Mercedes Lackey "She'll keep you up long past your bedtime." --New York Times bestselling author Stephen King In an isolated land where the lure of the "Moontide" leads to shipwrecks, a woman is torn between obeying her father or her king. When she chooses to follow a Fool, she discovers magic sh...
The Shaman thing still annoys, but I so like the way she thinks. She takes the options available to her even if they aren't pleasant.All the "we're behind you, dear" and "we'll be the hero's side-kicks" is bothersome. And her man stands by as she does all this metaphysical stuff. Be manly!But ...
So much better than past books... Really good one, back to the exploration of important character development.
OK my inner 80's kid was jumping up and down repeatedly. TMNT, Chitty, HP, all in one book!?! One word. PERFECTION!THIS IS THE BOOK I have been waiting for! This was such a wonderful read. This book has everything I could have possibly wanted, mini squee moments, and a few laugh out loud parts to...
I thought this was the last of the Walker Paper instalments, but it looks like there's still one more to go - YAY! I totally was not ready to leave the world of Jo, Gary, Morrison and the general Urban Shamanverse.This instalment had Jo going back to her Cherokee roots (physically, spiritually a...
The whirlwind pace is getting bit thick. Please, lady, stop to eat and sleep just once. The "I'll fly by the seat of my pants 'cuz that always works out for me, nevermind all the collateral damage to people around me" philosophy is getting a little old by book 7, too. Hasn't she really figured...
Demon Hunts is the fifth book in the Walker Papers series featuring Joanne Walker, reluctant shaman and Seattle police detective. Murphy delivers a great addition to the series, my favourite so far. The story weaves together the legend of the wendigo and shamanic mythology to create a fast-pace...
There wasn't anything particularly wrong with this book, but I just never got into it. The characters were all the same as they always were, and the story while different was along the same lines of the other books in the series. Perhaps that was the problem, everything was almost the same as t...