The Shattered Dark (McKenzie Lewis #2) by Sandy Williams Urban Fantasy Releases: October 30, 2012 Ace Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “It’s a familiar feeling, being pushed to the side like this.“ Sandy Williams once again takes us on a dark, twisted journey with the second installment of her dynamic urban fantasy McKenzie Lewis series, The Shattered Dark. Our heroine McKenzie Lewis isn’t your average urban fantasy heroine. She has a unique gift, the ability to read and locate Continue Reading
Review: Angel’s Ink by Jocelynn Drake
Angel’s Ink (The Asylum Tales #1) by Jocelynn Drake Urban Fantasy Released: October 16, 2012 Harper Voyager Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I had a price to pay for my choices.“ In Low Town, where elves, fairies, trolls, werewolves, and vampires are happily walking among humanity, everything has its price. Gage just wants to run his tattoo parlor and live a quiet fuss free life, but this former warlock is finding out that what he wants and what he’ll get are two very different Continue Reading
Review: Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey
Dark Currents (Agent of Hel #1) by Jacqueline Carney Urban Fantasy Hardback October 2, 2012 Roc Reviewed by Tori In the small resort town of Pemkowet, wealthy humans and supernatural creatures (called eldritch) live together in an uneasy harmony, all under the unbending authority of an ancient Norse goddess, Hel. Daisy Johanssen, half incubus and half human, helps patrol the town and it’s inhabitants as an official agent of Hel and a liaison to the Pemkowet Police Department. Continue Reading
Review: Haunted by Jeanne C. Stein
Haunted (Anna Strong Chronicles #8) by Jeanne C. Stein Urban Fantasy August 28, 2012 Ace Favorite Quote: “What am I?” I whisper then. “Vengeance.“ Haunted, #8 in the Anna Strong Chronicles, brings back the dynamic action packed life of Anna Strong-bounty hunter turned vampire, that I missed in book 7. Anna was turned into a vampire through violent means and without her consent. While it has been a wild adventure for Anna, she has accepted her role in being the Chosen. She is content Continue Reading
Review: Night Seeker by Yasmine Galenorn
Night Seeker (Indigo Court #3) by Yasmine Galenorn Urban Fantasy July 3, 2012 Penguin Reviewed by Tori Favorite quote: “There is much to fear in the dark. There are monsters under the bed and in the closet, and now they walk aboard at will. “ Wind witch and owl shifter, Cicely Waters, rescued her lover, Fae Prince Grieve from the Indigo Court, but not before Myst, the Queen Of Winter, turned him. The rescue destroyed Cicely’s alliance with Lainule, the Queen of Summer and Continue Reading
Review: Full Blooded by Amanda Carlson
Full Blooded (Jessica McClain #1) by Amanda Carlson Urban Fantasy Released: September 11, 2012 Orbit Favorite Quote: “How do you like me now?” Jessica McClain is the only female to be born pack in the last couple hundred of years. As she is regarded as, “the evil apocalypse that will end their race” and constantly fighting for her life, she leaves the pack and heads to the city to live on her own in seclusion. When she awakes in the middle of the night, in the throes of her first Continue Reading
Review: To Catch a Vampire by Jennifer Harlow
To Catch A Vampire (F.R.E.A.K.S Squad Investigation #2) by Jennifer Harlow Urban Fantasy Released: September 8, 2012 Midnight Ink Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “You are a stalking, creepy pervert who needs a hobby.“ Beatrice Alexander is now an official member of The F.R.E.A.K. Squad -Federal Response to Extra-Sensory and Kindred Supernaturals. A top secret branch of the FBI who hunt the supernatural monsters of society. Taken into the group after she almost killed her brother, Continue Reading
Review: The Kingmakers by Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith
The Kingmakers (Vampire Empire #3) by Clay and Susan Griffith Urban/Steampunk Fantasy Trade September 4, 2012 Pyr Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “How will history judge me? I care not.” The Kingmakers is the dramatic, pulse pounding, emotional, heart wrenching conclusion to Clay and Susan’s epic Vampire Empire trilogy. From the first sentence of The Greyfriar (book one), I was instantly swept away into an incredible adventure of unimaginable horror, and an impossible romance so Continue Reading
Review: Seawitch by Kat Richardson
Seawitch (Greywalker #7 ) by Kit Richardson Urban Fantasy August 7, 2012 Roc Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Welcome to the freak show. “ Seawitch, the seventh installment in Richardson's Greywalker series, pits magic against good old police skills in a swashbuckling seafaring adventure when Harper Blaine teams up with a Seattle police detective to investigate a decades old mystery. When a boat (the Seawitch) that has been missing for 27 years suddenly turns up, abandoned in its Continue Reading
Review: Widow’s Web by Jennifer Estep
Widow's Web by Jennifer Estep (Elemental Assassin #7) August 21, 2012 Urban Fantasy Simon & Schuster Reviewed by May Favorite Quote: This was a matter of the heart – and one problem that all my knives and all my prowess as the Spider wouldn’t help me solve. Gin Blanco is an assassin. Oh, she’s semi-retired and she tries to live her life as normally as she can now running her BBQ joint the Pork Pit and spending time with her friends, sister Bria, and her lover Owen. But things happen, Continue Reading