I was attracted to this book because of the setting, and wow this book delivered. I have an unabashed love for out-in-the-open urban fantasies, and this book mixed it with a kind of dystopia/quasi-apocalypse feel. Everything was dirty and gritty and dangerous and falling apart, but the book toe...
I didn't have a problem finishing Blood of the Wicked and I plan to read at least one more book in the series but I am mainly continuing in hopes that my questions about this book get answered in later books even though they will be about different characters. The setting was unique and cool (the...
Matilda held the glass tumbler up, admiring the way the firelight scored through its diamond facets. The wine glowed a brilliant jewel red as she swirled it gently. She adored the old world’s wine. Relaxing into the embrace of the old wooden rocking...
“Now?” Jonas leaned back in his chair, tucking one fist into his lower back as it locked in a sharp spasm. Grimacing, he rubbed it idly while he calculated events that he could only guess at. “Based on what I know, slim to nil. Not when they’ve got all the cards and they’re on high alert.” “Blast...
Phin Clarke paused on the porch, bracing his unbound right hand against the weathered wooden rocking chair for balance and a chance to catch his breath. The sling binding his left arm in place took the worst of the strain off the bullet wound in his shoulder, and Silas had assured him it’d heal i...
“Have you made quite the stir?” my tutor asked dryly. “Quite,” I replied in kind. “Indubitably,” Piers added, with such smugness that I turned a speculative stare upon him. He met my eyes with innocuous curiosity. “What is it?” &nb...