Maria Isabella Boyd, a former Confederate spy, has been hired by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to capture Captain Croggon Beurregard Haniney, a runaway slave, who's been eluding authorities on both sides for fifteen years. Boyd is supposed to ensure a valuable Union shipment makes it ...
Overall, the book felt like a first draft. Characters didn't feel right, actions didn't mesh with characterization, flow through felt unbalanced. The setting is interesting, but it wasn't exploited. Things could have been easily renamed to make it fantasy, sci-fi, etc., with little change. It cou...
This is evidently the first in a brand new series and I am already a little too eager for the next installment. This book was so much fun, I couldn't put it down! Raylene is such a likable kind of vampire and I could feel myself relating to her on more than one level. In most urban fantasy, the v...
It's taken me forever to read this (I started it in May!), mainly because I like my paranormal books to have a romance subplot in them and this lacked one. However this still managed to grab my attention, which is why I've persevered instead of giving up. Admittedly my interest only grew enough f...
Having read 'Bloodshot' the 1st in this series, I was unsure whether to continue - I loved the 1st book, but didn't want to be disappointed by the sequel - I have concerns over the glut of vampire novels around, but luckily this series strays from the well trodden path - the fact of the main prot...
I look forward to new Cherie Priest novels ever since I first picked up 'Dreadnought' off my local library 'new books' shelf. This one, however, did not rock my boat. Maybe it was an attempt to appeal to a teen audience, but as in many books written for young readers, the teenage main character...
I didn't get on with the first Cherie Priest book I read (Boneshaker), but I enjoyed Bloodshot and Hellbent enough that I'm starting to try her other stuff. It seems like she can be a bit hit and miss, with me: I wasn't a big fan of Four and Twenty Blackbirds, either, but I enjoyed this short hor...
I really enjoyed this book. It’s one of those books that tends to give you a lot of questions and reveals the answers slowly as the story proceeds. I had trouble putting the book down both because the story was interesting and because I wanted to know all the answers.This is a paranormal-type s...
As a caveat, I found the description on this edition of the book quite misleading. Its tone is glib. Phrases like "task force" and "add in a hapless fire inspector who's just trying to get his paperwork in order" cultivates a tongue-in-cheek feel that made me expect a zanier book than Cherie Pr...