Blood Song kicks off competently enough. A nice play with lost memories, time, and unwelcome powers makes the pages fly. Then, about a third of the way through, the hope that some questions will be answered rather than more and more piled up disappears. Noir elements are well and good until so many […]
Queen of Shadows floats to the top of reading lists on the strength of its flashy blurb oddities. Miranda, a supernaturally good musician, may have a hint of a gift for empathy. Her vampiric match, David, sets himself apart from the usual fanged crowd by monitoring servers and tweaking the specs for future […]
Kitty and the Midnight Hour provides valuable perspective on the non-alpha, non-volunteer werewolf. Not everybody chooses to be bitten or is born into that way of furry things. A few such as Kitty have the choice made for them and their status as were just happens to be an inconvenience, that is, until […]
Bitter Night, beyond the tremendous amount of imagination it so effortlessly demonstrates, employs one of the more emotionally stirring narrative trajectories. Max is on the path to freedom. The true genius in the relating of this narrative is that freedom, to have any meaning at all, must struggle against obligation, and in so doing […]