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Boneshaker by Cherie Priest was delightful, in a grim and zombie-infested sort of manner. This book actually precedes the last book I reviewed from her, Dreadnought, so you should read Boneshaker first, but you should read both. :)

I've also finished off Nightbirds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken. I rather enjoyed it, though not as much as I enjoyed her book Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Both are children's books, but Ms. Aiken has a lovely way of not talking down to her young readers. She also manages to do a good bit of suspense without resorting to the gore of most suspense books written for adults. And she manages to avoid being utterly predictable in her suspense, which rather helps with the whole suspense thing. Anyway, Nightbirds was a bit sillier than Wolves, but I liked them both.

And I'm sure you'll all be terribly surprised to hear that Patricia Briggs' latest Mercy book, River Marked, was a great addition to the series. FINALLY got some more detail on Mercy's background, which was fun, and this whole book was more of a Native American myth base than most of the series, which has dealt primarily with "imported" supernatural from Europe.