Tales of MU is an open-ended serial detailing the college life of one Mackenzie Blaise, a university student in a world where our fantasy is reality and our science is fantasy. Moving from her sheltered existence as an outcast and self-professed geek into the wild, wide world of Magisterius University, Mackenzie narrates her own story for us in a style . . .
Gracey Daylittle is an empathic pie maker with a unique kind of magic. Ever since she and her sister found the Prime of Darkness lying unconscious on the side of the road, their lives —and their town— haven’t been the same. Marco Flores is an eight year old with a curious menagerie of friends and an eerie connection to . . .
The story of Cirno Excalibur, who found a pole in his back yard, got struck by weird lightning, and went with his new talking pole to go fight the demons. . . .
Welcome to Curio Killed the Cat—an occult shop in Kensington Market, Toronto. Meet the employees (a lazy hoodoo spellcaster, a feminist succubus, and a snobbish Wiccan priest), their perpetually drunk (and confused) boss, and their strange customers, as they try to keep the shop from closing. . . .
Eight friends gather for a reunion vacation, but go missing after a hurricane strikes along their plane’s flight path. While friends and family mourn their loss when the crashed plane is found, the impossible happens: they appear in public claiming to have been in a cave in the mountains. Missing for months, they have no memory of the interval. What . . .
The Party Girl killer strikes fear in the hearts of New Orleanians causing problems for the vampires who secretly control the city. Meanwhile, the Order of Mages seeks two lost sorceresses, twin souls decended from an ancient sorcerer destined to bring about hell on earth. Vampire and private detective Malcolm is hired to find the lost souls and discovers the . . .
Joe works the night shift at a government train corporation in New York. Jason monitors surveillance cameras in the San Francisco Bay Area for the Department of Homeland Security. The thing connecting them? The subject of Joe’s adoration and Jason’s surveillance: a college student whose casual purchase of a book from craigslist becomes the catalyst for an insane adventure across . . .
Follows the adventures of a small group dedicated to exploring supernatural mysteries. During the course of the adventure new characters are introduced and pasts revealed. The POV of the posts are stated in the title and switch between several of the characters. It starts out as a journal but changes into a normal story as it progresses. The author uses . . .
The governments of the world are keeping an uncomfortable secret, one that has had repercussions throughout the entirety of human history. They are no closer to understanding the nature of this phenomenon, and for now their best option remains to keep it far from the minds of the general population. Their secret has been dubbed ‘metahumanity’ – the existence . . .
"Lost Days" has a lot of potential. It features multiple characters, from vampires to magicians, in a modern setting. While the entire text needs a good job of editing (parades have routs instead of their usual routes, and the only Santa Clause I know is a movie) the narrative voice itself is very strong and engaging.
I want to like Tales of MU. There’s a lot of promise here—the world Erin has created is compelling, and her abilities as a writer are not wanting.
The trouble with this story is that I can’t be convinced that the story is anything more than Laurell K. Hamilton at her [more . . .]