#30 - Tanya Huff, The Fire’s Stone (1990 ( Read more... )

Tanya Huff, Valor's Choice (2000 ( Read more... )

#26 Tanya Huff, Smoke and Mirrors (2005) # 27 Smoke and Ashes (2006 ( Read more... )

Tanya Huff takes a big leap forward in this book, the start of a spin off series from the Blood books. *Smoke and Shadows* is, I think, a far better written story with much more complex supporting characters ( Read more... )

I think the series really takes off at this point. Vicki finally makes a choice between the human detective Mike and the vampire prince Henry. Also, the emotional tension gets much higher as *Blood Pact* (1993) is a zombie story - but the zombie in question is Vicki's recently deceased mother. It's a genuinely scary situation ( Read more... )

I ended my last review of the Blood series by asking what’s not to like about it. Someone rightly commented that the next one is just the same, and the one after that, and the one after that ( Read more... )

Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Eds), Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1996) and Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001 ( Read more... )

It is hard to believe that Tanya Huff began the *Blood Price* series nearly twenty years ago. They’ve held up well as urban fantasy. Plus, with her intelligent vampire Henry, she was an early rider of the paranormal romance wave ( Read more... )

I've been enjoying paradox_dragon's reviews of Tanya Huff's books, so, rushing into the library at lunchtime one day last week, when I saw this, I thought 'Why not?' And it was certainly worth a read, though perhaps not a re-read ( Read more... )