Full reviews for The Graveyard Book, The Magician's Apprentice, and Bones of Faerie can be found over on Otherwhere Book Reviews.  The full review for Angels' Blood will be up soon.
 
THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman - YA, urban fantasy
A graveyard full of ghosts, a vampire, ghouls, and even a guardian spirit called The Sleer sounds like the making of a great story to me.  There's only one thing wrong with it, Neil Gaiman wrote it.  This means all the fun, sense of awe, and even the few scares have been sucked right out.  All we're left with is the ghost (ha, a pun!) of what this book could've been.
 
THE MAGICIAN'S APPRENTICE by Trudi Canavan - fantasy
This book is a sort of prequel to The Black Magician trilogy, but since it happens hundreds of years before it can also be read as a stand alone novel.  This story explains how healing with magic first came about along with the events of the last war between Kyralia and Sachaka.  It's very long and definitely character driven, but I still found it holding my attention quite nicely.
 
BONES OF FAERIE by Janni Lee Simner - YA, post-apocalyptic fantasy
What war finally destroyed the world as we know it?  Was it with Germany?  China?  North Korea?  No, it was our war with Faerie.  Instead of getting left with wastelands and poison air we have sentient plants that attack us at every turn and shadows that are cold enough to kill.  Magic is running its own course taking root in plants, animals, and even children.  In the village of Franklin Falls all magic is cast out and if that means leaving babies out in the forest at night so be it.
 
ANGELS' BLOOD by Nalini Singh (The Guild Hunter, book 1) - paranormal romance
I haven't read any of her Psy-Changelings series, but after enjoying this book I'm going to have to try at least one.  Anyway, in this alternate reality angels have always existed.  The Archangels watch over their territories and keep their underlings, angels and vampires, under control.  Guild hunters are also needed to capture wayward vampires running from their angel contracts and any other vampire that's causing trouble.  This book introduces us to their world and Archangel Raphael along with Guild Hunter Elena.  Quite a few angel secrets are divulged throughout the rogue Archangel hunt, but something tells me Elena's going to turn their world upside down in the next book.
 
SPELL GAMES by T.A. Pratt (Marla Mason, book 4) - urban fantasy
This book was good because I love Marla, B, and Rondeau, but more could have been done with the sorcerer Bulliard.  He worships a mushroom god, he can, almost instantly, take complete control of anyone with the help of his mushrooms, and yet he's in the book just so he can walk away near the end before the shit hits the fan?  I know not every book in the series should end with Marla killing some horribly powerful sorcerer and their god, but if you're going to have him in the book put him to good use.
 
HUNTED by P.C. & Kristin Cast (House of Night, book 5) - YA, urban fantasy
Good book, but the Okie-speak is getting a bit much.  I swear I can hear the twang in my head now.  As this book starts Zoey and her friends are hiding out, but a serious injury causes them to return to the House of Night.  While there Zoey and her friends discover they're not as alone as they thought.  With everyone believing in and depending on her can Zoey figure out the riddles wrapped in poems in time to drive Kalona away?