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Showing posts with label witches. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Book Review - Pure Blood (Nocturne City, Book 2) by Caitlin Kittredge

Book Description

In the shadows of Nocturne City, witches lurk and demons prowl, and homicide detective Luna Wilder must keep the peace—while living life as a werewolf. Now bodies are turning up all over town, the brutal murders linked by a cryptic message: We see with empty eyes…

To make matters worse for Luna, she can’t get wolfishly handsome Dmitri Sandovsky out of her mind. The last time he helped her with a case, Dmitri suffered a demon bite that infected him with a mysterious illness…and now his pack elders have forbidden him from associating with Luna. But she’ll need his help when high-level witches start turning up slaughtered. Because a war is brewing between rival clans of blood witches and caster witches—a magical gang war with the power to burn Nocturne City to the ground.

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January 24

Fast and fun. Dark and gritty. This is an amazing sequel to Caitlin Kittredge's first Nocturne City book, Night Life.

For the first fifty or so pages, Luna started to get on my nerves with her general b!tchiness, but I soon go back into the groove of Ms. Kittredge's world and her protagonist. I love how different Luna's world is from other Urban Fantasy books and it feels very real. Now I don't always like how Luna acts, but something about her is so true and raw, that I sympathize and root for her all the way.

The storyline was intriguing and I didn't quite know which path it was going to swerve off on (which is a big plus). Pure Blood captured and held my attention all the way through the book and I am very curious to see how the next installment turns out. Luna is a character that will always stick out and I can't wait to see what mess she gets into and chaos she creates in the next book!

5 stars

Monday, May 12, 2008

Book Review - A Witch Alone by Margaret Higgins

Book Description

There is evil abroad in the sleepy East Anglian village of Talbot Magna - an evil that transcends rationality, that reaches back to preChristian times, that feeds on the Power of Darkness....

Kate Hargreaves, visiting her sister and brother-in-law in Talbot Magna, cannot believe that the 20th century would lend itself to indiscriminate cabalistic malevolence, or that anyone in the drowsy, centuries-old village would be involved in the eerie charade that was taking place.

But when Kate, trying to save the life of the man she loves, finds herself drawn into a vortex of violence, she finally faces an invidious evil that even her 20th century rationality cannot dispell.

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May 12

An interesting anthropological look into small town life in England, which also has a coven of witches who appear to rule the place. The book felt pretty timeless and kept my interest throughout. I'm glad I read it but don't really have much else to say about it. :)

4 stars