Light My Fire – Katie MacAlister (Aisling Grey: Guardian #3)
Penguin Signet, 2006
352 pages
RRP:US$6.99
ISBN: 9780451219824

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

It’s been a bit of a Katie MacAlister couple of weeks on this site, which is mainly due to the light and easy-read nature of her books. Light My Fire is no different. Following on from You Slay Me and Fire Me Up, it follows Aisling Grey, Guardian, Wyvern’s Mate, Demon Lord and general magnet for trouble. Like the previous two, Aisling spends the novel being chased by various bad guys as she falls in and out of every possible dilemma.

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Cupid Cats – Katie MacAlister, Vicki Lewis Thompson & Connie Brockway
Penguin Signet, 2010
400 pages
RRP: US$7.99
ISBN: 9780451230720

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

Cupid Cats is a collection of three novellas centred around kitties from the “Cupid Cats” shelter, who true to their name, help to bring a little romance and a hint (or more) of the paranormal into the protagonists’ lives. Each author’s Cupid Cats refuge is different, which is a bit disconcerting, but as long as the reader doesn’t compare the stories’ worlds, each works well.

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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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Steamed – Katie MacAlister
Penguin Signet, 2010
334 pages
RRP: US$7.99
ISBN: 978-0-451-22931-1

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

As those who’ve been reading my reviews for a while will know, I really enjoy reading Katie MacAlister’s writing. Her books are funny, sexy, always interesting and slightly off-beat. Steamed is no exception. Telling the story of a steampunk aficionado who is somehow transported into the world of his imaginings, Steamed is a comic and sensual romp around airships, corsets and velocipedes.

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Sex, Lies and Vampires – Katie MacAlister
Hachette Hodder, 2009
342 pages
RRP: AU$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-340-95199-6

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

Sex, Lies and Vampires isn’t my first experience with Katie MacAlister’s work, and I’m sure it won’t be my last. MacAlister writes very comic, steamy romances (and steampunk, and young adult novels, and, and…) and this one is no different. It’s one in her Dark Ones series of loosely-connected paranormal romances populated with vamps, summoners, poltergeists and mummies, just to name a few.

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