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Simon R. Green, Something From the Nightside
Ace (2003) ISBN:0-441-01065-2
Score: -1

Start of the Nightside urban fantasy series (supernatural mystery rather than paranormal romance), about a hidden section of London where anything can happen and often does (including time travel). I never quite managed to believe in the characters (which I guess makes the ending ironic).

Greg Keyes, The Briar King
Del Rey (2003) ISBN: 0-345-044066-8
Score: 2

First novel of the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, an epic fantasy series in the style of GRRM (but with more overt magic). Good, but had a bunch of petty annoyances for me: big prophecies about the End of the World (actually, it seems to be the end of humanity on this world), invented, misspelled, and archaic words (some I think were used wrongly) that jar me out of the story, and characters getting possessed by the bad guys (something that I never like). It also has lots of POV characters (5 in the first 50 pages; I stopped counting after 10) but several don't survive their section so there's really only four main plot threads.

Jim Butcher, "Heorot"
St. Martin's (2007) ISBN: 0-312-37504-2
Score: 1

A Harry Dresden short story from the anthology My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, and set right before Small Favor.

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