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Review of book The Lies of Vampires and Slayers / Magic on Main Street 1 (K.M. Shea)


******* 7/10 Review of book The Lies of Vampires and Slayers  / Magic on Main Street 1  (K.M. Shea)

Medium rating of  The Lies of Vampires and Slayers  (K.M. Shea) / Magic on Main Street  (year 2023)  Rating  7 Stars   Goodreads Rating: 4,44

Opinion of  The Lies of Vampires and Slayers  (K.M. Shea) / Magic on Main Street 1: A discovery. A new series and author to enjoy. Urban Fantasy,Werewolves,supernatural police,Magic,Dragons,Vampires slayer,Vampires,Supernatural politics,Romance, Fae, Mages

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Most violence in The Lies of Vampires and Slayers revolves around Jade’s job as a member of the Curia Cloisters’ Magical Re..
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Oh boy is Jade going to be in for a doozy next book! XD I loved this book so much and how Jade tried to b..
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Review of book The Lies of Vampires and Slayers  / Magic on Main Street 1 (K.M. Shea)

By night, they fight in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. By day, they are friendly next-door neighbors. Neither of them know that their alter egos are archenemies. I’ve spent my life training in the family business of slaying vampires, but I’m tired of all the death. I want to prove we slayers can help society, not just break it. I start my new life by joining the Magiford supernatural task force, which exists to protect humans and supernaturals from harmful magic. There’s just one problem. All of my teammates who work the night shift with me are scared of me since slayers are the assassins of the supernatural world. Worse yet, even though I’m doing my best at pretending to be a human during the day—a necessity as a lone slayer can quickly become a dead slayer I’ve utterly failed to win over any of the humans in my apartment complex since I have the charisma of an overdue investigation report. That changes when a handsome vampire moves in next door. Connor may not be willing to try any of my failed attempts at baking, but he’s charming and not afraid of me. Plus, he’s the first friend I’ve made who has the time to hang out with me after work. Things are looking up, or they would be, except a mysterious and extremely powerful vampire has declared downtown his nightly hunting ground. I’m the only one on my team who can match him in a fight, something he finds endlessly entertaining. That isn’t a good sign for my general life expectancy. My greatest goal might be to win over my squad, but if this vampire doesn’t back off I might not live long enough to achieve it.









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Review of book The Emperor's Edge / The Emperor's Edge 1 (Lindsay Buroker)


***** 6,8/10 Review of book The Emperor's Edge  /  The Emperor's Edge 1  (Lindsay Buroker)

Medium rating of  The Emperor's Edge (Lindsay Buroker) / The Emperor's Edge 1  (year 2010) Rating  6,8 Stars   Goodreads Rating: 4,05

Opinion of  The Emperor's Edge (Lindsay Buroker) / The Emperor's Edge 1: Entertaining, looking forward to reading the next in the series. .  Fantasy, assassin, emperor, law enforcement officer, romance, empire, murders, human sacrifices, intrigues.

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The novel is placed within a steampunk-esque setting but blended with medieval, magical fantasy tropes, so we have steam driven coaches within a militaristic, monarchistic government and many 18th century t..

It’s a decent premise, but I found the plotting precarious at points. Amaranthe’s scheme involves setting up a fake counterfeiting operatio..

After reading just one book—the very fun and entertaining fantasy adventure hybrid that is The Emperor’s Edge—I’ve become a Lindsay Buroker fan and can’t wait to read the rest of h..

Simply put, I adored the characters in The Emperor’s Edge.  For starters, Amaranthe is a really fun protagonist.  She’s tough and strong while still managing to fit into..

Overall, The Emperor’s Edge is an enjoyable, light read – mostly skimming over excessively dark themes. Some plot points come together too easily and so..

The Emperor’s Edge is a fantasy, and an adventure, and the beginning of a long journey with a fascinating group of players. I h..

This was well done and I enjoyed it. I would call this a military steampunk series, at least in the beginning. Amaranthe..

Oh, I’m still just loving this series! I’m not generally a raver, but I’m afraid the crew of the Emperor’s Edge makes me squeal a bit like an excite...

Definitely something for younger/less blasé readers than me. It might be just because of my dark fantasy fixation but I think the only way to enjoy this novel is t..



***** 6,8/10 Review of book The Emperor's Edge  /  The Emperor's Edge 1  (Lindsay Buroker)

Imperial law enforcer Amaranthe Lokdon is good at her job: she can deter thieves and pacify thugs, if not with a blade, then by toppling an eight-foot pile of coffee canisters onto their heads. But when ravaged bodies show up on the waterfront, an arson covers up human sacrifices, and a powerful business coalition plots to kill the emperor, she feels a tad overwhelmed. Worse, Sicarius, the empire's most notorious assassin, is in town. He's tied in with the chaos somehow, but Amaranthe would be a fool to cross his path. Unfortunately, her superiors order her to hunt him down. Either they have an unprecedented belief in her skills... or someone wants her dead. 










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Review of book Resistance / War Fleet 1 (Daniel Young)


***** 5/10 Review of book Resistance  /  War Fleet 1  (Daniel Young)

Medium rating of  Resistance (Daniel Young) / War Fleet 1  (year 2020) Rating  5 Stars   Goodreads Rating: 4,06

Opinion of  Resistance (Daniel Young) / War Fleet 1: Entertaining, looking forward to reading the next in the series. To spend the time. Too much action in a short time when reading it I would prefer it to be more elaborate.  Scifi, mining space ship, aliens, space war, space captain, space marines, space engineer, outcast, haunt past, weapon of mass destruction, space battles.

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Review of book Resistance  /  War Fleet 1 (Daniel Young)

One ship. One discovery. No going back. Overseeing a mining operation in the middle of nowhere on a warship with more bark than bite, Captain Frank Olsen has a problem. A chance discovery has suddenly thrown his dig into the galactic spotlight and every power in the region, both friend and foe, is descending on Olsen's location. It's soon clear that what they've found isn't just a curiosity. It's something far more sinister. As Olsen struggles to hold the line, a new alien race appears and the balance of power in the galaxy begins to shift. With time running out and help light years away, it's up to Olsen, his aging ship and an inexperienced crew to stop a disaster that threatens to wipe out humanity.









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Review of book Heart of Malice / Alice Worth1 (Lisa Edmonds)


******* 7/10 Review of book Heart of Malice  / Alice Worth 1  (Lisa Edmonds)

Medium rating of  Heart of Malice (Lisa Edmonds) / Alice Worth 1  (year 2017)  Rating  7 Stars   Goodreads Rating: 4,13

Opinion of  Heart of Malice (Lisa Edmonds) / Alice Worth 1: Entertaining new series of a urban fantasy investigator. Essential, to buy and enjoy.  Urban fantasy, cabal, magical object, mage, blood magic, earth magic, magic, magic null, private investigator,ghost, hidden past.

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As much as I am intrigued as to where the Alice Worth series is headed, at this time, I’m not interested in continuing on...

This is both a strength, but also a minor critique, in that while I learned a lot, I sometimes found her almost mathematical blow-by-blow explanations of how the magic worked too clinical and almost boring. .

I went ahead and bought the next in the series instantly at the end, and not because of cliffhangers, folks, the story wraps up nicely in the first book, but because the story also introduced all kinds of potential conflicts and other baddies..





Review of book Heart of Malice  /  Alice Worth1 (Lisa Edmonds)

The first time Moses Murphy’s granddaughter killed on his orders, she was six years old. For twenty years, she was a prisoner of an organized crime syndicate, forced to use her magic to make Moses the most powerful and feared man on the East Coast. To escape his cruelty, she faked her own death and started a new life as Alice Worth. As a private investigator specializing in cases involving the supernatural, Alice walks a precarious line between atoning for the sins of her grandfather’s cabal and keeping her true identity hidden. Hired to investigate the disappearance of a mysterious object of power, Alice enlists the help of Malcolm, a ghost running from a past as nightmarish as her own. It soon becomes clear the missing object was taken by someone with a dangerous secret and an unknown agenda. When her client is kidnapped, Alice must find her and the object of power before a vengeful killer destroys the city and slaughters thousands starting with Alice. 









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Books I didn't like

 To Free the Rising Storm / The ReEmergence Chronicles 1 (C.N. Maxwell) 4 Stars

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I left it almost at the end of reading, I wouldn't read the next one in the series.


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