Category: Book Log
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Book Log #61: Disturbed By Her Song, by Tanith Lee
My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was given Disturbed by Her Song as a review copy from Lethe Press, and I’ve got to say, this was one of the most unusual things I’ve read in a while. It’s a collection of short stories written by Tanith Lee, but under the conceit that two of…
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Book Log #60: The Mummy Case, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Once you get into Book 3 of the Amelia Peabody series, The Mummy Case, you start picking up steam for the long haul of the bulk of all these books. Hands down, the best aspect of it is that Amelia and Emerson’s young son Ramses joins them for the…
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Book Log #59: The Curse of the Pharoahs, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars After the awesomeness that is Crocodile on the Sandbank, the mighty opening round of the Amelia Peabody series, a reader might wonder how Elizabeth Peters could possibly have packed more awesome into these books. The answer: by the introduction of Amelia and Emerson’s son, the “catastrophically precocious” Walter Peabody…
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Book Log #58: Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars One of my all-time favorite authors is Elizabeth Peters, a.k.a. Barbara Michaels–and of her many, many works, my all-time favorite hands down is the Amelia Peabody series. Which starts off with a mighty roar in Crocodile on the Sandbank, a book I can go back to again and again.…
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Book Log #57: Blood, Smoke and Mirrors
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Robyn Bachar’s Blood, Smoke and Mirrors was favorable reviewed on Smart Bitches, and that’s always a fine thing, so I took it upon myself to check this book out. It was my first from Samhain Press, who certainly did make an impression upon me with the gorgeous cover for…
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Book Log #56: Matters of the Blood, by Maria Lima
My rating: 4 of 5 stars You can’t pick up an urban fantasy these days without getting some variation on the “heroine in tough pose and generally without a head” cover. Nor are your chances good of finding an urban fantasy that does not involve vampires. Maria Lima’s Matters of the Blood has both of…
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Book Log #55: Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies was one of those books I’d been hearing about for ages, and I’ll cheerily admit that glancing at the blurbs on it and the other books in the series in a bookstore did pique my interest. I did not, however, get a chance to read this…
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Book Log #54: Carnal Innocence, by Nora Roberts
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nora Roberts really does love her some “girl who’s been away for ages goes back to family home in a small town, and OHNOEZ THERE’S A MURDER” plots, and Carnal Innocence is yet another one of those type of books. Fortunately, this is a plot formula that Ms. Roberts…
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Book Log #53: Red Hood’s Revenge, by Jim C. Hines
My rating: 4 of 5 stars It gives me great, great glee to think of Jim Hines’ version of Little Red Riding Hood: a formidable assassin, “the Lady of the Red Hood”, whose magical cape grants her the ability to take on wolf form. She’s the central new character in Book 3 of his Princess…
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Book Log #52: Fatal Affair, by Marie Force
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Fatal Affair, a Carina Press release by Marie Force, promises to be the first of a series involving the same romantic couple. I must give Ms. Force points for this, as I quite like to see a series develop the relationship between an established pair–J.D. Robb of course comes…