2016 Book 13: Midnight Taxi Tango (Bone Street Rumba, Book Two) by Daniel Jose Older; isbn 9780425275993; 322 pages; Roc; softcover; $7.99

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page): Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York’s ghostlier problems. This ( Read more... )

2016 Book 02: Maelstrom (Whyborne & Griffin Book 7) by Jordan L. Hawk; isbn 9781519353788; 260 pages; JLH; softcover; $12.99

The Premise: (from the Goodreads Page)   Between his father’s sudden-and rather suspicious-generosity, and his own rash promise to help Christine plan her wedding, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough to worry about. ( Read more... )

Continuing book reviews out of order!

Book 05: Half-Resurrection Blues (A Bone Street Rumba novel) by Daniel Jose Older isbn: 9780425275986, Penguin, 236 pages, $7.99

The Premise: (from the back cover): Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Dead’s most unusual agents - an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely ( Read more... )

Book 24: Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire, isbn: 9780756408114, Daw, 168 pages, $7.99

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page) When Alex Price agreed to go to Ohio to oversee a basilisk breeding program and assist in the recovery of his psychic cousin, he didn't expect people to start dropping dead. But bodies are cropping up at the zoo where he ( Read more... )

Book 22: Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire, isbn: 9780756407926, Daw, 168 pages, $7.99

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page):
Cryptid, noun ( Read more... )

Book 20: Hexed (The Iron Druid Chronicles Book 2) by Kevin Hearne, isbn: 9780345522498, Del Ray, 307 pages, $7.99

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page): Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn’t care much for witches. Still, he’s about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treaty--when suddenly ( Read more... )

NOTE: To keep my listing here and my listings on Goodreads consistent, I will include magazine and short story reviews here IF that magazine or e-pubbed short story has a Goodreads listing. Short stories with Goodreads listings will be included here and also count towards my "Story a Day" count over at 365shortstoriesBook 11: Eidolon (Whyborne & Griffin, book 1.5 ( Read more... )

Book 09: Stormhaven (Whyborne & Griffin, book three) by Jordan L. Hawk, isbn: 9781493759255, JLH, 173 pages, $9.00

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page) Mysterious happenings are nothing new to reclusive scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne, but finding one of his colleagues screaming for help in the street is rather unusual. Allan Tambling claims ( Read more... )

Book 08: Sins of the Lost (The Grigori Legacy, book three) by Linda Poitevin, isbn: 9781101635261, Penguin, 300 pages, $5.99

The Premise (from the Goodreads page):Heaven and Hell are on the brink of war as Lucifer builds his Nephilim army and waits for his new agenda to become a reality - that of having a Nephilim child of his own bloodline to ( Read more... )

Book 74: Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One) by Kevin Hearne, isbn: 9789780345522474, Ballantine/Del Ray, 304 pages, $7.99

The Premise: (from the back cover): Atticus O'Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors ( Read more... )