Link whoring and initial Anne Bishop thoughts

Sadly, they let me out of my cage, and I have a post over at Sybil’s blog as part of their duodecimal holidays, where they asked a bunch of readers and bloggers to come up with various top twelve lists.

Here is mine.

Go forth and enjoy.
In other news, I am a little under halfway through Anne Bishop’s Daughter of the Blood. I would absolutely love this book if I’d sat and read it cover to cover without stopping for a break. Sadly, a little perspective makes the book’s flaws pretty clear, like that our protagonist hasn’t once gotten her own PoV, or how her eventual love interest was borrowed from romance novel central casting. And seriously, what is it with dark fantasy and incest? Someone tell me there is a book classified as dark fantasy that managed to completely leave out creepy women who want to have sex with their brothers/sons/nephews.