Dog Wizard

5 best books like Dog Wizard (Barbara Hambly): Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna, The Orphans of Raspay, Horror Stories, The Unkindest Tide, Thor, Volume 2: Who Holds the Hammer?

Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna

Author	Chris Dingess
ISBN	1607069822

Did I just meet my new favorite graphic novel? Yes . . . I think I did!

Holy cow! Volume one of Manifest Destiny was so freaking entertaining I cannot wait for more. I gobbled this up faster than any graphic novel volume I can remember. If the future volumes are even half as entertaining,...

The Orphans of Raspay

Author

Lois McMaster Bujold

When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their...

Horror Stories

Author	Liz Phair
ISBN	0525511989

From the two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville comes a haunting memoir in stories in the tradition of Patti Smith's M Train

When Liz Phair was just starting out in the Wicker Park, Chicago, music scene in the early 1990s,...

The Unkindest Tide

Author	Seanan McGuire
ISBN	0756415071

Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong.

When the Luidaeg—October "Toby" Daye's...

Thor, Volume 2: Who Holds the Hammer?

Author	Jason Aaron
ISBN	0785197842

3.5 stars

There's not much to this volume, is there?
Still, the 3 issues of Thor were good, and the big reveal was quite dramatic.

In the background, Malekith is plotting to take over every world connected to Yggdrasil, and Mr. Minotaur is plotting to strip them of their...