Category Archives: Urban fantasy
Uncanny Collateral by Brian McClellan
Read January 2020 Recommended for fans tough guys with tats ★ ★ ★ A decent urban fantasy; for those who follow the field, I’d say better than the first books in the Dresden series and on … Continue reading
Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews
Read January 2020, 2015 Recommended for fans of magical inns ★ ★ ★ ★ Surprisingly, I liked this even better than the first novel in the Innkeeper series, Clean Sweep. I expected a paranormal romance direction … Continue reading
Ghosts of Gotham by Craig Schaefer
b Read November 2019 Recommended for people with tolerance, fans of Schaefer ★ ★ 1/2 Well, if I hadn’t already been well and favorably acquainted with Schaefer’s Daniel Faust series, I might have given up on this … Continue reading
Lizard Music by D. Manus Pinkwater
Read November 2019 Recommended for ten-year-olds and Reynolds ★ ★ ★ ★ I had lizards when I was young, so it stands to reason that a book titled “Lizard Music” would appeal. With allergies to fur and … Continue reading
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith
Read September 2019 No recommendations come to mind ★ ★ I don’t know what Marshall Smith was thinking, I truly don’t. Too casually dark for your average young adult and with themes of estrangement that will barely be … Continue reading
The Toll by Cherie Priest
Read July 2019 Recommended for fans of Southern Gothic ★ ★ 1/2 Loosely billed as ‘horror,’ I don’t think that The Toll earns the genre. With a Southern Gothic atmosphere, it has a dual plot line that only … Continue reading
Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Read June 2019 Recommended for fans of UF ★ ★ ★ ★ Fast-moving, moving from a straight-forward confrontation to a search and rescue. There are a lot of similarities with the Kate Daniels series: a heroine with a … Continue reading
Wild Country by Anne Bishop
Read May 2019 Recommended for fans of The Others ★ ★ ★ The short version: Wild Country is All The Books in The Others series thrown in a food processor then tossed together in a fruit salad. In … Continue reading
The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch
Read March 2019 Recommended for fans of urban fantasy police procedural ★ ★ ★ ★ You should always realize that my ratings for Ben Aaronovitch are relative to his own works; his Peter Grant series is generally … Continue reading
Helen and Troy’s Epic Road Quest by A. Lee Martinez
Read February 2019 Recommended for fans of YA road trips 2.75 ★ A. Lee Martinez is hit and miss for me; two of his books are ridiculously fun (Gil’s All Fright Diner, Emperor Mollusk), a couple absolutely aren’t, … Continue reading
