Tag: 2012 book log
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2012 Book Log #16: Sweet Enemy, by Heather Snow
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Sweet Enemy was a recommendation I picked up from my regular visits to SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com, a book that falls into the general category of historical romances with bluestocking heroines. This book’s heroine, Liliana Claremont, is a brilliant chemist who chafes at the restrictions that society places upon her, keeping her…
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2012 Book Log #15: Cape Storm, by Rachel Caine
My rating: 3 of 5 stars The second to last Weather Warden novel was one that it took me a bit to get to, on a couple of grounds. One, that one of the plot threads in it sounded like something we’d already seen happen earlier in the series. And two, that I’d started reaching…
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2012 Book Log #14: Downpour, by Kat Richardson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Oh, I do love me some Greywalker. I DO. And I happily devoured Downpour, the sixth in the ongoing Kat Richardson series. Given that this is an urban fantasy series, by now we’re well and thoroughly into the character progression–and into the inevitable levelling up of Harper’s Greywalker powers.…
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2012 Book Log #13: Follow My Lead, by Kate Noble
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Follow My Lead didn’t grab me quite as much as previous Kate Noble outings–but that isn’t to say I disliked this book. Because I didn’t! I still found this one an enjoyable read even though it didn’t click with me quite as much as the previous installments of the…
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2012 Book Log #12: Unraveled, by Courtney Milan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars The third of Courtney Milan’s Turner series, her Regencies following the Turner brothers, turned out to be just as entertaining as the first two. And in some ways, I found it the most satisfying of the three! Of the three Turner brothers, Smite’s the one who engaged my sympathies…
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2012 Book Log #11: Unlocked, by Courtney Milan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars As I’ve mentioned in my previous reviews of Courtney Milan’s work, I like her writing quite a bit–and Unlocked, her novella set between Books 1 and 2 of her Turner series, was no exception. This story features a side character that we briefly meet in Book 1, and how…
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2012 Book Log #10: Hellbent, by Cherie Priest
My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Cozily domestic” is not usually a phrase I would think to associate with the living situation of a vampire. It is a measure of Cherie Priest’s ability as an author to engage me so strongly that I not only was intrigued by her take on a vampire heroine, but…
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2012 Book Log #9: Richard Castle’s Deadly Storm, by Brian Michael Bendis and Kelly Sue DeConnick
My rating: 2 of 5 stars As any good fan of the TV show Castle knows, Nikki Heat is by no means Richard Castle’s first famous character. The show starts off with his concluding his long-running Derrick Storm series, and the particular explosive ending he gives those books is a nice little character development point…
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2012 Book Log #8: Those Who Went Remain There Still, by Cherie Priest
My rating: 3 of 5 stars One of the big reasons I’ve picked up everything Cherie Priest has written is her propensity for taking established SF/F tropes and finding not only new ways to look at them, but actively odd ones as well–and in a run of intriguingly odd books, Those Who Went Remain There…
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2012 Book Log #7: Bloodshot, by Cherie Priest
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Urban fantasy has to work very, very hard to seize and hold my attention these days, and I say this fully cognizant of how there are a great number of authors out there writing awesome books. For me, it’s just been a matter of wanting to read so many…