Hey, look! I missed a march entry! That's what I get for storing things on three different drives in three different locations!

This is mostly a re-read (original entries here for LJ; here for DW). The only major change is that my big complaint the other time, that the characters aren't actually introduced here, is dealt with this time by ( Read more... )

Fair Game: an alpha and omega novel by Patricia BriggsA serial killer in the Boston area is killing werewolves; Charles and Anna are sent in to cooperate with the FBI. Upon reviewing old cases, though, they realise that the killer has not only been killing werewolves all along during a long career, he has also been killing fae; weaker or half- ( Read more... )

Masques by Patricia BriggsThis was Briggs' first published novel, apparently a non-seller from a small press that has been long out of print, and at long last revised and republished, now that there is a market of people like me who will buy just about anything with her name on it ( Read more... )

Tempest Rising by Nicole PeelerJane True is the community outcast of Rockabill, Maine. She lives with and takes care of her aging father (her mother having disappeared one day as mysteriously as she appeared), works in the bookstore with its lesbian couple owners (Tracy Gregory and former(?) pornstar Grizelda Montague (formerly professionally ( Read more... )

Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

Sequel to Cry Wolf. This time, Charles and Anna are sent to Seattle to meet with a delegation of werewolves from Europe. Bran, the leader of North America's werewolves, intends to announce to the world that werewolves are real (just as the Fae came out of the closet some years before), and he feels that the ( Read more... )

Armed & Magical by Lisa Shearin

Sequel to Magic Lost, Trouble Found finds Raine in trouble on the Isle of Mid, home of the magical college, the Archmagus, and the only hope she has of getting rid of the magical artifact that bound itself to her in the last book. That she gets to spend time with the handsome Mychael Eiliesor doesn't hurt. But ( Read more... )

Or mostly, anyway.

The Android's Dream by John Scalzi A bureaucrat farts out a deadly insult to a scent-sensitive alien race, leading Earth to the brink of war with a vastly more powerful empire. For even a hope of peace, the aliens want a sheep of a special breed designed especially for them, but all the animals both on the alien homeworld and ( Read more... )

( Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn )

( Shadows in the Starlight by Elaine Cunningham )

First Truth by Dawn Cook In a land divided between aristocratic plainsfolk and farming hill folk, the life of a halfbreed isn't easy . Alissa is such a half-breed, daughter of a hill father and a plains mother. Her father, long gone and almost certainly dead, was something called a Keeper and told stories about a place called "the Hold", where ( Read more... )