All That Was Asked is one of those books that, even after reading the description, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. “Twitchy little creature”? It sounded ...

It dawned on me recently that the Innkeeper Chronicles is a lot like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a series I didn’t think I’d like when I learned the premise....

Sweep of the Blade, book #4 of the Innkeeper Chronicles, takes a break from Dina’s quirky Gertrude Hunt and follows her sister, Maud, through a brief glimpse...

Hot Drop is an adrenaline-spiked hallucinogen injected straight into your neck. From the first paragraph, it grabs you by the nose and doesn’t let go until 2...

Iron and Magic is one of those books I wouldn’t have even looked at if my wife hadn’t insisted it was a necessary read before the last book in the series, Ma...

It’s been a while since I’ve read a good space opera. Or maybe I never have, and Leviathan Wakes has simply opened my eyes to how wonderfully engaging a grea...

Fire Touched picks up shortly after Night Broken, and I’m pleased to say it didn’t disappoint. Mercy and the rest of her pack kick things off by facing a bri...

Mercy is back and, I’m happy to say, in top form. Night Broken picks up the series from Frost Burned’s dip. Mercy faces her most daunting foe to date: Adam’s...

Frost Burned is the 7th installment in Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series. I’ve made it this far, which is a testament to Patricia’s world- and character...

Pleasure Unbound is one of those books I didn’t expect to like as much as I did. As the title and cover imply, there are plenty of steamy scenes with the dom...

River Marked is another great novel in the series. Briggs takes us along with Mercy and Adam on their honeymoon to a campsite far from home, where they have ...

Building Baby Brother is what happens when 2001: A Space Odyssey meets a contemporary children’s bedtime story that’s really meant for adults. The protagonis...

Continuing the upward trend, Silver Borne surpasses Bone Crossed as my favorite Mercy book—and no, I’m not done with the series yet. =] “Balanced” is the bes...

An Unsettled Grave is the second book in the series. I didn’t read the first one, and, while at times I felt I was missing a key piece of Santero or Rein’s p...

The Hunt for Red October is the first Tom Clancy book I’ve ever read—and probably my last. Don’t get me wrong: His ability to dive into the details and descr...

This is my first read through the Mercy Thompson series, and Bone Crossed is my favorite so far. It’s the first one to me where Mercy felt… reasonable. Relat...

Blade Runner was one of the top formative science fiction movies of my teenage years, so when a publishing professional recently suggested I read Philip K. D...

The protagonist in my first published book, Angels in the Mist, suffers PTSD from sexual assault when she was a teenager, and while many other strange things...

This was one of those books I read more on a friend’s recommendation rather than any interest in the subject. And I’m glad I did. Dawn drew me in from the fi...

A Caress of Twilight follows Merry Gentry and her gaggle of hunky man meat through another combination of twisted sidhe court politics and supernatural detec...