Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. Alexia Maccon, Lady Woolsey, is woken up in the middle of the afternoon by the sound of her husband yelling at the top of his lungs. Considering that he’s a werewolf, and should be asleep at that hour, this can’t be a good thing, especially when he then […]
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Challenge. So here’s a slightly different take on the proliferation of Jane Austen continuation stories – this is the first book of a series that has Jane Austen herself solving mysteries. The conceit of this book is that the author is the editor of some letters and
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. The Infernals continues the adventures of Samuel Johnson, his dog Boswell, and his friend Nurd, the demon. After the events of The Gates, when the ruler of Hell sent the evil Mrs. Abernathy to Earth to clear the way for an invasion (by way of the Large Hadron
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. In the 12th century, the overly ambitious head of the Shrewsbury Abbey has been on the look out for the relics of a saint he could bring back to the abbey to increase the pilgrims that come there. When he hears the tales of Saint Winifred, who’s buried
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. Marius is a professional battlefield looter. He and his apprentice, Gerd, happen upon the aftermath of the battle that has killed the king of Scorby. Unable to pass up such a rich battlefield prize, they’re looting the body when the Dead come to claim the
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. It’s 1861, and as the Prince Consort is dying, Queen Victoria summons a lawyer named Patrick Fitzgerald to Windsor. Within hours, the Prince Consort is dead, Fitzgerald and his ward Georgiana are run off the road in their carriage, nearly killing Georgiana, and his chambers are ransacked. It
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. The Tenth Gift is one of those books that happens in parallel storylines – one in the present, where someone has found something that links to the storyline in the past. In the case of this book, Julia has just been dumped by her long-time lover (who happens
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. At the end of the Blood Ties books, for massively spoilery reasons, the vampire Henry Fitzroy had to relocate from Toronto to Vancouver. Needing someone he trusted to be his help during the day, he brought with him Tony Foster, the street kid that had helped Vickie and
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. I can only write about this book if I first go off on a couple of tangents: Tangent #1 – I’ve been avoiding this series because of the covers. They’ve got those typical urban fantasy covers with the female character in some sort of sexed-up pose, scantily clad.
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I’d picked this book out of the pile because it was one of the ones that had been sitting there the longest. In hindsight, I wish I’d saved it until winter. I say that because it’s filled with glorious descriptions of Tuscany in the summer, and the author is a gardener, so it’s written right
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