Books of the Week XI

Books Read: 2
Titles:
Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews. Another series where I didn't get to start with the first book, still at least this one is still the second (and according to the wikipedia page for the author the latest) so hopefully I'll run into the first book one of these days.  It's another urban fantasy book with a female protagonoist still I really like the setting of the story where different mythologies can co-exist, it keeps it from being too predictable, sort of educational, too.

Steeldriver by Don DeBrandt. And here I thought it was a good week for authors I haven't encountered before, but when I looked this author up, I found out he also wrote "The Closer" (writing as Donn Cortez) which I read a few weeks back. Different genre though, this book is one of his earlier works and under science fiction (a retelling of the John Henry Tall Tale myth of sorts), The Closer is more contemporary and a whole lot darker. I guess I need to keep an eye out for both names now.

Books of the Week X

Books read this (past) week: 1
Title:

Stranger Souls by Jak Koke. This is part of the Shadowrun line of books, and is actually a part of the Dragon Heart trilogy, the second and third books of which I've already read so many years ago. So long ago that I already remember bits and pieces of it, which actually gives me an excuse to read them again but haven't really had the time for. It wasn't a bad read, it's just that I'm so used to standalone stories in the series I have a hard time digesting longer works, though I'm not adverse to recurring characters with an background storyline that underlines each story, my favorite book in the series is still Black Madonna, (this book already had Roman Catholic conspiracy theories before the Da Vinci Code came along) and the characters in this book appeared in several other books in the series, whihc were all great reads.

Books of the Week IX

Books read this Week: 3
Titles:

Haunted by Kelly Armstrong. Should have finished this book last week, but with work and all, didn't get around to reading till the end until this Monday.

Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton. This should probably count as half a book read, I really liked the paranormal aspect in the first few books, but now it crosses into erotica, and I tend to skip those chapters.

Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton. This is the book that goes before Danse Macabre, sigh... another one of those episodes where I don't get to read them in order. This book was pretty short compared to the rest of the series (the latter books, anyway) plus I skipped the hot-and-heavy parts as well, so maybe this counts as a quarter-book?