Blade Dancer
10 best books like Blade Dancer (S.L. Viehl): Gideon the Ninth, How to Hack a Heartbreak, An Accidental Goddess, A Confederation of Valor, Dragon-Ridden, Melting Stones, American Vampire, Vol. 3, American Vampire, Vol. 4, The Seventh Bride, Eternals
Author | Tamsyn Muir |
ISBN | 1250313198 |
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton.
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.
Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils...
Author | Kristin Rockaway |
ISBN | 1525834258 |
Swipe right for love. Swipe left for disaster.
By day, Mel Strickland is an underemployed helpdesk tech at a startup incubator, Hatch, where she helps entitled brogrammers—"Hatchlings"—who can't even fix their own laptops, but are apparently the next wave of startup geniuses. And...
Author | Linnea Sinclair |
ISBN | 0553587994 |
Raheiran Special Forces captain Gillaine Davré has just woken up in some unknown space way station, wondering where the last three hundred years have gone. The last thing she remembers is her ship being attacked. Now it seems that while she was time-traveling, she was ordained a goddess…. Gillaine’s...
Author | Tanya Huff |
ISBN | 0756403995 |
As military SF, maybe 4 stars. Better than most.
But I'm starting to think that military fiction has become so rigid that it's almost an automatic minus when you judge it just as SF.
Military SF checklist:
* Protagonist is a hard-boiled NCO - check (but a point for her being female)
*...
Tate leads a life full of secrets. Having an incredibly life-like dragon tattoo that moves when nobody is looking and no memory of her life prior to eight months ago can make things difficult. When a momentary impulse leads Tate to return an ancient hairpin to its rightful owner, it sparks a chain of events...
An audiobook first!" New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce has written the new novel in her popular Circle of Magic universe to go directly to audio--preceding the print version by at least a year. Residents on one of the islands south of Emelan have sent a call for help to Winding Circle temple:...
Author | Scott Snyder |
ISBN | 1401233333 |
Two epic World War II tales in one massive volume!
In the Pacific, Pearl's husband Henry joins a clandestine group on a secret mission to Japan to hunt a new breed of bloodsucker. Meanwhile, Skinner Sweet has plans of his own...
And in Europe, vampire hunters Felicia Book and Cash McCogan go behind...
Author | Scott Snyder |
ISBN | 1401237185 |
American Vampire flashes back to two very distinct points in American history. The first tale comes from the early 1800's with the "The Beast in the Cave" featuring art by the legendary Jordi Bernet (Torpedo, Jonah Hex). Learn about the original American Vampire, Skinner Sweet, and his involvement...
Young Rhea is a miller’s daughter of low birth, so she is understandably surprised when a mysterious nobleman, Lord Crevan, shows up on her doorstep and proposes marriage. Since commoners don’t turn down lords—no matter how sinister they may seem—Rhea is forced to agree to the engagement.Lord...
Author | Neil Gaiman |
ISBN | 0785125418 |
The first time I read this I was a diehard Gaiman fangirl and I gave it 4 stars.
This time around?
Eh.
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't exactly satisfying (to me) in any sort of a meaty story sort of way. It does, however, have that typical Gaiman smell to it. So, if he can do no wrong in...
In the last few years before his death, Robert Jordan worked closely with Chuck Dixon and Mike Miller on the graphic adaptation of New Spring.
The eight full-color issues of New Spring, released between 2005 and 2010, tell the story of the search for the infant Dragon Reborn and of the adventures...
Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
Author | Josh Gates |
ISBN | 0743491726 |
Truth is stranger than legend . . . and your journey into both begins here. World adventurer and international monster hunter Josh Gates has careened through nearly 100 countries, investigating frightening myths, chilling cryptozoological legends, and terrifying paranormal phenomena. Now,...