The author’s overuse of slang made this book a nightmare for me to read. While I think the concept was good, the author’s writing style didn’t please me.

Average crafty mystery, not much crafting information.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. If you can suspend disbelief about inept law enforcement and coincidence, Victoria Laurie has written a well-paced, interesting mystery.

Rachel Caine has a fantastic imagination. This book was enjoyable. While Jo manages to develop her weather wielding powers more each book, she still hasn’t attained a level where you expect the outcome of the book, because she’s a flawed hero and there is still suspense. I’m looking forward to the next book.

Run of the mill. No compelling characters, poor crafting info.

A couple of things about this series are a little too cliche for my taste, the gay sidekick as comic relief and the annoying bird as comic relief, but I thought this book greatly improved on the first book in this series. The story line was interesting and well-paced.

I don’t think this was a bad book, but I didn’t like it. I thought reading about a veterinarian would be fascinating, but it turns out I really don’t like reading about hurt animals.

This wasn’t my favorite novel in this series, but I still enjoyed it. Charlaine Harris gave readers a bit of a departure from her normal formula of having events in the book build up to one grand conclusion/event, instead she gave us little vignettes that culminated in major changes in the supernatural community. It will be interesting to see how these changed play out over the next couple of novels.

While there was nothing glaringly wrong with this mystery, the world the author created felt flat and the characters felt soulless.

I’m a big fan of the Mercy Thompson series written by Patricia Briggs, so I was pretty happy about a series spin-off. However, when I read the initial short story featuring these characters in the On the Prowl anthology, I didn’t really like either of the characters, but since the story was short, I figured I would give them a full length novel to catch my attention before I really decided how I felt about Charles and Anna. The first half of this novel set up the story, but felt clumsy and wasn’t overly interesting, the action and emotions ramped up in the second half making the book more fun to read, but I still felt that the main characters weren’t people I could really care about. If you like werewolf pack politics, you would probably like this series, but I think it pales in comparison to her other series.