Shouting from the Shelftops #20

Shouting from the Shelftops is a bimonthly(-ish) feature to gush over book news that come to my attention, to celebrate good news amidst whatever the year is delivering to you. The basic mood for these posts is just Enthusiastic Screaming™. Naomi Novik has a new trilogy! Novik is writing a series, A Deadly Education, which is …

Review: The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars Supernatural superhero Rachel Morgan must counter a strange magic that could spell civil war for the Hollows in this sexy and bewitching urban fantasy adventure in acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison's Hollows series. Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has …

Review: Ever After by Kim Harrison

Ever After by Kim Harrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars The ever after, the demonic realm that parallels the human world, is shrinking. If it disappears completely, so does all magic. It's up to witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan to avert catastrophe and keep life from changing... for the worse. While saving the world is important, …

Review: Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond by Kim Harrison

Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond by Kim Harrison My rating: 4 of 5 stars Enter the Woods...If You Dare For centuries, the woods have been a pivotal part of the wonder and danger of fairy tales, for once you enter anything can happen. Elves, druids, fairies - who knows what you …

Review: A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison My rating: 4 of 5 stars Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the I.S. and FIB, former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth: a human hate group is trying to create …

Review: Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

Pale Demon by Kim Harrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars Condemned and shunned for black magic,Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witches’ conference and clear her name, or be trapped in the demonic ever-after . . . forever after. But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, and a pixy …

Review: Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison My rating: 4 of 5 stars Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter - and lived to tell the tale. But she's never faced off against her own kind...until now. Denounced and shunned for dealing with …

Review: White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison My rating: 4 of 5 stars Some wounds take time to heal...and some scars never fade. Rachel Morgan, kick-ass witch and bounty hunter, has taken her fair share of hits, and has broken lines she swore she would never cross. But when her lover was murdered, it left …

Review: The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison My rating: 4 of 5 stars To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her. As Rachel searches for the truth behind a terrifying murder, an even greater menace …

Review: For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison

For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars A fiendish serial killer stalks the Hollows, and no one living in or around Cincinnati—human, inhuman, or undead—is safe. An ancient artifact may be the key to stopping the murderer—a mysterious relic that is now in the hands of Rachel Morgan, fearless …

Review: A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison My rating: 4 of 5 stars The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that …

Review: Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison

Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison My rating: 4 of 5 stars Some days, you just can't win. Witch and former bounty hunter Rachel Morgan's managed to escape her corrupt company, survive living with a vampire, start her own runner service, and face down a vampire master. But her vampire roommate Ivy is …

Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison

The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison My rating: 4 of 5 stars Former-bounty-hunter Rachel Morgan has it pretty good. She's left the corrupt Inderland Runner Service and started her own independent service. She's survived werewolves, shape-changing demons, bad-hair days, and sharing a church with her vampire roommate Ivy. She even has …

Review: Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars Rachel Morgan is a white witch and runner working for Inderland Security, in an alternate world where a bioengineered virus wiped out a great deal of the world's human population – exposing the existence of the supernatural communities that had long lived alongside …

Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books of 2017

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. We are nearly at the end of the year and you know what that means - Top 10 books! To be honest, this is a very difficult list to prepare - even …