The following content takes place between Rights of Use and Laws Among Friends. The immediate response to Vinnet Vignette #1 was: ? Nice! Vinnet is quite compassionate here. Was there ever any disharmony or regret on Vinnet’s part arising from…
I’m starting a new blog series of Sarah and Vinnet vignettes that take place between Rights of Use and Laws Among Friends. [SPOILERS AHEAD.] There’s been a book there that has almost happened many times, but the episodic events have…
I spoke a panel on history and mythology and realized Rights of Use had more history than I thought.
“Why don’t you just use dialogue tags?”
“Because someone told me not to.”
5 stars The main character’s thoughtful and sarcastic tone will make anything in this series an instant read. That they are a security cyborg with grunt-level insight into the world and all its mundane absurdities sweetens the deal. Couple that…
4.5 stars The fourth book in the Blood Trails series takes the shades of gray established in the previous books and mixes them thoroughly when Shade is asked to save a demon (and its paladin host) after a double homicide…
4.5 stars TAKEN takes the Blood Trails series further into shades of gray by asking whose moral standards are being referenced. If something is evil by human standards and honest and moral by Fey standards, what is the objective truth?…
4.5 stars WEREWOLVES IN THE CLEVELAND METROPARKS. I bought this book without hearing much more than “sale, urban fantasy, Cleveland” and was pleasantly surprised (pumped) to find not only werewolves (one my favorite creatures) but also familiar settings. With a…
4.5 stars Shade Renard aspires to be more than just a village witch, but she didn’t expect her first job as a private investigator to be for a vampire. With high stakes, Otherworld diversity, and smooth storytelling, this book hits…
3 stars Jonathan Howard writes beautiful prose with stunning imagery, and the publisher set this short anthology in a beautiful binding to match. Kyth is an intriguing character: not a thief but someone who retrieves objects that were stolen. She…