Reviewed Books

Below is a list of all the books I’ve reviewed for Romantic Times Book Reviews.

January 2009 (current reading)

• Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (editors), Fast Ships, Black Sails
• Dom Testa, The Comet’s Curse
• Richard K. Morgan, The Steel Remains

December 2008 (upcoming)

• Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing, 4.5 stars
• Holly Phillips, The Engine’s Child, 3 stars
• James P. Blaylock, The Knights of the Cornerstone, 3 stars

November 2008 (on newsstands now)

• Elizabeth Bear, All the Windwracked Stars, 4 stars
• John Scalzi, Agent to the Stars, 4.5 stars
• Mike Shepard, Kris Longknife: Intrepid, 3 stars
• Thirteen Orphans, Jane Lindskold, 3 stars
• Swallowing Darkness, Laurell K. Hamilton, 2 stars
• Fortune and Fate, Sharon Shinn, 4.5 stars
• Dead Reign, T.A. Pratt, 4.5 stars

October 2008

• Jo Walton, Half a Crown, 4.5 stars
• Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages, 4.5G stars
• Mercedes Lackey, Foundation, 4 stars
• Michael Flynn, The January Dancer, 3 stars
• Lilith Saintcrow, Hunter’s Prayer, 4 stars

September 2008

• Gene Wolfe, An Evil Guest, 2 stars
• Michael Marshall Smith, The Servants, 3 stars
• Timothy Zahn, Odd Girl Out, 3 stars
• Daryl Gregory, Pandemonium, 4 stars
• Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head, 4 stars
• Kage Baker, The House of the Stag, 4.5 stars
• C.E. Murphy, Hands of Fate, 3 stars

August 2008

• John Scalzi, Zoe’s Tale, 4.5 stars
• Joe Haldeman, Marsbound, 3 stars
• Elizabeth Bear, Hell and Earth, 4 stars
• Galen Beckett, The Magicians and Mrs. Quent, 4 stars

July 2008

• Lynn Flewelling, Shadows Return, 4.5 stars
• Lilith Saintcrow, Night Shift, 4 stars
• Steven Brust, Jhegaala, 4 stars
• Charles Stross, Saturn’s Children, 4.5 stars
• Naomi Novik, Victory of Eagles, 4 stars
• Elizabeth Bear, Ink and Steel, 4 stars

June 2008

• Kelly McCullough, Codespell, 4 stars
• Jay Lake, Escapement, 4 stars
• Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Mercy, 4 stars
• Laurell K. Hamilton, Blood Noir, 2 stars

May 2008

• Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Passage, 4 stars
• C.E. Murphy, The Queen’s Bastard, 3 stars
• Denise Little (ed.), Front Lines, 3 stars
• Alan Campbell, Iron Angel, 4 stars
• Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange, 4 stars
• Laura Anne Gilman, Free Fall, 4 stars

April 2008

• T.A. Pratt, Poison Sleep, 4.5G stars
• Jim Butcher, Small Favor, 4 stars
• Jamil Nasir, The Houses of Time, 4 stars
• Jonathan Straham (ed.), The Starry Rift, 4 stars

March 2008

• Kim Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails, 4.5 stars
• C.E. Murphy, House of Cards, 4 stars
• Misty Massey, Mad Kestrel, 3 stars
• Anne Bishop, Tangled Webs, 3 stars
• Kate Brallier, The Boundless Deep, 3 stars

February 2008

• Jonathan Barnes, The Somnambulist, 4 stars
• Francis Clark, Waking Brigid, 2 stars
• S.M. Peters, Whitechapel Gods, 3 stars

January 2008

• Elizabeth Bear, Dust, 4.5 stars
• Simon R. Green, The Unnatural Inquirer, 3 stars
• Michael Swanwick, The Dragons of Babel, 4 stars
• Mercedes Lackey, Firebird, 3 stars
• Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey, Dragon Harper, 2 stars
• Gregory Frost, Shadowbridge, 4.5 stars

December 2007

• Wen Spencer, Endless Blue, 4 stars
• Mercedes Lackey, Reserved for the Cat, 3 stars
• Jim Butcher, Captain’s Fury, 3 stars
• Madeline Howard, A Dark Sacrifice, 2 stars
• Ellen Datlow (ed.), Inferno, 4 stars
• George R.R. Martin, Dreamsongs Vol 2, 4 stars

November 2007

• C.E. Murphy, Heart of Stone, 4 star
• Gene Wolfe, Pirate Freedom, 4 stars
• George R.R. Martin, Dreamsongs Vol 1, 4 stars
• Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan’s Tale: City of Coins and Spice, 4 stars
• Kristine Smith, Endgame, 3 stars
• Sharon Shinn, Reader and Raelynx, 4.5 stars

October 2007

• Charles Stross, Halting State, 4 stars
• Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette, A Companion to Wolves, 4.5 stars
• Jo Walton, Ha’Penny, 4.5 stars
• Kelly McCullough, Cybermancy, 4 stars
• Mary Gentle, Ilario: Stone Golem, 3 stars
• Naomi Novik, Empire of Ivory, 4 stars
• Rudy Rucker, Postsingular, 2 stars
• T.A. Pratt, Blood Engines, 4 stars
• Terry Pratchett, Making Money, 3 stars

September 2007

• Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner, Many Bloody Returns, 4.5 stars
• Gail Dayton, The Eternal Rose, 3 stars
• Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 4.5 stars
• Tara Bray Smith, Betwixt, 2 stars
• Wesley Stace, by George, 4 stars

August 2007

• Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension, 4.5 stars
• Elizabeth Bear, Undertow, 4 stars
• Emma Bull, Territory, 4 stars
• Karl Schroeder, The Queen of Candesce, 3 stars
• Mary Gentle, Ilario: The Lion’s Eye, 4.5 stars
• Sarah Monette, The Mirador, 4 stars

July 2007

• Elizabeth Bear, Whiskey and Water, 4.5 stars
• Elizabeth Haydon, The Thief Queen’s Daughter, 4 stars
• Kage Baker, The Sons of Heaven, 4.5 stars
• Kristin Landon, The Hidden Worlds, 4 stars
• Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Legacy, 4 stars
• Simon R. Green, The Man with the Golden Torc, 4 stars
• Tobias S. Buckell, Ragamuffin, 4 stars
• Tom Piccirilli, Midnight Road, 3 stars

June 2007

• Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Justice, 4.5 stars
• Jay Lake, Mainspring, 4 stars
• Jim C. Hines, Goblin Hero, 3 stars
• Laura Anne Gilman, Burning Bridges, 4 stars
• Laurell K. Hamilton, The Harlequin, 3 stars
• Robert Holdstock, The Broken Kings, 2 stars

May 2007

• C.E. Murphy, Coyote Dreams, 4 stars
• Dave Duncan, Mother of Lies, 3 stars
• John Klima, Logorrhea, 4 stars
• John Scalzi, The Last Colony, 4.5 stars
• Lawrence Watt-Evans, The Ninth Talisman, 4 stars
• Susan Hubbard, The Society of S, 4 stars

April 2007

• Chaz Brenchley, River of the World, 2 stars
• Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites, 3 stars
• Jim Butcher, White Night, 4.5 stars
• Karen Chance, Claimed by Shadow, 3 stars
• Kim Harrison, For a Few Demons More, 4.5 stars
• Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind, 4 stars
• Sandra McDonald, The Outback Stars, 4 stars

March 2007

• Anne Bishop, Belladonna, 4 stars
• China Mieville, Un Lun Dun, 4.5 stars
• Dave Duncan, The Alchemist’s Apprentice, 4 stars
• Eliot Fintushel, Breakfast with the Ones You Love, 2 stars
• Mercedes Lackey, Fortune’s Fool, 3 stars
• Rob Thurman, Moonshine, 4 stars

February 2007

• Chris Marie Green, Night Rising, 2 stars
• Guy Gavriel Kay, Ysabel, 4.5G stars
• Julie E. Czerneda and Jana Paniccia, Under Cover of Darkness, 3 stars
• L.E. Modesitt, Jr., The Elysium Commission, 4 stars
• Mark Del Franco, Unshapely Things, 4 stars
• Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound, 4 stars
• Robert Newcomb, A March Into Darkness, 2 stars
• Robin D. Owens, Protector of the Flight, 4 stars

January 2007

• Caitlin R. Kiernan, Daughter of Hounds, 4 stars
• Drew Bowling, The Tower of Shadows, 2 stars
• Elizabeth Haydon, The Assassin King, 3 stars
• Simon R. Green, Hell To Pay, 4.5 stars
• Toby Bishop, Airs Beneath The Moon, 3 stars

December 2006

• Elizabeth Bear, Carnival, 4.5 stars
• Jim Butcher, Cursor’s Fury, 4 stars
• Jim Grimsley, The Last Green Tree, 3 stars
• Rudy Rucker, Mathematicians in Love, 2 stars

November 2006

• Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphans Tales: In The Night Garden, 4.5 stars
• Faith Hunter, Bloodring, 3 stars
• Jim C. Hines, Goblin Quest, 4 stars
• John Scalzi, The Android’s Dream, 4 stars
• Mike Shepherd, Kris Longknife: Resolute, 2 stars
• Peter Watts, Blindsight, 4.5 stars
• S.M. Stirling, The Sky People, 3 stars

October 2006

• Karl Schroeder, Sun of Suns, 4.5 stars
• Kat Richardson, Greywalker, 4 stars
• Kate Elliott, Spirit Gate, 3 stars
• Laurell K. Hamilton, Strange Candy, 4 stars
• Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Beguilement, 4.5 stars
• Melanie Rawn, Spellbinder, 3 stars
• Michael Flynn, Eifelheim, 4 stars
• Sharon Shinn, Dark Moon Defender, 4 stars

September 2006

• Brian Lumley, Sorcery In Shad, 3 stars
• Elizabeth Haydon, The Floating Island, 4.5 stars
• Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 3 stars
• Harry Turtledove, The Disunited States of America, 3 stars
• Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Stamping Butterflies, 2 stars
• Kage Baker, The Machine’s Child, 4 stars
• Kit Whitfield, Benighted, 4 stars
• Martin H. Greenberg and Brittiany A. Koren (editors), Fantasy Gone Wrong, 3 stars
• P.R. Frost, Hounding the Moon, 2 stars
• Sunny, Mona Lisa Awakening, 2 stars

August 2006

• Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey, Dragon’s Fire, 3 stars
• Dawn Cook, Princess at Sea, 2 stars
• Ellen Kushner, The Privilege of the Sword, 4.5G stars
• Jo Walton, Farthing, 4.5G stars
• Joe Haldeman, A Separate War and Other Stories, 4 stars
• Kelly McCullough, Webmage, 4 stars
• Michelle Sagara, Cast in Courtlight, 3 stars
• Naomi Kritzer, Freedom’s Sisters, 3 stars
• Steven Brust, Dzur, 4 stars
• Tim Powers, Three Days to Never, 4 stars

July 2006

• Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn, 4.5G stars
• Denise Little (ed.), Hags, Sirens, & Other Bad Girls of Fantasy, 2 stars
• Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron, 4 stars
• Jack Campbell, The Lost Fleet: Dauntless, 4 stars
• Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms, 4.5 stars
• Laura Anne Gilman, Bring It On, 4 stars
• Laurell K. Hamilton, Danse Macabre, 3 stars
• Lynn Flewelling, The Oracle’s Queen, 4.5 stars
• Sarah Monette, The Virtu, 4 stars

June 2006

• Dave Duncan, Children of Chaos, 4 stars
• Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Scion, 4.5G stars
• Karen Chance, Touch the Dark, 3 stars
• L.E. Modesitt, Jr., The Hammer of Darkness, 4 stars
• Morgan Llewelyn, The Greener Shore, 2 stars (not on RT’s site for some reason)
• Naomi Novik, Black Powder War, 4 stars
• Peter David, Fall of Knight, 4 stars
• Steve Cash, Time Dancers, 3 stars

May 2006

• C.E. Murphy, Thunderbird Falls, 3 stars
• Charles de Lint, Widdershins, 4.5 stars
• Charles Stross, The Clan Corporate, 4 stars (not on RT’s site for some reason)
• Chaz Brenchley, Bridge of Dreams, 3 stars
• Diana Pharaoh Francis, Path of Blood, 2 stars
• Elizabeth Bear, The Chains that You Refuse, 4.5 stars
• Hal Duncan, Vellum, 3 stars
• Jenna Rhodes, The Four Forges, 3 stars
• Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty, 4 stars
• Julie E. Czerneda, Regeneration, 3 stars
• Michele Hauf, Rhiana, 2 stars
• Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade, 4.5 stars
• Tracy & Laura Hickman, Mystic Empire, 3 stars

April 2006

• Amanda Hemingway, The Sword of Straw, 4.5 stars
• C.J. Cherryh, Pretender, 3 stars
• Chris Bunch, Knighthood of the Dragon, 3 stars
• David Drake, Fortress of Glass, 4 stars
• David Keck, In the Eye of Heaven, 3 stars
• Dennis L. McKiernan, Once Upon An Autumn Eve, 2 stars
• Jenna Solitaire, Keeper of the Waters, 2 stars
• Jennifer Roberson, Karavans, 4 stars
• Naomi Novik, His Majesty’s Dragon, 4.5 stars
• Rob Thurman, Nightlife, 3 stars
• Sarah Zettel, Under Camelot’s Banner, 3 stars
• Simon R. Green, Sharper than a Serpent’s Tooth, 4 stars
• Susan Wright, To Serve and Submit, 3 stars
• Wen Spencer, Wolf Who Rules, 4.5 stars

March 2006

• Anne Bishop, Sebastian, 4.5 stars
• Cecelia Dart-Thornton, The Well of Tears, 2 stars
• Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer, 4.5 stars
• Gail Dayton, The Barbed Rose, 3 stars
• Juilene Osborne-McKnight, Song of Ireland, 4 stars
• Laurell K. Hamilton, Micah, 4 stars
• Lawrence Watt-Evans, The Wizard Lord, 4 stars
• Manda Scott, Boudica: Dreaming the Hound, 2 stars
• Mercedes Lackey, One Good Knight, 4 stars
• Patricia A. McKillip, Solstice Wood, 4.5 stars
• Patricia Briggs, Moon Called, 4 stars
• Sharon Shinn, The Thirteenth House, 4 stars
• Yvonne Navarro, Ultraviolet, 2 stars

February 2006

• Andrew M. Greeley, Irish Crystal, 1 star
• Elaine Cunningham, Shadows in the Starlight, 2 stars
• Fred Saberhagen, An Old Friend of the Family, 3 stars
• Keri Arthur, Full Moon Rising, 4 stars
• Larry Niven, The Draco Tavern, 4 stars
• Lou Anders (ed.), Futureshocks, 4.5 stars
• Robin D. Owens, Sorceress of Faith, 4 stars
• Sean McMullen, Voidfarer, 4.5 stars
• Stan Nicholls, The Righteous Blade, 3 stars
• Susan Krinard, Hammer of the Earth, 3 stars
• Susan McBride, The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club, 3 stars
• Tobias S. Buckell, Crystal Rain, 4.5 stars

January 2006

• Alan F. Troop, A Host of Dragons, 2 stars
• Barb & J.C. Hendee, Traitor to the Blood, 2 stars
• Harry Turtledove, In High Places, 4 stars
• Jennifer Fallon, Wolfblade, 4 stars
• John Ridley, What Fire Cannot Burn, 2 stars
• Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Felaheen, 4.5 stars
• Rachel Lee, Shadows of Prophecy, 3 stars
• Richard Paul Russo, The Rosetta Codex, 3 stars
• S.L. Viehl, Rebel Ice, 4 stars
• Sara Douglass, The Crippled Angel, 4.5 stars

December 2005

• Ann Tonsor Zeddies, Blood and Roses, 2 stars
• C.J. Ryan, Glorious Treason, 4 stars
• Catherine Asaro, The Final Key, 3 stars
• Cecelia Holland, The Serpent Dreamer, 2 stars
• Tim Pratt, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, 4.5G stars

November 2005

• Alan Dean Foster, Running from the Deity, 4 stars
• Elaine Isaak, The Singer’s Crown, 4 stars
• John Marsden, Out of Time, 4 stars
• Judith Tarr, King’s Blood, 4.5 stars

October 2005

• Cherie Priest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, 3 stars
• China Mieville, Looking for Jake, 3 stars
• Justine Musk, Bloodangel, 4 stars
• M.M. Buckner, War Surf, 3 stars
• Maggie Bruce, The Gourdmother, 2 stars
• Mike Resnik, Dragon America, 4 stars
• Sarah Ash, Children of the Serpent Gate, 2 stars
• Sujata Massey, The Typhoon Lover, 2 stars

September 2005

• Andre Norton & Sasha Miller, Dragon Blade, 2 stars
• C.J. Ryan, Dexta, 4 stars
• Carol Berg, Daughter of Ancients, 4 stars
• Joanna Carl, The Chocolate Mouse Trap, 3 stars
• Jon Courtenay Grimwoon, Effendi, 4.5 stars
• Karen E. Olson, Sacred Cows, 4 stars
• Karl Schroder, Lady of Mazes, 4.5 stars
• Kate Forsythe, The Tower of Ravens, 3 stars
• Kit Reed, Dogs of Truth, 3 stars

August 2005

• A.C. Crispin, Storms of Destiny, 4 stars
• Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Acorna’s Children: First Warning, 3 stars
• Chris Bunch, Dragonmaster, 4 stars
• Deborah Hale, The Destined Queen, 2 stars
• Ellen Schreiber, Kissing Coffins (Vampire Kisses 2), 2 stars
• Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains, 4.5 stars
• Holly Lisle, Talyn, 4 stars
• Jacqueline Carey, Godslayer, 3 stars

July 2005

• Anne Kelleher, Silver’s Bane, 2 stars
• C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman, 4 stars
• Holly Black, Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, 4 stars
• Ian R. MacLeod, House of Storms, 3 stars
• Isabel Glass, The Divided Crown, 3 stars
• Jennifer Fallon, Harshini, 4 stars
• Julie E. Czerneda, Migration: Species Imperative #2, 2 stars
• Laura Anne Gilman, Curse the Dark, 4.5 stars
• Mercedes Lackey, Sanctuary, 3 stars
• Naomi Kritzer, Freedom’s Apprentice, 4.5 stars
• Patricia A. McKillip, Od Magic, 4.5 stars
• Paul Park, A Princess of Roumania, 3 stars

June 2005

• Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter, Sunstorm, 4 stars
• Brandon Sanderson, Elantris, 4 stars
• Charles Stross, The Hidden Family, 3 stars
• Jane Lindskold, Child of a Rainless Year, 3 stars
• L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Alector’s Choice, 4 stars
• Lois McMaster Bujold, The Hallowed Hunt, 4.5G stars
• Marc D. Giller, Hammerjack, 4 stars
• Richard Morgan, Market Forces, 4 stars (not on RT’s site for some reason)
• Robert E. Howard, Bran Mak Morn: The Last King, 4 stars
• Stephen Baxter, The Web: Gulliverzone, 4 stars
• Tracy & Laura Hickman, Mystic Quest, 2 stars

May 2005

• Alma Alexander, The Hidden Queen, 3 stars
• Andre Norton, Three Hands for Scorpio, 2 stars
• Christopher Golden, Wildwood Road, 3 stars
• Curt Benjamin, Lords of Grass and Thunder, 3 stars (not on RT’s site for some reason)
• Eldon Thompson, The Crimson Sword, 3 stars
• Hilari Bell, Rise of a Hero, 3 stars
• James Alan Gardner, Gravity Wells, 4.5 stars
• John Moore, The Unhandsome Prince, 4 stars
• Juliet Marillier, The Dark Mirror, 3 stars
• Ramsey Campbell, The Overnight, 3 stars
• Sheree R. Thomas, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, 4 stars
• Wesley Stace, Misfortune, 4 stars

April 2005

• Dennis L. McKiernan, Once Upon a Summer’s Day, 3 stars
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Buried Deep, 4 stars
• Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Crystal Soldier, 3 stars

March 2005

• Barri Bryan, Canaan, 2 stars
• Dan Chernenko, The Scepter’s Return, 3 stars
• Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, 4.5 stars
• Karen Wiesner, Mirror Mirror, 2 stars
• Lisa Tuttle, The Mysteries, 4.5 stars
• R. Garland Gray, Darkscape: Redemption, 2 stars

February 2005

• Kathleen Ann Milner, Between Two Worlds, 1 star (review pulled by author prior to publication)
• Max Overton, Lion of Scythia, 2 stars

January 2005

• Anita-Louise Johnson, Faithful, 3 stars
• Barbara M. Hodges, The Silver Angel, 3 stars
• Deborah Chester, The Queen’s Knight, 3 stars
• Jennifer DiCamillo, The Price of Peace, 2 stars
• T.M. Gray, Ghosts of Eden, 2 stars

December 2004

• Jane Lindskold, Wolf Captured, 4 stars
• Jennifer Macaire, The Secret of Shabaz, 3 stars
• Kally Jo Surbeck, For the Love of…, 2 stars
• Sherry Mathewson, The Barrier Stone, 2 stars
• Sherry Hall Mauro, The Face of Heaven, 1 star (review pulled by author prior to publication)

November 2004

• Jacqueline Carey, Banewreaker, 3 stars
• Melisa Michaels, World-Walker, 2 stars
• Steven Harper, Offspring, 4 stars

October 2004

• Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Battle of Corrin, 1 star
• Judith Tarr, Rite of Conquest, 4 stars
• Leslie What, Olympic Games, 3 stars
• Lisa Cach, Dream of Me, 3 stars

September 2004

• Greg Keyes, The Charnel Prince, 2 stars
• Lisa Cach, Come to Me, 3 stars
• Marion Zimmer Bradley & Deborah J. Ross, A Flame in Hali, 3 stars
• Susie Bright, Three the Hard Way, 3 stars