Moon Called by Patricia Briggs 04/28/08

This is the first of a series but not Briggs’ first book.  Mercy Thompson is a walker – not a wereanimal but a shapeshifter – a coyote.  She’s all too involved with the werewolves, not to mention the local vampires.
It’s a good story, full of action but occasionally it’s hard to track who is who.  [...]

Dying to be Thin – Kathryn Lilley 04/24/08

This was another first book and overall not a bad beginning. I think there were some bad copyedits, but other than that, it’s fine. I doubt I’ll read the rest of them but this book was okay.

All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris 04/24/08

This is the first of the Southern Vampire series that I listened to on audio.  It was weird, frankly.  The narrator’s voice was nothing like I imagined Sookie.
The general story:  Sookie is off to Chicago with Queen Sophie and the rest of the Louisiana vamps for a vampire summit.  QS is going to be on [...]

No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong 04/21/08

Jaime Vegas, who we originally met in Industrial Magic, is the narrator for this book in the Women of the Otherworld series. Jaime is a necromancer which means that she can communicate with the dead. In some books, like Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, a necromancer doesn’t talk to ghosts, she raises [...]

Broken by Kelley Armstrong 04/14/08

Elena is the only female werewolf. Werewolves are either born with the gene – and it’s only passed to boys – or bitten and women usually die. Except Elena. Elena was Bitten but she lived.
The pregnancy is troubling – there hasn’t been a werewolf pregnancy so no one knows what to expect. [...]

Haunted by Kelley Armstrong 04/13/08

Eve Levine is a ghost. In “Industrial Magic” she makes a deal with The Fates and, if Paige and Lucas are returned to life, she’ll owe The Fates a favor. Now they’ve decided to call it in.
What they want seems to be impossible. The Nix, a demi-demon, has accidentally been let loose [...]

BookReporter.com

I love surprises!
This afternoon, I got online to check my email. There, in my yahoo email, was a lovely surprise. I entered a contest on Bookreporter.com and won 2 new books! One of them is the newest (Certain Girls) by one of my favorite writers, Jennifer Weiner. The other is a Mary Higgins Clark book.
Besides [...]

Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong 04/10/08

I’m always thrilled when I find a new writer who a) I think is amazing; b) who is writing a series, which I love; c) there are several books to the series before I find them; and d) whose writing gets better with each book. That describes Kelley Armstrong perfectly.
 
The Women of the Otherworld series [...]

Tales of a Drama Queen by Lee Nichols 04/05/08

I went to visit A Friend in a different city and didn’t feel like reading the book I took with me, so we found a used bookstore and decided to check it out.  I mean, there are Borders and other regular bookstores but I generally find cooler things in used stores.  This time, not so [...]

Storm Front by Jim Butcher 04/03/08

I called my friend M today.  I hated to do it, but I had to tell her that her husband was right: I DO like the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. At the very least, I liked the first of them.  
Harry Dresden is a wizard who advertises his services in the phone book.  Not [...]