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Wolf Wing by Tanith Lee - conclusion of the Claidi journals. Pretty good, despite even more mother issues.

Sunshine by Robin McKinley - McKinley takes a break from fairy tales and writes a contemporary book involving vampires. I generally like McKinley's writing, but she does this thing where some action will be going on, and then she'll stop and for the next two pages or so to describe the book's neighborhood/social mores/world in general. It was a good book and I liked the heroine Rae, but Rae spends way too much of the book angsting; it could have benefitted from some Get On With It Already. I do hope she writes a sequel though.

The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley - I was really in the mood for YA fantasy last month for some reason. This worked very well.

Spindle's End by Robin McKinley - I can't believe I haven't seen this before. McKinley covers the Sleeping Beauty tale. Pretty good, although McKinley does that weird thing that I mentioned above.

The Innamorati by Midori Snyder - I saw this a few years ago, but didn't get around to reading it till I found it at a huge used bookstore in Tulsa. It was pretty great, beautiful prose, huge cast of characters with several interlocking plots that all manage to work together. It's set in the city of Labirinto, in the middle of which is a huge maze that pilgrims flock to in hopes of losing whatever curse ails them.

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman - Gaiman is one of my favorite writers. I wasn't that crazy about American Gods, so I wasn't prepared to be that interested in this one, since it's a sequel of sorts. Still, it was Gaiman, so I had to have it anyway. And Anansi Boys was so much better than I expected. It's much more similar to Neverwhere, which I loved. Wonderful plot, characers, funny; totally great book.