Marlene

Marlene is a librarian, ebook advocate, science fiction fan, and RPG fan who lives in Atlanta. She and her husband are owned by three cats, just ask them. She's a geek and a nerd and proud of it. She's also an avid reader of everything, including the back of the cereal box, and has been blogging since April 2011 at Reading Reality and is a reviewer at Library Journal as well as active on Goodreads.

Review – The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Reviewed by Marlene I picked up The Traitor Baru Cormorant because I read the author’s commentary on something entirely different, which was probably this year’s Hugo kerfuffle but I now can’t find, and just plain liked the way he put words together. I’m still wondering what it was, but I’m really glad it inspired me […]

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Joint Review – Crosstown Crush (Sins in the City #1) by Cara McKenna

Reviewed by: E & Marlene E: McKenna is a very gifted author. Everything I have read by her is well crafted and vivid so when I say I struggled reading this story, it wasn’t because of the writing, but because it was written so extremely well. Mike and Samira, Sam for short, have been married

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Joint Review – Siren’s Call (Harmony #12, Rainshadow #4) by Jayne Castle

Publisher: Jove Publish Date: Out Now How we got this book: eARC from the publisher via NetGalley Reviewers: Marlene and Ericka In the mysterious world of Harmony, there are places filled with unexplored marvels. But Rainshadow Island isn’t about to give up its secrets… In the alien catacombs of Rainshadow, there are creatures whose compelling

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Review – Day Shift (Midnight Texas #2) by Charlaine Harris

Publisher: Ace Publish Date: Out Now How I got this book: NetGalley Reviewer: Marlene There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, Texas, where the residents like to keep to themselves. Even in a town full of secretive people, Olivia Charity is an enigma. She lives with the vampire Lemuel, but no

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Review – Midnight Crossroad (Midnight Texas #1) by Charlaine Harris

Publisher: Ace Publish Date: Out Now How I got this book: NetGalley Reviewer: Marlene Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and

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