The Covenant Rising (Stan Nicholls, Dreamtime #1)
3.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: The Covenant Rising is a swords-and-sorcery dystopian adventure novel. This is the first in a series, and while it isn’t constantly apparent, there is clearly a...
View ArticleThree Days to Dead (Kelly Meding, Dreg City #1)
3.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Three Days to Dead is a conventional urban fantasy monster hunting adventure with a strong female protagonist. This is the first in a series. There are some...
View ArticleKiss Of Steel (Bec McMaster, London Steampunk #1)
3 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Kiss of Steel is a steampunk adventure that borders on the edge of supernatural romance. There is a quite a bit of imaginative steampunk setting, and there are many...
View ArticleThirteen Orphans (Jane Lindskold, Breaking the Wall #1)
2 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Thirteen Orphans is a contemporary urban fantasy adventure novel. The book starts off fairly well and manages to be quite imaginative, but terrible pacing problems...
View ArticleThe Age of Ra (James Lovegrove, The Pantheon Trilogy #1)
2.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: I’m not really sure what category to put The Age of Ra in. The story is basically what I would think of as military sci-fi, and it has quite a few elements of that...
View ArticleDiscount Armageddon (Seannan McGuire, InCryptid #1)
3.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Discount Armageddon is a fairly standard kick-butt-yet-sexy-woman-monster-hunter style urban fantasy. In a refreshing twist, the author doesn’t seem to take her...
View ArticleTouched By An Alien (Gini Koch, Alien Novels #1)
1 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: This is a fairly standard sexy woman empowerment urban fantasy, with the requisite romance side plot. This is the first in a series, and it really shows. There is a...
View ArticleUndone (Rachel Caine, Outcast Season #1)
2 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Undone is an urban fantasy fish out of water story. I haven’t seen the two combined before, and I felt like there was a lot of potential there. The protagonist is...
View ArticleDebris (Jo Anderton, The Veiled Worlds #1)
3 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Debris is an imaginative fantasy with a unique setting that has a lot of promise but proved to move too slowly and be too predictable for my tastes. This is the...
View ArticleThe Spirit Thief (Rachel Aaron, The Legend of Eli Monpress #1)
4 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: The Spirit Thief is a fairly traditional fantasy romp emphasizing fun and excitement over depth and character building. This is the first in a series, but most of...
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