Not bad, but not particularly good either. Mainly many battles which the good guys always win because they develop a new ability at precisely the right time. The battles are interspersed with guilt and angst and occasional bouts of mundane banality (e.g. pausing in saving the world to deal with...
2nd book of the 2nd trilogy. I still love the mythos of the chinese gods and martial arts but... the book suffers from a slight problem.It could have been a bit shorter. There is a lot of little things that didn't really add much. I appreciate little things, but as long as they make you appreciat...
It's a bit of the same but Kylie's writing style seems to have evolved from her first novel, White Tiger.While the ending leaves the it open for her next trilogy, it does resolve several problems, particularly for Emma, which had accrued over the books. It also helps unravel the mystery of Kitty ...
A young woman accepts a position as nanny to the young daughter of a handsome, wealthy, and mysterious Chinese businessmanonly to discover her new employer is really a god and every foul demon in creation is out to destroy him!
A fabulous fantasy adventure, this trilogy is based on Chinese mythology, and is set in modern-day Hong Kong, where an ancient god falls in love with a young Australian woman ... Martial arts, magic, demons and science - the forces of Hell are poised to strike ... When Emma's relatives come t...
The garden was paved with red stones, and raised planter boxes held fragrant flowering shrubs. He looked at his watch; nearly time. He picked up the paperback next to him and pretended to read it, surreptitiously checking the path every thirty seconds. It was a few minutes before he realised he w...
‘You murdered him!’ He sagged against the couch and rubbed his hand over his face. ‘What happened?’ ‘This is not possible,’ the official said weakly. ‘This cannot have happened. He was an ordinary human.’ He drifted to the side of the room and fell to sit on a chair against the wall. ‘I am contac...
We had half an hour before the first hearings in the Hall of Dark Justice, and were using the respite to rebuild our energy. We didn’t know exactly when the demons would attack; the memory card only carried basic information on the demons’ plans and didn’t have any details on the Western army or ...
‘I don’t have time to mess around,’ Simone said. ‘I found three seats on a plane to the UK.’ She raised her head and concentrated and Freddo appeared at one side of the room. ‘There are soldiers coming. You need to be quick.’ Greg raced into the bedroom and came back holding Matthew, with Andrew ...
The stone was perched on the desk in the Kensington house study. ‘I was pulled out when the Grandmother left; all of us were. I wanted to stay with her, believe me.’ ‘So she’s definitely safe?’ ‘Yes. She had water, and she can easily survive without food until we find her.’ ‘Then what aren’t you ...
‘School won’t start on time unless I do something,’ he said. ‘Typhoon.’ ‘This late in the year? We’ve already had a monsoon.’ I dropped my voice. ‘Is it a natural typhoon?’ He nodded. ‘It happens sometimes. The wind changes. The circulation can happen over the sea, even after a monsoon. A very bi...