3 TBR challenge books
May. 22nd, 2009 07:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eviltammySword-Dancer by Jennifer Roberson - from main list. A Northern female warrior goes to the hot Southern desert country to hunt for her brother, stolen by slavers years before. She meets and hires a Southern warrior to guide her through the desert country and must deal with his, and just about every other man's, chauvinistic ideas that a woman can't be a real warrior. One of the early sword & sorcery stories, but more sword than sorcery (at least in this story). I enjoyed it, but I've read too many similar types of stories to see it as the groundbreaker it was in the 80's. A good read, but not sure I'll hunt out the others in the series.
The Second Summoning by Tanya Huff - from alternate list. Sequel to Summon the Keeper. Claire and Dean, after a brief disastrous separation, finally get together romantically - unfortunately their consummation, plus a few other factors, results in the summoning of an angel, encased in the anatomically correct body of a teenage boy, running loose in Canada. The presence of the angel allows a demon to come forth to equal him out - a demon in the body of a teenage girl. Claire, Dean, Diana, and Austin work together and at cross purposes to determine the fates of these two - and try not to involve too many other people while they do it. Fun. Love Austin - the sarcastic (of course) talking cat.
Injustice For All by J.A. Jance - from alternate list. J.P. Beaumont's restful vacation ends with a woman's screams - he rushes to help her pull a man from the ocean. The man, her friend and coworker on a parole board, is dead - and the woman soon is also. Beau doesn't believe she killed herself and is soon tangle up in politics and money schemes, trying to find out whether the woman's politician husband or his well-connected father (or both) is the killer. Good mystery, good characters, interesting side stories. Jance is one of my favorites :) (A to Z title)
The Second Summoning by Tanya Huff - from alternate list. Sequel to Summon the Keeper. Claire and Dean, after a brief disastrous separation, finally get together romantically - unfortunately their consummation, plus a few other factors, results in the summoning of an angel, encased in the anatomically correct body of a teenage boy, running loose in Canada. The presence of the angel allows a demon to come forth to equal him out - a demon in the body of a teenage girl. Claire, Dean, Diana, and Austin work together and at cross purposes to determine the fates of these two - and try not to involve too many other people while they do it. Fun. Love Austin - the sarcastic (of course) talking cat.
Injustice For All by J.A. Jance - from alternate list. J.P. Beaumont's restful vacation ends with a woman's screams - he rushes to help her pull a man from the ocean. The man, her friend and coworker on a parole board, is dead - and the woman soon is also. Beau doesn't believe she killed herself and is soon tangle up in politics and money schemes, trying to find out whether the woman's politician husband or his well-connected father (or both) is the killer. Good mystery, good characters, interesting side stories. Jance is one of my favorites :) (A to Z title)
