Well another book down in this series and I must admit every time I pick one up I question doing so since Cal Leandros is such a whiney Character hes hard to stand at times. However I was mildly surprised to say the least that Cal appeared to be less whiney in this book by quite a large margin, a...
Every Cal Leandros book has sucked me in but to spit me out at the end, a little more spent each time. This one was no different. Grabbing on right from the beginning I have found the recent style of writing Thurman has taken up, of specifying each chapter to a particular person's point of view, ...
I didn't like this as much as the previous book. Although that just means it was merely good rather than very good.This time around I found Cal's internal voice to be a little tiresome and definitely repetitive. Also, while the previous book had me in tears at the pivotal moment, this one had m...
This was my favorite book of the series. Finally, finally there is some closure for the brothers. This book is unique in the fact that you read it from not only Cal's perspective, but also Niko's.The book is completely filled with action and I was more then happy with how the storylines played ...
OK, wow, this was probably the strongest instalment in the Cal Leandros series for me. Partly, I think, because of the clear character development we've seen on Cal's part since Book #1, and partly because FINALLY, we get inside Niko's head as well. Therein, we discover that while our super-hono...
I cried, I literally cried, and more than once.Compared to 'Madhouse', it's a completely different book in quality, coherence and climax. Where all these points made me consider 'Madhouse' to be the one I liked least of the series, it makes 'Deathwish' the best.The story worked and delivered in m...
I haven't reviewed these individually, but figured I'd put a quick word in. As usual with the Urban Fantasy series I've read, the first book or two are good but not great (new writer, so allow them to grow!), and start getting better after that. For the Cal Leandros books, the stories are inter...
The second Trickster novel, it is just as good as the first, but in ways better. The introductions are out of the way and we know these characters. They are familiar, and they are now evolving. Rob Thurman is awesome at character development and it always shows. The story is simple - stop armaged...
While it was interesting being in Michael's head, I would rather read another story from Stefan's perspective; just a personal preference. Also the words "smart", "brilliant", and "genius" were thrown around way too much.There are fifteen main chapters and the one I liked the most was chapter twe...
After saving the world from his fiendish father's side of the family, Cal Leandros and his stalwart half-brother Niko have settled down with new digs and a new gig-bodyguard and detective work. And in New York City, where preternatural beings stalk the streets just like normal folk, business is g...
There are monsters among us. There always have been and there always will be. I’ve known that since I can remember, just like I’ve always known I was one ... Well, half of one, anyway. Welcome to New York City - a troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, a boggle in Central Park, and a beautiful vampire...
Half-human Cal Leandros and his brother, Niko, aren't exactly prospering with their preternatural detective agency. Who could have guessed that business could dry up in New York City, where vampires, trolls, and other creepy crawlies are all over the place? But now there's a new arrival in the Bi...
The display windows covered in velvet ribbons and tinsel. The tinkle of ringing bells around every corner. The snow, the presents, the frigging good cheer. Yeah, it sucked all right. Sure, it was only once a year, but that was one time too many. Carolers, months of Christm...
All the time. Everyone knows that, right? The world is dangerous. Existence is precarious, the footing beneath you shaky. Your first breath isn’t a guarantee and if you get that, your next breath is the same. Touch and go. Life doesn’t come with a warranty. It’s something to be snatched, clawed f...
My parents named me after Catcher in the Rye, the book on which they’d had to team up to do a class presentation. Until then, they hadn’t been that interested in each other. But that book about teen angst and a loss of innocence had brought them together, and from then on they had been small-town...
I didn’t want to take a chance of Jericho and his crew checking the local hotels with our descriptions. The son of a bitch might be in a hospital bed right now, but I didn’t think that had much chance of stopping him. Slowing him down was the best I could hope for, and I’d long used up my hope fo...
I asked. Goodfellow threw a statue of a mermaid and a horny dolphin at my head. The thing was the size of a basketball and shattered against the wall as I ducked. He then continued pushing Ishiah out the front door of his condo as he’d been doing since I gated us back. The...
Hector didn’t move other than his eyes narrowing. There was rage there, searing and hot, but pain, too. The kick-in-the-gut kind, an agony that sucked the oxygen from your lungs and the hope from your soul. Then he blinked, and it faded. “I know.” It was my turn to blink. “You know?” “I helped Ch...