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Having dealt with werewolves this series continues by dealing with ghosts. Grave Peril is the third book in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher and it continues Dresden’s adventures in dealing with things that go bump in the night. It opens on Dresden and his friend Michael hunting a ghost that is haunting the nursery…
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I must admit I am a little sad about today’s book as it is the final book in a series that I have been working on. Finishing a series is always a little sad, at least until I remember that I can always reread the books if I want to. The Desolations of Devil’s Acre…
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Today’s book is the first actual classic that I will be reviewing and talking about on here. The Deerslayer is the first book in the Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper. This is the same series that also contains The Last of the Mohicans, one of his more popular novels. It opens on Deerslayer and…
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This book is exactly what it sounds like. Sherlock Holmes & Count Dracula is the first book in the Classified Dossier series by Christian Klaver. Sherlock Holmes is approached about an unusual incident where a finger was found on a dead body but by all indications the finger has many interesting properties that indicate it…
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Enigma is the second book in the Trigon Disunity trilogy by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It jumps forward a little in time from the previous book as it starts with humanity having made contact with several colonies after the discovery of other humans in space that occurred at the end of the previous book. The story…
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On the Run is the first book in the More Than Conquerors series by DJanee. It opens with Sophie as she tries to escape a compound controlled by a group she refers to as Firebursts. As she tries to find her way out she gets attacked by what she calls a killer and narrowly manages…
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The Girl With Ghost Eyes by M. H. Boroson is the first book in the Daoshi Chronicles. It tells the story of Li-lin, a young woman who is a Daoshi priestess in Chinatown towards the end of the nineteenth century. She works with her father, another high-ranking Daoshi priest, where she unintentionally gets caught up…
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2001: A Space Odyssey was written by Arthur C. Clarke and based on the movie of the same name. It opens back in the stone age with some unusual rocks randomly appearing all over Earth and training or teaching early humans tools and tricks to help them progress. Eventually the mysterious rocks disappear as fast…
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This time around I picked a rather interesting theme for my monthly list as I decided to discuss series that involve a library. More specifically it has to be an unusual library of some sort and not just a regular library. It has to be a library that you cannot just walk into though I…
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Dragons of the Dwarven Depths is volume one of the Lost Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It is a companion series to the Dragonlance Chronicles and takes place just after the events of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Having killed the dragonlord Verminaard the heroes are working to find a place for the refugees…
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