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Working for the Devil by Lilith Saintcrow
Move over Anita Blake. I was browsing through my library's shelves and randomly picked up "Working for the Devil" which blew me away within the first pages. Saintcrow writes with a tight, action-oriented almost comicbook like narrative. Dante Valentine isn't a typical urban-fantasy heroine, she's senstive, flawed and incredibly human. Gone are the large chested women with strange colored hair and eyes with limitless abilities who are just so perfect.
Dante Valentine is greeted by a demon sporting a gun on her doorstep early one morning with a message from "The Prince." Who is the Prince? Lucifer, who has contracted Dante (an accomplished Necromance and bounty hunter) to track down Santino a lower level demon who stole an important artifact from the Prince. With the Devil, there's always a catch, Santino stalked and murdered her lover along with other accomplished Necromances.
Dante Valentine is greeted by a demon sporting a gun on her doorstep early one morning with a message from "The Prince." Who is the Prince? Lucifer, who has contracted Dante (an accomplished Necromance and bounty hunter) to track down Santino a lower level demon who stole an important artifact from the Prince. With the Devil, there's always a catch, Santino stalked and murdered her lover along with other accomplished Necromances.
Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
4.0
My favorite part of this book is Armstrong delving further into the differences between witch magic and sorcerer's magic. At first, I wasn't sure about Armstrong's choice of switching between characters during the series, but I like that we get to know other characters and see old characters from a new perspective.
Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
4.0
Paige Winterbourne returns! Even more fun times with sorcerers, cabals, necromancy and lingerie.
Kelley Armstrong is just fantastic and really consistently good - not a single moment when I thought I was bored or uninterested in the book.
Kelley Armstrong is just fantastic and really consistently good - not a single moment when I thought I was bored or uninterested in the book.
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.0
Long before Harry Potter had a twinkle in his green eyes, there was Sparrowhawk of Gont. While Harry Potter, the wizard du jour, is humble and shy, Ged is loud, proud and eager for attention. Seeking greatness, Ged eventually leaves the apprenticeship of Ogion to pursue studies at the island of the wise - Roke Island, where there is ag boarding school for apprentic wizards.
Ged's rivalry with an older, wealthy apprentic wizard, pushes Ged to learn more and be greater than any boy at his school. Even that is still is not enough, Ged truly wishes to best the older boy and ultimately, causes Ged to commit a great act of evil in the process.
Le Guin's writing style is sparce, but incredibly effective in creating a setting and mood. The thing that I most enjoy about the Earthsea novels, is that they deviate from the normal ethnocentricism of fantasy novels and use non-western cultures as a model for Earthsea. Le Guin also brings up interesting issues of gender and race. My favorite element of Le Guin's writing style are her ongoing themes of balance, light and dark, life and death, which are heavily influenced by Buddism.
Ged's rivalry with an older, wealthy apprentic wizard, pushes Ged to learn more and be greater than any boy at his school. Even that is still is not enough, Ged truly wishes to best the older boy and ultimately, causes Ged to commit a great act of evil in the process.
Le Guin's writing style is sparce, but incredibly effective in creating a setting and mood. The thing that I most enjoy about the Earthsea novels, is that they deviate from the normal ethnocentricism of fantasy novels and use non-western cultures as a model for Earthsea. Le Guin also brings up interesting issues of gender and race. My favorite element of Le Guin's writing style are her ongoing themes of balance, light and dark, life and death, which are heavily influenced by Buddism.