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REVIEW: Fire and Ice by Anne Stuart

David Xie wrote an interesting post today on
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Dear Ms. Stuart,
Fire and Ice is the fifth and (if I’m not mistaken) final book in your Ice series, which features the agents of a ruthless spy organization known as the Committee. This one is all about the flamboyant Reno, Taka’s younger cousin.
Back in the third book, Ice Blue, Reno, aka Hiromasa Shinoda, a video-game loving Japanese punk with long red hair and teardrops tattooed on his cheeks, met up with Jilly Lovitz, Summer’s brainy half sister, who was then eighteen years old. From the moment those two laid eyes on each other, a powerful attraction was born, but Summer and Taka made Reno promise to stay far away from Jilly.
Fire and Ice opens two years later. Reno is now twenty-seven and an agent of the Committee (though how exactly he is able to do the Committee’s work looking as conspicuous as he […]

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REVIEW: The Queen’s Bastard by C.E. Murphy

Jayne wrote an interesting post today on
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Dear Ms. Murphy,
Your urban fantasy novels have failed to work for me in the past but I like giving authors second chances, especially when they expand into a favorite subgenre. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a political fantasy, and this book reminded me why I enjoy it.
Set in an alternate fantasy world modeled after historical Europe, The Queen’s Bastard follows the life of Belinda Primrose, the illegitimate daughter of Queen Lorraine of Aulun. Unacknowledged by her mother, Belinda was raised by her father, Robert Drake, to be an assassin and spy who serves Aulum by protecting her mother’s throne. Her latest mission brings her to Gallin, where she must find proof that the rival Queen Sandalia of Lanyarch and Lutetia is plotting to kill Lorraine in order to seize her throne. There, Belinda insinuates herself within the circle of friends belonging […]

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REVIEW: Aurelia by Anne Osterlund

Jayne wrote an interesting post today on
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Dear Ms. Osterlund,
When I received this book from Jane, I was excited. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book solely about a princess and I admit I had a soft spot for them when I was younger. And not only did Aurelia feature a crown princess, it also had the spymaster’s son who loves her and an assassination plot. So many elements I love in one book. How could it possibly go wrong?
Aurelia is heir to the throne of a kingdom currently ruled by a king who’s driving it to bankruptcy in order to please his second wife, Aurelia’s stepmother. Needless to say, while the common people love Aurelia, they have little respect for her father. But it appears someone doesn’t share the citizens’ affection for the crown princess. Unbeknownst to Aurelia, someone has been trying to kill her. They’ve succeeded in foiling the assassination attempts so […]

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GUEST REVIEW: Ember and Like a Thief by Bettie Sharpe

Guest Reviewer Made a great post today on dearauthor.com
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This special guest review is from author Sherry Thomas. You’ll want to read the entire thing down to the end because Sherry and I are sponsoring a pay it forward Bettie Sharpe giveaway. You see, Bettie Sharpe gave away a fantastic retelling of the Cinderella story. Only we got it in drips and drabs, one installment a week on the blog of Dionne Galace.
But it was so good that I think everyone was salivating for Bettie’s release from Samhain. I suspect that Bettie is bound for New York. You heard it here first. (okay, maybe not here first since I think any number of people said that on Dionne’s blog).
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Dear Ms. Sharpe,

Brace yourself. I’m going to French-kiss you—I’m talking about serious, messy, slobbering tonguing—and I don’t know if I’ll be able to stop at just that.
I’ve railed on my blog that although […]

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El asesino del ajedrez

gio903 Did an interesting post today on gio903.wordpress.com
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Primero que nada, respondere a la interrogativa que a muchos se les ah formado al ver el titulo de este post, ¿Quien es el asesino del ajedrez?
Es un individuo llamado Alexander Pichushkin, tiene 33 años, nativo de Rusia y fue encarcelado el año pasado tras haber sido acusado de 49 muertes y 3 intentos de asesinato. Es un asesino en serie que en una de las declaraciones que hizo mientras esperaba en la carcel su juicio dijo: “Si no me hubieran agarrado, nunca habría parado, nunca. Salvaron a muchas vidas capturándome”.

A pesar de haber sido acusado por la muerte de 49 personas, el lo niega y sinicamente se jacta de haber matado 61!, 60 de los cuales ocurrieron en el Parque Bitsevsky, en la capital moscovita.
61 suena demasiado, pero lo que el asesino del ajedrez en realidad queria era llegar a las 64 muertes, ya que el tendia a marcar […]

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