Showing posts with label urban fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urban fantasy. Show all posts

Friday, 25 May 2012

Review for Discount Armageddon (InCryptid #1) by Seanan Mcguire

Discount Armageddon (Incryptid, #1)Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

this was a fun and action packed read.

[brief background]
Verity is a cryptozoologist (but she's really a dancer at heart..or maybe both), and a Price. Her family broke away from the Covenant some generations ago. The covenant is basically a genocidal group that thinks that every other race except for the humans are dangerous, possibly evil, and a threat to all of humanity.

Verity is a quirky, sometimes snarky character, maybe slightly crazy. Then again, all of the characters have tilted a bit on the crazy side, except for Dominic, he's just misled/brainwashed and learning to deal with the crazy world that is Discount Armageddon.

Like I said before this book is crazy fun (be sure to check out the crazy partying/religious mice -> Yes do you not see by my overuse of the word crazy that this book is crazy)

Will be looking forward to the next book ^_^

Thursday, 17 May 2012

Review for White Cat by Holly Black (Curse Workers #1)

White Cat (Curse Workers, #1)White Cat by Holly Black
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Not sure what genre it falls under, which is why I have both the paranormal and urban fantasy genre.

Now onto the review XD...I have been waiting to read this book from the moment it came out, although I have read, or at least started Tithe by the same author, but I just couldn't get into the book and dropped it. Fortunately this was not the case this book ^_^

And I must say I am a sucker for the con-artist type books.

Plot-wise this book was pretty good, it kept twisting and turning so the reader is in for some surprises, and even if they guessed them, the book is written in a way that you'll still enjoy the reveal.

Cassel's family is...wow, well let's just say they have some things they need to work out, and though Cassel himself is a grey character, you'll still want to root for him, because I think where it counts he's not so bad. (love the grandpa) and well that ending was a whopper...not a cliff hanger per se...but still a whopper

Monday, 30 April 2012

Review for Summoning the Night (Arcadia Bell #2) by Jenn Bennett

Hello Guys, here's my review for Summoning the Night by Jenn Bennett and boy did I enjoy ^_^

Summoning the Night (Arcadia Bell, #2)Summoning the Night by Jenn Bennett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

JUPE I LOVE YOU! -- so what if I'm older than you are...you like older women, right? XD

*cough* Now that I've gotten that out of the way, let me just say, I hearts this book with unending love. No Seriously. I enjoyed the first book, but this one, in my opinion, is far better.

What I really loved about this book was that you got to see more of the dynamic between Cady, Jupe and Lon. And specifically on the Cady-Jupe aspect (i love that kid, no lie). You really see them working as family unit, and Jupe, well Jupe is so ...Jupe (for lack of a better description) that he just pulls Cady into it. She may not know what she's doing, or how she's to act, seeing as her parents weren't the best of the lot, or even decent, but Jupe has an unending supply of love that just draws her in, along with the reader. I know I was drawn in.

Of course this does not detract from everything else, we still have our action packed, romance sprinkled and mystery infused Urban Fantasy, and that part's great also.

I just felt I had to comment on the Jupe-Cady aspect of the book. 5 Star rating ^_^

And one more thing => I really love that this has no love triangles. Huzzah!

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on a side note...does anyone have any good romance recommendation with kids in the plot? cuz seriously, this book brought out my urge to read one

On another note, tell me if you guys would rather the summary be attached to the books ^_^