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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer, Bk 1)
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer, Bk 1)
Author: Robin Hobb
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 412
Review Date: 1/22/2007


Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father's gruff stableman. He is treated as an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him secretly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz's blood runs the magic Skill - and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family.

As barbarous raiders ravage teh coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood. Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission. And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be teh key to the survival of teh kingdom.


Bag of Bones
Bag of Bones
Author: Stephen King
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 822
Review Date: 6/29/2007


Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike relunctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here - and what do they want of Mike noonan?


Blood Rites (Dresden Files, Bk 6)
Blood Rites (Dresden Files, Bk 6)
Author: Jim Butcher
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
 505
Review Date: 5/4/2007
Helpful Score: 1


For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there's something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film's producer believes he's the target of a sinister entropy curse - but it's the women around him who are dying, in increasingly spectacular ways.

Harry's doubly frustrated because he got involved with this bizarre mystery only as a favor to thomas, his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can't quite figure out, until his investigation leads him straight to Thomas's oversexed vampire family. Harry's about to discover that Thomas's family three has been hiding a shocking secret: a revelation that will change Harry's life forever.


Dance to the Piper (O'Hurleys, Bk 2)
Dance to the Piper (O'Hurleys, Bk 2)
Author: Nora Roberts
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 95
Review Date: 1/18/2007


They both knew what would happen...She moved in perfect harmony to themusic that ruled her life both onstage and off. He dealt with rulthless expertise. Music was his business and he was all business, until she lit up the stage...The attraction was instant and impossible. Because he ruled his empire from glass towers high above the vibrance of her world. Coming too close was risky business. But she dared to dream - and she had dreams big enough for them both...


Dancing on the Wind (Fallen Angels, Bk 2)
Dancing on the Wind (Fallen Angels, Bk 2)
Author: Mary Jo Putney
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 76
Review Date: 5/6/2007


With his unearthly beauty and diabolicial cleverness, Lucien Fairchild, ninth Earl of Strathmore, has more than earned the nickname Lucifer. A tragic past has driven him to use his formidable talents to protect his country from secret enemies, and it is a job he does superlatively well...until he meets a mysterious woman whose skill at deception equals his own. By turns glamorous and subdued, reckless yet vulnerable, his enchanting adversary baffles his mind even as she captures his heart.

A perilous mission has forced Kit Travers into a deadly game of ever changing identities and needful lies, and a single misstep might cost her her life. But Lucien easily sees through her disguises. Unwilling to trust, yet unable to part, they join forces to search the dangerous underworld of London society - and discover tha teven two master deceivers cannot escape from passion's sensual web...or from an impossible love more precious than life itself.


Darkness Wakes
Darkness Wakes
Author: Tim Waggoner
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 20
Review Date: 12/31/2006


In the small town of Ptolemy, darkness is a living thing. A powerful thing. Its home is in the shadows of a bizarre, hidden club named Penumbra, where it is worshipped by followers who need the pleasure it gives them. They are addicted to it. They live for it, And they kill for it.
When Aaron was first introduced to Penumbra, he thought it was just a secret club where members could indulge their kinkier fantesies. Bit by bit, as he learned the club's true purpose, he began to change in subtle, horrible ways. Now it's time for Aaron to prepare his first human sacrifice to the waiting darkness. It's too late for him to back out now, but murder is the least of Penumbra's sins. The true terror is still to come, when... Darkness Wakes.


Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld, Bk 3)
Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld, Bk 3)
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 659
Review Date: 2/28/2007


Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world's most powerful elite organizations - the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige's wildest antics can't hold a candle to those of her new charge - an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil...and evil is all too willing to claim her. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the supernatural underworld. They are a vicious group who will do anything to woo the young, malleable, and extremely powerful neophyte, including commit murder - and frame Paige for the crime. It's an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, and the brutal side of magic that Paige will have to do everything within her power to make sure they both survive.


Dragonsblood
Dragonsblood
Author: Todd J. Mccaffrey
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 97
Review Date: 6/29/2007


A mysterious epidemic is striking dragons, and the next deadly cycle of Threadfall is only days away. Somehow, dragonrider Lorana must find a way to save all the dragons - including her own beloved Arith - before they succumb to the sickness, leaving Pern undefended. No doubt the first colonists, who originally bred the dragons, possessed the advanced technology to find a cure. But over the centuries, that knowledge was lost.

Five hundred years in the past, a scientist foresees that a disease may ultimately destroy the dragons, and she is determined to find a way to change the future. Now two brave women, separated by hundreds of years but joined by bonds transcending time, become unkowning allies in a desperate race for nothing less than Pern's survival.


Dusk Before Dawn (Bk 2)
Dusk Before Dawn (Bk 2)
Author: Mickee Madden
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 18
Review Date: 12/31/2006


The man is haunted. The sudden death of his wife and child sends Roan Ingliss into seclusion at his magnificient Scottish mansion.


Edge of Fear (Edge, Bk 2) (T-FLAC, Bk 9)
Edge of Fear (Edge, Bk 2) (T-FLAC, Bk 9)
Author: Cherry Adair
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 276
Review Date: 11/5/2006


Interesting story. I'll look for the others. I do hope the author does a book about several more of the characters in this book in the future.


Fool Moon (Dresden Files, Bk 2)
Fool Moon (Dresden Files, Bk 2)
Author: Jim Butcher
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 763
Review Date: 5/4/2007


Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment. Business has been dead. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn't been able to dredge up any kind of work - magical or mundane.

But just when it looks like he can't afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise.

A brutally mutilated corpse. Strange-looking paw prints. A full moon. Take three guesses - and the first two don't count...


Giants of the Frost (Europa Suite)
Giants of the Frost (Europa Suite)
Author: Kim Wilkins
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 30
Review Date: 2/7/2007


Taking a job on an isolatd island in the Sea of Norway, scientist Victoria Scott wants a quiet place to finish her doctoral thesis. But Victoria isn't prepared for the strange shadows outside her cabin window, the rumors of a murderous hag who sucks one's soul during sleep, and the tales of mythic monsters lurking in the forest. More frightening than the island's nightmarish mysteries: to Victoria, everything is hauntingly familiar.
When an enigmatic stranger appears on the island, Victoria's sense of foreboding peaks. For she learns that they are connected by a conflict centuries old - one that can end only with her death...


Hags, Sirens, and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy
Hags, Sirens, and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy
Author: Denise Little (Editor)
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 16
Review Date: 11/4/2006


Some interesting twists on old stories about all the "bad" mythological women.


The Ladies of Mandrigyn (Sun Wolf and Starhawk, Bk 1)
The Ladies of Mandrigyn (Sun Wolf and Starhawk, Bk 1)
Author: Barbara Hambly
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 61
Review Date: 5/6/2007


Swords Against the Wizard. The City of Mandrigyn was conquered and its men enslaved in the foul mines of the evil Wizard King, Altiokis. Now the women of the city, led by Sheera Galernas, had come to hire the mercenary army of Captain Sun Wolf. But Sun Wolf was too wise to become involved in fighting against wizardry...until he woke to find himself kidnapped and offered a grim choice by Sheera. He could train and lead the ladies of Mandrigyn against Altiokis - or he could die in lingering agony from the anzid they had given him and for which only they had the antidote.

There was more to the ladies than Sun Wolf could have guessed. There was also far more to the evil of Altiokis than anyone knew. But above all there was a great deal more to Sun Wolf and his destiny than he had ever dreamed.


Lake of Sorrows
Lake of Sorrows
Author: Erin Hart
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 31
Review Date: 3/8/2007


Hidden relics, submerged secrets, buried evidence...Lake of Sorrows. American pathologist Nora Gavin has come to the Irish midlands to examine a body unearthed by peat workers at a desolate spot known as the Lake of Sorrows. As with all the artifacts culled from its prehistoric depths, the bog has effectively preserved the dead man's remains, and his multiple wounds suggest he was the victim of the ancient pagan sacrifice known as the triple death. But signs of a more recent slaying emerge when a second body, bearing a similar would pattern, is found - this one sporting a wristwatch. Someone has come to this quagmire to sink their dreadful handiwork - and Nora soon realizes that she is being pulled deeper into the land and all it holds: the secrets to a cache of missing gold, a tumultuous love affair with archeologist Cormac Maguire, the dark mysteries and desires of the workers at the site, and a determined killer fixated on the gruesome notion of triple death.


The Last Honest Woman (O'Hurleys, Bk 1)
The Last Honest Woman (O'Hurleys, Bk 1)
Author: Nora Roberts
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 77
Review Date: 12/31/2006


Abigial O'Hurley Rockwell was a desperate woman. Journalist Dylan Crosby was going to start digging up her past forthe book he was writing about her infamous late husband. It was just research to him, but to her it was apainful reality that had to be kept under lock and key for the sake of her children. Abby would do anything to keep their world safe - no matter how complelling Dylan's promises might be....


Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John, Bk 1)
Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John, Bk 1)
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 242
Review Date: 11/4/2006


Part of a great series begun with Outlander. This is Lor John's tale and adventures.


Love in Vein: Tales of Vampire Erotica
Love in Vein: Tales of Vampire Erotica
Author: Poppy Z. Brite (Editor)
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
 122
Review Date: 3/18/2007


Beyond fear, beyond horror, beyond temptation, there is a realm of the senses that only the boldest may enter. An acclaimed master of the dark fantastic, author Poppy Z. Brite has brought together the genre's most powerful and original writers to reinvent the literature of the macabre and give it a distinctly erotic spin.
A shameless celebration of unspeakable intimacies, the stories within explore our most sinister and irrepressible hungers, those that even lovers are forbidden to share.
Prepare to experience sensuality that entices, enslaves, terrorizes, and destroys. It is not for everyone. But neither is the night.


Map of Bones (Sigma Force, Bk 2)
Map of Bones (Sigma Force, Bk 2)
Author: James Rollins
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 540
Review Date: 5/6/2007


During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and destruction. But the killers have not come for gold; they seek a more valuable prize: the bones of the Magi who once paid homage to a newborn savior...a treasure that could reshape the world.

With the Vatican in turmoil, SIGMA Force leaps into action. An elite team of scientific and Special Forces operatives under the command of Grayson Pierce and accompanied by Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome's carabinieri, they are pursuing a deadly mystery that weaves through sites of the Seven Wonders of the World and ends at the doorstep of an ancient, mystical, and terrifying secret order. For there are those with dark plans for the stolen sacred remains that will alter the future of humankind...when science and religion unite to unleash a horror not seen since the beginning of time.


Match Me If You Can (Chicago Stars, Bk 6)
Match Me If You Can (Chicago Stars, Bk 6)
Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 495
Review Date: 11/4/2006


I don't know how it is, haven't had time to read it and won't for a while so perhaps others can enjoy.


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