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And now, a Books Released by Awesome People roundup!
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Acquired because I supported its Kickstarter YAY!:

  • Matchbox Girls, by Chrysoula Tzavelas. Because Willowholt writers FTW! I have no idea what it’s about and I’ll look forward to finding out, because Soula is Tribe. I have the ebook edition already, and the print edition should be on the way.

Bought from B&N as ebooks to add to the “repurchased as ebooks” list:

  • Cry Wolf and Hunting Ground, by Patricia Briggs. Urban fantasy; books 1 and 2 of her Alpha and Omega series.
  • Indigo Springs, by A.M. Dellamonica. Fantasy (I think this is more fantasy than UF, anyway, but I don’t know for sure). Book 1 of the Astrid Lethewood series.
  • Instruments of Darkness and Anatomy of Murder, by Imogen Robertson. Mystery; books 1 and 2 of her Crowther and Westerman series. I’ve already read Book 1 and found it excellent! Book 2 just came out.

Bought from Carina Press, because they sent me a coupon code and because of general awesomeness on the part of Zoe Archer:

  • The Last Night, by Nico Rosso. SF/romance. Picked up because Nico Rosso is the husband of Zoe Archer, and I want to see if his writing is as fun as hers!
  • Chain Reaction, by Zoe Archer. SF/romance. See previous commentary re: general awesomeness.
  • Lesserblood Lies, by Ainsley Davidson. SF/romance. Detecting a general genre theme here, folks?

And last but not least, oh my no, picked up in print from B&N tonight:

  • Frenchman’s Creek, by Daphne du Maurier. Because 1) French pirate hero WOO! and 2) apparently, after reading Rebecca, I continue to need more du Maurier in my library.
  • Raven Calls, by C.E. Murphy. Because it goes without saying that I’ll be all over a new Walker Papers from userinfomizkit on Release Day. :D

36 for the year!

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.


Gah! Several people have mentioned Matchbox Girls. I'm gonna have to give in, aren't I? ;)

I'm just sayin': WILLOWHOLT WRITERS FTW. ;)

_Indigo Springs_ is definitely urban fantasy, at least in the sense that there's magic and yet we're in a version of the modern world. Also, the author's on LJ as "planetalyx"... I enjoyed it a lot. (And if you're reading that, maybe I should also plug Derryl Murphy's _Napier's Bones_...)

Yeah, but urban fantasy specifically has connotations of "set in an urban setting", not just "a version of the modern world". There are fantasy novels that are certainly in modern-world settings, yet their actual locales are rural--Doranna Durgin's A Feral Darkness comes to mind, for example. So does Patricia McKillip's Solstice Wood.

Also, to a lot of readers, urban fantasy is only a step away from paranormal romance. ;) Which is why I wasn't sure of the distinction in this particular case.

All that said, though, I'm not reading Indigo Springs yet, I've just re-bought it. I will get to it, though I have no idea when!

And I just looked up Napier's Bones on Goodreads. Ooh, math magic. Cool. I can't guarantee I'll get to THAT any time soon either, but I'm perfectly willing to put it on the library queue! *does so* Thanks for the recommendation!

Hrmm. Or at least, I would put Napier's Bones on the library queue if either of my local libraries had copies! Damn.

Okay, wishlist it is. :)