You Slay Me (Aisling Grey: Guardian #1) – Katie MacAlister
Penguin Onyx, 2004
352 pages
RRP: US$7.99
ISBN: 9780451411525

Fire Me Up (Aisling Grey: Guardian #2) – Katie MacAlister
Penguin Signet, 2005
368 pages
RRP: US$7.99
ISBN: 9780451214942

You Slay Me and Fire Me Up are the first two novels in Katie MacAlister’s Aisling Grey, Guardian series. Aisling Grey is a Guardian, as the title states, however she has only just become aware of the fact, being thrown into the world of the supernatural and paranormal. Her Guardian status isn’t the only surprise in store for Aisling; she also finds out she is destined to be a dragon’s mate…

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Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol – Toby Haynes (director), Steven Moffat (writer)
BBC
Originally broadcast: 25 December 2010

Reviewed by George Ivanoff

With the rebirth of the Doctor Who series in 2005, it has become the done thing to produce a yearly Christmas Special — an extra-long episode with a rather tenuous link to the holiday season. Generally, the Christmas Specials have not been the best examples of what the series is capable of. The 2010 special, A Christmas Carol, now released on DVD, is without a doubt to best of the lot.

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Power Unbound – Nicole Murphy
HarperCollins Voyager, 2011
416 pages
RRP: $22.99
ISBN: 9780732291624

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

Paranormal romance/urban fantasy fans will be pleased to see that Nicole Murphy’s Dream of Asarlai trilogy continues with Power Unbound. The story continues on from where we left it at the end of Secret Ones, but we have a new protagonist, Maggie’s friend Ione, and we follow her budding relationship with Stephen as the story arc about Asarlai, a renegade Gadda, and her entanglement with the Forbidden Texts continues.

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From Nalini's webpage at http://www.nalinisingh.com

Nalini Singh is the New York Times bestselling author of the Psy/Changeling and Guild Hunter series. She is an Antipodean, born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. Nalini recently won the Favourite Paranormal Romance, Favourite Fantasy, Sci-Fi or Futuristic Romance, and Favourite Continuing Romance awards at the 2010 Australian Romance Readers Association Awards. In Australia, Nalini’s novels are published through Gollancz.

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Death’s Excellent Vacation – Charlaine Harris & Toni L P Kelner (ed.)
Ace, 2010
339 pages
RRP: US$24.95
ISBN: 9780441018680

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

This book intrigued me when I saw it on the shelf. I made an immediate connection to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and thought “Why not?” It’s got an impressive list of paranormal authors in the table of contents, many of whom I’d read and enjoyed before, such as Charlaine Harris, Katie Macalister and Lilith Saintcrow. The anthology was varied, and most of the stories were enjoyable, but some seemed a little forced in their connection to the theme.

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