Archive | October, 2010

Cover Spotlight: Con and Conjure

My name is Raine Benares. I’m a seeker who finds lost things and missing people. My relatives, on the other hand, steal things. They’re the most notorious criminal family in the seven kingdoms. Sometimes I wonder if they have the right idea, especially since what I’ve found lately is likely to get me killed. And [...]

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REVIEW: Bayou Moon

Ilona Andrews Bayou Moon Ace ISBN-10: 0441019455 ISBN-13: 978-0441019455 Fantasy September 28, 2010 Blurb via Goodreads: Cerise Mar and her unruly clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands between the state of Louisiana and the Weird. When her parents vanish, her clan’s long-time rivals are [...]

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Poll: When Should a Book Grab You?

Years ago, say about twelve or so now, when I first came online to gab with strangers about books, forging e-friendships, some of the bigger talk about books was the need for one to grab you right away. If that first page wasn’t all-powerful wow, then it was in danger of never gaining a reader’s [...]

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Giveapalooza: Grim and Gritty

The time has come to reopen Giveapalooza! Folks, I’m drowning in books, and since there’s no way I can get a good bit of them read in a timely manner and it breaks my heart that I can’t ( SO many are in the middle of series, and there’s no time either to read those [...]

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