Excuse me while I gush like a fangirl. I was so afraid that Beloved Vampire, while starting out with a bang, would eventually fade into mediocrity like so many books. Not at all. As the book progressed, it just got better and better, until it is now officially one of my favorite (if not the…
First Channel part of the Sime/Gen series, one of the pioneering SF romance series. It’s not the first in the series, but it’s set before any of the other books published in this series, so some readers might prefer to start with this book. Because it’s SF first, First Channel has complex worldbuilding – something…
Forbidden Nights With a Vampire is the sometimes funny, sometimes poignant tale of Vanda Barkowski, a vampire who has a problem with her temper. I read Kerrelyn Sparks’s first book in this series, How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire, but not the others, something I plan to remedy as soon as possible – I really…
I’m a big – big – fan of Emma Holly who writes hot sex as well as great couples. I’m also a big – big – fan of stories in a series that stand on their own. They usually encompass a larger world of characters, but provide sufficient focus on two main ones. So when…
More than most books, I think, this one isn’t going to change any minds. If you’re expecting to like it, you will. If you’re not, then you probably won’t. And, yep, to put to rest an issue that’s still out there, this first hardcover in the author’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series definitely qualifies as urban…
Fans of humorous vampire romances, please make welcome Molly Harper whose debut Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs is the first in a series about Jane Jameson, a former librarian, now a vampire in a small Kentucky town. <!– var browName = navigator.appName; var SiteID = 1; var ZoneID = 4; var browDateTime = (new Date()).getTime();…
I’ve been a fan of this series from the beginning and the fourth book in the author’s Gardella Vampire Chronicles certainly keeps the momentum going. I have a big problem, however: I can’t really reveal much about the plot without spoiling the previous books in the series and, since I’m all about encouraging others to…
Riley Jensen’s latest case is complicated from the start: a high profile politician has been murdered, and his socialite prostitute is also dead. It only gets more twisted when she is asked to look into a BDSM-related death that seems to be suicide, but turns out to be only one of many murders committed by…
Buffy sure did start something, didn’t she? I have read many new paranormal series staring feisty, powerful heroines and their boys. While I’ve been disappointed more often than not, there have been some diamonds in the rough. Gleason’s Gardella Vampire Chronicles is just such a diamond. I am quickly becoming addicted to the series and…
I don’t know what went wrong with the first two books in Lara Adrian’s Breed series. I gave a good attempt to read them, but found myself liking them as little as my fellow AAR reviewers and giving up. I called myself every type of crazy for choosing Midnight Awakening to review, thinking I was…