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Books / Re: Clean Urban Fantasy Recommendations
« on: December 29, 2008, 11:00:43 PM »
I will second the votes for both Greene (Nightside is dark but not sexual and the Torc series are just a great ride) and Thurman (though I also have only read Nightside and Moonshine, again pretty gritty but fun times). I also recommend Kelly Armstrong's women of the Oetherworld series (a little more sex but not smutty) and a novel called Dog Days (and its sequel New Tricks) but John Levitt.

Tops on the Urban fantasy list should always be Jim Butcher and his Harry Dresden series of novels but I am assuming that anyone looking for UF has already read those.

The Illona Andrews books are good, if a little vague. By the end of book two there are still a lot of things that we don't know about the main character (whose name escapes me right now) which I am not thrilled with since some of them at least seems to have been left out purely so they can keep coming up.

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Books / Re: review: Furies of Calderon
« on: December 29, 2008, 10:51:27 PM »
This is a really fun series of books even though they aren't exactly changing the world. I am currently reading Princep's Fury (book 5) which just came out so won't spoil anything but I do encourage you to stick with it. As a general rule I find the beginings of these books a little to exposition heavy with a ton of action coming in around the midway point and from there they just fly.

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Books / Re: review: Blood Bound
« on: December 29, 2008, 10:46:55 PM »
I will agree that Blood Bound was a nicely put together book. And also that the vampires seemed a little too stereotypical. I do wish that I had stopped with this book though, Iron Kissed (the next novel in the series) takes some pretty dark and disturbing turns particualrly at the end which I didn't much care for.

I personally love Jim Butcher for my urban fantasy but if you like the Mercy stories I also recommend picking up Bitten by Kelly Armstrong and going though her Women of the Oetherworld series. They are a lot of fun though they do have more overt sex then Briggs' stories.

Nice review, thanks for taking the time.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Dragonsteel **SPOILERS**
« on: December 29, 2008, 10:40:02 PM »
This sounds like something I need to read. Sadly I live in Canada and none of the local Universities have copies of it on hand. Since I haven't been a student at any of them in a very long time it seems unlikely that they will be ablet o track it down for me.

I wonder if anyone might know how to get a copy. I, like achren99 don't want to bother Mr. Sanderson especially while he is working on Memory of Light but if anyone else has a copy and his permission to distribute it I would love to get a look at it.

p.s. first post, booyah.

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