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Archives for May 2010

A Book Signing with Gena Showalter

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Gena Showalter & Maryse at Barnes & Noble signing (yup! I’m short!)

So two weeks ago today (yah…I know…what took me so long?) I met Gena Showalter. In case you haven’t heard of her (ummm…and this, I highly doubt), she is a popular author in the Paranormal Romance genre, and extremely popular with most of you!. In fact, she has come highly recommended via my own readers, and I have purchased her notoriously sexy Lords of the Underworld Bundle series (which I have already started). Good stuff!

I attended her book signing here in Florida on the release date of her latest book, Into the Dark: The Darkest Fire\The Amazon’s Curse\The Darkest Prison (Hqn) (a compilation of some of her shorter stories – all within the Lords of the Underworld realm). Some lucky audience members won an advanced copy of “The Darkest Passion (Hqn)” and some cool signed posters too (alas, I was not that lucky, but just being there, considering I almost didn’t make it was good enough for me)! read more

Book Review – Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

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https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Family-Sookie-Stackhouse-Book/dp/0441018645%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJPZHHERLUODDULHQ%26tag%3Dmaryse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0441018645
Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
Welllllll…..I dunno. It’s got Eric in it. So that’s good. I love Eric. Any book in the series I will read – and overall, enjoy by default – as long as it’s got Eric in it. Other than that, I was left a little bewildered. The magic…where did it go? I kept wondering, were all the books in the series like this? Did I just not realize it when I first read the series, because I was so new to the genre?

Sookie appears to have lost some emotion. Well not exactly, but when Sookie appeared to have emotion, I never “felt” it. She’s nonchalant about Eric, Bill, and anyone for that matter. She’s quick to muse about her sexual attraction, and how important her friends are to her, but not about truly loving any of them. While it makes sense that Sookie’s emotional distance might be attributed to the trauma she has recently escaped from, I’ve found Sookie, as of the last few books, to be annoyingly unaffected despite some very earnest moments. read more

Katie MacAlister – Aisling Grey Series Reading Order:

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An excerpt from the author’s website:

Aisling Grey, an apprentice Guardian, and her sometimes boyfriend, sometimes foe Drake Vireo, wyvern (leader) of one of the four dragon septs. Aisling finds her true calling when she travels to Paris to deliver a medieval object that is part of a set sought after for the power it wields.There she meets the handsome Drake, a man who is not at all what he seems.

You Slay Me (Aisling Grey, Guardian, Book 1) Fire Me Up

Light My Fire read more

Jenna Black – The Morgan Kingsley Series Reading Order:

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From the author’s website:

Exorcism isn’t a job, it’s a calling—and a curse. Just ask Morgan Kingsley, a woman who has a stronger aura than any demon. Or so she thought. Now, in a pair of black leather pants and a kick-ass tattoo, Morgan is heading back to Philadelphia after a nasty little exorcism—and her life is about to be turned upside down…by the demon that’s gotten inside her.

The Devil Inside The Devil You Know The Devil’s Due

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Jenna Black – Guardians of the Night Series Reading Order:

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From the author’s website:

Not all vampires are Killers. The Guardians of the Night sacrifice the superior physical and psychic strength that comes with feeding on humans to protect them. But the Guardians walk a thin line, for even a single kill could leave them helplessly addicted to murder.

Watchers in the Night (The Guardians of the Night, Book 1) Secrets in the Shadows (The Guardians of the Night, Book 2)

Shadows on the Soul (The Guardians of the Night, Book 3) read more