White Witch, Black Curse By Kim Harrison; Read by Marguerite Gavin 15 CDs – Approx. 18 hours [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: 2009 ISBN: 1433270314 Themes: / Fantasy / Urban Fantasy / demons / vampires / banshees / pixies / memory / detective / romance / White Witch, Black Curse is the seventh entry in Kim [...]

Proven Guilty By Jim Butcher; Read by James Marsters Audible Download – approx. 16 hours [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: 2009 Themes: / urban fantasy / Chicago / wizard / faeries / vampires / black magic By the time most fantasy series reach their eighth novel, they’re usually showing their age. For proof, one need look [...]

Academ’s Fury By Jim Butcher; Read by Kate Reading 17 CDs – 21 Hours [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: 2008 ISBN:  0143143772 Themes: / Fantasy / High Fantasy / Elementals / Battle / Primitive Culture / Rome / Having been a fan of Jim Butcher’s urban fantasy Dresden Files series for some time, as well as a [...]

Furies of Calderon By Jim Butcher; Read by Kate Reading Audible Download – 20 hours [UNABRIDGED] Publisher:  Penguin Audiobooks Published:  2008 Themes: / high fantasy / Roman / elementals / barbarians / farm boy Best-known for his urban fantasy Dresden Files series, Jim Butcher has also penned a relatively unsung series of high fantasy novels called [...]

Od Magic By Patricia A. McKillip; Read by  Gabrielle de Cuir Audible Download – 11 hours 33 minutes [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: 2009 Themes: / fantasy / wizard school / monarchy / herbalism I know you can’t judge a book by its cover, but Od Magic is one of those books I was immediately drawn [...]

Blood of Ambrose By James Enge; Read by Jay Snyder Audible Download – 14 hours 29 mins [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Audible Frontiers Published: 2009 Themes: / high fantasy / swords and sorcery / Arthurian / necromancy / regency / immortals In his introduction to the Audible Frontiers recording of Blood of Ambrose, James Enge places his debut novel [...]

Daemon By Daniel Suarez; Read by  Jeff Gurner Audible Download – approx. 16 hours [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks Published: 2009 Themes: / cyberpunk / techno-thriller / virtual reality / online gaming / virtual reality / political intrigue Daemon‘s success as a self-published novel that crossed over to attain mainstream success is a testament to its cultural relevance, [...]

WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer) I don’t normally inject personal anecdotes or experiences into my reviews. It just isn’t my style. In the case of WWW: Wake, however, I simply can’t resist. I’m legally blind, and Robert J. Sawyer’s latest novel concerns itself with ways of seeing, in both the purely physical sense and [...]

Lamentation by Ken Scholes Ken Scholes is best-known for his short stories, but Lamentation proves that he can paint on a much broader canvas. The first in a projected five-book Psalms of Isaak series, Lamentation begins with the destruction of Windwir, the glorious urban seat of Androfrancine learning and achievement. A gypsy king, a noble [...]

Witchling (Sisters of the Moon, Book 1) by Yasmine Galenorn I was a little hesitant to delve into Yasmine Galenorn’s Sisters of the Moon series, since it’s generally categorized as “paranormal romance”. Yes, this shows contempt prior to investigation on my part. I’ve never read any “paranormal romance”, or much “romance” at all, for that [...]