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hawkwing_lbBooks 2012: 173-175
173. Rae Carson, The Crown of Embers. Greenwillow, 2012.
Sequel to The Girl of Fire and Thorns, and doing something slightly different. An excellent book with a cliffhangered ending, but the will-she won't-she romance subplot... wore upon my nerves. I'll be writing it up for Tor.com, so if you want more of my opinion on it, keep a lookout.
174. Barbara Hambly, Blood Maidens. Severn House, 2010.
The third James Asher book. Hambly is one of the few writers I have come across who write novels with vampires in them with anything like convincing horror and attraction: she's stunningly good at what she does. This time, Oxford don and former spy James Asher accompanies the vampire Don Simon Ysidro to St. Petersburg, to prevent a German scientist from making vampires for King and Country.
More complicated than that, of course. Excellent book, atmospheric, creepy.
175. Barbara Hambly, The Magistrates of Hell. Severn House, 2012. E-copy for review courtesy of the publisher.
Belatedly, I know. A fourth Asher book. I'll be reviewing it in the winter Ideomancer.com. Short version: excellent.
173. Rae Carson, The Crown of Embers. Greenwillow, 2012.
Sequel to The Girl of Fire and Thorns, and doing something slightly different. An excellent book with a cliffhangered ending, but the will-she won't-she romance subplot... wore upon my nerves. I'll be writing it up for Tor.com, so if you want more of my opinion on it, keep a lookout.
174. Barbara Hambly, Blood Maidens. Severn House, 2010.
The third James Asher book. Hambly is one of the few writers I have come across who write novels with vampires in them with anything like convincing horror and attraction: she's stunningly good at what she does. This time, Oxford don and former spy James Asher accompanies the vampire Don Simon Ysidro to St. Petersburg, to prevent a German scientist from making vampires for King and Country.
More complicated than that, of course. Excellent book, atmospheric, creepy.
175. Barbara Hambly, The Magistrates of Hell. Severn House, 2012. E-copy for review courtesy of the publisher.
Belatedly, I know. A fourth Asher book. I'll be reviewing it in the winter Ideomancer.com. Short version: excellent.
