Thursday, February 25, 2010

Book Review: Evil Moon

Book: Evil Moon
Author: Harrison Ray

Evil Moon is the first book from Harrison Ray, and it is a very good debut. Evil Moon has a great start where you meet Nebraska state patrol Officer Davis Veoh. He finds what looks to be the 3rd victim of an animal that has been atacking people in Lincoln Nebraska. He soon finds out that this victim is the first survivor, and also that this victim is his daughter Kenna.

Throughout the book we are introduced with many new characters with great back stories. There is Randolph Wetstone the rich big game hunter that wants to be senator and will go to any length to get what he wants. He is the full moon killer, a werewolf, that teams up with Stinger and his motorcycle gang called the necromancers. The Necromancers run the drug trade in the area. There is also a trouble maker named Kevin Burk who has his own plans. between them they provide enough bad guys to keep all the other characters on there toes.

The book slows down a bit in the middle. Letting you get to know all the characters more. The depth of the characters are great and what makes this book so good. Part of meactualy thought this book may have been a bit too long in the middle, but when you get towards the end and all the pieces fall together you understand that is what made the book both different and good.

Once you get towards the end it starts to get so fast and so action packed that it gives you little room to breathe.....and that is a good thing....great start even better finish and lots of depth to the characters in between. Evil Moon is a very good book, and I recomend it to anyone.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

New Cover Art: Game of Cages

Book: Game of Cages
Author: Harry Connolly
Publisher: Del Rey

This book doesn't come out until sept. but I am really looking forward to it because I was very impressed with the first book in the series "Child of Fire"....if you havn't read child of fire yet I suggest you read it before this one comes out. It was about Ray Lilly a driver for a powerful magician of the twenty palace society. It's pretty action pacted and after all the twists and turns of the first book I'm pretty excited to see what happens in the 2nd book.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Book Preview: Dead Men's Boots

Book: Dead Men's Boots
Author: Mike Carey
Publisher: Grand Central

This is book 3 of the felix castor series from mike carey. The hardcover has been out for a while now, but I prefer to get books in paberback so I am looking forward to when this book comes out in August in paperback edition. I am a big fan of the series, so I am expecting this to be a good one. If you haven't tried this series yet I suggest you start with the first book of the series. here is the info on dead men's boots:

"Every bit as good as the better-known Jim Butcher, Carey hits his stride with his third hard-boiled supernatural thriller (after Vicious Circle). Felix Fix Castor, a London-based exorcist who uses music to fight evil spirits and other paranormal creatures, faces two major challenges. The burial of Fix's friend John Gittings is disrupted by a lawyer with a court order mandating that the corpse be cremated; Gittings's widow retains Fix to prevent the body's exhumation. Meanwhile, a woman asks Fix to clear her husband of rape and murder charges by proving that Myriam Seaforth Kale, a gangster who's been dead for 40 years, is actually responsible. While looking into how Kale has come back from the dead to resume killing people, Fix finds links to a larger threat from the dark side. Carey has a way with words (a character dresses like someone who'd taken The Matrix a little too seriously) as well as a gift for creating a plausible alternate reality."