Angela Spencer

Emma Bull Delivers a Tightly Crafted Narrative with Deeply Layered Meaning in War for the Oaks

(Originally published at Associated Content. You can read it here or there.)

In War for the Oaks, Emma Bull takes a simple premise to draft a tale that unfolds the deeper you get into it. The protagonist, Eddi McCandry, is a singer and guitar player in a rock band that gets sucked into an ancient war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. By binding a mortal to the conflict, it makes both sides as mortal as a human. The stakes become much higher and the risks each side will take much steeper.
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Review of Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

(Originally published at Associated Content. You can read it here or there.)

After loving the first Sookie Stackhouse novel, I had to delve deeper into Charlaine Harris’s marvelous vampire novels. The second installment in the series, Living Dead in Dallas, explores the secret world of the supernatural in greater detail. But while the writing is still engaging and the new revelations are compelling, the plot itself is not as tightly woven as the Dead Until Dark.

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Scarecrow Video: This Local Video Store is an Excellent Resource for Those Looking for the Obscure

(Originally published at Associated Content. You can read it here or there.)

Scarecrow Video is a shining beacon in the gloomy Seattle weather.

One of the largest video stores in the country and a landmark in north Seattle, Scarecrow Video specializes in carrying movies and formats you can’t find other places. Though their primary business is video and machine rental, they also have great selection of new and used movies for sale in the same range of formats.
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