Broken Mirrors 15 – Tim Pratt
““Are you displaying curiosity, boss?” Crapsey said. “First you use healing magic, now you’re wondering about psychological motivations and shit. Are you going soft on me?” “No,” the Mason said....
View ArticleMagic Bleeds – Ilona Andrews
Magic Bleeds You wouldn’t think that a niece and her aunt trying to slaughter each other with lengthy pieces of sharp metal as painfully as possible would be funny. However, Andrews manages it. This is...
View ArticleBroken Mirrors 16 – Tim Pratt
““Jaguar!” she shouted. “This is the Mason! Call off your goons, unless you want me to chop them all into bone meal!” She kicked and spun, slashing with her dagger to drive back the other skeletons....
View ArticleBroken Mirrors 17 – Tim Pratt
““So what’s the Mason’s deal, exactly?” Nicolette said, retaking her seat. “She wants to exterminate all life?” Crapsey turned his chair upright and sat back down. “Nah. Not all life. Things that...
View ArticleBroken Mirrors 18 – Tim Pratt
“She approached the Jaguar’s body, which was already dwindling and decaying and slumping-in on itself. She knelt, peering at the wreckage, until she spied the seed at its heart, a carving of a jaguar...
View ArticleBroken Mirrors 19 – Tim Pratt
“But he wasn’t making any progress. Granger’s healing powers were profound, and the open wound filled with new flesh as quickly as Crapsey could bite, skin and fur regenerating as well. The trees...
View ArticleBroken Mirrors 20 – Tim Pratt
“Marla shrugged. “I keep you around for your optimism, Rondeau. At least we can imagine some kind of good outcome for him. What harm can it do? Next time I decide to rip apart space-time because I...
View ArticleBroken Mirrors 21 – Tim Pratt
“Marla nodded. “And let me guess. A little voice way down inside you whispered the word –” “‘Turn.’ And the cloak turned. To the purple. I killed Viscarro – well, his body. Truly killing him happened a...
View ArticleBroken Mirrors 22 – Tim Pratt
“Marla stared at him. “You’re the possible witch? What?” “Yeah. See, she has a job. An important job. A job she messed up really badly. And when she messed it up, she got fired, only when things like...
View ArticleBroken Mirrors 23 – Tim Pratt
““It’s a clusterfuck all right. Still, I’d rather fight my evil twin than deal with the council’s bitching.”” 3.5 out of 5 http://www.marlamason.net/mirrors/?p=404
View ArticleBroken Mirrors 24 – Tim Pratt
““I don’t even get a severance package?” The Chamberlain smiled icily. “We’ve decided not to sever your head from your body. That’s your severance package.”” 4 out of 5...
View ArticleThe Spy Who Haunted Me – Simon R. Green
More of the same for Shaman Bond as he kicks names and takes arses, or heads, or hearts, or whatever he needs to do. You have Philadelphia Experiments into Faerie, good old-fashioned Wildstorm style...
View ArticleWho Wants To Live Forever – Queen
No need to stress, someone will chop your head off sometime. 4.5 out of 5
View ArticleMidnight Kiss – 01 Fallen Fallen Part 1 of 6
Supernatural deal Jack of Spades. 3.5 out of 5 https://comics.comixology.com/#/issue/138/Midnight-Kiss-1
View ArticleThe Fuller Memorandum – Charles Stross
A continuation of the mashup of Spy Homage (this time to the Quiller series by Adam Hall) and Lovecraftian technogeekery. The usual sort of shenanigans, but getting bleaker as we discover who Bob’s...
View ArticleThe Tricks Of London – Elizabeth Bear
Abigail Irene has Spring Heeled Jack issues. 3.5 out of 5 http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/winter-2011/audio-the-tricks-of-london-by-elizabeth-bear/
View ArticleMagic Slays – Ilona Andrews
Magic Slays is also very good. Seems that being an oddball hybrids ends up with you becoming a dodgy low-rent PI. Roland’s Daughter’s Partner the Gunner also fits the description, and ends up working...
View ArticleMagic Slays Prologue – Ilona Andrews
“Magic had drained from the world and technology had once again gained the upper hand. People called it the Post-Shift resonance. Magic came and went as it pleased, flooding the world like a tsunami,...
View ArticleLittle Better Than A Beast – Tim Pratt
Of old Felport – and a crazy guy who thinks he was the original Chief Sorcerer decides to summon it. 3.5 out of 5
View ArticleGhost College – Scott Nicholson and J. R. Rain
First of the Ghost Files series apparently. A couple as ghosthunters. With the woman providing the paranormal power and the bloke the support. Fairly lighthearted for dealing with the dead as the pair...
View ArticleThe Curious Case Of The Moondawn Daffodils Murder – Garth Nix
Sympathetic magic and tentacles. 3.5 out of 5
View ArticleThe Damned Busters – Matthew Hughes
Matthew Hughes is one of the right people to write a wry, urbane deal with the devil type story. It is more entertaining than that, however. Here, our protagonist, thanks to his single-minded high...
View ArticleGrim Tides 01 Let Me Tell You a Story – Tim Pratt
““Aw, come on, like you said, you’re an occult detective now — ” “I’ve had two clients, Rondeau. Two.” “Sure, but one of them was a shark god.” “I’m not saying they weren’t quality clients. But helping...
View ArticleThe Devil’s Looking Glass Prologue – Mark Chadbourn
“A rhythmic rattling stirred him. Raising his eyes once more, he watched a strange figure cross the main deck. The sound came from trinkets and the skulls of mice and birds braided into his long gold...
View ArticleGrim Tides 02 Murder By the Sea – Tim Pratt
““Good thing I’m filthy rich. Especially since you’ve never had any customers, or sold a single book. Working in an invisible shop really cuts down on your walk-in trade. You could sell books on the...
View ArticleGrim Tides 03 A Conversation with Koona – Tim Pratt
Once he’d gotten rid of the surfers, Rondeau stepped into the office. “‘I don’t work for you, I work for me?’” He smiled. “You’ve been reading those Robert Parker novels about Spenser I gave you,...
View ArticleGrim Tides 04 A Visit From Death – Tim Pratt
““Ha,” Rondeau said. “Remember Bradley Bowman? How trying to bring him back to life caused all this trouble? Well, he didn’t come back to life, exactly, but he ended up ascending beyond the mortal...
View ArticleGrim Tides 05 The Bad Doctor – Tim Pratt
“The Mason did a great deal of damage on her rampage through this reality before Marla stopped her, but the only damage that concerns us just now is what happened to Dr. Husch: The Mason tore her to...
View ArticleGrim Tides 06 A Mother’s Love – Tim Pratt
“Huh.” Rondeau turned to Pelham. “So, if your mistress dies, what happens to you? Do you, like, crawl onto the funeral pyre? Or serve her in the afterlife like an unlucky Egyptian servant?” “The bond...
View ArticleGrim Tides 07 Death Makes An Offer – Tim Pratt
“Huh. So is this Ronin in the reincarnation queue?” “Oh, no. His spiritual inclinations lay in a different direction, and his afterlife is… rather more unique. I never cease to be amazed by the heavens...
View ArticleGrim Tides 08 Meet Elsie Jarrow – Tim Pratt
““Her name is Elsie Jarrow,” Dr. Husch said. “She is easily my most troubled patient.” Nicolette gave a long raspberry, spraying spittle. “Please. She’s so far beyond ordinary notions of sanity that...
View ArticleFathers and Sons – Ilona Andrews
Of beatings of and beatings by partners, a la Curran. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.ilona-andrews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Curran-POV-Vol-II.pdf
View ArticleCurran – Ilona Andrews
The bloke’s side of the story. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/18799
View ArticleGrim Tides 9 Seeing the World – Tim Pratt
““Oh, no, this is lovely,” Pelham said. “I suppose it might have made me anxious when I first left Felport… but since then I’ve driven the road of death in Bolivia, and the Deosai National Park Trail...
View ArticleEvil Dark 1 – Justin Gustainis
“The city is Scranton. The name is Markowski. I carry a badge. The monsters from your nightmares are real, all of them. If you live in my town, protecting you from them – and vice versa – is my job....
View ArticleGunmetal Magic 1 – Ilona Andrews
“Thud. My skull bounced off the pavement. Blood stained my blond hair. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Sarah take a running start like a kicker before a field goal. The flesh on her body boiled....
View ArticleThe Scar-Crow Men – Mark Chadbourn
As if Will Swyfte didn’t have enough problems with evil fairies and dodgy Spaniards now spy factions in his own government want to have him become mortally challenged. The disappearance of friend and...
View ArticleMommy Issues of the Dead – Tim Pratt
Marla gets a hillbilly junkpile robot and bonus Snow Queen mission. 4 out of 5
View ArticleGunmetal Magic – Ilona Andrews
A series popular enough to have spinoffs. Here Kate’s partner gun nut fferently flavoured werehyena disgraced knight narcoclosetphile Andrea gets to star. At a very down time for her she gets asked to...
View ArticleCold Days 1 – Jim Butcher
“Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, has unique ideas regarding physical therapy.” 3.5 out of 5...
View ArticleGrim Tides 10 – Tim Pratt
“The first thing Crapsey heard when he woke up, slumped on the couch in Dr. Husch’s office, was Elsie Jarrow saying, “They’re so adorable when they sleep. Like lobotomized little puppies.” “Do you mean...
View ArticleGhostbusters: A Frightfully Cheerful Roleplaying Game – Sandy Petersen
A very light, deliberately cheesy RPG. Fun at the time. Captures the tone and spirit of the thing very well. Quite a bit of fun. 3.5 out of 5
View ArticleThe Adventures of Indiana Jones – David Cook
TSR game where you played the statted out characters from the movie. 2.5 out of 5
View ArticleHighlander Immortals – Kevin Webb
d20 Highlander Immortals add-on module. 3 out of 5 http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?279123-New-Highlander-the-Immortals-%96-OGL#post5228192
View ArticleFATE CORE: Stormcallers – Jacob Poss
In which rejected magic supersoldiers try and restrain themselves from Pyromania. 4.5 out of 5
View ArticleGrim Tides 12 Brotherly Love – Tim Pratt
“She waggled her finger at him. “Assumptions get you in trouble, Mr. Mason. Marla didn’t send me. I represent a group of people whose interests may align with your own.” He lunged for the drawer, and...
View ArticleMagic Rises – Ilona Andrews
Atlantan werepeople European vacation. In which politics are discussed, naked wereprincess are discussed, pointy-ended flirting is discussion already and grumpy partners defend a joint attacked by more...
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