3.5 really. It would have been a 4, but the idea that Mack could kick the ass of shapeshifters and had fire in her blood, yet they all kept going on about how 'human' she was, was a little stupid and irritating to me. She also made some pretty stupid, immature decisions, which again were irritati...
Book one left me wanting to eat greedily this series.Book two not so much...it all just fell flat for me.I did not like the main heroine, Mackenzie. Mack (under the cover of a new name Jane Smith [very original] is still hiding from the Lord Alpha. She is making new friends:Ms Alcoon and the see...
In this installment, Mack agrees to train with the mages with the promise that the mages will lift their status spell from Mrs. Alcoon.I was really disappointed in this one. It's slow and exceedingly nonsensical. Mack and Corrigan were on good terms when last we saw them in Bloodmagic. So when Co...
Mack is finally growing into a reluctant leader and finally hooks up with Corrigan. Yay! But doesn't explore her Draco-wyr form. Boo! We get to meet the Big-Bad-Ugly of the series and in the end Mack has to choose between her budding romance and saving the world. I have to say though, Corrigan is...
You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. Jim Morrison –––––––– My head doesn’t hurt and, when I touch it gingerly with my fingertips, there’s no bump or tenderness. All the same, something doesn’t feel right. I can’t put my finger on it; I simply have a deep-seated feelin...
It’s difficult to estimate how many there are in Europe; some say four million, some say nine million. Nomadic by nature, they’re scattered across the continent, divided and sub-divided into groups. They’re not witches, not in the true sense of the word, but their long heritage means that magic r...
For a moment I’m completely disorientated but when I receive a long lick down the side of my neck and hear a tiny whine, my muscles relax. ‘Bloody dog,’ I grunt, gently pushing off Kimchi. He seems determined not to leave the bed until I get up. His large soulful eyes hove...
She didn’t catch either sight or sound of Mr Kamadeva but he left an increasing number of bizarre notes with ridiculous requests. She’d scribbled down an apology about the damage she’d unwittingly caused to his car and his response was to ask her to get him a new vehicle. The trouble was, the new...
I’m on the wrong line for Arton Road but I can change here. I can travel quickly using the underground network but it’s rush hour and I’ve got hundreds of commuters against me. And I’ve no idea what on earth I’ll do when I reach my destination. It’s a good two or three hundred metres from the sta...
It’s a majestic piece of architecture, built out of sandstone; it looks as if it’s been here for hundreds of years. ‘Nice place,’ I comment. ‘Recruitment doesn’t start until tomorrow so you can stay here. It’ll be safe.’ ‘And where is here, exactly?...
This time I don’t give a sod where I park the stupid car. I’m hungry and tired and I have to spend the next fourteen hours cooped up indoors in case the stupid sun turns me into a pile of smoking ash. I am definitely not happy.O’Shea was right about the emptiness of the shop. The window display w...
I was confused by what I’d seen and my thoughts were in free fall, tumbling one after the other as I tried to make sense of it all. The one thing I knew was for certain was that I hated my true name. Layoch? I mean, come on. It sounded like it belonged to a boy. Had Daddy ...
We all like to believe we’re in charge of our own fates. Otherwise what’s the point of anything? I stand in front of the four dream doors, debating whether to enter one of them. They represent four minds of four separate people who are suffering right now, whether they’re ‘only’ dreaming or not. ...
He rambled on for almost the entire journey, barely pausing to take breath. I heard about the merits of magic versus machinery in keeping out larger species of wildlife; a treatise on punctuality; details about some failed key-card system which apparently the MacBain Clan had instituted in a bid ...
The heavy hot feeling in my stomach hadn’t gone away and I generally felt as if I’d been driven over several times by a ten ton truck. It was an unusual sensation. I was no stranger to getting hurt or passing out, but I normally started to recover fairly quickly. Even the very first time after I’...
I reminded the Arch-Mage. “I did as you asked and cleared out your outpost. Or rather huge great bloody castle. It was considerably larger than you led me to expect. Quid pro quo. Tell me what progress you’ve made with the blood. Have you found the source of the infection yet?” ...
He bowed formally. ‘Good to see you, Corrigan. How are things?’ ‘Peachy,’ I said, smiling back. ‘What can I do for you?’ ‘I hear you’re making considerable headway with your cumbersome rules. It’s a good idea, you know, to try and slim them down into more manageable chunks. A lot of our mages enj...
She bit down on the pen. There was the opportunity to submit articles with more gravitas. Yell liked to think of itself as THE magazine for young professional women so the powers-that-be did allow for the occasional submission which delved beyond the surface areas of fashion, sex and relationsh...