When Shori attains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is, where she is, or what she is. She knows only the unrelenting hunger. It is satisfied at first by a surprisingly docile and self-sacrificing animal. Later, it is a human being who gets too close, who whispers words not of warning or fear […]
Read more "Parable of the Bloodsucker: Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling"Just after finding a way to embrace her feared heritage and join the society of Otherworld creatures hidden outside of normal human interactions, Arden Finch became a Christ-like figure, a unifier of the djinn, werewolves, vampires, elves, and whatnot. It is not a role she wants, but it’s one she has accepted. Unfortunately, she still […]
Read more "A Delicious Stew of Anxiety, Suspense, and a Dollop of Romance: Whitney Hill’s Eldritch Sparks"Arden Finch has been eking out a fair living as a private investigator in the North Carolina’s Triangle. If she was looking into nice, normal citizens issues, she’d be doing just fine. Start-ups had popped up like mushrooms after a rain in the Triangle—Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill—with North Carolina’s latest tax restructure. The influx […]
Read more "Trouble Walked In: Whitney Hill’s Elemental: Shadows of Otherside"Cyrus is still living with his sister Becca when the third book of the Chicago Rat Shifter trilogy opens, not because he’s in the jobless, hopeless state he was at the opening of Dead Rat Walking, but because his sister is in dire need of protection. A demonic presence called Garamanthus has settled inside her, […]
Read more "Bittersweet Farewells: Michael La Ronn’s Year of the Rat"Cyrus has gotten a handle on the rat shifting powers he received in Dead Rat Walking, and now he’s trying to balance a busy life as an exterminator’s assistant, a part of the supernatural Regulators, a good brother and son, and a guy with an interest in the opposite sex. It’s the latter part of […]
Read more "What Any Reasonable Paranormal Would Do: Michael La Ronn’s Rat City"In the first book of her (so far) three volume series, Shadow Blade, we met Kira Solomon as a Shadowchaser, a warrior of the light and servant to the Egyptian goddess of truth Ma’at. Her mother Balm, the Lady of Light, trained, empowered, and charged Kira with hounding the rogue elements of Shadow and dispatching […]
Read more "Choose Your Side, Kira: Seressia Glass’ Shadow Fall"Cyrus is not in a good place, emotionally speaking. After losing the girl of his dreams, he’s been camped out on his sister Becca’s couch, spinning his wheels and listening to ancient love songs from a bygone band and era. His sister is pissed, his mother is irritated, and he’s been given the steel toed […]
Read more "Down but Not Yet Out in Chicago: Michael La Ronn’s Dead Rat Walking"Following tumultuous events that occurred in the first Shadowchasers novel, Shadow Blade, Kira Solomon finds herself newly charged as the Hand to the Egyptian goddess Ma’at while still possessing all the duties and responsibilities of the Shadowchaser gig she was doing for the Gilead Commission—yeah, promotions kind of suck that way. The head of Gilead, […]
Read more "The Hand of Ma’at: Seressia Glass’ Shadow Chase"When her academic resource from London flies to Atlanta to bring Kira Solomon an artifact to appraise, she is glad to see her old chum. Bernie Comstock is a funny, smart man who Kira would love to work with if she wasn’t already occupied with saving the world for her day job. The item he […]
Read more "I Said I Want The Knife … Please: Seressia Glass’ Shadow Blade"Aphra Marsh thought her life path was pretty well established while she was growing up in the sleepy, strange town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts. However, the infamous government raid in 1928 put an end to that. She and the remaining towns people end up in a government camp, monitored, tormented, and ultimately left to die for […]
Read more "Irregulars and Found Families: Ruthanna Emrys’ Winter Tide"
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