Shiloh Walker is giving a Nook away in this contest:

Enter to win a Nook! Help me spread the word about my upcoming release, BROKEN-due out 3.2.2010.  You can get your name entered for a drawing for a Nook, the new ebook reader from Barnes and Noble. You can also enter by preordering the book online or buying the book during release week-during…not before. For the no purchase option, please see below.

Read on for details…

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Shattered

Quinn Rafferty is working as a bounty hunter and bail bondsman in St. Louis when a new neighbor catches his eye. He’s tempted by her beauty—but he knows from experience that anyone desperate enough to live in his building is damaged goods. Besides, he has his own soul to mend before he can worry about anyone else.

Desperate

Sara Davis is on the run, but not for the usual reasons a woman goes on the lam. She’s not an abused wife, and she’s not a criminal. But she does have a plan for her future. And as much as she finds herself attracted to her gruff, tough neighbor, she can’t risk telling him the secrets she’s hiding. There’s just too much at stake.

Driven to desire…

But Quinn must get closer to Sara when she turns out to be the target of his new missing persons case, and he discovers that there is something more complex and dangerous to her than he thought. Now, both Quinn and Sara will have to expose their true feelings—as well as their fragile hearts—if they hope their love will survive…

EXCERPT

He opened the door—

And stopped dead in his tracks as somebody all but fell into his arms. Somebody…a woman. And not Theresa.

He caught her just above her elbows, automatically steadying her.

“I’m sorry,” she said, her voice soft and low.

Then she lifted her face and Quinn found himself gazing into the biggest, brownest eyes he’d ever seen in his life. Feeling a little dazed, he studied her face while she stammered out another apology.

Quinn barely heard it.

He was too busy staring at her mouth. A very pretty mouth, a cupid’s bow mouth slicked with deep, vibrant red. Under his hands, he could feel silken smooth skin and unable to resist, he stroked a thumb along her inner arm.

Her skin was soft, soft and warm. He was also pretty sure she had the creamiest, most flawless skin imaginable. Her shoulder-length hair was a shade caught between blonde and brown, nondescript, but for some reason, he found himself thinking about tangling his fingers in that hair and holding her head still while he kissed that red-slicked mouth.

Well, hello…

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Prize:

A Nook-name drawn randomly.

A second prize will also be given away-will include books, probably a GC and other assorted goodies.

No purchase option:

• You can get ONE entry sending a postcard WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND MAILING ADDRESS to Shiloh Walker PO BOX 976 Jeff, IN 47131. Post cards must be received by 3/2/10 in order to be entered into the drawing and this is limited to one postcard/entry per household.
• Yes, you can enter using all three options- buy or preorder, blogging and postcard entry.
• Added 2/22/10-You can mail your preorder entry via postal mail, if you choose, marking out sensitive data. Send to above addy.
• Yes, this contest is open to those outside the country-however, I realize the Nook may not be ideal for international winners, and should an international winner be drawn, I do have another alternative in mind-however, that alternative will only be offered in the event an international winner is drawn.
• I reserve the right to delete suspicious entries.
• Do NOT post this contest to sweepstakes or contest sites. In the event this happens, I reserve the right to end the contest without drawing a winner and without giving away the prize.
• By entering any of my contests, you attest that you are eighteen, or the age of majority in your place of residence.
• It is your responsibility to check back and see if you’ve won.  The winner’s name will be announced either the week BROKEN releases or the week following around mid-March to allow the mailed receipts time to arrive.
• One entry per household.
• Read my disclaimer for the other rules.

Kim Paffenroth, author of Dying to Live, and excellent zombie series:

Buy DYING TO LIVE in the month of March – perfect for Easter baskets!

Send proof of purchase to

DyingtoLiveMarchMadnessContest@hotmail.com

At the end of the month, one lucky winner will get the complete Kim Paffenroth zombie miscellany collection:

SHROUD magazine #5 with my story, “Buddha in the Box” (signed or personalized)
THIN THEM OUT – chapbook co-authored with Julia and RJ Sevin (signed by all three of us)
ORPHEUS AND THE PEARL – original edition (signed or personalized)

Good luck!

My review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls could win you over $100:

If you go here (Quirk’s webpage) and post that my review sent you there we (that is you too!) will be entered to win one of 50 Quirk Classic Prize Packs (worth over $100), which include:

• • An advance copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
  • Audio Books of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
  • A password redeemable online for sample audio chapters of Dawn of the Dreadfuls
  • An awesome Dawn of the Dreadfuls Poster
  • A Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Journal
  • A box set of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Postcards

Naomi Clark’s new book, Silver Kiss (Lesbian!! Werewolves!!) is out and she’s been doing a ton of give aways through her twitter feed.

Fellow reviewer (and total awesomeness) Katiebabs is giving away 3 hard cover copies of Rachel Ward’s YA debut Num8ers:

There’s been a great deal of buzz about Rachel Ward’s debut Young Adult novel, Num8ers. And to celebrate this release, I have 3 hardcover copies to give away!

In order to have your chance to win, leave a comment here why you would like a copy. How would you deal if you were unfortuate enough to have Jem’s ability and knew the date of a person’s death?

You have until Friday, March 19th to enter and only open to US Residents.

Book Smugglers and Stacia Kane have joined up and are giving away a complete set of Stacia’s awesome UF demon series:

To celebrate the release of Demon Possessed, we are having the lovely Stacia Kane over for an interactive Q&A and a chance to win her books! We have TWO sets of Megan Chase books (Personal Demons, Demon Inside, and Demon Possessed) up for grabs. Entry is easy and simple, per usual – just leave a comment here asking Stacia a question (about her series, her writing process, her favorite demons, etc). The contest is open to all, and will run until Saturday, March 6th at 11:59PM (PST). Good luck, and let the questions begin.

Sometimes both “hats” (I hate that term, but it common and easy to understand) are hard to wear. So from the mind of someone caught between in a rather public way, let me offer a few words.

Reviewers are #1 READERS. They are your audience, they are just vocal (and I hope) well-read members of your audience. Almost all the reasons I had for becoming a reviewer revolved around being a reader. I wanted to expand my horizons, record my thoughts of what I read, contribute to the reader-sphere and figure out why I liked the books I liked. Even my quest to build my own audience base comes down to me wanting to relate to readers.

In my opinion the best authors are widely read.

Whichever side of the author/reviewer divide you fall on you can (I hope) understand why we read. The love there of. The search for awesome, satisfying fiction wherever there’s a page and two covers. It’s a voracious desire, even if our reading habits don’t keep up. So if you understand that, you likely also understand the utter disappointment of a book that doesn’t deliver.

Readers ALWAYS bring something personal to a book they’re reading because they have chose that book for THEIR entertainment or THEIR information. If it doesn’t sound even the least bit interesting you cannot get a reader to pick up your book. Readers cannot forget who they are, especially since by the nature of reading it takes a period of time to complete the book and we do not live lives that allow for sitting down and reading the whole book at once. For example it takes me 6-20 hours of reading for me to finish a book and this is considered fast reading. I can finish a book in a day, if it is engaging and I do very little else. So by the nature of the activity there will be interrupting. The book will get put aside for minutes, hours or days. The reader will stop reading to live their lives and as such books simply do not sweep people out of their identities and into the book. Readers can suspend disbelief, but they cannot suspend their own opinion and personality in order to assume the one the author wishes. At best readers can eavesdrop and sympathize. We can connect, but not become.

While I believe that there are no taboos in fiction when you get into offensive and argue-triggering ideas, concepts and events an author must convince a reader that there is point, a purpose, to the story they are being told. I read and reviewed Pain Killers by Jerry Stahl, which was absolutely filled with racism, sexism, addict, hate speech and other highly offensive material. Like Natural Born Killers and most Tarantino films the story is out of control to begin with. It’s dangerous, almost a parody of human behavior at it’s worst. It’s Jerry Springer, with a point, completely over the top and almost a farce of real life. The point is that it’s sadly not an inaccurate reflection of humanity, but by making these things part of an overwhelming narrative the author makes the statement that such human behavior is a over the top farce in and of itself. Now suddenly this highly offensive narrative had a point–making fun of such extremes even as it uses them as tools in telling a greater story.

In short if you go this route, or that of high sex, high blood or gore, it should have a point vital to the storytelling itself. Even Lolita had a point. the best horror stories might be violent and gory, but the the gore isn’t the end all, it’s the dressing up of the point, and in the great novels the gore, like the language is used to manipulate the reader into believing certain things vital to pulling them into the story. The storytelling should not be effective without the use of racism, abuse, gore or sex (Think Palahniuk’s Choke, where the sex is absolutely vital to the telling of the story) if you are going to use it in your book.

As a reader I have a huge problem with romances wherein the hero rapes the heroine. Rape is not attractive. It is not romantic. I cannot stand romance books where the hero rapes the heroine (or vice versa).

However when I read horror the rules change completely, because horror is supposed to make you uncomfortable. A relationship between a heroine and hero that includes rape and beating and even drugging would be acceptable to me in a horror book because it could very easily be a tool to make me feel terribly uncomfortable.

That leads into my next point; Because readers always bring themselves into the story readers will always go into a story with expectations. Some come from the genre (I expect horror to make me feel uncomfortable, scared or creeped out, for example), or from a knowledge of the author’s previous books (you can see an example of my own expectations from an author’s previous books in my review of Prey by Rachel Vincent, where I had to confess that I expected the series to lose its bite as readers got more attached to the characters), or from recommendations they’ve received from friends or online. This will affect a reader’s experience as well–and worse you can’t control this.

On to disappointment. No matter what the reason–the story not being what they wanted, the storytelling not being good, technical writing problems, or even just a story being good, but no spectacular–readers hate to be disappointed. Very rarely does someone buy a book wanting to hate it. Even books that have bad reviews might have elements that some readers like. Some readers literally cannot get enough of certain things (vampires, zombies, love stories) and will read and probably enjoy almost every book with those elements that they can get their hands on. Which is something I keep in mind when reviewing a book I didn’t personally enjoy. Rare is the book that no one can enjoy.

But readers are not against you. We want to enjoy your book. We want it so much we try to push aside ourselves aside to enjoy your tale. (This is suspension of disbelief. We know CSI is NOT accurate, but we pretend it is so we can enjoy the story they are telling, not the sheer heavy details of accuracy. No one wants pure accuracy in speculative fiction, because then fact checking becomes more important than storytelling.) It’s upsetting for us when we don’t enjoy your work, and yes, we do wonder if it’s just us. It’s a reviewer’s job to analyse:

1. Do I like it–Yes or no.

2.Why or why not?

3. Where are the bits that cause me to like/not like it?

4. Are they because I couldn’t connect with this story/these characters or are they do to poor writing? Or both?

5. Would other people like it? Why or why not? And, what kind of people would like it?

6. (Not all reviewers consider this one, but critics do) What value does this book has in the greater context the genre, the author’s career, the current state of the world and literature?

Most books I read are good, but not spectacular. My top complaint is not being able to connect with a lead character. This is completely typical of reviewers, readers, agents and editors. We all do this because we love it. We read because we love it. (For the most part) We are not your enemies, or your opposites. There should be no professional divides. We ARE your audience. We are your street team. Every single reader is not just a sale, they are a potential word of mouth recommender.

We are not reviewers, we are vocal readers.

You can find another great take, from an author point of view here where Mike Shevdon says:

If the reviewer liked or disliked the book, if it horrified or amused them, caused them to stay up late or throw the book at the wall, that is down to their personal experience of the book. They have made the effort to place themselves in an open state of mind that was receptive to the authors imaginings.

It is NEVER a good idea to snap back at a reviewer for  a review of your book that you didn’t like. Hmm, perhaps I’m not getting my point across.

It is NEVER a good idea to snap back at a reviewer for a review of your book that you didn’t like.

Never.

If they are wrong, let it go. If they insulted you, let it go. If you think they had an agenda, or didn’t even read the book, or missed the point–Let. It. Go.

Rant in private, to friends. But for gods’ sakes do not email them an insulting letter, and do not start a public thread insulting and ridiculing them.

Because, are you listening? A review is an opinion. It may have weight, it may not. And it’s not because you might piss off the reviewer, it’s because you will expose your inner fucktard and like racist slurs and private porn tapes that inner fucktard is what people what people will recognize you for.

You will reveal that you have no ability to deal with opinions about the work you put up for public sale, and therefore public discourse, that aren’t positive. You will reveal that you have no real respect for the opinion of the reader and no drive to write and publish your best work. Instead it ALWAYS comes off as if the author is a spoiled brat throwing a fit because they didn’t get the praise they deserve, and it looks this way even if the reviewer is wrong. (Except, I refer you back to the above paragraph: A review is an opinion. “Wrong” is not an easy thing to assign to an opinion.)

P.S. Also, many many reviewers and review sites already have a no self published books policy. You’re giving more people a reason add one.

P.P.S. Oh yeah, and emailing me nasty emails means instead of reviewing your book and moving on, I’ll start warning people about you, your work and your nasty email.

• Murky Depths #8 (SF/Horror/graphic novel magazine)
• Howliday Inn by James Howe (middle grade, mystery)
• House of Gaian by Anne Bishop (fantasy)
• Apex Magazine: October & November 2009 (SF/horror magazine)
• Dark Side of the Moon by Barbara Custer (SF/Horror)
• Silver by Steven Savile (Thriller)
• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies by Michael P. Spradlin (Horror/humor)
• My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent (YA, UF)

I’ve taken the People of Color Reading Challenge. I commit to read and review at least 15 books this year by or featuring minority characters. Furthermore I’m committing to reading and reviewing at least 10 books by GLBT writers or featuring GLBT characters.

You can take this challenge too by clicking on the picture above.

So far in the history of BookLove I’ve already chalked up quite a few.

Apex Digest #8

Apex Digest #9

Apex Digest #10

Apex Magazine, September 2008

Apex Magazine, October 2008

Apex Magazine, February 2009

Apex Magazine, August 2009

Apex Magazine, November 2009

Bare Bone #6

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year volume 2

Challenging Destiny #24

Gratia Placenti

History is Dead

Horror Literature Quarterly, Winter 2008

Murky Depths #1

Polluto #2

Queer Wolf

Aguirre, Ann   Blue Diablo

Bacigalupi, Paolo Pump Six

Barlow, Toby Sharp Teeth

Briggs, Patricia Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson book 2)

Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson book 3)

Moon Called (Mercy Thompson book 1)

Broaddus, Maurice Just an Old Mana>

Orgy of Souls

Devil’s Marionette

Burney, Claudia Mair   Deadly Charm

Carl, William D. Bestial

Chanas, Suzy McKee The Vampire Tapestry

Collins, Nancy A.   Wild Blood

Duza, Andre   Hollow-Eyed Mary

O’Neill, Gene Taste of Tenderloin

Pelevin, Victor Sacred Book of the Werewolf

Pelland, Jennifer Unwelcome Bodies

Tidhar, Lavie HebrewPunk

White, Wrath James House Cleaning

Orgy of Souls

Sloppy Seconds

Reviews of GLBT Interest

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year volume 2

Queer Wolf

Unspeakable Horror

Aguirre, Ann- Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax book three)

Grimspace (Sirantha Jax book one)

Wanderlust (Sirantha Jax book two)

Bacigalupi, Paolo Pump Six

Barlow, Toby Sharp Teeth

Cast, PC & Kristin Betrayed (House of Night book 2)

Chosen (House of Night book 3)

Marked (House of Night book 1)

Untamed (House of Night book 4)

Dane, Adrianna Body Parts

Frost, Polly Deep Inside

Harvey, Sara M. The Convent of the Pure

Pelland, Jennifer Unwelcome Bodies

Wilde, Oscar Picture of Dorian Gray, The

Whitten, Zoe W. Lesser of Two Evils, The

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (Season 8 #1)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You (Season 8 #2)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wolves at the Gate (Season 8 #3)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You (Season 8 #4)

And for good measure…

Reviews featuring disabled writers or characters

Gratia Placenti

Shipp, Jeremy C. Cursed

Snyder, Lucy A. Spellbent

Tags: GLBT, PoC in fiction

Yeah, I’m a little late, but here it is.

Submissions: 68

Rejects: 64

Sales: 2 (plus 3 holds and 1 rewrite request)

Words Written: Fiction-127,553  Reviews-39,338

Stories Written: 1 novel, 2 novellas, 3 short stories

Observations: 2009 was a rough year. My yearly submission goal is usually 100 subs a year. That encountered a massive problem in 2009 because most of my short stories were horror and most horror markets were either not appropriate for me and my goals, or not open. This led to me focusing my writing on novels and SF/F rather than horror. I also did a lot of rewriting and editing and reevaluating of older works which led to no real visible “work”, but bringing some of my short stories up to par and sending the ones I was tired of into the trunk.

Also, I made reasonable money this year. Not like “Who needs a real job” money, but a “Hey, I could go to a con on this!” money.

There lots of other stuff that means little to people other than me, like my personal vs form rejects ratio and the partial and full requests I got from agents. Personal pride, but boring unless it’s you getting them.

Also in 2009 I surprised a few writers by being good, made a few top reads lists, interviewed some of my own favorite writers, became a zombie editor, and might just have gotten a real chance at the Stoker. Certainly can’t complain.

Dear writers, editors and cover artists,

Please keep in mind that I respect the work you do (maybe I don’t always like the finished project, but I do respect that you work and do your best and that my tastes aren’t the same as everyone else’s). but I have to ask, as I do every time this year, but this time directly, could you please not send me a shit-ton of requests that I go vote for your work on a poll in which you nominated yourself?

I don’t mind seeing requests or alerts on blogs or Twitter feeds, but no emails, no private messages please. The thing is I don’t vote for books I haven’t read, for work I haven’t seen. Not even for my friends.

Not long ago I was asked to contribute to DarkScribe’s Quill Awards (as one of their reviewers I was involved in the recommendations that became the nominations) and I struggled to fill my ballot (despite reading 110 books last year) because I could not recommend books I hadn’t read, and honestly I didn’t read a lot of horror last year. And some of what I did read wasn’t award quality.

I understand (no, really I REALLY understand) the joy of having your work up for an award. I understand wanting to win. But having a bunch of people vote for your work because you are the loudest, most obnoxious promoter of said poll or work, is not really winning. It’s successfully stuffing the ballot box.

So with all due respect I will not vote for your work on the P&E poll. Especially if I haven’t read it. I will ignore any messages you post about it. I will delete any emails you send me about it, and if you annoy me too much I will block you or unfriend/unfollow you until the poll is over.

Thanks,

Michele

Here’s my top books of 2009, in no real order. (This is of the books I read in 2009, not those published then.)

Welcome to the Jungle by Jim Butcher

We love the Dresden books here at Case de Lee and graphic novels so we were extremely excited when we found this.  The art was clean and vivid, the story line was fun, and Harry was as sarcastic as ever. So bonus points go to Welcome to the Jungle for being one of the handful of fiction books to capture my husband’s attention as well as my own, an impressive feat.

Skin Tight by Ava Gray

I got to read this as a first reader (so you won’t see a review here) and I just couldn’t get enough of Mia and Foster. I love the really smart heroine and the tortured, reluctant hero and with this book Ava (aka Ann Aguirre) expands her concept to a whole world mythos while leaving so much more to explore that readers will want to keep sticking with these loose series to find out more. (Skin Tight comes out June 2010)

Magic Strikes & On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

Perhaps it’s unfair of me to both list these together and to take up two slots with Ms. Andrews’ (actually a husband-wife writing team) work. But to hell with it this is my list and I just cannot express my absolute adoration for Andrews’ writing style. She pushes all my buttons in the right way and to top it off On the Edge has the feel of my mother-in-laws’ rural town that’s my hiding place from the world, AND it has a character that everyone say looks like Sesshomaru from the Inyuasha series. You can’t get yummier. Yet Andrews also packs a wallop of dark, sinister fun into her books making them absolutely irresistible to me. Bully Ms. Andrews and keep giving me more!

Convent of the Pure by Sara M. Harvey

Billed as a steampunk adventure it’s actually a lesbian love story urban fantasy with steampunk overtones. It features a Nephilim and her dead lover who stumble upon a secret facility where other Nephilim are being experimented upon for foul reasons, and best of all it’s the first of three novellas. The only problem I have is that I didn’t think to write it first!

Bestial by William Carl

This one shows my roots, my absolute love for horror, despite it’s boxed in, trope heavy current state. Not the most original of tales, it’s the zombie apocalypse novel, but done tongue-in-cheek with a myriad of small additions that make all the difference. Instead of a virus spreading a mind numbing hunger for brains this disease turns people into werewolves at night, only to leave them back to human during the day to deal with the extent of their bestial actions. This book manages to mock the zombie apocalypse–and many other horror tropes as well–while adding unexpected sinister twists and one of the best horror werewolves I’ve read in a long time. I didn’t expect to like Bestial, but I haven’t been able to stop recommending it which makes it a clear winner in my book.

An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris

You hear a lot about the Sookie Stackhouse series, with True Blood being such a massive force in TV this year. But this is my favorite Harris series. It’s dark, real dark, with the characters barely holding on to their sanity as they risk their lives trying to help the bereaved families of the missing or the dead to find peace and closure. The paranormal thread is also real delicate. Rather than living in a world of vampires and werecritters, Harper and Tolliver live in our world where her powers are somewhere between believable and crackpot. In this books they face their first serial killer, which isn’t a plot taken as lightly as some horror authors deal with this this way. Powerful and disturbing I cannot get enough of this series.

Prey by Rachel Vincent

Another series I love, I thought for sure that Vincent was going to jump the shark with this one. I mean, she writes this dark world where females are, in a way, prisoners due to their value to the werecat species. Protected and indulged they’re free, but still raised to someday marry and continue the species. It’s easy for their identities as people to get lost. From that comes Faythe, who is determined to be her own person and to marry on her own terms, if at all. This is the fourth book in the series, which is dark but has strong romantic ties too. It’s tighter and more adventure driven than the previous books and I thought for sure this is the point where Vincent caved and the series stopped being hard to handle, emotional urban fantasy and softened to a more romance state of being. And I was so wrong. Vincent still tortures her characters and her readers and clearly keeps the spirit of the series together, managing to make Faythe take a full role in her pride and family, without declawing her to do so. An excellent author, who can keep the conflict and theme going for multiple books, and one I look forward to reading more from.

Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

Another one I expected to be too romance for my tastes. (For the record I like romance, just not as a stand alone story. I have to have something else to the story to keep my interest.) I picked up these books because 1.) they were urban fantasy and 2.) we needed werewolf titles for Monster Librarian’s Werewolf Month and I was glad I did. After finishing the first, Moon Called, I went out to the stores and grabbed the next two in paperback, but Iron Kissed ended up being my favorite. The third book in I loved this one in part because this is where skinwalker (sort of like a werecoyote) Mercy Thompson admits her love for werewolf alpha Adam, but the real darkness and emotion pain that it takes to get there makes this story a monumental read in this year’s collection. It’s good to see that Briggs is popular enough to make it to hard cover, but alas that means this broke reader will have to wait until the paperback to get more adventures from Mercy the shape shifting VW mechanic and her crew.

Demon Inside by Stacia Kane

So this is the first (and only) book I ever made the acknowledgment page of, but I swear that didn’t influence its inclusion here at all. What did was the raw, emotional power of this story of Megan Chase, a psychologist who just discovered she’s part demon and the demons she’s linked to are ones that feed off the pain of humans. A difficult position to be put in, but it’s made worse when she’s called home, to her unloving family after her father dies only to discover that her childhood stint in an institution and her lifetime of struggle with an uncaring, critical family is a complete farce because her father sacrificed her to a demon for his own profit. Heart breaking and overwhelming this is one of the few books this year that made me cry.

Spellbent by Lucy A. Snyder

A last minute winner, this one makes it in by about three days. Jessie Shimmer is akin to a chaos magician and during a spell to summon rain for the farmers of her area instead she and her teacher (and lover) open a dimensional rift and he vanishes. The magical community crashes down on her, despite her losing and arm and an eye defeating the demon that comes through. The man in charge of the area tries, exceedingly forcefully, to make Jessie leave her lover behind. But she refuses even though it costs her her friends, her home, her job, and even her familiar (who is sort of a ferret). But in the process she uncovers a dark secret the community wants to hide, a sense of loyalty and a personalized hell dimension that still has living  prisoners. An excellent debut here’s another fantasy world I can’t help but want more of.

The Stats:

Books Read in 2009: 111

Books Reviewed in 2009: 103

39338 word in reviews written in 2009

Below the cut is the list of books I’ve read, if you’re interested.

Keep reading…