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Nicolae : The Rise of Antichrist (Left Behind #3) Review

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Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins is a book were Nicolae Carpathia becomes the focus and will consolidate his power. Steele and Williams try to protect their families and the Tribulation Force right in the midst of global war.

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Nicolae : The Rise of Antichrist (Left Behind #3) Overview

This is the abridged audio version of Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’ apocalyptic thriller that represents events that millions believe will actually occur. It is a novel of the unfolding of biblical prophecy in the last days of the history of the world.

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Antichrist. The very word send shivers through us. And Nicolae Carpathia certainly does not disappoint as Antichrist. Nicolae is the third book in Left Behind series written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, and is preceded by book one, Left Behind, and book two, Tribulation Force.

Nicolae Carpathia becomes the focus as he continues to consolidate his power, unifying political states (”Global Community”), media (”Global Community Network,” “Global Weekly”), and religions (”Enigma Babylon One World Faith”) under a Nicolae-appointed supreme pontiff. Nicolae himself is grand potentate of the global community.

Our heroes, pilot Rayford Steele and journalist Buck Williams, along with the rest of the Tribulation Force, continue their struggle to survive and protect their families in the midst of global war and destruction. They have come to recognize Nicolae Carpathia to be the Antichrist prophesied in the Bible, and to them it comes as no great revelation that this man, who presented himself as a charming and benevolent leader, has been unmasked as a ruthless and cruel tyrant, manipulating people and events to serve his own ends. And his ends are undoubtedly evil.

It becomes apparent that the chaos and turmoil created by Nicolae are the fulfillment of John’s prophesy of the seven seals as recorded in the book of Revelation. And it becomes also apparent they are now facing the sixth seal, a great earthquake which is sometimes called “the wrath of the lamb.” This upheaval of the earth, with its accompanying death and destruction, is familiar apocalyptic imagery: a blood-red moon, a sun turned black, and the stars falling from the sky. And the Tribulation Force discovers that these incredible descriptions turn out to be not so very far from the truth.

Who survives? How? What does Nicolae have in mind for the world? Readers of the first two books should not be disappointed with this third installment to this chilling tale.

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And Another Thing… Review

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When I read, years before this book’s publication, that Douglas Adams’s wife had chosen Eoin Colfer to write a new, and sixth, Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book, I had the strong feeling that Adams’s literary legacy, especially with regards to the Hitch-Hiker’s books, should be left alone. Surely no one else could write with the creativity run amok that was Douglas Adams’s trademark? Could anyone else blend the profound and the preposterous, the scientific and the silly, the poignant and the playful like Douglas Adams? The answer is…yes and no. For the first hundred pages of the book, I felt that Colfer was trying too hard to write like a Douglas Adams clone, and not succeeding. Thick and fast were his attempts at humour, but they rarely hit the spot. Then something changed: it was as if Colfer relaxed and got into his groove, writing using his own voice instead of attempting to channel Douglas Adams. From that point on, I enjoyed the book infinitely more.
The story really comes into its own when Thor (yes, the Norse Thunder-God) is introduced into proceedings. There are points at which the plotline smacks of Tom Holt’s ‘Valhalla’. Plagiaristic? Not quite. Derivative? Definitely. Ideas, however, have to come from somewhere, and the arrival of Nordic deities in the already-insane Universe created by Douglas Adams drags the story up by its bootstraps. Colfer writes dialogue well; conversations are funny and believable, and the familiar figures remain true to their characters, although Arthur’s speech seems less quintessentially English than in earlier books, perhaps the result of being written by an Irish writer rather than the Englishman that was Douglas Adams. In the final fifty pages, Colfer really hits his stride, writing with fearless confidence and beautiful descriptive power. He didn’t create the Hitch-Hiker Universe, but he stepped into it and did a good job of making it his own. If the whole book had been as well-written as the closing pages, I’d have given it a five-star review. As it stands, the book was good enough to merit a second read.
Eoin Colfer took on a momentous challenge: trying to fill the literary shoes of Douglas Adams. When Colfer writes in his authentic voice, rather than trying to emulate Douglas Adams, his writing has a beautiful flow of energy, and literary flourishes that lend themselves to repeated re-readings.
Before reading this book, part of me wanted to dislike it, as I felt that to enjoy it would be on some level disloyal to Douglas Adams. I have changed that view now. Wherever his soul is in this Universe, I suspect Douglas Adams is looking down on ‘And Another Thing’ and smiling.

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An Englishman’s continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea . . .

Arthur Dent’s accidental association with that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, has not been entirely without incident.

Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward through time. He has been blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released, and colorfully insulted more than is strictly necessary. And of course Arthur Dent has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

Arthur has finally made it home to Earth, but that does not mean he has escaped his fate.

Arthur’s chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa have evaporated rapidly, along with all the world’s oceans. For no sooner has he touched down on the planet Earth than he finds out that it is about to be blown up . . . again.

And Another Thing . . . is the rather unexpected, but very welcome, sixth installment of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone’s favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese.

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Tempting Evil (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 3) Review

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I have read all of the popular, and many not so popular, series in urban fantasy and Riley Jensen is my favorite heroine. It took me a long time to decide to read the first book of the series because the favorite reviews are poor. I usually rely on fellow fans and their reviews to pick a series to read, but after how they really let me down with this series I don’t trust reviews anymore. For example the most popular reviewer in book 1 is…

“113 of 133 people found the following review helpful:2.0 out of 5 stars Meh. Disappointing., May 9, 2006 By Circejane (Michigan) – This review is from: Full Moon Rising (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 1) (Hardcover) As an avid Kim Harrison fan, I read this book when she recommended it on her website. Her other recommendation, Moon Called by Patricia Briggs, was an excellent read, so I dug into Full Moon Rising with high hopes, but was disappointed.”

Who is this Circejane and why are 113 people listening to her????!!!! She is so far off the mark that I question her taste in books, especially in Urban Fantasy. And, the reviews for book 3 are more accurate, but there are still too many that sell this series short!!! I am also a big fan of Patricia Briggs and Kim Harrison, and this series by Keri Arthur more than measures up to the series by those authors. I also love Karen Chance, Lara Adrian, Charlaine Harris, Jeaniene Frost, J.R. Ward (earlier BDB) Kresley Cole,… so Riley Jensen’s place as my favorite Heroine means she is one kick ***, entertaining, and well written character.

If you do not thoroughly enjoy each and every Riley Jensen book from 1 to 8 and can’t wait for the next, then you obviously don’t like urban fantasy. The world building, plots, characters, dialogue, and especially the character of Riley made this series un-put-down-able!!!! It is truly impressive that there are 8 books and each is better than the last. The character devlopment is great, and unlike some authors (like J.R. Ward) Keri Arthur does not make any drastic or odd changes that kill the series for the fans. I read the 8th novel right after it came out in April 2009 and have read tons of books since then. That it is Feburary 2010 and I am still excited for the 9th novel, and this series is still my favorite, should tell you to read this series.

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Tempting Evil (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 3) Overview

In a world of sorcery and seduction, the nights bring out the beautiful, the damned, and the desired. Here, Riley Jenson is on her own–half werewolf, half vampire, working for an organization created to police the supernatural races. Trusting her superiors and lovers barely more than she trusts her worst enemies, Riley plays by her own set of rules. Her latest mission: to enter the heavily guarded pleasure palace of a criminal named Deshon Starr–a madman-scientist who’s been messing around in the gene pool for decades.

With two sexy men–a cool, seductive vampire and an irresistibly hot wolf–vying for her attention, Riley must keep focused. Because saving the world from Deshon Starr will mean saving herself–from the trap that’s closing in around her. . . .

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Halo: Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe Review

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This collection of short stories is a phenomenal addition to the Halo stories so far. The stories are all well written and if you’re a fan of the series you will easily feel deeply intertwined w/ the characters and their stories. I really liked the stories that added specific details to the game and book existing stories.

My favorite story of them all was the Mona Lisa. It was well written and pure suspense from the time the team comes aboard. This is a MUST read for anyone following the book series.

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Use of Weapons Review

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Ingenious. Melancholy yet consistently funny. Thought-provoking. Had enough yet?

I really shouldn’t review this book. Bad idea. How can I criticize something that comes as close to perfection as I dare hope for in this imperfect world? So excuse me if what follows seems more of a love-in than an objective critique. If it will make you feel better, I promise to be rude about J.D. Salinger or make jokes about Kurt Vonnegut. The pinheads.

I love “Use of Weapons” as a science fiction novel that isn’t about science fiction. Oh, for sure, it takes place in Mr Banks’s “Culture” universe, first introduced in “Consider Phlebas”, a galactic society with technology so mind-bogglingly advanced that everyone has everything they could wish for, except for a sense of purpose. But the book isn’t about the Culture. Instead, it’s about people, or rather one man in particular, a man called Cheradenine Zakalwe, and his purpose is quite clear. To quote, “the need was obvious: to defeat that which opposed [his] life. The method was that taking and bending of materials and peoples to one purpose … that talent, that ability, that use of weapons”.

As the title suggests then, the book struggles with questions of ends and means, and the justifications we require to bridge the two. Zakalwe is a mercenary in the service of the Culture, tasked with intervening in the wars of less-developed civilizations in order to steer them towards becoming kinder, gentler, more Culture-like people. He is also a very troubled man, haunted by a horrific event in his past. The title works on two levels then; it questions how societies that consider themselves moral and just rationalize the use of sometimes ruthless means to make others so too, and on the personal level, how each person justifies their own existence.

There’s that philosophical edge, but this is no cerebral treatise. It is space opera with a point, Han Solo as Hamlet. Zakalwe is the classic Harrison Ford-fiqure, snarky humor and brash cynicism wrapped around a surprisingly vulnerable core. The structure compliments that message beautifully. It feels like sliding down the proverbial slippery slope, like riding on a bomb as it leaves the bay doors. The genius of the book is in the way Mr Banks shows us that moment, the point of impact.

We begin after the bomb. Zakalwe, scarred psychically, begins another mission for his paymasters in the Culture. From there, Mr Banks sends us blasting both forwards and backwards in time through Zakalwe’s life in alternating chapters — following the course of the mission on the one hand, and viewing progressively earlier and earlier episodes from Zakalwe’s career on the other. The two tales travel in opposite directions, but loop back together as we hurtle towards the inevitable detonation, the revelation of the dark secret in Zakalwe’s past.

The flashback chapters in particular are wonderfully inventive, and oddly moving. Zakalwe cycles through just about every activity mankind has found to excuse its existence, and finds them wanting; loyalty to a country (he is betrayed); love (it doesn’t last); art (it can’t hide ugliness); even drugs (they prove illusory). It’s almost a high-tech version of John Gardner’s “Grendel” in its quest for meaning. It’s Zakalwe’s rather sad realization that the struggle for life is all there is, that using weapons is its own justification, that lifts “Use of Weapons” from mere adventure store to top-tier literature.

Some may find the final revelation too melodramatic, too out of character for Zakalwe. Then again, some people don’t like Belgian beer, British luxury cars or “The Lion in Winter”. So hell with them.

What else can I say? “Use of Weapons” is beautifully written, dazzlingly original, haunting. Pure brilliance, really. OK, I’ll stop now.

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Use of Weapons Overview

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances’ foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.

The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.

The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman’s life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past.

Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, USE OF WEAPONS is a masterpiece of science fiction.

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Skeleton Crew (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Review

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First off, read “The Monkey”, especially if you have the paperback version that has the creepy monkey toy with the glowing eyes. Then you’ll understand something about Stephen King. I remember the immense gratitude that I felt as a teen when I first read this story. He too has shuddered at the sight of those googly eyed toy monkeys! What sadist manufactured these horrific objects? Nevermind, they exist, and now, thanks to Mr.King, they serve a greater purpose, to become themes and storylines of some of the most terrific and terrifying stories King ever wrote. These are some of his greatest masterpieces of shorts in this collection, and if critics generally dissaprove of King’s short stories I cannot imagine why. “The Mist” is one of his best works, and includes such psychological introspections of human reactions to unimaginable situations that one wonders exactly how much time he has devoted to picking apart the many varied personifications of humanity. In “The Mist” the story begins with a man and his young son, waving goodbye to the lovely but doomed wife and mother as they both go to the local grocery store. As this is happening a strange fog rolls over into the town, presumably from a secret government testing facility allegedly called The Arrowhead Project, of course the “project” being testing atomic particles and radioactive materials. No one yet knows the strange fog that rolled in during a thunderstorm carries within its bowels bizzarre, tentacled, flesh devouring creatures that can only be partially seen as they carry their victims back into the misty veils of death they crawled out of. Mayhem ensues as those trapped in the grocery store reveal their true character as all struggle to stay alive. Delicious and gruesome deaths occur as the beasts that never should have been, both outside and inside of the store, collide with each other, the instinctual inclination of both beast and man strugge each to survive. For those who saw the movie, get thee to a time travel device and have it so that you never did! The ending of the movie is so far removed from the ending of the story that it completely changes the nature of the tale. “The Raft” is a great one, notching out a sordid tale of college kids stranded on a creaky raft on a lake trying not to be consumed by the oily but seductive black creature that (you guessed it!) dissolves flesh right off the bone, eating them alive one by one, think “rolled roast of beef” and you’re starting to get the picture. This tale is particularly gory yet irresistible as the creature become more and more inventive as it tries to get the kids off the raft and into its amoeba-like body. One of the unluckiest guys gets sucked through a half inch crack between the rotting wood of the raft, as the soon to be also eaten watch in horror. Then, God knows why, the two remainig couple decide that it might be a good idea to lie down and have sex, I guess watching your two best friends skin dissolve as they scream in agony would get anyone in the mood, and the ever increasing appetite of the oily creature pulls down deadgirl#2 down by her face. The lone survivor is left, stranded and exhausted, unable to sit down as the thing under him waits…there was a film version of it somewhere where the last guy somehow makes it to shore and the black thing lunges out of the lake to pull him back in, but the readers of the original story know better.
If you loved science fiction as a child, “The Jaunt” is a hearty tale of the consequences of breaking the rules of nature, a theme that runs throughout the book’s series of ever increasingly perplexing situations. Several bouts of malevolent poetry, better left to Tabitha his wife, interrupt the rest of the horrific tales, including my ever favorite story of precious “Gramma”, a demented and senile old woman who happens to be a powerful witch in the throes of death. Little George is left alone in an isolated house with an old lady with an agenda, that is to remain alive, however and whatever form she can. Survival and desperation seep through the entire series of seemingly unconnected stories, but as a whole, the book remains of the most cohesive collections of stories King ever wrote, some of the stories dating back to his own teenage writing years. You can sense the evolution of his writing as the stories progress, King explains in the forward that some of these stories date back to the beginning of his career as a writer. These are the “hungry” Stephen King stories, as opposed to the slower paced and more opulent writing of his later years. They are less refined, more frenetic, and even a bit juvenile in nature, but the intensity of his work is at its peak in this staple of horror enthusiasts. This is King at his rawest, least refined nature. It is harsh, brutal, and entirely delicious.

Skeleton Crew (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Overview

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of horror tales.

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In the introduction to Skeleton Crew (1985), his second collection of stories, King pokes fun at his penchant for “literary elephantiasis,” makes scatological jokes about his muse, confesses how much money he makes (gross and net), and tells a story about getting arrested one time when he was “suffused with the sort of towering, righteous rage that only drunk undergraduates can feel.” He winds up with an invitation to a scary voyage: “Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way.”

And he sure does. Skeleton Crew contains a superb short novel (”The Mist”) that alone is worth the price of admission, plus two forgettable poems and 20 short stories on such themes as an evil toy monkey, a human-eating water slick, a machine that avenges murder, and unnatural creatures that inhabit the thick woods near Castle Rock, Maine. The short tales range from simply enjoyable to surprisingly good.

In addition to “The Mist,” the real standout is “The Reach,” a beautifully subtle story about a great-grandmother who was born on a small island off the coast of Maine and has lived there her whole life. She has never been across “the Reach,” the body of water between island and mainland. This is the story that King fans give to their friends who don’t read horror in order to show them how literate, how charming a storyteller he can be. Don’t miss it. –Fiona Webster

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The Darkest Kiss (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 6) Review

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I have read all of the popular, and many not so popular, series in urban fantasy and Riley Jensen is my favorite heroine. It took me a long time to decide to read the first book of the series because the favorite reviews are poor. I usually rely on fellow fans and their reviews to pick a series to read, but after how they really let me down with this series I don’t trust reviews anymore. For example the most popular reviewer is…

“113 of 133 people found the following review helpful:2.0 out of 5 stars Meh. Disappointing., May 9, 2006 By Circejane (Michigan) – This review is from: Full Moon Rising (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 1) (Hardcover) As an avid Kim Harrison fan, I read this book when she recommended it on her website. Her other recommendation, Moon Called by Patricia Briggs, was an excellent read, so I dug into Full Moon Rising with high hopes, but was disappointed.”

Who is this Circejane and why are 113 people listening to her????!!!! She is so far off the mark that I question her taste in books, especially in Urban Fantasy. I am also a big fan of Patricia Briggs and Kim Harrison, and this series by Keri Arthur more than measures up to the series by those authors. I also love Karen Chance, Lara Adrian, Charlaine Harris, Jeaniene Frost, J.R. Ward (earlier BDB) Kresley Cole,… so Riley Jensen’s place as my favorite Heroine means she is one kick ***, entertaining, and well written character.

If you do not thoroughly enjoy each and every Riley Jensen book from 1 to 8 and can’t wait for the next, then you obviously don’t like urban fantasy. The world building, plots, characters, dialogue, and especially the character of Riley made this series un-put-down-able!!!! It is truly impressive that there are 8 books and each is better than the last. The character devlopment is great, and unlike some authors (like J.R. Ward) Keri Arthur does not make any drastic or odd changes that kill the series for the fans. I read the 8th novel right after it came out in April 2009 and have read tons of books since then. That it is Feburary 2010 and I am still excited for the 9th novel, and this series is still my favorite, should tell you to read this series.

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Danger turns her on.
Desire turns her dangerous…

Riley Jenson hunts evildoers—and does it with a style all her own. With vamp blood coursing her through her veins, and a werewolf’s uncanny instinct for danger, Riley wears snakeskin stilettos and pure, in-your-face attitude when she plunges into her latest case: hunting down a killer whose victims are high-society strumpets—and the rich and powerful men they’ve dated.

But for Riley, the case takes a chilling turn when a second killer starts trailing mutilated bodies of his own: a crazed young vamp choosing victims from a past marked by tragedy. Riley knows she’s got the skill and cunning to catch two serial killers at once…until one of them strikes inside her own tight-knit clan—and a sexy beast of a vampire reenters her life to aid in the hunt. His name is Quinn. He’s lived forever, shed blood, and shared pleasure…and he’s the only man over whom Riley has absolutely no control….

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Coyote’s Mate (Coyote Breeds, Book 6) Review

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I’ve read nearly all of Leigh’s Breed books (of course I managed to do it out of order), but this one seems to be set apart from the rest in terms of its tone, perhaps because of the difference in the other breeds and the Coyotes, who were all raised to believe they had no souls.

Quick synopsis: Anya has been working with Coyote Ghost Del-Rey Delgado to free the captive Breeds where she works in a Russian lab. Flash forward 6 years, with the final group of Breeds ready to be rescued and Anya makes Delgado promise her family that works at the lab won’t be hurt. Of course, he lies and shoots them, not fatally. Knowing they’re mates and wanting less than nothing to do with Delgado, Anya petitions the Breed Grand Poo-bahs to grant her a year’s reprieve before she has to go to him. Flash forward another 8 months, Delgado’s back from his latest mission and sick of waiting for his mate. They fight, they have sex, they fight, they have sex. In his absence, Anya’s managed to whip the lazy Coyotes into shape, something that ticks Delgado off for some convoluted reason. That all leads to the best part of the book, so I won’t spoil the rest.

I can’t say I didn’t enjoy Coyote’s Mate, because I did. But sometimes Delgado was downright unpleasant to Anya, whether it was caused by his general stupidity about wanting to do the right thing but managing to do the wrong thing anyway. Maybe that’s the reason I didn’t find him as sexy as any of the other Breeds. I got why Anya loved him, but he just left me feeling a little lukewarm until the final three or four chapters. That isn’t to say the sex wasn’t scorching, and yes, Leigh is back to her backdoor fun (after what I’d hoped was the end (ha ha) to it with Mercury’s War (Breeds, Book 16)), but for reasons that aren’t apparent until the end of the book, these two were emotional ships passing in the night except when they were going at it.

The final third of the book is really the reason I gave this one four stars instead of three, and if there were half stars, I’d have given it four and a half. Yes, I cry at Hallmark commercials sometimes, but Delgado’s insane treatment of Anya that triggers the finale had me go through half a box of Kleenex. I’ve gotten a little teary at the ends of most of the Breed books, but this one was off the charts on the sob factor.

Possibly because this is one of the most recent Breed books and Leigh was running out of stereotypical Alphas and their feisty women, it seems that this story is more thoughtful, conflicted and emotionally tugging than the others. So, despite me rolling my eyes at some of the idiotic antics of Delgado, I do recommend this one and rank it only behind Mercury’s War and Elizabeth’s Wolf. The supporting characters here are wonderful, the relationship between Anya and her friends/guards, beautiful.

There are 21 books in the Breeds series, which gets a little confusing when you have book one and felines one, etc. I recommend going to the author’s website (her name plus dot com) to get the right order.

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For six years Anya Korbin worked with Del-Rey Delgato—the genetically altered rebel known as the Coyote Ghost—to free a group of coyote women kept in her father’s lab. As Anya matured into a woman, she and Del-Rey grew close…but then he broke his promise and killed her father. Now she must deal with her animalistic desire for the one who betrayed her.

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Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changelings, Book 1) Review

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In the world of the Psy, perfection is absolute and anythinge else is punishable by death. Thus, the purpose of Perfect Silence was to ensure that the emotion to hate and be violent would be wholly removed. In doing so, all emotions were conditioned out of these once human Psy, and have become a race of highly advanced beings, both technologically and especially, mentally. It has rendered them impotent of basic feelings, like love or sadness, and have given them the cold and ruthless rigidity and stiffness that they have become to be known for. And disdained by all changeling groups that oppose their way of living.

In this ‘perfect’ world of the Psy, all its people are mentally linked in the PsyNet, a network of psychic energy and the individual auras that feeds others and themselves. They cannot live without the Net. Nor is it easy to hide whatever defect may lie within an individual member of the Psy.

The brutality, the rigid stiffness and efficiency that have marked the Psy is as real and frightening as Sascha Duncan knows it to be. She of all would know. Marked by night-sky eyes that designates her as a cardinal and high-ranking Psy, she has been hiding something that could get her killed: she is defective, in the most essential way. As in, the emotions that should not be there, are not only fully functional since birth, but none of the conditioning has helped her become more Psy. If any, it allowed her to build incredibly powerful mental shields to protect her flaw, and the fact that, being the daughter of a ruthless and powerful Council, Nikita, she will never live up to her genetics. An no one knows why but Sascha.

When given the charge of a multi-million dollar deal with a changeling race, DarkRiver, Sascha comes into contact with the lead project, man and alpha, Lucas Hunter. A cat as his form, and as a powerful alpha, he can sense the differences that mark Sascha as someone not quite Psy, even as the appearance of it confuses him. But Lucas’ goal isn’t to woo, but to sniff out a Psy killer, unmercifully murdering young changling women. Not just DarkRiver, but other groups, like his werewolf ally, the SnowDancers.

What is shocking is the fact of their instant attraction, which both try to rationalize and dismiss, only to bring them closer to both their truths. More contact triggers more mental breakdowns by Sascha that leaves her petrified and paranoid. Only Lucas’ stability and his uncanny sense of understanding her, does she find some peace. But how can a Psy woman be trusted? And how can an alpha leopard learn that he may have no choice but to trust Sascha, and pray she won’t betray him, or his pack? These are the questions that swirl around them and between them, even as they succumb to their emotions and growing attachments. Even as Sascha finally begins to believe in Life, not pure existence and the lies of her own people, she begins to open up, not just to love but understanding, and the joys and pleasures of feeling and emotions. Just as they’ve discovered themselves, Lucas might loose the one woman he’s ever loved, to the terrors of the PsyNet, and the killer that hunts them all.

Singh packs a heavy punch in this first in the Psy-Changeling series. The characters, from the primary to the secondary, are well developed and tangible. You really see them as real people, not contrived or artificial, but with hurts and pains that aren’t any more terrible than someone you would know in real life. Life and emotion is the heart of this book, and the meaningful discovery of it by all the characters.

The plot itself is well written, and especially the world of the Psy and changeling interactions. Strange enough but close to home. She’s also consistent in her renderings and had a wonderful and well worked out Psy and changeling philosophies as well as the workings of psychic ability and the PsyNet. There was a lot of care and attention to those finer details without too much overtaxing of the mechanics. However, the one quip I have was that there was a lot of repetition in terms of describing how Sascha and Lucas felt, certain re-telling of events but not enough to put me off. There were a few places soly dedicated to Sascha’s emotional development and realizations, that at first, I wanted to say was unnecessary, but as you got to the end, I realized that without bits of it, her later actions and beliefs in doing them would have felt empty. However, it does drag in parts, saying in a few sentences and lengthening much longer than necessary.

This is a very dense read and not something you’ll read in one pull. It’s is not the sugar-coated versions, but has a lot of emotional and psychological weight that most romances are missing–which makes this book unique. Singh is a nice change from the usual paranormal/romance/fantasy that’s out there being a little bit sci-fi and paranormal with romance and sexy scenes, but addresses deeper issues about relationships and male-female POVs. I think you’ll enjoy this book well after you’ve read it, it sure has with me.

Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changelings, Book 1) Feature

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Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changelings, Book 1) Overview

In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of “rehabilitation”- the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was….

Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a Changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy co-existence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several Changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion-and that the animal in him is fascinated by her. Caught between their conflicting worlds, Lucas and Sascha must remain bound to their identities-or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation…

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A very fun, imaginative book, that is easy to read in just a few sessions. The writing is excellent, and it is easy to get swept along in the story. My complaint is that it isn’t a very complex novel. It is very linear, has no subplot, and it feels as if some characters or ideas were introduced, but not ever explored by the end of the novel. A fun urban fantasy, but not much more than that.

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Neverwhere: A Novel Overview

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.

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Neverwhere’s protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but Neil Gaiman’s humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from Paradise Lost to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore. –Nona Vero

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