Making your way in the world today takes everything you got... Making my way through the UF canon takes everything I got... Jim Butcher and Laurell K. Hamilton have a lot to answer for, specifically, for achieving a level of commercial success that has spawned a host of imitators. Child of Fire ...
Brainycat's 5 "B"s:blood: 5boobs: 2bombs: 4bondage: 1blasphemy: 3Bechdel Test: FAILDeggan's Rule: FAILGay Bechdel Test: FAILA unique approach to the urban paranormal detective noir genre. Usually I don't put any effort into providing any synopsis in my reviews, but this story is different enough to ...
This book started off strong -- I wanted to find out more about the backstory, what the Twenty Palaces were, how Ray became entangled with them, what Annalise's story, why the kids were being burnt into worms of smoke -- but kind of sagged when they got to town and had repetitive encounters with the...
I like the idea of a male character who is a scrapper - used to doing bad things but still has the decency and sensitivity to feel ill after doing them. It really makes Ray feel more like a real person instead of a two dimensional being going through the motions.
The book opens with Ray Lilly driving Annalise Powliss who is a member of the Twenty Palace Society - a group dedicated to eradicating demons and stopping the use of magic in the world, towards a small town. Ray knows that when Annalise is finished using him as her wooden man that she intends to k...
It seems a lot of people compare this to The Dresden Files. Really the only similarity I saw was the noir type feel to the book. I really wanted to like this book, but there was something about it that was just off putting to me. Maybe it was that it had a kind of Lovecraftian feel about it, which I...
A good story but I didn't like that I was just thrown right into the middle of it right in the beginning. There was no background info at all it seemed and the background was slow in coming. That being said it was still a good read and I think I will enjoy the next book in the series more since I'll...
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