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The River’s Gift
by Mercedes Lackey
This story is, without a [...]

The Nymph King
by Gena Showalter
Shaye Holling is a cynical and jaded young woman. She makes Anti-Cards, cards that are the exact opposite of what you would normally send to a person, which are a big hit. She’s seen her mother go through far too many marriages and men who are “the one” to believe in [...]

Mysteria
by MaryJanice Davidson, Susan Grant, P.C. Cast, and Gena Showalter.
Mysteria, home to the Fighting Fairies!, lies in Colorado and was formed decades ago when a demon showed a random act of kindness to a group of weary magical settlers in search of a place to call home. The book is comprised of four short stories [...]

Dragon Rider
by Cornelia Funke
In the present day magical creatures, referred to as “fabulous animals”, must hide away in order to avoid detection and subsequent extermination by humans. In a valley the last of the world’s dragons live, but their way of life is about to changed. One day news comes that the humans are planning [...]

Joust
Book One of the Dragon Jousters Series
by Mercedes Lackey
As a dragon enthusiast I jumped for joy when I found this book on the bookshelf at my local bookstore. After I read it I couldn’t help but think that this was what a dragon book should be. Mercedes Lackey has always been one of my favorite [...]

Doppelganger
by Marie Brennan
This may have been Marie Brennan’s introductory novel but Ms. Brennan has made a powerful statement for herself and has established herself as a fantasy writer capable of holding her own with some of the genre’s A-list authors. The story has two main protagonists, Mirage and Miryo, this in itself is not a [...]

A Charmed Death
Second book in the Bewitching Mystery series
by Madelyn Alt
A Charmed Death is actually the second book in Madelyn Alt’s Bewitching Mystery series, the first being The Trouble with Magic. That said, despite jumping into the series without a clear idea of how everything began and the back story behind certain characters I found [...]

Eragon
First book in the Inheritance Trilogy
by Christopher Paolini
Now where to begin? Eragon holds much promise in a time where the stories told of dragons still depicts them as monsters and authors still tend to treat them as mindless beasts, with a few notable exceptions. However I must confess, I found the movie to be more [...]

Dhampir
First book in The Noble Dead Saga
by Barb and J.C. Hendee
Too bad the story wasn’t quite as exciting as the summary leads us to believe.
The book has a promising start, in the prologue we see the story set off from an unknown creature’s POV (later we assume it is Parko) as it slips lizard-like into [...]

Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons
by Dr.Ernest Drake
To be frank I was quite leery of purchasing this book. I have read several books that attempt to be “encyclopedias” of fantasy and fairy creatures and have been badly disappointed in the past. Dragonology is thankfully exceptionally amusing, entertaining, and a must-have/must-read for all dragon lovers. The [...]