Reviews
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Instinct (Chronicles of Nick #6) By Sherrilyn Kenyon : Review
Zombies, demons, vampires, shapeshifters— another day in the life of Nick Gautier– and those are just his friends. But now that he’s accepted the demon that lives inside him, he must learn to…
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Review: Alice in tumblr-Land and Other Fairy Tales for a New Generation, by Tim Manley
Peter Pan finally has to grow up and get a job, or at least start paying rent. Cinderella swaps her glass slippers for Crocs. The Tortoise an the Hare Facebook stalk each other.…
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Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf by R.A. Salvatore : Review
Bloody war rages across the Forgotten Realms world in the third book of the Companions Codex, the latest series in R.A. Salvatore’s New York Times best-selling saga of dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden. In…
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Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs : Review
For once, mated werewolves Charles and Anna are not traveling because of Charles’s role as his father’s enforcer. This time, their trip to Arizona is purely personal, as Charles plans to buy Anna a…
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Empty Rooms By Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Richie Krebbs is an ex-cop, a walking encyclopedia of crime and criminals who chafes at bureaucracy. Frank Robey quit the FBI and joined the Detroit PD, obsessed with the case of a missing…
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Half the World by Joe Abercrombie : Review
Sometimes a girl is touched by Mother War. Thorn is such a girl. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named a murderer by the very…
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Review: Mrs. Bradshaw’s Handbook to Travelling Upon the Ankh-Morpork & Sto Plains Hygienic Railway, by Terry Pratchett
Fully Illustrated and replete with useful tidbits Mrs. Bradshaw’s Handbook offers a view of the Sto Plains like no other Authorized by Mr. Lipwig of the Ankh-Morpork & Sto Plains Hygienic Railway himself,…
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Unbound (Magic Ex Libris #3 ) by Jim C. Hines : Review
For five hundred years, the Porters have concealed the existence of magic from the world. Now, old enemies have revealed the Porters’ secrets, and an even greater threat lurks in the shadows. The…
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Firefight (Reckoners #2) by Brandon Sanderson : Review
They told David it was impossible–that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet, Steelheart–invincible, immortal, unconquerable–is dead. And he died by David’s hand. Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life…
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Must Read Urban Fantasy
I was sitting at my laptop the other day browsing through books to read, deciding what I wanted to reread when I realized that more and more these days I find myself leaning…
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The Zombie Combat Field Guide: A Coloring and Activity Book For Fighting the Living Dead by Roger Ma : Review
The Zombie Combat Manual provided potential zombie fighters with comprehensive instructions on how to do battle in the inevitable outbreak of an undead plague. However, even the most comprehensive advice is useless without…
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The Arched Doorway: Year in Review 2014
It’s been an exciting year for us here at the Arched Doorway. We had two new members join our team — SJardine and MelissaKat. We owe at least half of this year’s posts…
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Best Books of 2014
As 2014 draws to a close, it seemed fitting to look back over the past year and share our favourite reads. There are some duplicates, and there are quite a few we didn’t…
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Review: Dragons at Crumbling Castle (Special Edition), by Terry Pratchett
A deluxe, slipcase edition of Dragons at Crumbling Castle, complete with critical commentary, bonus stories and a beautiful limited-edition print. Focus on a planet revolving in space… Focus in on a small country…
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Facial by Jeff Strand : Review
Greg has just killed the man he hired to kill one of his wife’s many lovers. He’s now got a dead body in his office. Carlton, Greg’s brother, desperately needs a dead body.…
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TINKERMAGE (GnomeSage #2)
Many fantasy races have been written about: Elves, Dwarves, even Goblins, but Kenny Soward is the first I’ve seen to write about….. gnomes. Tinkermage is the second book in his GnomeSaga Trilogy, published…
