Debut Review – Deadtown by Nancy Holzner

Deadtown by Nancy Holzner Penguin/Ace Fantasy Paperback – $7.99 Genre: Urban Fantasy

Reviewed by Deborah Blake

Victory Vaughn is Boston’s only professional demon slayer, in a city where the vampires, werewolves and zombies are confined to a quarantined section called Deadtown. Not only is she dealing with a workaholic werewolf sort-of boyfriend, a [...]

Up This Week

This week, I continue to be lazy and rely on other people to write my blog posts for me. Or, that’s how it seems sometimes! My Mystery Urban Fantasy Reviewer will be unveiled tomorrow, plus I have an author guest post and contest scheduled for Wednesday. On Tuesday I have a bit Debut Showcase [...]

Debut Review: Veracity by Laura Bynum

VERACITY by Laura Bynum Pocket Books Hardcover – $25 Dystopian Science Fiction

VERACITY by Laura Bynum was a welcome change of pace, and despite some plausability issues I had with certain aspects of the plot, I enjoyed it very much. Veracity is a near-future dystopian science fiction story.

Veracity begins with Harper Adams [...]

Contents Widget and Post Tags

I have added a Contents widget in the far right sidebar, plus I have gone through and tagged all our posts. I’m going to try to keep my pool of tags small, unlike what I did at Fantasy Debut, where every author and book title was a tag. It worked well for me behind [...]

Review: Tuck

Reviewed by Superwench83.

Blurb:

The story of Rhi Bran y Hud concludes as Abbot Hugo and the Norman invaders attempt to wipe out King Raven and his flock once and for all. Their merciless attack, the first of many to come, heralds a dark and desperate day for the realm of Elfael. Bran and [...]

Debut Showcase – Latter December and Early January

Deadtown by Nancy Holzner Penguin/Ace Fantasy Paperback – $7.99 Genre: Urban Fantasy (looks humorous, too!)

They call it Deadtown: the city’s quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders—but Victory Vaughn, Boston’s only professional demon slayer, isn’t exactly human…

Vicky’s demanding job keeping the city safe [...]

Review: The Sony Reader

By Superwench83

I was one of those who was slow to embrace the concept of an electronic reading device. One who said a book in hand was worth more than a book on screen, that nothing could beat the old-fashioned feel of flipping through those pages. But I began to see the convenience [...]

Productive Weekend!

With Superwench83‘s help, I am well prepared for this week! We have a gadget review for you, plus a debut review, a Debut Showcase, and a review of a novel by a well-established author. Plus I managed to get lots of non blog stuff done as well.

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Since I now have [...]

Negative Reviews – The Decision

I’ve decided (which you already know if you kept up with the comments on the “On Negative Reviews” post below) to do a monthly round-up of all books in my “on hold” pile. I rarely give up on a book permanently, but sometimes it does take me a couple of months to get to [...]

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