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December 17, 2025

Review: Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

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Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, ... more >

June 13, 2025

Review: Grave Importance (A Dr. Greta Helsing Book 3) by Vivian Shaw

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A charmingly witty fantasy adventure starring Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies. Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in therapeutic ... more >

February 11, 2025

Review: Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing # 1) by Vivian Shaw

SiriusB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsfemale doctor / ghoul / London / Urban-Fantasy / Vampire3 Comments

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Greta Helsing inherited the family’s highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills – vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although barely making ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life ... more >

October 9, 2023

Review: Resurrection Reprise by Hailey Turner

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Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Spencer Bailey has spent his entire life under government oversight for something he can’t change: his magic’s affinity for breaking souls. After surviving the end of the world, Spencer joins the Supernatural Operations Agency with the intention of keeping his head down and his ... more >

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September 8, 2023

Jayne’s Tor Originals Reading List

JayneB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / Reading Listsdetective / little free library / short stories / Tor Publisher / Vampire4 Comments

Knowledgeable Creatures by Christopher Rowe A dog detective is hired by a female human to investigate a murder that she committed. But of course, all is not as it seems in this strange, mysterious world rendered wonderfully by speculative fiction author Christopher Rowe. Review A dog detective? A confused possible ... more >

July 19, 2019

REVIEW: All the World’s an Undead Stage by Angel Martinez

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / cats / LGBTQIA romance / LGBTQIAP+ / librarian / No Paranormal Left Behind / Offbeat Crimes Series / POC / police / policemen / Vampire4 Comments

Book six in the Offbeat Crimes series ‘Old actors never die’ shouldn’t be literally true. Carrington Loveless III, skim-blood vampire and senior officer of Philly’s paranormal police department, has long suspected that someone’s targeting his squad. The increasingly bizarre and dangerous entities invading their city can’t be a coincidence. So ... more >

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