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Ryan Southwick

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    Book Review: Night Broken
    Ryan Southwick
    • Nov 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    Book Review: Night Broken

    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...
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    Book Review: Frost Burned
    Ryan Southwick
    • Nov 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    Book Review: Frost Burned

    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...
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    Book Review: Pleasure Unbound
    Ryan Southwick
    • Oct 18, 2019
    • 1 min

    Book Review: Pleasure Unbound

    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...
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    Book Review: River Marked
    Ryan Southwick
    • Oct 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    Book Review: River Marked

    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...
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    Book Review: Building Baby Brother
    Ryan Southwick
    • Sep 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    Book Review: Building Baby Brother

    Building Baby Brother is what happens when 2001: A Space Odyssey meets a contemporary children’s bedtime story that’s really meant for...
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    Book Review: Silver Borne
    Ryan Southwick
    • Sep 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    Book Review: Silver Borne

    Continuing the upward trend, Silver Borne surpasses Bone Crossed as my favorite Mercy book—and no, I’m not done with the series yet. =]...
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    Book Review: An Unsettled Grave
    Ryan Southwick
    • Aug 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    Book Review: An Unsettled Grave

    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...
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    Book Review: The Hunt for Red October
    Ryan Southwick
    • Aug 11, 2019
    • 2 min

    Book Review: The Hunt for Red October

    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...
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    Book Review: Bone Crossed
    Ryan Southwick
    • May 23, 2019
    • 2 min

    Book Review: Bone Crossed

    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...
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    Book Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    Ryan Southwick
    • May 11, 2019
    • 2 min

    Book Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Blade Runner was one of the top formative science fiction movies of my teenage years, so when a publishing professional recently...
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    Book Review: Sex on Fire
    Ryan Southwick
    • Apr 27, 2019
    • 2 min

    Book Review: Sex on Fire

    The protagonist in my first published book, Angels in the Mist, suffers PTSD from sexual assault when she was a teenager, and while many...
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    Book Review: Dawn
    Ryan Southwick
    • Apr 21, 2019
    • 2 min

    Book Review: Dawn

    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...
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    Book Review: A Caress of Twilight
    Ryan Southwick
    • Apr 15, 2019
    • 1 min

    Book Review: A Caress of Twilight

    A Caress of Twilight follows Merry Gentry and her gaggle of hunky man meat through another combination of twisted sidhe court politics...
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    Book Review: A Kiss of Shadows
    Ryan Southwick
    • Apr 7, 2019
    • 3 min

    Book Review: A Kiss of Shadows

    This was, without a doubt, my first reverse harem read. Most female protagonists receive at least passing interest from other male...
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    Book Review: Ancillary Justice
    Ryan Southwick
    • Apr 2, 2019
    • 1 min

    Book Review: Ancillary Justice

    There isn’t much I can say in this review that hasn’t been said a dozen times or more in others, so I’ll keep this one down to likes and...
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    Book Review: Memory and Metaphor
    Ryan Southwick
    • Mar 23, 2019
    • 2 min

    Book Review: Memory and Metaphor

    Memory and Metaphor is a wonderful debut novel by Andrea Monticue, with enough well-researched technical detail to immerse sci fi fans in...
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    Book Review: Oathbringer
    Ryan Southwick
    • Mar 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Book Review: Oathbringer

    Oathbringer is, in a word, epic. So much happens in this book, with so many plots interweaving, especially toward the end, that it’s like...
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    Book Review: Magic Binds
    Ryan Southwick
    • Feb 25, 2019
    • 2 min

    Book Review: Magic Binds

    Magic Binds expands on Kate's origins and once again tests the iron bonds of her and Curran's relationship. Their daughter, Julie, has a...
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    Book Review: Edgedancer
    Ryan Southwick
    • Jan 12, 2019
    • 1 min

    Book Review: Edgedancer

    Edgedancer is a side novel (#2.5) that follows the Peter-Pan-like Lift and her Captain Hook nemesis, Darkness, through a new part of...
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