Posted on April 28, 2008 by mwib
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. [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by mwib
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.
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by mwib
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 [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by mwib
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 [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2008 by mwib
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. [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by mwib
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 [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by mwib
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 [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2008 by mwib
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 [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2008 by mwib
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 [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by mwib
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 [...]
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