I gave this free ebook a fair shake, but eventually the clunky writing grew too much for me.

A renegade warrior and his escaped-slave girlfriend penetrate the vast wilderness where no human has trod, and find a new race ruled by an ancient queen who needs to be over­thrown…

Marla Mason is the chief sorcerer of Felport. She's abrasive, hard-headed, and ruthless enough to stay on the top of the pile. But a challenger has arisen and she's gone to San Francisco with her sidekick Rondeau to seek the help of an old friend. That friend has been murdered by an Aztec sorcerer who's trying to bring back an Aztec god.

Fast-paced and en­ter­tain­ing. I found Marla too obnoxious at first, but then she grew on me.

Teenage D&D-playing bookworm responds to a help-wanted ad, steps through a door, and finds himself wandering in a forest where he can do simple magic.

I couldn't take more than an hour of the clumsy writing in this free ebook.

Sequel to The Outlaw Demon Wails; best read in sequence.

Rachel Morgan's life is com­pli­cat­ed. She's in­ves­ti­gat­ing the murder of her boyfriend, the vampire Kisten. There's a banshee on the rampage in Cincinatti and the human police want her help. And she's being shunned by her fellow witches because she's thought to consort with demons. And then there's her personal life. That's com­pli­cat­ed too.

En­ter­tain­ing, but far over the top.

The first in the Temeraire series.

Capt. Will Laurence of the Royal Navy captures one of Napoleon's ships. It's carrying a dragon egg, from which the dragon Temeraire promptly hatches and bonds with Laurence. Laurence must leave the Navy and become an aviator in the socially un­de­sir­able Royal Aerial Corps, where he and Temeraire will fight against Napoleon's dragons.

This is a delightful cross between the Napoleonic seafaring of the Aubrey-Maturin novels and Drag­onrid­ers of Pern, with a little bit of Hogwarts for dragons thrown …continue.

The boy is abandoned at the castle gate when he's six, Prince Chivalry's bastard. Over ten years, he grows up on the sidelines, where he is ignored by most save the stable master. The king eventually finds a use for him, ap­pren­tic­ing the boy to his assassin.

There are few swords swung in this book. It's a character study of an outcast boy and his often strained re­la­tion­ships with others. It details his developing awareness of court intrigue and national politics, and the difficult choices that confront him.

Highly …continue.

The plot is more than slightly ridiculous. Young woman discovers that exactly on her 25th birthday she will come into her hitherto unknown powers and join the secret superhero zodiacal troupe that protects Las Vegas from their nemeses. For her own protection, she must assume the identity of her murdered sister.

It's better than it sounds though. The heroine is appealing and copes fairly well with the traumatic upending of her life.

Sixth and final book in the Merchant Princes series, sequel to The Revolution Business.

Every­thing's going to hell in all three parallel worlds, our United States, the Gruinmarkt, and New Britain. The con­ser­v­a­tive faction of the world-walking Clan has launched a nuclear attack on the U.S.—and the U.S. is going strike back, hard. The only realistic option for the pro­gres­sive wing is to find sanctuary in New Britain, where the monarchy was recently overthrown in a bloody revolution.

Charlie Stross brings the series to a haunting, nuclear-fired conclusion.