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snugglekittyBehind the cut, find reviews of: Sirens, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Justice Hall by Laurie R. King, and Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn.
I don't know how it is that I never read Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers before. Maybe it's because I don't really like the cover. The editors are the same who do the adult fairy tale series, of which I am a big fan. Anyway, I very much enjoyed the anthology, despite the fact that there were no stories involving actual sirens. They were all vampires, foxwives, fey, werewolves, evil empaths, and so on. My favorite stories were "Wolfed" by Tanith Lee and "Eye of the Storm" by Kelly Eskridge. Kinky folks will find a lot to enjoy in this volume. Four stars.
Justice Hall is in the Mary Russell series. I took a while to read this book, because I simply couldn't get through The Moor. It was set on, well, a moor, and it was very, very dreary, and the fact that I was reading it in the winter was a big problem. Eventually I decided, hey, it's a mystery series, I should be able to skip ahead to the next one, and I did so with no ill effects. The basic plot was somewhat implausible but grew on me over time and had some interesting internal conflicts. As usual, King also brings up some unremembered bits of British history. Three stars.
Kitty and the Midnight Hour is another one of the genre of books with a woman with a sexy tattoo on the front cover. Kitty is a werewolf DJ who starts hosting a talk show that lets people call in with their supernatural problems. Her pack alpha doesn't like it. The local vampire master doesn't like it. In fact, the only people who DO like it are Kitty herself, Kitty's boss, and her listeners - including a mysterious caller from a government agency...
This book sounds like a total cliche but it was actually quite good. I'm intrigued to see where the author will go with the sequel, Kitty Goes to Washington. Better than the Weather Warden series, not quite as good as Patricia Briggs. Four stars for book 101.
I don't know how it is that I never read Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers before. Maybe it's because I don't really like the cover. The editors are the same who do the adult fairy tale series, of which I am a big fan. Anyway, I very much enjoyed the anthology, despite the fact that there were no stories involving actual sirens. They were all vampires, foxwives, fey, werewolves, evil empaths, and so on. My favorite stories were "Wolfed" by Tanith Lee and "Eye of the Storm" by Kelly Eskridge. Kinky folks will find a lot to enjoy in this volume. Four stars.
Justice Hall is in the Mary Russell series. I took a while to read this book, because I simply couldn't get through The Moor. It was set on, well, a moor, and it was very, very dreary, and the fact that I was reading it in the winter was a big problem. Eventually I decided, hey, it's a mystery series, I should be able to skip ahead to the next one, and I did so with no ill effects. The basic plot was somewhat implausible but grew on me over time and had some interesting internal conflicts. As usual, King also brings up some unremembered bits of British history. Three stars.
Kitty and the Midnight Hour is another one of the genre of books with a woman with a sexy tattoo on the front cover. Kitty is a werewolf DJ who starts hosting a talk show that lets people call in with their supernatural problems. Her pack alpha doesn't like it. The local vampire master doesn't like it. In fact, the only people who DO like it are Kitty herself, Kitty's boss, and her listeners - including a mysterious caller from a government agency...
This book sounds like a total cliche but it was actually quite good. I'm intrigued to see where the author will go with the sequel, Kitty Goes to Washington. Better than the Weather Warden series, not quite as good as Patricia Briggs. Four stars for book 101.
