This is emphatically not a review, mostly because 1) I’m still about 130 pages from the end, and 2) I’m still dog-sick and have already taken tomorrow off, but I’ve spent most of my waking hours today with Willow Smith & Jess Hendel’s Black Shield Maiden in my hands, and thus far I’ve quite enjoyed it. And the cover is pretty as hell, so feel free to stare at it for a while while I go finish the book so that I can review it tomorrow.