Shannon C.’s review of Desire Unchained (Demonica, Book 2) by Larissa Ione
Paranormal romance released by Forever 3 Mar 09
It says something about the compellingness (is that even a word?) of an author’s series when it doesn’t take me six months between reading books. I didn’t wait long at all between reading Pleasure Unbound and [...]

Shannon C.’s review of Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James
Contemporary romance released by Berkley 3 Mar 09
Originally, I hadn’t been particularly interested in reading this book. The phrase “feminist heroine” usually fills me with an unnameable dread. But after reading Jessica’s take on the gender politics and feminism in the book I [...]

Shannon C.’s review of Pleasure Unbound (Demonica, Book 1) by Larissa Ione
Paranormal romance released by Forever 20 June 08
Originally, I had been planning to review the first three novels in the Demonica series as a Duckies do Series post because RL, she keeps me busy. But recent discussions of the books on Twitter, [...]

Shannon C.’s review of Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, Book 1) by Patricia Briggs
Urban fantasy released by Ace 31 Jan 06
I know what you’re thinking. You are no doubt thinking to yourself, ‘What took you so long to start the Mercy Thompson books, Shannon?’ And you would be right. They have only been recommended [...]

Shannon C.’s review of Law of Averages by Wylie Kinson
Contemporary romance ebook released by Ellora’s Cave 17 May 08

Ms. Kinson specifically requested that we review one of her books, and unfortunately, she got stuck with me. My track record for Ellora’s Cave books has been something less than inspiring, unless you’re Samantha Kane, [...]

Shannon C.’s review of Earthchild by Katriena Knights
Science fiction romance published by Samhain Publishing 6 Jun 07 
I love being able to discover a new-to-me author. It’s one of the greatest perks to reviewing, but more often than not, my new author discoveries aren’t really all I wish they were.

ShannonC’s review of Personal Demons by Stacia Kane
Contemporary paranormal/urban fantasy romance released by Juno 1 Apr 08
I asked Stacia Kane for an ARC of her upcoming release, Personal Demons, because I read her blog and I’ve liked one of the books she wrote as December Quinn quite a lot. I didn’t really know what I [...]

One of our faithful readers and a fellow blogger, Shannon C, has also reviewed Grimspace by Ann Aguirre, released by Ace 26 Feb 08.  Shannon also has an author interview, with PRIZES.
Here’s an excerpt of Shannon’s review:

Blogger and one of our favorite commenters, Shannon C from Ravings of the Semi-Lucid, gives us 12 lists she thought about thinking about and why she didn’t…

12 Top Twelve Lists I Considered Writing but Didn’t
 1. The Top Twelve Best Heroines – I kept wanting to sneak in heroines from pesky other genres of fiction, and my top pick [...]