Hello Readers,

Ok been a while and I am sorry for my absence… I could offer excuses, but to be honest its 50/50… those of you following the previous Blogs “The Journey Home” know I have been working to closing on a house and getting my life back together… well I’m happy to say I have a home again and we’re slowly unpacking and setting everything up. YAY! But like I said it’s 50/50… yes i am still unpacking and moving furniture and stuff on my days off but I’ve also had time to write and I haven’t taken it. So half overworked and half lazy, LOL.

But now i want to jump right back in… I want to bring you news, reviews, and maybe some snide commentary… So to start it off I have a review for you:

Hiram Grange and the Nymphs of Krakow, the 5th and Final (?? I hope not) Novella.

This volume was written by Richard Wright, and this is my first time reading him, though it definately will NOT be the Last time. This installment of the series is the “Bruce Willis Film”– Let me explain…. Willis has a habit of getting completely messed up, hurt, broken, battered, etc in practically ALL of his movies… (yeah even in the 80’s Blind Date he got beat up and dragged by a car). The book starts off with a bang, with Hiram in New York battling a creature of the night… a creature little (if ever) used in literature, a Were-Bat. (that alone is pretty cool and I think Mr Wright might have a background involving RPGs, where else does one encounter the non-standard in monsters?)

After the battle with the were-bat Hiram is immediately given a new assignment, bundled on a plane and shipped off to poland to deal with a Fae spirit called a Rusalka. Arriving already battered and bereft of his normal range of pharmacutical aids he quickly discovers that nothing is as it seems. Matter of fact most of the events of the previous four volumes are put on their ear… and the line between friends and enemies blurs.

I don’t like to give too much away, suffice to say that Hiram is battered physically AND Mentally. Also this CANNOT be the end of the series. There is just so much more i want to know, I NEED the rest. PLease Tim we need a few more volumes, we need to see what happens next.

I highly reccomend the entire Hiram Grange Series and i will be looking into more of Wright’s work. Do yourself a service and use the link to the left to go over to Shroud and snag yourself a copy of the book, you WILL enjoy it… as long as you like running battles, plot twists, Fae spirits that create super LUST, Water gods… and a Dragon! yes a Dragon!

I think i need to mix a glass of absinthe right now…. well i guess it is a bit early.