Once again, into the fray with Merit and the rest of the vamps in Chicago. In this book, she is settling more into the role of Sentinel at Cadogen House, and still fighting an attraction to Ethan Sullivan, leader of the house and the vampire who made her. She’s also on the outs with Mallory, her BFF, but she is trying hard to fit in with the rest of vamps and improve on her fighting skills. In this book, the shifters and their leader are […]
The continuing adventures of the freakishly beautiful supernaturals
3.5 stars This is book 9 in a series. It’s really not the place to start. If you want to join in at the beginning, start with Angels’ Blood. Two years have passed since the last book in the series, and Elena is slowly growing stronger, even though she’s virtually a baby in angel terms. The Cascade seems to be on hold, and all the archangels are trying to investigate what exactly is going on in China in the murderous Lijuan’s territory. Has she gone […]
Bite Me
So my reading choices this year seem to be all over the place – my usual genre is historical romance and I haven’t read as many of those so far. My latest book took me back to the vampire world, a genre I’d read extensively a few years ago. This is the second book in the Chicagoland Vampires and features a young woman newly turned vampire in Chicago, where vampires and shape shifters are out in the open. I haven’t read the first one, but […]
It’s OK to be Genre Fiction, I Promise
This review is for the audiobook version of The Quick, by Lauren Owen. This book wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. I don’t think that it’s what it thinks it is either. This is genre fiction that thinks it’s literary, with quirks that seem to scream “I’m different and unique,” when in fact it’s just another vampire story. The blurb described the book as being about a woman, Charlotte, who goes to London after her brother disappears and discovers a few […]