Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Dragon’s Keep, by Janet Lee Carey
[Happy St. Patrick's Day/Guinness-Drinking Day to anyone reading this! (Is anyone reading this?) --S.]
I had never heard of this author when I saw Dragon’s Keep on the shelf, and I am almost embarrassed to admit that the main reason I bought the book was because it was a dollar. The cover isn’t much — just [...]
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Dingo, by Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint has written over 50 books, and he’s one of my favorite authors. Lately he’s taken to writing YA fantasy. I certainly don’t have a problem with that; previously I reviewed Little (Grrl) Lost and quite enjoyed it. This latest volume is a novella, 213 smaller-sized pages of an urban fantasy tale. It [...]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Haunted (Women of the Otherworld, book 5), by Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong: still Canadian, still no movie, still 3 kids, still computer programming background. This, the fifth novel in Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series, is a bit of a departure. While it involves witches, half-demons, and sorcerers, it’s set in the afterlife we just barely glimpsed in the last novel.
Eve Levine is Savannah’s mother. [...]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The Named (Guardians of Time, Book 1), by Marianne Curley
Marianne Curley is an Australian, and the Guardians of Time trilogy is her second, third, and fourth published works. Incidentally, the trilogy was picked up on an option a few years ago, but they never did make a movie out of it. Anyway, she hasn’t published any novels since then, due to illness, but according [...]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Industrial Magic (Women of the Otherworld, book 4), by Kelley Armstrong
This, Armstrong’s fourth entry in the series, is the second to have Paige Winterbourne, witch, as the narrator. According to Armstrong’s website, Warner Bros. did not renew their option on Bitten, so no movie yet. She is still a resident of Canada; she possesses three children (or perhaps they possess her); and has studied both [...]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
The Hunter’s Moon (Chronicles of Faerie, book 1), by O. R. Melling
O. R. Melling is a woman, who was born in Ireland, lived in Canada for most of her childhood and young-adulthood, and moved back to Ireland as an adult. The name is a pseudonym, not that it matters, and her website has annoying trailing stars after the mouse. Other than that, it’s a good website, [...]
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow
(Available here.)
I’d never read anything by Cory Doctorow other than BoingBoing.net, and when I found that some of his stuff was available through DailyLit, I thought it was about time to remedy that. Of course, I immediately picked a book that wasn’t available via bite-sized emails, but considering that he’s got all his works on [...]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld, Book 3), by Kelley Armstrong
Dime Store Magic is the third book in the Women of the Otherworld sequence, and the first that has a main character who isn’t Elena. If I’m not mistaken, it’s also the first book to have acknowledged that it was a series. Now, of course, the eighth book is due out at the end of [...]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have, together and separately, won the World Fantasy Award at least twelve times. Ellen Datlow was the editor of Omni Magazine for many years and edited and published many stories by authors such as William Gibson and Pat Cadigan. Terri Windling is the founder of the Endicott Studio, which publishes [...]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, Book 2), by Kelley Armstrong
Last week I reviewed Bitten, the first novel in Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series. While that novel could stand on its own, Stolen is the sequel. I don’t think it could particularly stand on its own, but I don’t consider that a detraction.
Elena, when we left her at the end of Bitten, had [...]
