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Sabina Kane Sates My Hunger for Urban Fantasy
With two books published so far in the Sabina Kane series, author Jaye Wells has introduced a promising new world to urban fantasy readers. While a strong-willed female protagonist is pretty much de rigueur for the genre, leading-lady Sabina is neither trite nor untouchable. Wells adds in an uncommon take on the origin of the vampire race with a healthy dose of Abrahamic mythology (especially Judaic) and struggling relations between the non-human races, making for an interesting book-world that is statisfyingly dissimilar to any other series I’ve read to date. Combined with easy-reading prose and a healthy dose of taboo, interracial romantic intrigue, the series is well worth starting—so long as you don’t mind waiting until 2011 for the third installment. … Continue reading
Read The Struggle for FREE Online
Before most of the hot new YA vampire series were even a glimmer of thought in their authors’ imaginations, L.J. Smith was captivating readers with the Vampire Diaries series. The four books, all released in the early 1990s, very much shaped the modern YA vamp genre. Now, with the success of the new CW show based on the books (aptly named Vampire Diaries), the series is making a comeback. Smith has even begun a sequel series—Vampire Diaries: The Return. HarperTeen has posted the full text of the second book, The Struggle, online for the time being. … Continue reading
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An Infatuation with Parasols
Although it is only two books in, the Parasol Protectorate
series by Gail Carriger may be one of my favorite series yet. I want to say
series by Gail Carriger may be one of my favorite series yet. I want to say I recommend the series unreservedly,because I really am that enamored, but it pains me to recognize that while I think the absurd Victorian propriety with a little Steampunk thrown in is really the most amazing thing ever, I am sure there are many readers out there—perhaps even you—that are calling me absolutely batty at the moment. It’s ok. I’m used to it. But read on to see why you might like the series too. … Continue reading
Free Download: My Soul to Lose
Hot off the heels of my reading My Soul to Save I found a link to a Web-published prequel to the series available for download. Check it out, especially if you haven't started the series yet; it’s a great teaser. … Continue reading
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Read The Summoning for Free Online
Looking for free books to read or a new series of the YA variety? In anticipation of the third book of Kelley Armstrong’s Darkest Powers Trilogy’s release, publisher Harper Collins has made available the full text of the first book, The Summoning
, on their Web site. Like any good, free thing, it is a limited time offer, and likely ends with the release of the final book. … Continue reading
, on their Web site. Like any good, free thing, it is a limited time offer, and likely ends with the release of the final book. … Continue reading
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Read The Bad Beginning for FREE Online
In a series of awesome events, publisher Harper Collins has made available the full text of the first book of the infamous children’s series A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning (1999)
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on their Web site. Like any good, free thing, it is a limited time offer, but I have been unable to find any word of when it ends. If you haven’t read this series, I do recommend it as light reading. I like the quirkiness of it. … Continue reading
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on their Web site. Like any good, free thing, it is a limited time offer, but I have been unable to find any word of when it ends. If you haven’t read this series, I do recommend it as light reading. I like the quirkiness of it. … Continue reading Charlaine Harris’ Harper Connelly Mysteries Series
I’ll admit it. I hopped on the Charlaine Harris bandwagon after hearing the hype about True Blood before it debuted on HBO. I read the first couple of Sookie books and was hooked. I then continued reading anything I could find of hers—basically, all four of her series. But of all of them, I fell in love with the Harper Connelly Mysteries series. … Continue reading
Devon Monk Continues the Beckstrom Saga with Magic in the Blood
I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in this series, and had high hopes going into the second installment. I’ll spare you coyness: I’m not entirely sure that Monk delievered this time around. … Continue reading
The Women of the Otherworld Series by Kelley Armstrong
Starting with Bitten (2001)
, this urban fantasy series has included werewolves, vampires, demons and half-demons and a variety of other paranormal species and skills. To date, there are 10 books as well as many short stories and novellas, with no end in sight. With each new story, we readers see more and more of this “Otherworld” quite similar to our own. … Continue reading
, this urban fantasy series has included werewolves, vampires, demons and half-demons and a variety of other paranormal species and skills. To date, there are 10 books as well as many short stories and novellas, with no end in sight. With each new story, we readers see more and more of this “Otherworld” quite similar to our own. … Continue reading 
