Finished Dead Man Rising by Lilith Saintcrow. This is the second in Saintcrow’s urban fantasy series about Dante Valentine, a nercomance who raises people from the dead. Be warned: there are some spoilers ahead. In this one, Danny’s mourning the loss of her demon lover Japhrimel (from book one, Working for the Devil). But she doesn’t have time to grieve long. →

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Finished Holidays are Hell, an anthology featuring holiday-themed stories from Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Marjorie M. Liu, and Vicki Pettersson. I’m not going to get into the details of each story, but just do a brief recap. Harrison serves up a Rachel Morgan story, featuring the Hollows witch as a young student trying to find a girl lost on the solstice. →

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Finished Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews. I’ve heard a lot of people buzzing about this series, so I decided to give it a try. This urban fantasy focuses on Kate Daniels, a mercenary who works in Atlanta cleaning up magical messes. But after her mentor is murdered, Kate starts investigating, crossing paths with vampires, shapeshifters, and more – including an evil creature →

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Finished The Accident Man by Tom Cain. My significant other gave me this book because it’s about an assassin, and I’m writing an urban fantasy series about an assassin. This thriller focuses on Samuel Carver, a British ex-soldier who specializes in making terrorists and other bad guys have unfortunate “accidents.” He’s on holiday when he’s called back to work by →

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Finished Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. This graphic novel reinvents the legend of Batman by setting the story in Gotham City ten years after Bruce Wayne retired from being a superhero. Gotham is more violent and crime-ridden than ever, thanks to a gang calling themselves the Mutants. The gang’s reign of terror prompts Bruce to unleash his →

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