Quote:
Originally Posted by phenomshel
I absolutely ADORE Jana Deleon's Mudbug series.
|
Oops. At least I didn't mangle the author's name
too badly. Only one extra letter and space this time.
But yeah, they're nice light wacky fun.
Finished
R.A. MacAvoy's
Twisting the Rope, which is the sort of urban fantasy that's so low-key about the fantasy elements (you wouldn't really know there were much of any at all, if it weren't for the vague allusions to a particular character's nature which was not so much explained as glossed over in a previous book) that it could have almost equally as well have been a slightly quirky cozy amateur sleuth story in the mystery section.
I quite liked it. Mild recommend if you like this style of novel (stronger if you enjoyed the previous in series).
Also finished
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's
Blood Games, which was a very definite historical vampire revenge story. It follows political maneuvering from Nero through Vespasian, or maybe Domitian, as basically a sort of excuse to explain how one particular character became a vampire. I'm not sure if this was written specifically as that character's backstory, or it's just coincidental and this was meant to be What I Did During My Imperial Roman Phase part of Saint-Germain's life (Didn't Eat… Bread, Watched Circuses, Oh and By the Way I Made Another of Our Kind).
In any case, entertaining enough writing (book was a bit long at 7000 locations and occasionally felt drawn out), good use of historical setting/detail/personages, interesting part-epistolary effect with correspondence relating certain exposition; villain could have used killing some 2000 locations sooner, though.
Now on
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (occasional Anne McCaffrey co-writer)'s solo fantasy novel
Song of Sorcery, another one of my recent Fictionwise MultiFormat buys.
So far, it's been a rather pleasant light-hearted tale of chance thrown-together boon companions (or however it goes) on a quest to find a missing sister who'd been bespelled away by a sorcerous rival. It's got a witch, a bard, and the requisite talking animal companion (though only the witch can understand him) having interesting adventures along the journey, in a low key rather than grand epic way.