Atlanta is being rocked by waves of magic, each stronger than the one before, and the city is going crazy. Meeting a vulnerable young girl living on the streets whose mother disappeared during one of the waves, Kate finds herself trying to work out just what exactly magic-crazed shifters, witches and Celtic gods have to do with it all. Of course, she also gets to rub up a lot against the Leader of the Pack (I seem to be incapable of calling him the Beast […]
Better than the last three books in the series, but still not great, Bob!
Okay, so, two and a half star book, for me. I waffled between two and three stars for ages, but I’m going with two, I think, for a couple of reasons. One, what is the arc here? It’s sort of Moiraine becoming a real Aes Sedai, but there isn’t really any emotional development on her part. She is the same person before she passes the test for the shawl as she is after. I liked that person for the first half, then she did some […]
Slight second album syndrome
When I first signed up for the Cannonball Read, I had no inkling of the toll that cancer would shortly be taking on my family. On Monday morning, we lost my beloved nan after a short but vicious fight with lung cancer. 4 foot nothing and still able and very willing to eviscerate anyone who so much as looked at you wrong, my nan loved to read. Not quite the same stuff as me – reading exclusively in the genres of tragic lives and smut, […]
The War is Over. The Killing Continues
Karou’s family is gone. The chimaera have been decimated. The city of Loramendi has fallen. The seraphim had learned the secret of the chimaera resurrection – that every lost solider’s soul was gleaned and returned to a new body by Brimstone – and with his death the angels were able to finally win the war for Eretz. Lost in her grief, Karou meets up with Thiago, the son of the Warlord who commanded the chimaera troops. In her past life as Madrigal, which she now […]