Queen Of Shadows by Dianne Sylvan (Shadow World #1) Urban Fantasy August 31, 2010 Paperback, 400 Pages Ace Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Maybe you have time to spend your life afraid. I don’t.” Miranda Grey feels she is slowly going insane. When she burst on to the Austin music scene with her guitar and astonishing voice, she became an instant success. But that success is demanding a horrible price. She is able to manipulate people’s emotions. But now her powers have grown Continue Reading
Review: Healer’s Choice by Jory Strong
Healer’s Choice by Jory Strong (Ghostland #3) Urban Fantasy September 7, 2010 Trade Paperback, 384 Pages Berkley Trade Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I’ll be your first. And your last.” Rebekka is a healer who lives in the red zone; a district filled with shape shifter brothels. Having grown up in this violent and oppressive atmosphere, her life has never been easy but she cannot abandon the outcasts who ply their trade with often disastrous results. With just a Continue Reading
Review: As Lie The Dead by Kelly Meding
As Lie The Dead (Dreg City #2) By Kelly Meding Urban Fantasy July 27, 2010 Paperback, 416 Pages Dell Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "The brass no longer controlled me. I was done being their bitch." As Lie The Dead picks up right where Three Days To Dead left off. Evangeline Stone (Evy) and Wyatt have survived the battle with the goblins and are trying make sense of all that happened. When Evy is approached by one of the last surviving Owlkins, Phineas (Phin), and Continue Reading
Giveaway: Dust by Joan Frances Turner
Dust by Joan Frances Turner Urban Fantasy September 7, 2010 Hardcover, 384 Pages Ace Hardcover Blurb: DUST is told from the point of view of Jessie Anne Porter, a young woman who died in a brutal car accident and only to be reborn as a zombie. Through the adventures of Jessie, Turner explores the psychological, emotional and social implications of an alternative reality in which zombies are sentient creatures. Turner’s zombies struggle with love and acceptance, anger and Continue Reading
Review: Petty Like a God by Brian Fatah Steele
Petty Like A God by Brian Fatah Steele Urban Fantasy May 5, 2010 Paperback, 304 Pages Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Look...it’s cheerleader pop.” “What’s wrong with Zima?” “You want it in alphabetical order or just the important points?” Petty Like a God is the first book in Brian Fatah Steele’s Godlings series. Here we meet the Godlings-son’s and daughters of the Gods. Using an interesting mixture of mythology and religion, Steele takes us on Continue Reading
Review: Fallen Embers Lauri J. Owen
Fallen Embers (Book 1 of the Ember Series) by Lauri J. Owen Urban Fantasy September 1, 2010 Paperback, 384 Pages Pearlsong Press Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "Fury consumed her, comforted her, caressed her. The fire was her heart and it was burning. She wanted to strike out, ease her fear... but she couldn't seem to remember anything but the rage." A violent attack leaves a young attorney and her nephew in an alternate time ruled by a class of decadent Continue Reading
Review: Chosen by Jeanne C. Stein
Chosen (Anna Strong #6) by Jeanne C. Stein Urban Fantasy August 31, 2010 Paperback, 304 Pages Ace Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: A part of me is devastated by what I am capable of. At what I’ve done. A part of me knows my true nature. I can’t fight it. I’m not sure I want to anymore. It's been a year since bounty hunter Anna Strong became a vampire, but she is about to discover that her greatest powers have yet to be unleashed. Though Anna has become use to the idea of Continue Reading
Review: Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen
Married With Zombies by Jesse Petersen September 1, 2010 Urban Fantasy Paperback, 241 Pages Orbit Reviewed by Mandi I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I like zombie books so when I saw this available at BookExpo America, I picked it up right away. Many don’t share my opinion – or at least don’t like it when the hero or heroine is a zombie. I mean, if vital parts fall off, the romance is kind of over, yes? But Married With Zombies gives us two very mortal protagonists Continue Reading
Guest Review: Total Eclipse by Rachel Caine
Total Eclipse by Rachel Caine (Weather Warden novel #9) Urban Fantasy August 3, 2010 Paperback, 320 pages Roc Fantasy Today, one of my absolute favorite reviewers, Danielle from Alpha Reader is guest reviewing. ‘Total Eclipse’ is the ninth and last book, in Rachel Caine’s ‘Weather Warden’ series. The ‘Weather Warden’ books are set in our world, but not as we know it. There is a covert organization of humans, called Weather Wardens, with special talents for commanding the Continue Reading
Review: City Of Ghosts By Stacia Kane
City of Ghosts by Stacia Kane (Downside #3)Urban FantasyJuly 27, 2010Paperback, 416 PagesDel ReyReviewed by ToriFavorite quote: "Fuck, she was so sick of herself-herself and her emotional retardation. How did people do this shit all the time, this wanting people, caring about them?"Chess Putnum is walking a fine line-one wrong move could leave her for dead. Bodies are showing up throughout the Downside.Chess is ordered by her Elders in the Church to team up with the elite, powerful Continue Reading