappropriate "coming of age" discussion somewhere....always seems a bit lazy to me, as well as dist... Read more

Review:While it takes a bit to catch steam (pun intended), it pays off in spades. Most of the characters do a fair bit of growing up, not just Sophronia, and there are quite a few throwbacks to the main Parasol series for veteran fans. There are quite a few surprising twists and even more hilarious moments Read more

Review:I began this book before I left North Carolina for our trip to Ireland. I read it at the airports. I read it on the plane. I read it while waiting on the room to be available. I read it when I had that first night of hardly any sleep due to exhaustion and excitement... I kept reading because I couldn't stop piecing the puzzles together in my mind. Helen Scheuerer has not only painted a stunning setting with her words - lands from sea coast to ancient forests to courtly cities - and those are jus... Read more

Review:I have read several of the author's Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone novels, i.e., Perish Twice, Night Passage and Stone Cold and I really enjoyed them. The author has such a creative way of making these characters seem so real. In Blue Screen I was glad to see Sunny and Jesse together in the story. However I was hoping for another thrilling mystery by Robert P. Parker, but instead I got part mystery and a lot over done pages on the romance of Sunny and Jesse. Their relationship is the highlight of... Read more

Review:It felt very sad to familiarize myself with the families' pain and guilt in this read. While the initial love for Daniel is palpable, the longing for what should have been insinuates itself throughout the book. All through the story, I found myself building compassion for the characters because people never really know the "why" nor could they be prepared for a tragedy of this magnitude. Having met the recipients of such unexpected maladies, I found it interesting walking with the father through... Read more

Review:It's hard to almost impossible to second guess "WHO DONE IT". Really well put together, I really loved it. Poodlums, Boogeymen and Booglers: A Poetry CollectionMy Tongue Fell Out Read more

Review:Grand Canyon-sized plot holes, characters with the IQ of moldy carrots and too much borrowed from "Ghost in the Shell" make this novel a non-starter. This coming from a Scalzi fan. Read "Redshirts" instead. Read more

Review:Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales

Quick & Dirty: A love triangle with a nephilim and an archangel. And I thought my high school drama was bad.

Opening Sentence: The small town of Riley's Switch, New Mexico, had only one coffee house, and I sat at a booth in it with my two best friends.

The Review:

Best-selling author, Darynda Jones, takes on young hearts and paranormal mayhem with her debut Young Adult novel, Death and the Girl Next Door. Small town girl, Lor... Read more

Review:A sentimental tale of youth and adventure. As always CRZ takes us on a series of tales within tales blurring the lines of love and darkness. Always a bit macabre and filled with his tell-tale trademarks, vengeance, Angels, demons, mechanical marvels and lots and lots of fire, he is a hopeful (not hopeless) romantic whose unlikely heroes face unfathomable villains but almost always lose at love. Maybe that's the way life is? Read more