I recently finished Eileen Wilks' Blood Challenge, which is the current (7th) book in her Lupi series. I recommend Wilks a lot for those who like urban fantasy. The series follows Lily Yu, a former cop and now FBI agent, and her lupus (essentially, werewolf) lover Rule. To keep the romance fresh, they face new problems with each book, and ( Read more... )

This post's purpose is to collect my common tags in one place, so readers (and I!) can easily access entries on several subjects.

I really enjoy the ways in which Kresley Cole's paranormal romances rebel against tropes of that sub-genre and of gender expectations. Her female characters are powerful in their own right, often skilled at violence, even taking joy in it (many of them are Valkyries, experienced in centuries or millenia of battle); they might rebel strongly ( Read more... )

I went to the gym after dayjob for a longer workout than I've been managing, then went home and did laundry. Go me.

Playing with the monkeys tonight, and possibly getting to watch a little, a very little, figure skating.

I finished the second of Gail Dayton's romances for Tor, Heart's Blood, and liked it more than the first. It felt like a ( Read more... )

Gail Dayton, author of the Compass Rose books, has a couple of new novels out from Tor Romance. I read the first one, New Blood, a few days ago. It's historical alternate world, roughly nineteenth century, in which magic is known in four forms: (elements) alchemy, (spirits) conjury, (plants) wizardry, and (blood and sex) sorcery. The latter is ( Read more... )

I finished Jeri Smith-Ready's Wicked Game yesterday. It was one of the best urban fantasy novels I'd read in a long while. For those who read Carrie Vaughn's Kitty series, there were similarities to that - setting at a radio station, smartmouthed heroine - but also a lot of good things that were all its own ( Read more... )

I finished Anna Katherine's Salt and Silver last night, and really enjoyed the breezy, funny first-person voice. It's a new urban fantasy/paranormal romance from Tor, and actually reads more like fantasy from the fantasy-genre than romance, which is part of why I liked it so much ( Read more... )

I blogged over at the pro blog about not liking vampires and why, but currently am reading a vampire book, Marta Acosta's Happy Hour at Casa Dracula, which is awesome ( Read more... )

I read the new Eileen Wilks novel, Mortal Sins (World of the Lupi, Book 5)
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See? Very calm now, that my book is out. Calm. Yes, indeed. Very calm.

For travel reading, I decided on by Sherry Thomas, which I no longer have to hoard now that I know she'll have another book [Not Quite a Husband
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