4-27-12 A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison - Fiction

4 - Harrison delves more into Trent and Rachel in this book.  Rachel is still wearing the charmed silver band and is trying to live as just a witch.  Unfortunately, there is a militant human faction that wants her blood to create their own demon and engineer a curse to destroy all Inderlanders.  Rachel's life is at stake, as usual, and Trent offers her his own brand of elven magic as help.  There's not too much interaction with Jenks and Ivy in this one but it is still a great adventure as Trent starts trying to master and use his elven magic and Rachel has to decide if she wants to live as half a witch or as a full fledged demon.  Too bad this just came out because I'm all ready for the next book!

4-22-12 Acacia by David Anthony Durham - Fiction

5 - I had totally forgotten about this trilogy since I read the first one 5 years ago.  Then, when I was looking at my stats for the blog, I noticed the title again.  So I looked it up and now all three books have been released.  So I re-read this one and will read the other two shortly.  I still loved this book.  A great work of fantasy with lots of intrigue and military action.  Acacia is the story of four royal siblings who are whisked away to the four corners of the kingdom when their father, King Leodan, is assassinated and war begins.  Nine years later, the kingdom is under the conquerors rule, Leodan's eldest daughter is the conqueror's mistress, his oldest son is a desert warrior, his youngest daughter is a priestess, and the youngest son is a pirate.  The four children are united in their desire to avenge their father and take back the kingdom but none of them are aware that any of the others survived.  Truly a great story with so many factions and twists that it will hold your interest.  I can't wait to read the next book.

E-Readers

OK, so I'm considering buying an e-reader.  I'm leaning toward the NOOK Simple Touch because it has a very long reading life and I don't really need the extra bells and whistles.  Can anyone give me feedback on their e-readers and what they love/hate about them?

3-29-12 Pale Demon by Kim Harrison - Fiction

5 - One of the best adventure books in the series.  Rachel, Trent, Jenks, and Ivy are on a road trip to get to the west coast and, of course, it does not go smoothly.  Trent's on an elf quest so there are elf assassins on their trail and Rachel's still in trouble with the coven so they have a tail on them too.  Throw in a psychotic day walking demon and Rachel's uncertain status in the ever after and this is a true adventure.  Can't wait for the new book!