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Sherwood Smith blogs about jury reading for the 2008 Andre Norton Award, and gives some good recs for YA science fiction and fantasy books.  I’m definitely going to be looking up all the ones she’s mentioned.
Check out this followup to last year’s “Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance” (out in August this year).  This time [...]

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The big release this month for me is Patricia Briggs’ “Bone Crossed” (urban fantasy, Book 4 of the Mercy series).  After the events of the previous book, I can’t wait to see how things unfold in this one. Oh, and can I just say how jealous I am of everyone who has already [...]

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Okay, I’ve been wondering how to go about doing this, and I think I’m going to start off with a month-by-month review, based on notes made in my trusty reading spreadsheet. 
 
January
Highlights for me were Patricia Briggs’ “Iron Kissed” (urban fantasy), Eileen Wilks’ “Night Season” (urban fantasy) and Catherine Asaro’s “The Ruby Dice” (science fiction).  [...]

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ETA: I can’t believe I forgot to add Patricia Briggs’s “Iron Kissed” (urban fantasy) to my list.  I loved her books when she wrote straight fantasy, and now I love her urban fantasy.  This is the third in her Mercy series, and apparently the love triangle gets resolved.  I can’t wait to read this one.  Excerpt here.
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Despite me not completely loving the last two books in the series, Charlaine Harris‘ Sookie Stackhouse series remains one of my favourite urban fantasy series out there.  Ms Harris has put up an excerpt for the latest Sookie story “From Dead to Worse” (May 2008).  Also another kooky cartoon-like cover.
Another of my favourite urban fantasy [...]

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August is a good month for books – books I want:
Stephenie Meyer’s “Eclipse”: Third book in her YA vampire series.  I love Bella and I *love* Edward.  “Twilight” and “New Moon” are the first and second books in this series respectively – if you haven’t read them, go and try “Twilight” at least.  Even if you [...]

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Blood Lines is one of the 2007 books I’ve been waiting for, and I’m glad to say it didn’t disappoint.
Blood Lines is the third book in Eileen Wilks’ Lupi series, Tempting Danger and Mortal Danger being the first and second books respectively.  There’s also a novella that sits between the first and second books, and gives [...]

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