The Den of Debauchery's Subannex

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14) Slipping the Stream. Mike Shade. Sexy cyberpunk. I liked the cyber part, but there was too much sex.

15) Carnival of Souls. Crymsyn Hart. Sorcerer brothers open a carnival to gain souls for their demonic master, but love throws a curveball into their plans. Good.

16) Through the Mirror. Crymsyn Hart. Second of the series. This time, the other brother falls in love. Not bad, but I am not having urgent need to read the third

17) Of Blood and the Moon. Jimmy Gillantine. An ancient monster haunts Memphis. Pretty good, especially for a first novel. Copy edits needed.

18) Wild Passions. S.L. Armstrong, ed. A number of stories of humans and not-quite humans in love. Everything kitsune to sea people to laboratory made anthropomorphics. Variable, as all anthologies, but solid and good.

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10) Burnt Offerings. Laurell K Hamilton. This starts Anita's trend of spending the whole book dealing with vampire/shifter politics and angsting, and then wrapping up the mystery in 3 pages. Not bad, though.

11) Micah. LKH. Anita and Micah spend their first weekend alone. She's actually working, which is good, and actively dissecting her relationship so she can escape it, which is annoying. Not bad, but more for completists.

12) Zombiality: A Queer Bent on the Undead. This anth was nominated for the Lambda Award. It's an excellent cross-section of GLBT writing, from zombified drag queens, to lesbian truckers to ordinary folks coping with life, love and brain-eaters as best they know how. Very good.

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29) Lunatic Cafe. Laurell K Hamilton. Someone is killing lycanthropes and Anita has to find out who. Can I just say how much I love Richard Zeeman, her werewolf boyfriend? Any man who cooks for me, unasked, while wearing a Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies apron is a keeper.

30) The Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling. It's been too many years.

1) Hawg. Stephen Shrewsbury. Stephen is a lovely man, smart and funny. And this book is totally gross. It's the book he wrote when he couldn't place his well-researched and written historical novel. It's a page-turner and quite possibly the goriest thing I've read. Lots and lots of horrid gorey deaths. Massive rapes. Kinky sex. Drug use. Small town corruption. Bad Formatting. (I counted at least a dozen editing errors and more formatting ones) As I tweeted "When [name drop] and Shrews sever penises it's all in a day's work. When I do it, I'm a crazy radical manhater."

2) Deviations III-Discipline. Jodi Payne and Chris Owen. More fun, this time in Paris, with Tobias and his sub, Noah. Hot and sexy.

3) Urban Gothic. Brian Keene. Not so hot on this one. Keene is hit or miss for me. When he hits, he hits big. When he misses, it's because he's being derivative. And this time.... Let's just say moving The Hills Have Eyes to inner city Philadelphia and crossing it with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre did not improve it. Go read Ghoul or Dead Sea instead.

Ellora's Cave just announced their Summer print sched.

"Raising the Dead" is going to be part of Trick or Treats 3.
A real book in a real bookstore! *bounce!*



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This is a sexy little paranormal. elisa_rolle reviewed it here

The Snake Oil Wars or Scherezade Ginsberg Strikes Again by Parke Godwin

This book is dedicated
"To those lucid and courageous minds who gave you the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, Falwell, Robertson and the God-inspired Rule of the Righteous. To those intrepid souls who fight with unflagging zeal to remove from libraries dangerous books they have not read and from theaters those spiritually toxic films they have not seen, believing that thought is a controlled substance and secular thinking hazardous to mental health."


Godwin is a brilliantly funny writer, and has a scarily vast sense of history.

In this post-life romp, lobbyist Lance Candor--Christian Reconstructionist who died saving the President from an assassination--hurls a bomb, upsetting both George Kaufmann and George Gershwin, and making Wagner roll his eyes. The resulting explosion has fallout throughout both post-life energy pools: Top Side and Below Stairs. Major historical figures of politics and religion and art wander through with only their own concerns, "personalities death had rendered more permanent than improved."

In the end, Marcus Aurelius sits on the bench as the whole face of Reconstructionism is brought forth and exposed in all its ugliness.

And anything that includes a 60's radical hippie chick coming on to a blue fertility goddess can't be all bad.


The prequel, Waiting for the Galactic Bus is also worth reading. It's set mostly Belowstairs, just as the sequel is set Topside.


I really should dig my copies out for a reread.

I'm up so late because I was finishing The Red Tent. Excellent, excellent book.

Dinah is a footnote in Genesis, a brief sidebar in the story of Jacob and his twelve sons. Bible fanfiction, and far more gripping than the source material.

Not to spoil anything, but am I a perv for wanting Joseph/Po-ti-fer slash? Joseph is presented as bisexual in the novel, a wife yet looks longingly on his bodyguards who are all beautiful as he was in his youth.

Read it. Fabulous, fabulous.