Happy 2nd Birthday to The Speed of Write!

It seems I only read 60 books this year, which is 12 less than last year. How did that happen? Either there was a lot less to read or they just took longer than normal. Then there’s always the problem with being easily distracted by television. I will have to make a point of reading [...]

Review of Dark Road Rising by P.N. Elrod

It feels like forever since I read the last Vampire Files book, A Song in the Dark.Four years to be exact. But for all of us Jack Flemming fans, the wait is finally over! Jack et al are back for book 12 in the series, Dark Road Rising.
The beginning finds Jack’s PI partner, Charles Escott, [...]

Review of Blood From Stone by Laura Anne Gilman

In the sixth, and possibly last, Retrievers novel,  Blood From Stone,we find Wren Valere working for her good friend P.B. The demon has received a suspicious letter from one of his “brothers” asking if he is in possession of documents that belonged to their creator. These documents pertain to the creation of P.B.’s kind and [...]

Review of The Doomsday Key by James Rollins

Gray Pierce, Painter Crowe, Monk Kokkalis and the rest of Sigma Force are back in James Rollins new book, The Doomsday Key,and we get to come along for the ride!
In the 11th century, King William of England commissioned a survey called the Domesday Book. The book was a record of all the towns of his [...]

Review of Poltergeist by kat Richardson

I was glad to see that in Poltergeist,book two of the Greywalker series, Kat Richardson brought Harper Blaine into the 21st Century and got her a cell phone. The beeper was just too 90s and gave Greywalkeran outdated feel.
In Poltergeist, Harper has been asked to find the saboteur of a college poltergeist research group. The [...]