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Early Review: Deliverance (Mortal Path #3) by Dakota Banks
Deliverance (Mortal Path #3) by Dakota Banks Publisher: Harper Voyager/March 27th, 2012 Urban Fantasy Kind thanks to HarperVoyager for providing a review copy 4/5 Kill . . . or be damned. A demon’s assassin for centuries, Maliha Crayne has gone rogue, determined to save a life for every one she’s destroyed in order to free herself from an eternity of enslavement, damnation, and excruciating torment. But as the powers that … Continue reading
Darkest Knight (Knight’s Curse #2) by Karen Duvall
Darkest Knight (Knight’s Curse #2) by Karen Duvall Publisher: LUNA/March 20, 2012 Urban Fantasy Kind thanks to NetGalley for providing a review copy 3.5/5 “Betray your sisters or your lover. You choose.” After the warrior she loves saved her from a murderous gargoyle, Chalice watched helplessly as Aydin turned into a gargoyle himself. Now, free from the curse that enslaved her, Chalice pledges to join her sister knights in The … Continue reading
Early Review: Invisible Sun by David Macinnis Gill
Invisible Sun by David Macinnis Gill Publisher: HarperTeen/Greenwillow/March 27, 2012 Scifi/YA Kind thanks to HarperTeen for providing a review copy 4.5/5 You don’t want to mess with Durango. He left his crew behind. His father is dead. And he’s going to prove himself to Vienne, even if he dies trying. As he races through flood and fire and across a violent and terrifying planet, there’s a 97% chance he’s going … Continue reading
Early Review: Assassin’s Code (Joe Ledger #4) by Jonathan Maberry
Assassin’s Code (Joe Ledger #4) by Jonathan Maberry Publisher: St. Martins Press/April 10, 2012 Thriller Joe Ledger series Kind thanks to St. Martins Press and NetGalley for providing a review copy 5/5 When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran,the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMDs will … Continue reading
Early Review: Sacrificial Magic (Downside Ghosts #4) by Stacia Kane
Sacrificial Magic (Downside Ghosts #4) by Stacia Kane Publisher: DelRey/March 27, 2012 Urban Fantasy Downside Ghosts series Kind thanks to DelRey and NetGalley for providing a review copy 4.5/5 When Chess Putnam is ordered by an infamous crime boss—who also happens to be her drug dealer—to use her powers as a witch to solve a grisly murder involving dark magic, she knows she must rise to the challenge. Adding to … Continue reading
Black Howl (Black Wings #3) by Christina Henry
Black Howl (Black Wings #3) by Christina Henry Publisher: Ace/Feb. 2012 Urban Fantasy Black Wings Series Kind thanks to Ace for providing a review copy 4/5 Something is wrong with the souls of Chicago’s dead. Ghosts are walking the streets, and Agent of Death Madeline Black’s exasperating boss wants her to figure out why. And while work is bad enough, Maddy has a plethora of personal problems too. Now that … Continue reading
Early Review: Royal Street (Sentinels of New Orleans #1) by Suzanne Johnson
Royal Street by Suzanne Johnson Publisher: Tor/April 10th, 2012 Urban Fantasy Sentinels of New Orleans series Kind thanks to Tor for providing a review copy 4/5 As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. DJ’s boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the … Continue reading
Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva
Portrait of a Spy (Gabriel Allon #11) by Daniel Silva Publisher: HarperCollins/Feb. 2012 Espionage/Thriller Kind thanks to HarperCollins for providing a review copy 4.5/5 It was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London for master art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon and his wife, Chiara. But a deadly pair of bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this lovely autumn day. Then, before he can … Continue reading
The Games by Ted Kosmatka
The Games by Ted Kosmatka Publisher: Random House/March 13th, 2012 Sci-fi/Thriller Kind thanks to Random House for providing a review copy 5/5 Silas Williams is the brilliant geneticist in charge of preparing the U.S. entry into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: no human DNA is permitted in the design of the entrants. Silas lives and breathes genetics; his designs have led the United … Continue reading
Wide Open by Deborah Coates
Wide Open by Deborah Coates Publisher: Tor/March 13th, 2012 Fantasy Kind thanks to Tor for providing a review copy 4.5/5 When Sergeant Hallie Michaels comes back to South Dakota from Afghanistan on ten days’ compassionate leave, her sister Dell’s ghost is waiting at the airport to greet her. The sheriff says that Dell’s death was suicide, but Hallie doesn’t believe it. Something happened or Dell’s ghost wouldn’t still be hanging … Continue reading