Wicked as They Come (Blud, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Jan 20, 2012 Bexx rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: shifters, urban-fantasy, paranormal-romance, ibook, fantasy, fae

OH OH OH FOR THE LOVE!!! Can I give this fifty bajillion stars?! Please?! It's something new and fantastic and brilliant..

Oh Criminy had me at Hello, Love.

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Jul 22, 2012 Christal rated it it was ok

Shelves: ghosts, female-lead, magic, shady-government-agency, vampires, series-i-abandoned, alt-history, steam-punk, paranormal-romance, time-travel

This book wasn't my favorite, but did have some interesting elements. I will not be continuing the series, but others may have a better experience than I did.

I really enjoyed the world building in this novel. The human world was just like ours, but the world of Sang was inhabited by all manners of blood (or blud) drinking creatures. I loved the carnival aspect of this book. I would have loved to read a whole book about that. I liked Tish, the main heroine, best when she was playing the gypsy for ...more

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Jan 30, 2012 A book away from an episode of hoarders rated it really liked it

Shelves: pnr-uf-fantasy, steampunk-and-or-historical, first-in-series, read-in-2013

I knew I was going to like this book less than 10 pages in. A hospice nurse finds a locket at an Estate Sale and is transported to Sang. Sang is an alternate universe and also about 100 years behind us. Then we meet Criminy Stain. *sigh* Tish, our MC, meets him immediately.

There are bludmen, bludbunnies (which still tickles me a bit), bludrats, and pretty much anything else blud-you can think of. Except birds, because apparently, that’s just silly. :) Carnival folk and real magic round out this ...more

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May 10, 2013 Jesslyn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: cat-series-ongoing, cat-series-not-a-cliffhanger, cat-steampunk, z2013-kindle-reads, kindle-cheap-price

The one jarring note in this book was the fact that a nurse (more than once) referred to patients as 'vegetables'. That was just wrong. Other than that, I found the romance sweet and I just loved Criminy ...more

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