The tenth book in the Noble Dead series continues to follow Wynn. If you haven’t liked the last three books about Wynn so far, this one is only better because Magiere and Leesil play a larger role in attempting to rescue Wynn from the Guild of Sagecraft. If you have loved the change in view with Wynn, then you’ll continue to love Between Their Worlds.
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This Haunted World #2 opens up with Daniel trying to get to Hiroshima. He is willing to do whatever it takes, including getting help from a friend who betrayed him long ago. The world is dark and foreboding. Our characters are violent and almost ghosts themselves. The Senator is working with Corporal Nunez and they are trying to piece together what happened, the ghost army looms and darkness seems to spread wider.
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Pariah #4 is explosive. We see Franklin Hyde’s past, his parents, and what led him to believing that he could save the Vitros by moving them to a secluded island or stretch of land. Because of his family connections, he’s able to acquire an island and his parents support. This is where previous Pariah issues coincide. Franklin collects all the Vitros, most peacefully, some by force. The problem is that he never played the political game, and certainly not as well as his parents. He believes they will not betray him, he believes that he’s giving the Vitros a chance…
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Pariah Issue #3 is probably the darkest issue yet. In it we have a Vitro who is unlike the other Vitros we have met before.

The Story
In this issue Robert is the lead, and he is twisted inside. His parents were the first to come out to the public about what it meant to have a child Vitro, and wanted to exploit him to make money. From there Robert left home and now manipulates humans with psychological triggers. He stands back and watches the results, calculating and memorizing, wondering what makes humans do certain things, what happens when you introduce a new stress into situations I do not even know if I would call him evil. (more…)

This is the second issue in the Pariah comic series, and I realized that each issue is going to be about a different Vitro. This issue was about Lila, and was explosive.

The Story
The story opens with Lila and her gang of Vitros. They are in the woods hiding, and are currently being attacked by the government special ops. We see the backstory of how they got there, and learn a little bit more about the virus that was released (which is why all Vitros are on the run now). Lila and her companions worked in a government lab/school where they were assigned to special projects and used their brains to help. (more…)

Val Kovalin gives us an interesting view on angels and demons in her novel Trinity Trespass. Angels go to Heaven but aren’t necessarily good by our standards; in fact, the demons call them Enslavers because they tend to do evil things to humanity. The Demons aren’t always much better. During the nuclear explosion of 1945, the atomic blast opened a portal from Hell to Earth, something that has never happened since. (more…)

Pride of the Lions isn’t really a graphic novel nor is it a book. John Connell has enhanced his story with gothic and violent artwork that sets the mood and tone of the story perfectly. Sea Lion has a real gem with this piece; it’s full color, the story line is fluid and moving, and the pictures are dark and reminiscent of struggles and strife.
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This is a fantastic novella. It has an interesting, deep plot without any holes, a great hero who is just a touch tortured and lonely, and a satisfying conclusion.

Julian is one of his Queen’s Chevaliers. He was raised from an infant by her then turned when he was 18. He protects her, he worships her, He is lonely, though, and sometimes sees cruelty in her eyes and actions. (more…)

 Feisengrad was a difficult book to rate. Brave New World is one of my favorite novels, and 1984 always leaves me deep in thought. I did not enjoy Animal Farm as much as the others, but Feisengrad was different for me. I feel it was more crass, and at times almost “too clever,” but the author did a good all-around job of setting up Feisengrad’s world and life. (more…)

 Bayou’s End deals with the charming twenty-five-year-old cop, Billy. In the first book, Billy was the one Scott put in charge when he went to go “collect” his mate, Ted. Ironically, Billy’s mate is also Peter, whom we met in Bayou Dreams, and he had hit on Ted during the art conference. (more…)

Wolf Dance is what you read when you want a steamy, romance novel about shifters. On the opening page, our heroine, Laura, is having erotic dreams interrupted by a woman (still in her dreams) shouting puta (whore) at her. The dreams keep coming and lead her down a more erotic twisted path as she learns that they are not just dreams.

Laura works for a company that is currently cutting down the trees belonging to the Sungmanitu tribe. A fellow employee has disappeared or run off, and Laura has to do some public relations work. (more…)

The Sweet One is about a guardian angel and his “sweet one” whom he loves above others. From the moment of Micah’s birth, Noah (Angel) has felt drawn to him. Even knowing his fated day to die, Noah couldn’t help but be joyful with Micah, sad with Micah, hopeful, and also offer him comfort in the form of his presence on days that were especially bad. Unlike most humans, Micah could always see his angel. (more…)

Gage and Rex are not gay, but the thought of sharing a woman turns them both on like nothing else. They share a deep friendship, and it’s been a while since one woman has stirred both of them—that is until Dali sneezes her way into Rex’s life through a mutual friend. One look at Dali and he knows Gage has to taste her. There’s something more: Rex and Gage are shifters, which makes relationships between them interesting, to say the least. (more…)

Readers should be warned that this is a sort of self-published, so there are a lot of errors and grammatical mistakes for readers who hate that kind of thing. For me, I suck at grammar (I blame my parents for not getting me hooked on phonics), so while I stumbled a bit, it never pulled me out of the story. Storm of Magick is really a hit or miss book. The author tells the readers that her favorite author is Laurell K. Hamilton, and her debut novel reflects this.
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Home Sweet Home started off as a gay erotic novel. The entire first 25 pages were of Jason and Kevin meeting, “playing’” with each other a little graphically and falling in love. Then John Simpson took a twist to his book—he added in a haunted house. Kevin and Jason love each other, and after deciding they want to spend the rest of their lives together, they buy a huge home on 15 acres of land for an unbeatable price. They soon figure out why the price is so good… strange things happen in the house, musket balls rolling down the stairs, TV’s randomly turning off, and an odor of deadness. They’re willing to do anything to stop the hauntings and find out the truth—even if it is unexpected and terrifying.
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This was a hard book to rate. Actually, all of Wynn’s books were hard to rate. Magiere and Leesil were fighters; I was used to them and the way they reacted and interacted. When Wynn and Chane’s first book came out, I was nervous and a little worried. It wasn’t too bad, I enjoyed it, but still felt like it wasn’t up to par. Of Truth and Beasts is the last of Wynn and Chane’s storyline and a transition book into the new storyline. It was the one book that drug on a bit compared to the others, but there was a lot of story to cover.
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Warm Bodies is one of my top young adult books of the year. The premise is so different, and R is so different than any zombie or main character you will ever read about. I adore what Marion does to zombies. I thought at first that reading a book where there is a romance (of a sort) between a zombie and human would be gross or at least a bit of a parody. I mean, really, how would you go about having your characters communicate, let alone fall in love? Well Marion laughs at us all and does just that.
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First, each of these stories is part of a series by its author. Mercedes Lackey’s “Tangled Webs” is from her Five Hundred Kingdoms series, “Cast in Moonlight” is a part of Michelle Sagara’s Elantra series and “Retribution” is a prequel to Cameron Haley’s Underworld Cycle series. The best part of this anthology was that you did not have to read the series to understand the novellas. I have read Lackey’s and Sagara’s series, but have not read Haley’s.
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Lori Titus has written a world where the Earth’s magnetic pull creates zombies and necromancers. Luella has a very strange power: she can sense the dead as well as speak with ghosts. Her late husband, Marcus, was obsessed with zombies and traveled the world with Luella trying to figure out why and how the Earth’s magnetic pull caused the dead to rise in certain places. (more…)

Mary Suzanne has played on the young girl’s fears—going back to the kids who teased you and tormented you throughout childhood to find that nothing has changed…except for the worse.

This was a young adult book, but the plot was a little cookie cutter. Lacey is the outsider who comes back to her hometown on vacation; all her old friends still seem creepy and give her a bad feeling. (more…)