The Mark of the Demon

I can’t believe I got suckered into yet another series but I did.
Mark of the Demon is the very first book by Diana Rowland, so obviously the very first book of this series.
Kara Gillian is a Louisiana detective. She’s only been a detective for three years and she’s been assigned her first homicide [...]

Destined for an Early Grave

This  is the fourth book of the series and it just keeps getting better.
Cat Crawfield is half-vampire and half-human.  Until six years ago, she was a vampire killer.  Then she met Bones.  She’s since learned that not all vampires are evil but that a good many of them aren’t all they appear to be.
She has [...]

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

In Anita Blake’s St. Louis, vampires and werewolves aren’t figments of our imagination or the stuff of fiction. They are real and walking the streets, they own businesses and have jobs and lives, the vampires even have their own church.
Anita’s primary job is as an animator. She raises the dead – [...]

White Witch Black Curse by Kim Harrison

I love this series.  I really do. I have no idea when it will end but I hope not soon.  Harrison left plenty of things to tie in to the next book, so I hope it’s not another year before the next one.
Rachel’s boyfriend, Kisten, was murdered a book or so ago.  Jenks, her business [...]

Embraced by Darkness – Keri Arthur

Book Five of the Riley Jensen series opens with Riley on vacation.  For the first three weeks, she was with a lover and enjoyed herself immensely.  The last three have been trying.  Of course, she’d prefer the dullness to what happens.
The leader of Pack Riley contacts her and orders her to investigate the disappearance of [...]

Dangerous Games by Keri Arthur

Dangerous Games is the first Riley Jensen novel since Riley became a full fledged guardian and found out who was behind the labs that created Misha and the others.  You’d think that her life would be settled down now, but Gautier is still on the loose and, what’s more, there’s a new threat. Add that [...]

The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyers

I read the last three of the four books one after another in the last two weeks, so I decided to write about them all at once.
All of you know the plot, so I won’t bother with much of that.  All of you know that Stephenie Meyer is an amazing writer, so I won’t even [...]

Marked by PC Cast + Kristin Cast

Along with Blue Bloods, Marked nearly made me break the No New Books Pledge. Seriously.
Written by a mother and daughter, Marked is a Young Adult novel that reads genuinely “teenage” yet is still understandable to adults. (Like, me at 42 years old!) I’ve read some YA novels that [...]

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

I’ve come across two new series. The first is Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz.
I have found that young adult novels are often as good as adult novels and, in many cases, better. In this case, I’d say better. Since the author can’t rely on gratuitous sex and violence, they actually [...]

Kitty Raises Hell by Carrie Vaughn

Now, I know I said I wasn’t going to buy any new books until I read at least half of the books I already have. I’ve been doing pretty well, too, but then there I was at the local superstore and I saw this book. And it was only $4.97, so I bought it. [...]