Shannon Butcher Video Interview
author of
The Sentinel Wars & The Edge Series
Shannon Butcher Video Interview
author of
The Sentinel Wars & The Edge Series
The Choices of “Changes”
Normally, I do not do book reviews. This blog continues my career of not doing book reviews because I have no intention of reviewing “Changes,” which, by the way was totally awesome. If you have not yet read Jim Butcher‘s newest installment in the “Dresden Files”, “Changes” and plan to, stop reading at the end of this sentence, as the very next sentence is likely to contain what some would call “spoilers.” Well, maybe not the very next, but to be certain, in order to properly talk about what the hell happened in “Changes” it is impossible to do so unless at least one of these so-called spoilers are discussed. Read More→
Tavi and Lord Raglan’s scale
by Theresa Bane
Jim Butcher is, as we all know, the bestselling author of “The Dresden Files,” a series of books where urban fantasy meets crime noir. We all know and love the main character, Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only openly practicing wizard slash private eye. But how many of us have read Butcher’s other series, “The Codex Alera,” which I would characterize as military fantasy with a dash of fantasy horror. In the seven book series we first meet Tavi of Calderon, a boy who grows into the man that his nation needs him to be in their most desperate hour.
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The White Council of The Dresden Files
aka – the Devil you know
By Theresa Bane
There is an obscure Medieval Latin noun that is used by J.R.R. Tolkien Folks (big surprise there, I know) to describe his collection and usage of other people’s legends as his own, and that word is legendarium. It was a word that was originally used to describe the collective lives of the Christian Saints, but, like so many things misused this poor little word has been dug up from its grave, reanimated, and applied to refer to the council of elves and wizards in Middle Earth that contested the growing power of some castle fortress instigated by that singing elf chick (Galadriel) with more aliases than Shaun John Combs, alias “Diddy,” alias “P. Diddy,” alias “Puff Daddy,” alias “Puffy,” alias “Puff,” alias “Daddy.” Read More→
Moon Called
Mercedes Thompson: Not Your Typical Supernatural Heroine
Author: Patricia Briggs
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
ISBN: 9780441013814
So what’s the deal with the Mercy Thompson novels? What’s so special about yet another *groan* heroine living
among the creatures of the night? Initially, when you look at the cover of these novels, they’re often what many have come to expect from urban fantasy and paranormal romances. Depending on which cover you happen upon it may be a naïve-looking waif of a girl, her hips thrust forward slightly and with some kind of paw print tattoo on her stomach (Moon Called.) In another you might see a heavily tattooed, no-nonsense badass, her figure bathed in the light of the moon. The woman on this cover is holding a wrench in her hands and gives the impression of controlled stillness. She almost appears to be silently daring something to attack her, waiting in anticipation to clobber anything that gets too close (Bone Crossed.) So which is it? The naïve, wide-eyed waif, those eyes of hers finally opened to the supernatural world around her or the badass chick waving around automotive repair tools? Read More→
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