Honoria Todd is on the run from vampire nobles in Bec McMaster’s Kiss of Steel. Her father was murdered while working on a vamp cure for the Echelon, the near-immortal royalty who injected themselves with the virus. She’s forced to flee with her sister and brother into the night promising her father never to let them have his notes. She lives under false name in the rookeries of Whitechapel. She lies to get a job working as linguist in the rich part of town to make […]
Eleanor & Marianne & Sigmund?
So I had to try this one after doing the P&P&Z trilogy last year. The whole Quirk Book thing has been hit or miss, and this one was a miss for me. Part of what I liked about the first P&P&Z book was how seamlessly the zombie story was integrated with Austen’s original. Not so much with this book. The story took us too far away from the original, putting the Dashwoods in ridiculous peril, pitting them against the entire undersea world (rivers, lakes, everything […]
Kate Prospero, bad ass cop and recovering alchemist
Dirty Magic is the new series from Jaye Wells featuring a bad ass cop named Kate Prospero. She’s an Adept, which is a person born with inherent magic skills. But she turned her back on making potions years to raise her younger brother when their mother passes away. She even attends AA type meetings for former magic users and abusers. In the present time, she works patrol for the Babylon PD chasing down criminals to lessen the guilt from her wreck less past. One night, she chases a perp […]
The Mists of Avalon
This book is a fall-back for me. I read it a very long time ago, over and over again. My paperback copy pretty much disintegrated. It had been a long time since my last reading, and I wanted something long so that I could get caught up on my reviews while I was reading. That didn’t work. I read, but didn’t review (hence my short crappy reviews on the last possible day!). Anyway, if you’re reading this (and I hope you’re not – this is […]