reviews

Tremendous Fantasy Debut Author: Erika Johansen Full disclosure: I am not a fantasy fiction connoisseur. Not that I dislike it, but I haven’t read a lot. I seem to get bogged down by too many characters and bored with political intrigue in so-and-so’s medieval court. So it was with no small amount of trepidation that I dove into Erika Johansen’s first book in a fantasy trilogy, The Queen of the Tearling. I had nothing to fear, for this author’s debut novel blew me away. The Queen of the Tearling is the story of Kelsea. At the age of 19, she [...]

Do Two Wrongs Make a Right? Author: Sue Dent Bound together on a final mission, a vampire and a werewolf go in search of recovering their souls at the behest of an old, dying friend who long ago escaped her curse of vampirism through her unyielding faith.  Mixing lore with religion, Sue Dent brings a modern spin to the vampire/werewolf curse. The old familiar items of holy objects being repellent (including holy ground), wolf’s bane, silver, etc. are still there but new, enticing additions to the myth are what truly keeps readers turning pages and rooting for our cursed hero [...]