Category Archives: Urban fantasy
The Monks of Appalling Dreadfulness. If by ‘appalling,’ you mean ‘hysterical.’
Read February 2023 Recommended for fans footnotes, The Gates, dry humor ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Appalling amounts of fun. I giggled most of the way through it, and despite the brevity, it would have been five stars if … Continue reading
Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews
Read January 2023 Recommended for Andrews fans ★ ★ ★ ★ Checked email at 10 pm, discovered preorder receipt, downloaded book and finished by 1 a.m. Fun; a return to good, old-fashioned Andrews fun. Kate and Curran … Continue reading
A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow
Read August 2022 Recommended for fans of the Scholomance ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Fairy tales and I go way back. For a little perspective, you have to remember I’m the Disney Classic era, so I’m not talking movie fairy tales … Continue reading
Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton
Read May 2022 ★ ★ 1/2 Shhh. C’mere. I’m not normally the person to do this, but since all the other reviews are overwhelmingly positive, I have to throw my two cents into the ring: this was an okay … Continue reading
That Ain’t Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire
Read May 2022 Recommended ★ ★ ★ ★ Surprisingly fun and a nice return to the attraction the series originally held for me. Snappy dialogue, a tone that nicely balances fun with consequences and an interesting storyline all make for … Continue reading
Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch. Or, Primary Weapon: Kobna
Read April 2022 Recommended ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Here’s what you need to know: while I generally am unable to be an audio book listener, audio is absolutely the best way to consume the Peter Grant series. Although I … Continue reading
Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures by Jackson Pearce and Maggie Stiefvater
Read April 2022 Recommended for magical animal-lovers ★ ★ ★ ★ In kindergarten, I wanted to be a veternarian. So I have some empathy for Pip, the main character in a series by Pearce and Stiefvater, who is fascinated … Continue reading
False Value by Ben Aaronovitch. Audio version–not so much
Listened March to April 2022 Recommended ★ ★ ★ 1/2 The story definitely improved with Kobna’s reading. It took me a long, long time to get to the audio version, having bounced so hard off the hardcover. The narrative time shifts … Continue reading
Crowbones by Anne Bishop
Read April 2022 Recommended for fans. Very ardent ones. ★ ★ And so continues my love-hate relationship with Anne Bishop’s The Others series. Although, to be honest, it’s really more of a guilty pleasure-outright disgust hookup, but that’s always more … Continue reading
Greedy Pigs by Matt Wallace
Read February 2022 Recommended for fans of urban fantasy restaurants ★ ★ ★ “Several well-maintained layers of undisturbed dust cover everything.” Read that again. And that’s why I continue reading Wallace, even as his stories occasionally take me … Continue reading
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