"The train rushes by stars and star-clusters too vast to count. As each flit by, parts of myself dissolve as though I leave a life and its memories behind."

The White Globe isn’t a story you read; it’s one you experience. Ethereal and mysterious, it explores the worlds within us. What begins as a pleading accounting of an experience turns into an incredible tale. The White Globe asks you to suspend disbelief while you immerse yourself. Abstract and often indistinct, it yet presents a shocking juxtaposition to linear existence, leaving you wondering exactly which reality is authentic.

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I don't know how Seanan McGuire continues to write compelling installments of the October Daye series but she does.

Night and Silence is the 12th in an urban fantasy series that is easily one of my top five "must reads". This is one of those series that I would recommend starting at the bottom and reading your way up. October "Toby" Daye has too much backstory to simply start in the middle, although the author does do a good job of getting you up to speed if you've forgotten what happened in the previous book.

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I’ve waited for quite a while after finishing The Siren and the Specter to write my review. I wanted to let it percolate for a bit in my mind before trying to assign a rating to it. As a book blogger, that’s one of the hardest measures of a book. I’m settling on a 3.5 Paws for this one. For those of you unfamiliar with my rating system, 3 is “it was okay” and 4 is “I liked it”. No matter how I try to approach it, this falls into that gray area in between. Let me tell you why.

Atmosphere: Janz sets an eerie tone from the very start. I had no problem visualizing the house and the surrounding area. The first 25% of the book is sluggish but I think that has chiefly to do with the setup of the location and character backstory. There is something “off”; whether it’s the house or the people. There is unquestionably a taint to the place you can’t quite put your finger on and with it, a fantastic sensation of anticipation.

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The House by the Cemetary leads you to believe that this is yet another haunted house story. The creepy cover combined with the bump in the night blurb might make you think that this is a simple haunting. 

It's so much more. 
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How in the world have I not read something by Katie Epstein before?

Death Be Blue was my introduction to her writing. I picked it because, let's be honest ya'll, that's a great cover.

The blub reminded me a lot of one of my favorite series, The Bloodhound Files by D.D. Barant. The main character is an FBI profiler that has been taken from her world into an alternate reality where only 1% percent of the population is human and the rest is vampires, werewolves, and golems. Oh my. After reading the blurb, I was all in. And I'm so glad I did!

The similarity to The Bloodhound Files is superficial. Death Be Blue is it's own creature. I read this in about two days and would halve finished a lot sooner if not for having to work (ugh) those two days. This book is so much fun!

In Terra Vane's world of Portiside, she works as an Enforcer Field Agent, bringing wrong-doers to justice with her shifter partner, Kaleb. Think of them as detectives on the police force, if the detectives all had magical or supernatural abilities and the criminals grow fur and teeth at will.

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I was having a bad day.
The ugly thug facing me readied himself for the next swing.
"What did you say, bastard?"...
"I'm haffin a fah day," I managed to repeat through a mouthful of saliva and blood.

The PI trope has been done so many ways in urban fantasy, but it's probably one of my favorites. Hostile Takeover adds another name to the detective game as Cristelle Comby writes a surprisingly well-done UF series debut. Toted as a paranormal mystery, noir fans will still get a kick out of Hostile Takeover as will fans of the Dresden Files.

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Chase the Dark is the first book in the YA urban fantasy Steel & Stone series.

At first, I thought, here we go again: A young bratty heroine complaining about how life is so unfair and a serious need to grow up, the typical flirty guy and his tall, dark and emo best friend, and an instalove triangle. What I got instead was a speedy read urban fantasy with amusing characters, NO instalove, fast-paced action and an intriguing world filled with daemons and other supernatural creatures.

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Catherine Cavendish does it again with an eerie tale in Damned By the Ancients.

The Mortimer family has moved into a new home in Vienna, closer to Ryan’s new job. Very quickly, they realize that things aren’t what they seem. There is a padlock on the basement door and they are told by the owners that no one is allowed down there. Their daughter Heidi very quickly imparts some very disturbing information about their new home.

“Mum. Dad. There’s a man in the basement.”

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"Now me, I'm alive. It's not that I haven't had offers mind you, but I prefer breathing to placing a bet on the postmortem roulette wheel."

The Last Living Detective brings an interesting take to the urban fantasy genre and to the creation of paranormal creatures. You may be human while you live, but when you die, you are regenerated as some flavor of mythical being. The drawback is that you don't get to choose. Some get vampire or werewolf. Others aren't so lucky and come back as ghouls and zombies instead. It's explained as a new phenomenon, a gas that changed everything and imparts immortality. It's become all the rage though, with staying human becoming the unpopular choice.

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