false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg 2401818 2 A covenant broken. A hell unleashed... New York City's only legal counsel to the fabled Old Races, Margrit Knight is levelheaded in all matters extraordinary. But when she's summoned to negotiate a peace treaty among rival factions, her own mortal world threatens to fall apart. Margrit's been in hot water before, but reentering the underworld brings a new set of problems. And a new set of friends and enemies, including a ruthless vampire mobster, a dragonlord who won't take no for an answer, a band of subversive selkies...oh, and Alban Korund, the sexy gargoyle who got her into this mess -- and whose granite-strong touch still haunts her every fantasy... 2408951 1 3 2008 House of Cards (The Negotiator Trilogy, Book 2) total:311|5:78|4:137|3:73|2:20|1:3| 311 1200 508 35 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 4 1 false Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 14:06:15 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 15:12:20 -0700 2008
In this book, she's paying off favors to both...more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 0 0 false Thu Nov 27 19:19:02 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 19:20:06 -0800 2008
That's how she first met Alban, a gargoyle, in HEART OF STONE, the first book, and how she finds out that about the Old Races, Djinn, Dragons, Vampires, Gargoyles and Selkies.

As one of th...more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 4 0 false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 17 16:50:50 -0800 2009 Sat Aug 22 18:42:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 4 0 false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 14:38:49 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 10:21:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 4 0 false Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 19:35:43 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 22:45:09 -0700 2008 House of Cards, Book 2 of C.E. Murphy's Negotiator series, took me a bit to read. It has less overt action than Book 1 of this series, and a lot more emphasis on the politics between the various Old Races as well as the shifting relationships around the heroine, Margrit. It's not an easy book to rea...more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 1 1 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 09:08:17 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 23 07:58:12 -0700 2008 I'm a lawyer, remember?

Remember how the doctor on Star Trek used to say, I’m a doctor, Jim, not a --, and he said it so often that it’s become a cultural joke long outlasting the performance? I think C.E. Murphy’s reminders that Margrit Knight, the main character of House of Cards...more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 4 0 false Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 20 08:13:06 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 12 07:37:18 -0700 2008 Heart of Stone, but it still wasn't a 5-star book. The first third of the book is very slow which is the same problem I had with the first book. This might have a lot to do with the author setting up the story and not all the players being involved, bu...more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 2 1 false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 15:27:21 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 14:10:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 5 0 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 22 13:52:49 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 13:59:13 -0700 2008
In this book, Margrit finds herself in the middle of a dispute bet...more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 2 0 false Sat Aug 22 22:13:29 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 22:03:28 -0700 2009 1
Not such a big fan of this one, though. The book never gets going. All I can remember from reading it right after it came out is Margrit driving back and forth betwe...more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 5 0 false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 06:50:01 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 06:55:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 1 1 false Mon Dec 22 17:08:39 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 05:30:29 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 17:08:39 -0800 2008
I am regretting that now. This is literally a sleeping pill. Big accomplishment last night, I read a whole chapter instead of just 6 pages before being knocked unconscious.]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 3 1 false Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 04:58:11 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 13:58:16 -0700 2008
The pacing is slow, even dragging at some points, and for awhile I thought the book would never come to an en...more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 4 1 false Sat Jun 13 22:17:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 22:17:00 -0700 2009 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 2 1 false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 20 18:47:04 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 24 09:56:56 -0800 2009
This book was a slog for me. It was neither as engaging or as quick-moving as the first book. The author seemed to get bogged down in a lot of myri...more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 3 0 false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 13:20:40 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 19:39:53 -0800 2008 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 3 0 false Sun Feb 22 11:01:47 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 12:16:35 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 11:01:47 -0800 2009 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 4 0 false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 02 18:30:55 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 27 06:56:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 3 0 false Tue Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 14:22:45 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 22:53:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2401818 0373802633 9780373802630 311 35 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255874469m/2401818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2401818.House_of_Cards 3 0 false Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 06:14:30 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 14:17:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2401818