New Book Review On Black Gate

[dr_pretentious]

It’s kind of comforting to have a deadline, now that we’re dealing with frozen pipes in the house we’re trying to sell in a state where we no longer live. No matter how nutty things get, I still make a priority of reading and reviewing at least one book every two weeks in a genre I love. This week, I reviewed Laura Anne Gilman’s Heart of Briar. It’s what a paranormal romance might look like if Clark Ashton Smith and C.L. Moore wrote in collaboration with… okay, I don’t actually read any big name romance writers, but the name that really comes to mind is Angela Korra’ti, a writer friend whose recurring protagonist is a software tester of Faerie-American and African-American heritage. Anyhow, Heart of Briar is a fun book that does some very surprising things with romance genre conventions. To figure out whether it might be your fun book, go read the review.

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[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

You have a typo you might want to fix:

Heart of Fire, volume one of The Portals, was published by Harlequin Luna on July 30, 2013. It is 400 pages, priced at $7.99 for the paperback and digital versions. Volume two, Soul of Fire, was released on September 24.

I believe that should be "Heart of Briar." :-)

They look intriguing, I will check 'em out!