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Guest Dare: Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

By On February 18, 2009 · 6 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Guest Dare, The Dare

Last month we had Graeme from Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review over to review Neil Gaiman’s first installment to his epic Sandman series, Preludes and Nocturnes. This month we decided to pick on ask Kristen over, who runs one of the best fantasy review blogs out there with Fantasy Cafe. Since Kristen is [...]

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Guest Dare: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

By On January 28, 2009 · 13 Comments · In Book Reviews, Guest Dare, The Dare

Last month we had Marg over to review Stephen King’s It. This month’s victim? The unsuspecting Graeme from Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review! After Graeme admitted to us that he had never read Neil Gaiman’s epic Sandman comics, we had to Dare him. (Yes, again. We know this is the third Preludes and Nocturnes [...]

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Smugglivus Feats of Strength part 2 – Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

By On January 6, 2009 · 5 Comments · In 10 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smugglivus, The Dare

Title: Daughter of the Forest

Author: Juliet Marillier

Genre: Fantasy

Stand Alone/ Series: Book 1 of 4 books set in the Sevenwaters world. It can be read as a stand- alone – the next books deal with the descendents of the protagonist.

Summary: from the author’s website – First [...]

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Smugglivus Feats of Strength: Desperate Duchesses by Eloisa James

By On January 6, 2009 · 3 Comments · In 6 Rated Books, Book Reviews, The Dare

Title: Desperate Duchesses

Author: Eloisa James

Genre: Historical Romance

Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Desperate Duchesses series

Why did I read this book: As part two of our Smugglivus Feats of Strength, Ana dared me to read this historical romance. This is Ana’s favorite [...]

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Smugglivus Feats of Strength: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

By On January 5, 2009 · 6 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smugglivus, The Dare

Title: The Woman in White

Author: Wilkie Collins

Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction

Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel

Why did I read this book: As the first part of our feats of strength, Ana dared me to read this novel. It is one of her favorite [...]

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Smugglivus Feats of Strength: Ana reads The Talisman by Stephen King

By On January 5, 2009 · 1 Comment · In 6 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smugglivus, The Dare

Title: The Talisman

Author: Stephen King and Peter Straub

Genre: Fantasy with a few elements of horror.

Stand Alone/ Series: Stand Alone but there is a sequel of sorts with an adult Jack Sawyer titled Black House

Summary: Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic [...]

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Guest Dare: It by Stephen King

By On December 22, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Book Reviews, Guest Dare, The Dare

For this month’s dare we invited Marg from Reading Adventures – we invited Marg because, well, she explain it all in her post. Here it goes:

Title: It

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Horror

Stand alone/Series: Stand Alone

Why Did We Pick This Book For The Dare: This is one of [...]

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Guest Dare: Lord of Scoundrels

By On November 14, 2008 · 14 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Guest Dare, The Dare

For this month’s dare we invited Karen Mahoney, writer of YA Urban Fantasy (her first story will be published in a YA anthology, The Eternal Kiss in Autumn 2009) . We love Karen’s livejournal (how could we not? A fellow comic book, Neil Gaiman and Melissa Marr lover!) and we dared her to read [...]

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The Dare: The Shadow of the Wind

By On October 17, 2008 · 12 Comments · In 10 Rated Books, The Dare

Title: The Shadow of the Wind

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón; translated by Lucia Graves

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, a true Gothic Novel

Stand alone or series: As is, it is a stand alone book–but author Carlos Ruiz Zafón has two more books, a prequel to this one and another tale told from [...]

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The Dare: Orphans of Chaos

By On October 16, 2008 · 8 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews, The Dare

Title: Orphans of Chaos

Author: John C. Wright

Genre: Fantasy

Stand Alone/ Series: Volume 1 of Chronicles of Chaos trilogy

Summary: For Amelia and her friends, the strict English boarding school she lives in is all she has ever known. The sprawling estate, bordered by unknown territory on all four sides, [...]

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