Tag Archives: net galley
The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch
Read April 2017 Recommended for fans of UF police detectives ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A delightful side adventure in the Peter Grant universe. I found myself chuckling, highlighting as a went, enjoying Grant’s wry observations of the city … Continue reading
Chasing Embers by James Bennett
Read August 2016 Recommended for fans of purple prose and dragons ★ ★ 1/2 There’s a lot to enjoy here. A dragon. A fast moving plot. A dragon. Realized settings from NYC to London to Berlin to Cairo. Oh, … Continue reading
Summerlong by Peter Beagle
Read June 2016 Recommended for people who want to feel melancholic ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Peter S. Beagle has long been one of my favorite authors. It is not that I love everything he writes as much … Continue reading
Pride’s Spell by Matt Wallace
Read June 2016 Recommended for ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Wallace is doing an interesting thing with his urban fantasy series wrapped around the adventures of a catering firm the works with the supernatural. As he states on his … Continue reading
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
Read February 2016 Recommended for fans of vague, undefined heroines ★ ★ Two things attracted me to The Passenger: Lisa Lutz, the author of the daffy, emotionally complicated and entertaining Spellman Files series (review of the first), and the … Continue reading
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
Read January 2016 Recommended for fans of tough-as-nails, supernatural mysteries ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 This was not what I expected. Enchanted by City of Stairs (my review), I worked my way backward through some of … Continue reading
Owl and the City of Angels by Kristi Charish
Read September 2015 Recommended for fans of Kim Harrison ★ ★ ★ Owl is in trouble. Again. She’s incognito at an archaeological dig in Egypt and can’t escape a leering post-doc student long enough to steal a Medusa … Continue reading
The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove
Read June 2015 Recommended for UF readers ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I’ve always thought of much of the urban fantasy field as taking off with Ann Rice and Laurel Hamilton books, so when I saw this book was … Continue reading
The Journeyman: The Commons #1 by Michael Alan Peck
February 2015 Recommended for fans of Harrison Squared, fans of new Weird ★ ★ ★ ★ “Paul Reid died in the snow at seventeen. The day of his death, he told a lie–and for the rest of his life, … Continue reading
