The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Night Circus is not just a novel: It’s an experience. It’s like the book equivalent to watching Avatar or the ice scene in Dr. Zhivago. The magic of the circus setting and the Victorian style narrative creates an experience of decadence and [...]
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Book Review- The Night Circus
Posted: 17th January 2012 by kcshoe in Book Review, Books, Fantasy/Fiction, Literature and Other Awesome Things0
Book Review- Phoenix Rising
Posted: 22nd September 2011 by kcshoe in Book Review, Books, Fantasy/Fiction, Literature and Other Awesome ThingsPhoenix Rising by Philippa Ballantine My rating: 4 of 5 stars A fantastic gender benderIt’s about time! This book has a great combination of the hiss and gurgle of complex steam punk gadgets and a fantasy mystery. Books and Braun are a great mismatched pair. I referenced purchasing this book in my blog http://kaseyshoemaker.com/?p=261 because [...]
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs My rating: 5 of 5 stars Let me start by saying that what the Mercy Thompson series has done for urban fantasy has been nothing short of amazing. The protagonist, Mercy, is everything I love about heroines in fantasy. I almost didn’t buy any books in the series in spite [...]
Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Mercy Thompson series continues! Blood Bound starts off with a suspenseful, bloody, and more than a little twisted scene between Mercy, Stefan (a vampire to whom she owes a favor), and a vampire controlled by a demon. Awesome. In this installment, the reader [...]
Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs My rating: 5 of 5 stars Iron Kissed focuses mainly on the Fae, and for me, it was about time. Up until this book, the Fae were mentioned in passing but given little to no attention. The set-up for this plot element is that Mercy needs a distraction from the [...]
Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs My rating: 5 of 5 stars I can’t get enough of Mercy Thompson! At the beginning of this series, Adam, the Alpha of the Tri-Cities pack, needed rescue. As the story developed, Adam was in competition for Mercy with another, older werewolf, the son of the Marrok. But, this book [...]
Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is by far my favorite book in the Mercy Thompson series. Returning a borrowed book should be easy, right? Well, it’s far from easy in the world of Patricia Briggs. The premise of the book is that Mercy needs to return a very [...]
River Marked by Patricia Briggs My rating: 3 of 5 stars Okay, as anyone can tell by now, I am a huge fan of this series. However, I simply was not as into this particular installment as I had been the other ones. Perhaps it was because I had gotten on the Mercy bandwagon a [...]
Time’s Edge by J.M. Dattilo My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really couldn’t put this book down. The adventures of Michael and Kate had me reading into the night. This book lets the readers know right away that there is so much more to the main characters, but the pacing doesn’t drag out the [...]