tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67970239781054996152024-03-07T23:36:29.040-08:00Worlds of WonderHarriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.comBlogger4143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-12418925030090007692014-11-08T11:46:00.002-08:002014-11-08T11:46:44.499-08:00The Sword Of Michael-Marcus Wynne <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As the dead man he killed twice chases him into a
cemetery, Shaman Marius Winter muses the story of his life is in his hands as
he holds the sacred power of Christ’s rosary beads and the profane worldly Glock. He fires shots into the knees and elbows of
the zombie, preventing it from moving before sprinkling holy water on the Dark
Force and asking Michael of the Light to cleanse this evil. Marius now knows the Dark Forces are back and
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hell’s Dark God Belial sends a sorcerer to
destroy Marius starting with possessing the souls of those his adversary loves;
like his girlfriend Jolene, Avatar to the Goddess. When Marius learns the fate of Jolene and
others he cares about, guided by his triad of spiritual advisors (First In
Front medicine man, Tigre the spirit tiger and Burt the spirit raven); he accepts
the risks associated with his undertaking to save their souls. Accompanied by his guides, Marius initially must
deal with the hellish sorcerer and, if successful, traverse the circles of Hell
to confront Belial in the innermost; losing at any point means the Dark
possesses his soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">With a nod to Dante, the first Depossessionist urban
fantasy is filled with plenty of action-packed fighting scenes and some religious
philosophizing. The storyline is at its
best when the plot stays focused on the war, but loses momentum with
unnecessary, odd power hungry groups joining the fray. Although the cast, even the hero, is never
developed beyond their prime reason for existence, The Sword Of Michael is an
entertaining Forces of the Light vs. Minion of The Dark thriller.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-63405511613173219082014-11-05T11:47:00.001-08:002014-11-05T11:47:49.993-08:00Empire of Dust-Jacey Bedford <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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because she is aware her former boss and one time lover Ari van Blaiden will
kill her once his goons catch up to her; as he wants no witnesses to the pirate
attack he arranged on a colony. Desperate
to avoid mind to mind detection and aware of withdrawal torment that will
probably kill her anyway, Cara still shut down the implant that the firm financed
in exchange for her being their indentured servant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">So far Cara eluded her ruthless pursuers on El Arish and Shalla
where an off the grid psi-much suggested she go Station Mirrimar 14, a place
with allegedly psi-tech rebels. Not only
has she failed to find her peers, Alphacorp arrives. Cara meets Reska Benjamin who agrees to take
her with his team of psi-techs to Olyanda to assist with colonization. Adding tension is many of the client
Ecolibrians loathes psi-techs and the discovery of mineral deposits places Olyanda
on pirate looting list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The first Psi-Tech science fiction is an action-packed outer space
thriller in which the Bedford galaxy seems real. Filled with plenty of escapades mostly on a
world that comes across as genuine and starring a beleaguered woman in peril, a
haunted hero and a ruthless villain; readers will want to journey to Olyanda
where several rivals compete for control.
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-5852789837376026452014-10-20T11:54:00.002-07:002014-10-20T11:54:25.130-07:00Closer to Home-Mercedes Lackey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Haven, Valdemar, Mags the Herald is with his <span style="background: white;">Companion Dallen</span> when he hears the Mindvoice
shriek of the King’s Own Nikolas. Using Mindvoice
he tries to contact Nikolas but his mentor fails to respond. Dallen and Mags see Nikolas floating in the
nearby river. On top of Dallen, Mags
pulls Nikolas onto the shore, but he is not breathing. Using the Breath of Life technique Bear taught
him, Mags saves Nikolas’ life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rolan the Companion selects the incapacitated Nikolas’ panicked daughter
Amily to replace him as the King’s Own though the monarch Kyril fears having an
untested young female in such a critical position. Complicating matters for the new King’s Own
and the monarch is a treasonous coup to <span style="background: white;">extinguish
the Heralds and fill the power void.
With unprecedented Mindspeech skill, Mags assists Amily in an attempt to
uncover the traitors before the Collegium is shattered, its Heralds eradicated
and King Kyril loses the throne.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The first Herald Spy Valdemar fantasy is a fabulous opening act as
Mags (no longer a stranger in a strange land) and Amily face impossible
odds. Both fear they’re not ready for
the big leagues without adult supervision (Nikolas), but they bravely team-up
to do the right thing with so much at stake.
Fast-paced throughout, yet vivid Valdemar and the key cast (particularly
the protagonists and their companions) seem genuine. Genre readers, especially series fans, will
delight in returning to Valdemar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-49228066947931494372014-10-19T11:23:00.003-07:002014-10-19T11:23:53.515-07:00The Chaplain's War-Brad R. Torgersen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mantes cyborgs invaded human space with one objective: total genocide. The humans fought back but the enemy proved
superior. Five years ago the Mantes defeated
an invading force and captured Chaplain Assistant Harrison Barlow and many
other soldiers on a planet the POWs call Purgatory. With the Chaplain dead, Harrison helps his
fellow prisoners keep the faith though he avoids any specific religion. Two years ago he completed a chapel for those
who want to pray alongside him to God for deliverance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a Professor, visits him constantly to learn more about the Holy Man’s belief in
an invisible God. The Professor explains
humanity is the third essence the Mantes have met that believes in an indiscernible
guiding spirit. When Harrisons asks the
Mantis what his race believes in; the Professor responds “nothing”. While Harrison teaches the Professor about
human spiritualty, some of his race feels he betrays them while some of the
Mantis’ race insists it is insignificant what the enemy thinks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">This intriguing science fiction is told in three
parts (with one and two modifications of previously released “The Chaplain’s
Assistant” and “The Chaplain’s Legacy”) and the third section ("The
Chaplain’s War") totally new. The expansion
enhances the fascinating focus on two species at war with differing social
values especially highlighted by a to believe or not to believe in a deity; ironically
most members of each race share in common the competitive drive for all out
victory. Thus the Chaplain Assistant and
The Professor are outliers as they thrive for understanding of each other’s
respective species, which is a step towards all out peace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-84900934510735931262014-10-19T11:22:00.002-07:002014-10-19T11:22:57.834-07:00Brood-Chase Novak <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a great lifestyle until they went to Slovenia for illegal fertility treatments. The procedure worked and they had </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">twins
Alice and Adam, but also turned the nice couple into malevolent ogres (see
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Moving into the renovated Upper East Side townhouse that Alex and Leslie
turned into a monstrosity, antiques dealer Cynthia Kramer becomes guardian to
her troubled niece and nephew. She hopes
to nurture them into a good mental state through love. However, the youngsters fear puberty will
make them a chip off the cannibalistic block and especially do not want to harm
their caring aunt. Alice and Adam flee
to Central Park where evil greets them with a scheme to use the siblings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The efforts to prevent what seems inevitable turn
this sequel into an exciting urban horror though Mother Cynthia’s constant
anxiety <em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">panic
attacks </span></em>detract from an otherwise electrifying family drama. With a stunning climax to an overall tense
tale (mainly when the twins rule the storyline), this is a winning read particularly
when the Twisden brother and sister invade Central Park.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-80850843874738219422014-10-08T11:50:00.006-07:002014-10-08T11:50:43.818-07:00The Wonder Of All Things-Jason Mott <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Temple, North Carolina, former resident Matt Cooper entertains the locals with
flying stunts when his plane sputters and crashes. Cooper dies, but the crowd miraculously
survives. Sheriff Macon Campbell finds
his thirteen year old daughter Ava and her BFF Wash trapped under rubble. Ava touches Wash’s severe wounds and a second
miracle occurs when the teen heals instantly while someone records the event on
a cell phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hordes arriving in Stone Temple to glimpse the “Miracle Child” or obtain a
cure. However, the physical cost to Ava
begins to appear as each miracle weakens her until she is hospitalized. Trying to avoid any more damage to her body,
Ava soon has a Hobson’s choice when Wash learns he has leukemia.<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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divine miracles on a small-town (see The Returned, the basis for </span></cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">the <em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Resurrection </span></em>television
series), Jason Mott provides a poignant novel that looks deeply into the responsibilities
towards others and the rights of one vs. the needs of the many. The sidebar focus on the woes of support
characters detracts from the otherwise fabulous storyline; as Ava is a great
protagonist who wants to do the right thing to help those suffering especially
her Wash; but the cost she pays for being the Good Samaritan increasingly seems
to be her life. <cite><o:p></o:p></cite></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-19848909351888009112014-10-08T11:50:00.002-07:002014-10-08T11:50:03.763-07:00Burning Desire-Donna Grant <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cork, Ireland, the Dragon Kings become concerned that she may go to the dark
side. Dragon King Kiril arrives to
gather intel while his peers remain in Scotland. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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centuries because of her unacceptable embarrassing behavior towards
others. Now she has one last chance to
prove to be a loyal member though Shara has never felt like she belonged and
their demand goes against her nature; failure to do so means her execution and
ironically succeeding means being married off to a vicious Fae. Her mission is to lure the visiting Dragon
King so that her kin can make him their prisoner when his guard is down. Instead, Shara finds she is attracted to
Kiril and does not want to cause him any harm.
As she assists her beloved with saving Rhi from Balladyn, Shara becomes
this Dark Fae’s prisoner inside his fortress leading to Kiril believing his
beloved betrayed him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fire Rising and Darkest Flame novels and Dark Heat stories) is a thrilling
entry filled with plenty of action highlighted by an apparently doomed
star-crossed romance. The lead couple is
a delightful pairing as trust proves fleeting.
Although depth is added to the overarching premise, no thread is
completed. Yet series fans will enjoy these
natural enemies falling in love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-89819523627353869122014-10-05T11:05:00.003-07:002014-10-05T11:05:32.742-07:00Choir Of Angels-Debbie Macomber <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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sexagenarian Greg Bennett has a sinful history of abandonment (his pregnant
girlfriend and dying mom) and betrayal (his brother and partner). He wanders into a church where he prays for
the first time in decades. No angel
wants to help this loser find redemption so Archangel Gabriel assigns the
impossible project to his three zaniest subordinates: Shirley, Goodness and
Mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Those Christmas Angels.” In Seattle, Anne Fletcher worries about her
son Roy, who used to be an outgoing friendly person, but now is an acrimonious
workaholic Scrooge. She wants Roy to
rediscover what life is all about though a grandchild would be nice so she prays
for heavenly intervention. Now Anne
might have reconsidered turning to heaven if she knew angels Shirley, Goodness
and Mercy were going to answer her prayers.
The angelic trio literally tosses Julie Wilcoff in Roy's path. However, when this threesome interferes it
means chaos. <o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Where Angels Go.” Although he expects these three rule breakers
to cause him heart failure, Archangel Gabriel realizes they miraculously get
heavenly results. He reluctantly sends
them to answer Christmas prayers for divine intervention. Mercy tries helping
elderly Harry find peace before he dies as he fears leaving his beloved wife
behind. Goodness assists Beth in taking a second chance at love ever since her
forever marriage ended quickly. Finally Shirley grants a wish to a little boy
who just wants to keep his dog, but his family cannot afford another mouth to
feed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">This omnibus reprint of three
lighthearted tales stars the Murphy of angelic matchmaking; as “</span></cite><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">anything that can go wrong will go wrong</span><cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">” with this trio’s heavenly intervention<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harriet Klausner<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-63392073106612468242014-10-05T11:04:00.002-07:002014-10-05T11:04:38.848-07:00Ghost Wolf-Michele Hauf <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ghost Wolf<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Michele Hauf<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harlequin
Nocturne, <span class="grey3">Oct 1 </span><span class="med16">2014</span>, $5.75<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ISBN:
9780373009299<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Raging and grieving, Beckett Severo seeks vengeance against
human hunters after he witnessed one of that pathetic species shoots and kills
his father, and worse had to break the news to his hysterical vampiress
mother. Two months later, Becket runs
into a female wolf shifter near Tangle Lake who impressively leaves him with a
mean right to his jaw. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Daisy-Blu Saint-Pierre hopes to obtain the Tangle Lake
Tattler reporter internship by doing an article on the Ghost Wolf, who has been
seen recently in the vicinity twice by frightened hunters. She plans to ask Beck if he knows anything
about the Ghost Wolf when she runs into him again. Meanwhile Beck finds each shift increasingly drains
him to the point he fears he soon will die from what was once natural but not
since fairy magic changed him into the Ghost Wolf. As he and Daisy Blue bond, she learns his
secret. If she reveals what she knows in
the Tattler, she would surely get the position she covets seemingly more than
her wolf; while his craving for revenge leaves their love teetering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The first Saint-Pierre werewolf romance is a pleasing frolic
starring two appealing protagonists whose youthful enthusiasm makes the tale, but
also leaves something permanent between them doubtful. Readers will appreciate their energetic romp even
as danger threatens the two shifters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harriet Klausner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-86883607859254080162014-09-21T12:00:00.002-07:002014-09-21T12:00:27.706-07:00Sword of the Bright Lady-M.C. Planck <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sword of the Bright Lady</span></cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">M.C. Planck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pyr, Sep 9 2014, $18.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN 9781616149888<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">At first mechanical engineer Christopher Sinclair thought he was
in some sort of weird dream with no electrical device anywhere and a dirty
teenaged stranger named Helga sharing his bed instead of his wife. He changes his mind about sleeping and
assumes he was in a plane crash in a remote medieval part of Europe. However, he soon realizes this is not Arizona,
America or Switzerland; as somehow he “walked” into another realm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Feeling lost and missing his spouse, Christopher begins to learn
the rules of “physics” in his new world are based on tael death magic with the
power hierarchy dependent on how much a person controls. To initially survive in this war-ravaged
dominion, Christopher pledges allegiance to the <span style="background: white;">Goddess
of Healing,</span> the Bright Lady. When
Marcius the God of War offers the engineer a better deal he accepts performing
the deity’s quests in return to going home.
Sinclair introduces a new type of magic based on guns and butter as he
teaches commoners to forge steel to make weapons and household items. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Book One of The World Of Prime is a fantastic opening act in fantasy
as a twenty-first century American engineer with contemporary inclusiveness
ethics and a belief in physics falls through a rabbit hole into a medieval
feudal land whose system is magic based and deity connected. Much more Clark Kent than Superman, bewildered
Christopher keeps the intense storyline focused by muddling through his new
life as a fish out of water while dealing with enemies who relish the status
quo and Doubting Thomas supporters. He
wants to go home, but the Gods refuse to give him ruby red slippers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harriet Klausner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-3071507905739039082014-09-20T11:58:00.002-07:002014-09-20T11:58:14.732-07:00Broken-Tracie L. Slatton <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Broken<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tracie L. Slatton<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Parvati Press, Sep 5 2014, $16.99<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.parvatipress.com <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">9780986061158<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 1939 earth time Alia mourns the loss of Ariel
by leaving Heaven to take on mortal form just before Paris falls. A self-anointed fallen angel, the hedonistic Alia
insists she cares nothing about the beleaguered Broken Parisians and even less
with the evil Nazi occupiers to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">However, Alia enjoys sex with her sweet ferocious
lover, half-Spaniard, half German Jew Pedro the bullfighter, whose father
abandoned him and his mom in Spain while he was still in the womb. Archangel Michael questions Alia why here
when she knows the torment to follow.
She insists she did not lose her way; that God did by allowing this mad <em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Führer </span></em>loose on
his so-called beloved mortals. Michael
reminds her she has one miracle to offer, he prays she wisely uses it. As the war intensifies and unthinkable
atrocities occur, Alia meets Josef the Jewish physicist, mathematician and
violinist, and soon to be her lover. As
the years pass, Alia’s day of reckoning that Michael predicted finally arrives
when she must choose between continual self-indulgence and sacrifice to save
the lives of her friend Jewish widow Suzanne Dubois and her child Cecile. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Though the action is somewhat muted, Broken is a
great philosophical WWII drama that focuses on a fallen angel who no longer
believes God cares. The key cast is
fully-developed with diverse reactions to what is happening to the Jews and not
just Hitler’s Final Solution as Josef learned in Antwerp and others in Cuba and
America; while real persona like Sartre adds a powerful sense of time and
place. </span><cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tracie L. Slatton provides a profound look at
religion during a crisis of faith in which even angels question whether God
abandoned the flock.<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harriet Klausner</span></cite><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-65963888327040640072014-09-20T11:57:00.001-07:002014-09-20T11:57:22.957-07:00Broken Tracie L. Slatton <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Broken<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tracie L. Slatton<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Parvati Press, Sep 5 2014, $16.99<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.parvatipress.com <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">9780986061158<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 1939 earth time Alia mourns the loss of Ariel
by leaving Heaven to take on mortal form just before Paris falls. A self-anointed fallen angel, the hedonistic Alia
insists she cares nothing about the beleaguered Broken Parisians and even less
with the evil Nazi occupiers to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">However, Alia enjoys sex with her sweet ferocious
lover, half-Spaniard, half German Jew Pedro the bullfighter, whose father
abandoned him and his mom in Spain while he was still in the womb. Archangel Michael questions Alia why here
when she knows the torment to follow.
She insists she did not lose her way; that God did by allowing this mad <em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Führer </span></em>loose on
his so-called beloved mortals. Michael
reminds her she has one miracle to offer, he prays she wisely uses it. As the war intensifies and unthinkable
atrocities occur, Alia meets Josef the Jewish physicist, mathematician and
violinist, and soon to be her lover. As
the years pass, Alia’s day of reckoning that Michael predicted finally arrives
when she must choose between continual self-indulgence and sacrifice to save
the lives of her friend Jewish widow Suzanne Dubois and her child Cecile. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Though the action is somewhat muted, Broken is a
great philosophical WWII drama that focuses on a fallen angel who no longer
believes God cares. The key cast is
fully-developed with diverse reactions to what is happening to the Jews and not
just Hitler’s Final Solution as Josef learned in Antwerp and others in Cuba and
America; while real persona like Sartre adds a powerful sense of time and
place. </span><cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tracie L. Slatton provides a profound look at
religion during a crisis of faith in which even angels question whether God
abandoned the flock.<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-3108546806956230852014-09-18T11:48:00.002-07:002014-09-18T11:48:33.884-07:00Lethal Seasons-Alice Sabo <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lethal Seasons <o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alice Sabo<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Aug 6 2014, $15.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN:<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">9781500526627<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In what afterward became known by survivors as
Year Zero, a maniac released a virus leaving estimates of 40% of the world
population dead and all governments unable to cope with a pandemic of that
magnitude. Every summer for the next
decade since Year Zero, the virus returns with a new lethal strain to continue
the devastation of humanity and the end of urban centers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nick, who lost his loved ones to the disease, travels
what is left of the United States as a census counter. When he finds two corpses who apparently
killed each other; Nick would rejoice that there is one less mercenary causing
havoc; but mourns for the other dead person since child bearing age and younger
females are the most critical demographic if mankind is to survive. His mission now is to find and rescue the deceased
woman’s siblings while teams of marauders stalk these youngsters and his home High
Meadow is under assault.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mindful of the Kevin Costner movie The Postman, the
first Changed World post-apocalyptic thriller is an exciting but grim novel as
survival of the deadliest is the way of life (outside of High Meadow) since
Year Zero. Although the key cast is
underdeveloped, Alice Sabo authors a twisting tense tale of an America (like
the rest of the earth) continual out of control spiral deeper into the darkest
era since recorded history began, but with tiny lights of hope like Nick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-51912611270832417522014-09-14T12:16:00.002-07:002014-09-14T12:16:55.067-07:00Jack Staples And The Ring Of Time-Mark Batterson and Joel N. Clark <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jack Staples And The Ring Of Time<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mark Batterson and Joel N. Clark<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">David C. Cook, Sep 1 2014, $9.99<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: </span></cite><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">9780781411073</span><cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Ireland, on his eleventh birthday Jack Staples is at the circus
with his teenage brother Parker and their mother. Ironically while a girl performs on a
tightrope above lions and surrounded by a ring of fire, Jack is the only one in
the audience distracted by a blackbird.
Suddenly all hell breaks loose inside the tent leaving Jack trapped by a
spreading inferno while a terrifying voice demands he help destroy the
Awakened. His sibling and everyone else
made it outside; they all assume Jack died except his mom who insists that <span style="background: white;">The Child of Prophecy lives. Inside, a lion dies saving Jack from the
blaze by covering his body with his.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Most people have scales covering their eyes to keep them from
seeing the evil that surrounds mankind; however Jack’s has fallen off so he now
sees these horrors. He and his BFF Arthur
join the scales-off Awakened who include their elderly teacher Mrs. Dumphry and
her former student Alexia AKA “Wild”.
Jack and Alexia learn both make up <span style="background: white;">The
Children of Prophecy; one will terminate and the other will resuscitate the
Awakened. </span>When the Assassin
attacks the town targeting the pair, they must learn under fire how to fight
back.<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jack Staples (and Alexia) And The Ring
Of Fire hooks readers from the opening act and never slows down in spite of
rapid shifting focus. The Christian good
and evil fantasy is faster than DC’s Flash, as the pace never allows the tweener
audience a respite. Yet the first
Staples story still insures that key players like the yin and yang Children of Prophecy
and their teacher are fully developed. <o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-55754124485524528022014-09-13T12:34:00.002-07:002014-09-13T12:34:43.478-07:00Memory-Lois McMaster Bujold <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Memory<o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lois McMaster Bujold</span><cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Baen, Sep 2 2014, $15.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: </span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">9781476736730</span><cite><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">On his last mission at <span style="background: white;">Jackson's
Whole</span>, dwarfish secret agent Miles Vorkosigan died, but was frozen and resuscitated
(see Mirror Dance). Insisting he is
fine, Miles returns to field work only to suffer a seizure that endangers
others while on a combat foray.
Afterward he lies about what happened and especially his physical
condition in the report he provides to his superior, Barrayaran Imperial
Security Chief Simon Illyan. Reacting as
he must, Illyan fires Miles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Devastated as his field work including being the <span style="background: white;">Admiral of the Dendarii mercenaries</span> has been
his only reason to live; the depressed Vorkosigan considers an active response “to
be or not to be”. However, when Illyan’s
100% perfect recall memory chip begins to fail him, <span style="background: white;">Miles convinces the desperate Emperor Gregor to name him the Imperial
Auditor; as both understand the gravity of errors by the Chief of IMPSEC places
the empire in peril.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Following up on the Hugo Award winning Mirror
Dance, this reprint of Memory is a strong transitional entry as Vorkosigan
begins a new career. Character driven by
the "failing" minds, bodies and emotions of the two heroes, readers
will appreciate this powerful novel that showcases Lois McMaster Bujold’s
skills as Miles finds a new relevancy answering “…that is the question.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-32688397266727927422014-09-12T12:23:00.003-07:002014-09-12T12:23:19.326-07:00Sleeping Late On Judgment Day-Tad Williams<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Known in the Bay Area as Bobby Dollar, the Angel Doloriel entered
Hell to rescue his girlfriend Caz the Countess of the Cold Hands trapped there
by her owner Eligor the Horseman. The
good is he escaped Hell; the bad is he failed to liberate his demon girlfriend
(see Happy Hour in Hell); and the ugly is he has no idea what to attempt next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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amnesia. His buddy’s memory loss
concerns Bobby because when they met in Hell, Walter was trying to warn him
that Heaven is not a sanctuary. Soon
after their reunion, Bobby faces a not so heavenly judgmental tribunal with his
only chance of surviving being that damned feather he needs to either save his
soul or rescue his beloved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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urban fantasy </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">(see The Dirty Streets of Heaven) <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is a fabulous satire as this time the angel
advocate learns first hand that Heaven and Hell are identical twins when it
comes to incompetence, immorality and intolerance. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sleeping Late On Judgment Day is a tremendous spoof</span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-12835684307721448882014-09-10T12:03:00.002-07:002014-09-10T12:03:31.998-07:00Dinosaurs & A Dirigible-David Drake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Baen, Sep 2 2014, $14.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">This anthology contains reprints of the fun four Henry Vickers
(first time together) time traveling dinosaur era hunter novellas (King Tyrant
Lizard, Calibration Run, Time Safari and Boundary Layer) and a fifth fine but
filler entry (<span style="background: white;">Travelers) in which he does not
appear in the dirigible. </span>The
Vickers sagas take readers to the predatory prehistoric era as the safari guide
learns first hand who The Most Dangerous Game (<span style="background: white;">Richard
Connell)</span> in history is while hunting dinosaurs and in one case hominid. The non-Vickers addition occurs in 1897 when
two teen Travellers have adventures crossing the United States in an <span style="background: white;">airship captained by a seemingly eccentric
genius. </span><cite>Dinosaurs & A Dirigible is a
delightful read.<o:p></o:p></cite></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-67470554948347878262014-09-09T12:05:00.001-07:002014-09-09T12:05:23.311-07:00Fortunes of the Imperium-Jody Lynn Nye <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Taino, after losing his driver’s license due to accepting a
foolish dare from his cousin, Core Worlds Lieutenant Lord <span style="background: white;">Thomas Innes Loche Kinago </span>learns from his aide-de-camp
Commander Parsons that his irate mother has a special punishment for his shaming
the dignity of the fleet. Thus Thomas
prepares for a diplomatic mission into the Autocracy of the Uctu sector where
he is to learn why shippers are being held and delayed in that region. However, his hidden agenda is to end the
smuggling of contraband including weapons into Uctu space; as nine vessels recently
were caught with illegal shipments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">To Thomas’ dismay, his cousin Jil joins him due to personal
reasons involving a need to leave Taino for a while. When Thomas and Visoltia the Autocrat meet,
she likes the Core World officer for his upbeat energy and kindness, and amused
by his <span style="background: white;">ego greater than Uctu space; he </span>is
not the usual simpering diplomat she typically encounters. Still as is his personality, Thomas distracts
easily; leaving it to Parsons to keep him as usual focused on the mission; especially
since most likely someone high up in the Autocracy runs the smuggling gamut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The latest amusing Imperium science fiction (see The View From The
Imperium) is a lighthearted <span style="background: white;">outer space
adventure due to the Jeeves-Wooster hyperbolic characterizations of the lead
pair as they struggle with understanding an alien sentient lizard
populace. Although the storyline remains
a one act joke with too much sidebar focus on Thomas’ latest distraction, this
jocular novel is fun due to the antics of this aristocratic superego playing
the roles of diplomat and undercover agent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-21326667415024665612014-09-08T12:14:00.002-07:002014-09-08T12:14:56.417-07:00The Winter Long-Seanan McGuire <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Muir Woods, King of Cats Tybalt coaxes Sir Toby Daye to attend
the first kingdom-wide Yule Ball since Gilead’s murder. Adhering to protocol, Toby pays her respect
to her liege Duke Sylvester Torquil. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the door of her Victorian. Only after
she allows her surprising visitor to enter does Toby realize her guest is not
her liege as Sylvester smells like dogwood flower and daffodil while his
lookalike’s odor is that of smoke and rotten oranges. Her personal bogeyman Simon has returned
stunning her with his claim to have saved October’s life when he changed her
into a fish. Astonished by this
revelation and other Simon assertions, Toby relooks at what she believed were
indisputable facts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The latest October Daye urban fantasy <span style="background: white;">is a stunner as </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Seanan
McGuire</span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> shakes up her universe with a Big Bang that takes
us fans and the heroine out of our comfort zones after seven previous entries
(see Ashes of Honor and Chimes at
Midnight). The shocked Daye obsessively
soul searches needing to believe as John said: “…<em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the truth will set you free</span></em>” but hopes not by
killing her or driving her insane. This
is a fantastic spin to a fabulous saga.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-16510109098279487432014-09-07T12:15:00.001-07:002014-09-07T12:15:15.972-07:00Wood Sprites-Wen Spencer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In New York City, twins Louise Georgina and
Jillian Eloise Mayer are fifth graders at the Perelman School for the Gifted;
while they also own and run Lemon Lime Jel-Lo creating satirical elven
animations. An explosion in the studio
disrupts their latest project leaving them in the hospital. To their astonishment, the two patients learn
their blood type is AB; while their parents (George and Mackenzie) are O. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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they came from fertilized eggs. Further
research leads the sisters to learn they are hybrids with human and elven
blood; who their surrogate mother and biological parents are; and the existence
of four other eggs soon to be destroyed.
Louise and Eloise decide to identify whose specific DNA flows inside
them and to save the eggs while working on a school play; but unaware their
efforts place them in the middle of a cross-species conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The 4<sup>th</sup>
Elfhome young adult fantasy (see </span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tinker, Wolf Who Rules and Elfhome) contains </span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">plenty of science fiction in the
mix while also </span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">allowing Tinker a
respite as the focus turns to her younger brilliant sisters who provide a
tweener perspective to recent events. Fast-paced
from the opening explosion to the final explosive confrontation, series fans
will appreciate this entry in spite of little new happening; as all the twins
want are to learn more about their roots, save their unborn siblings, produce
their next film and perform in the school play; others have different plans for
the pair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-9852870950977254032014-09-06T12:54:00.002-07:002014-09-06T12:54:18.806-07:00Spells At The Crossroads-Barbara Ashford <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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job and the ceiling plaster in her New York apartment caving in, Maggie Graham escapes
to Vermont. When she learns of summer
stock roles performing at the Crossroads Theatre in a barn just outside Dale,
Maggie auditions and is stunned when she obtains roles in three shows. Maggie finds the troupe odd yet endearing;
but most disturbing is director Rowan Mackenzie. He never seems to leave the theater and somehow
casts a person in roles they need to perform on stage and in life rather than
what they planned on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Spellcrossed.” Still i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">n Vermont, Maggie replaced
Rowan Mackenzie as director of the non-profit Crossroads Theatre. The summer stock season has been difficult on
her because of the cast. The obnoxious professionals
scorn Maggie and are nasty towards the bewildered amateurs; while the children
act like an out of control horde. She
considers using the magic she found at the converted old barn, but knows her
first mission is selling tickets if she wants to get her boss out of her
theater. However, ignoring the magic
proves an unviable option when she finds herself drawn into a past personal
mystery that needs resolution before the first curtain call. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">This reprint of the opening two Graham Green Mountain State acts
stars a mesmerizing individual who casts a charm spell on readers; as magical
Maggie keeps these wonderful whimsical witty works focused. The theater’s otherworldly elements heal the
lead first on stage and second as the field general director while subtly
enhancing this second chance at making dreams real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harriet Klausnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737192992257674872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797023978105499615.post-54101087979753862682014-09-05T11:58:00.003-07:002014-09-05T11:58:45.181-07:00Immortal Obsession-Linda Thomas-Sundstrom <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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story about the missing Yale Four, but also has a personal agenda. She searches for her younger by a minute
brother Stewart, a well-regarded Floridian attorney, who recently disappeared in
London while she thought insanely investigating vampires. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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St. John struggles to keep the inane mortals like Madison safe from the foolish
fangs and especially from the Shades. When
they meet at a club, he is stunned by his desire for the forbidden human. As she forces their teaming by his need to
prevent an internationally known risk-taking journalist dying or vanishing,
Madison wonders if her knight with shining fangs will bite her or be her
Protector.<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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urban fantasy</span> (see Guardian Of The Knight and Golden Vampire) is a tense
tale of London swinging with dangerous supernatural abound. Although Christopher seems too similar to his
knightly predecessors, the subgenre fans will root for courageous Madison to
succeed with her endeavor while like the heroine wondering what happened to her
twin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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before civilization imploded. Interpreting
his programming to keep people safe in spite of themselves, over the centuries
Zentrum using its devout supporters controlled change to insure the planet
remained in Stasis; ergo avoid repeating the great collapse. However, the intellectual and brave
periodically push the envelope so far before Zentrum reacts by releasing the
terrorist Blood Winds barbarian horde to cleanse and purify society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Encouraged by those two entities (the ancient legend of planet
Bellevue General Raj Whitehall and Bellevue’s supercomputer Center) who made
him their Chosen by sharing his brain; Major Abel Dashian understands that
Zentrum must die as the first step to free his people. However, even with a military legend and a
supercomputer advising him from within his mind, Dashian has doubts about
killing a super god seems impossible and if by a miracle successful, he still
must lead his docile people against the gory warriors of the Blood Winds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The well written 10th David Drake General (and 2<sup>nd</sup>
collaborated with Tony Daniel) military science fiction is a gripping action-packed
sequel in which the audience should read The Heretic first to learn how a small
boy became the rebel leader. The “triad”
is well conceived, but the improbable fighting skills and non-blinking acceptance
of advance technology by Dashien’s supporters seem over the top of <span style="background: white;">Olympus Mons</span> (think of the boomer horde original
misadjusting to the initial spread of 1980s desktops) though very entertaining.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 1870s Clichy, France, fifteen year old Verity
Van Velde the witch witnesses as her mother Amandine, betrayed by her witch
hunter lover, screaming in pain while a mob rejoices her burning at the
stakes. A century and a half later residing
in Paris, Verity still distrusts males. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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knight Rook to end the murderous spree of the Zmaj tribe and their leader
Slater; who recently turned rogue with many marked kills that have brought
unwanted attention to the secretive vampires.
When four vampires attack Verity,
Rook intercedes and rescues her. As they
work together to end the killing spree, the vampire knight and the witch fall
in love; but she distrusts all males after watching her mom’s horrifying death
and he fears that undesirable feeling after what happened centuries ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The second In The Company of Vampires romantic
urban fantasy is a thrilling Parisian tale that provides readers with a unique
glimpse of the City of Lights. The
protagonists are a nice pairing of cross paranormal species who share in common
love and doubts, which make their relationship somewhat similar to the stars of
the equally engaging The Vampire Hunter.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Survival.” </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the far distant future,
humanity begins to reclaim the earth and at the same time joins the
Interspecies Union. Brymn the gigantic blue
Dhryn arrives to warn earthlings that the hostile Ro armada plans for their genocide;
humanity’s only survival hope is Norcoast Salmon Research Facility
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Migration.” </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Trusting Brymn, Mac travels
to his home world where to her horror he and his race transform into feeders,
devouring every planet that is in their path. Back on Earth, Mac wants to
forget the revulsion she witnessed. Unfortunately
she is the only one who can read and speak Dhryn; so the Interspecies Union
needs her to learn why a staunch ally turned into carnivorous predatory
adversary. Mac’s salmon migration
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Regeneration.” </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mac believes that the Ro somehow
changed the Dhryn into a biological weapon of planetary mass destruction. She knows the Ro live in a dimension beyond
ours, but believes the means to save the Dhryn and bring the Ro to
intergalactic justice may be found on destroyed Myriam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">This Species Imperative omnibus reprinting brings together the brilliant
trilogy that focuses on sentient races allied for political, economic, and cultural
reasons, and now a common enemy. Mac is
a superb heroine, but it is the incredible world building with intricately
drawn species that make for a fantastic dark futuristic outer space series.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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