SPIDER'S BITE Catching Up with a Paradoxical Spider

SPIDER'S BITE

Elemental Assassin Book One

by Jennifer Estep

Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

January 26, 2010

Audio September 28, 2010

Purchased

Book Description

My name is Gin, and I kill people.

They call me the Spider. I’m the most feared assassin in the South — when I’m not busy at the Pork Pit cooking up the best barbecue in Ashland. As a Stone elemental, I can hear everything from the whispers of the gravel beneath my feet to the vibrations of the soaring Appalachian Mountains above me. My Ice magic also comes in handy for making the occasional knife. But I don’t use my powers on the job unless I absolutely have to. Call it professional pride.

Now that a ruthless Air elemental has double-crossed me and killed my handler, I’m out for revenge. And I’ll exterminate anyone who gets in my way — good or bad. I may look hot, but I’m still one of the bad guys. Which is why I’m in trouble, since irresistibly rugged Detective Donovan Caine has agreed to help me. The last thing this coldhearted killer needs when I’m battling a magic more powerful than my own is a sexy distraction . . . especially when Donovan wants me dead just as much as the enemy.  JenniferEstep.com

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My Take

With the first book in this new series about Gin Blanco, A.K.A. The Spider, Estep immediately presents us with a paradox: How do we like, feel sympathetic towards and adopta woman who is a paid assassin?  Estep mitigates Gin's "activities" with the proviso that she doesn't kill innocents, pets or children; she only kills people who have done wrong.  But, that's the very, very thin line Estep is examining -- who decides who has done wrong, how wrong. 

Gin does some work killing people who have hurt children or women, which I think acts as another mitigating factor, but we have the same issue, the same problem the man who might have been her boyfriend , good-cop Donovan Caine does, she's still a killer.

It's a tough job for a writer to make someone who, if they were presented to us on the news, we would normally perceive as a villain into a likable character, a heroine.  The closest I can come to her on this side of the law is Jaye Wells' Sabina Kane.  On either side of the law I could add in Anita Blake who has discovered she doesn't mind killing just about anything all that much.

How does a writer turn a villain into, at least, an anti-heroine?  Mitigating Circumstances. First, in a world such as Estep's Ashland and I guess the rest of the planet, crime seems pretty rampant.  It seems to be a world filled with elementals (supes who control various elemental substances like stone, air, fire or water),  vampires, dwarves, Giants and dirty cops all vying for power without much concern for who gets in the way.  Gin's family was on the losing end of the battle and she believes herself to be the only member of her family alive.  After they were killed she lived on the streets until she was rescued by assassin/restaurateur Fletcher who raised her with his son Finn.  In a place where justice seems pretty scant, Estep presents us with a vigilante who brings justice where there is none to be found.  She seems to do some pro bono work for the abused wife and children, but she is also pretty merciless.  She has strict rules for conduct. She's the whole package, judge, jury and executioner.


Unlike HBO's  Tony Soprano character in the Sopranos, who the public seemed to root for despite his heinous, irredeemability, Gin doesn't kill the innocent, nor does she commit other crimes for personal gain. She's not above tripping a waiter carrying a tray of drinks as a distraction, and she does seem to steal a lot of cars.  I guess if people liked Tony, and given how much they like Eric Northman from the Sookie Stackhouse series, Gin isn't a tough sell.  We've always had a soft spot for criminals who are acting for the public good.

(As I watched Les Miserables yesterday, I found myself wondering if Donovan Caine would become the Javert to her Jean Valjean)

Other factors in the book, like the romantic action pull this a little bit out of the urban fantasy genre and towards Paranormal romance.  Estep wrote some interesting sex; quite original I thought.

The world building had me a little unsure;  Elementals are described but other than knowing that many vampires feed off sex as well as blood, and are seriously killable, I can deduce but am not completely sure of the parameters of the species. Are they born or made?  Although not stated outright, it seems the  world is aware of the existence of the supernatural.  It seems to have altered humanity, history and society. Not for the better. The Supernaturals seem to have a lot of power.  The town it takes place in, Ashland, North Carolina, seems to be hellacious in Estep's world.  Estep tells us what we need to know for the story. I think the rest will play out over the current count of seven entries in the three-year old series.

In any event, this series was one I started backwards this past summer and I wanted to catch up with it.  Seeing how Estep will play out this anti-heroine's tale is enough reason to keep going, but the sheer enjoyability of a smoothly plotted, well written and edited novel gives a real desire to read more.  Estep is an author who raises the bar for the Speculative Fiction sub-genres of Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy.   I already have one more of her books sittingon my Kindle. I am sure more will follow. At no point was I thinking like the jaded reader I have become.  If you enjoy Kim Harrison, Laurell K. Hamilton, Jaye Wells, Jeaniene Frast and other writers in the genre this is a MUST READ.

 What about your take on anti-heroines?  Do you like your heroines pure or naughty?


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LES MISERABLES: My Impressions An Out of Genre Experience

At the Movies ~ Les Misérables, 2012 (Photo credit: erjkprunczýk)

LES MISERABLES

Directed by Tom Hooper
Starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Samantha Bark, Aaron Tveit, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sacha Baron Cohen
Universal, Working Title, Cameron MacIntosh Limited


Okay everyone, raise your hands, who has actually read Victor Hugo's classic masterpiece, LES MISERABLES. Hmmmm, Me neither.
Plus, I haven't seen it on the stage but I have seen performances of some of the songs.   There's more singing than there are songs. Because, the whole thing is sung. All of the dialogue, every monologue.  Every. Thing.  Some of it is great. Eddie Redmayne was a delightful surprise; after his sweet performance in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN last year, I was thrilled to see this unclassically handsome actor. Amanda Seyfried, what a voice.  Anne Hathaway's brief sting on stage especially her rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" was bringing me to tears in the previews. Samantha Bark was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.

Cheret, Jules - Les Miserables (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I know Hugh Jackman has an amazing voice.  I have seen his performance of OKLAHOMA.  That voice, but not his acting ability was missing throughout most of the film.  His emotive performance however was amazing.  Actually all the acting was pretty amazing. Even Russell Crowe, who I have never liked, did a great job.

A huge surprise was Sacha Baron Cohen, whose outrageous comedic films and TV programs are either the work of an idiot or a genius. He turned in a laudable performance as Thénardier, opposite Helena Bonham Carter.  She reminded me of Mrs. Lovett, the pie maker, in Sweeney Todd.  While the characters they play are heinous, their interludes provide much needed comic relief.

 Eddie Redmayne
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Speaking of makeup: it's incredible as well as Ugh!  The poor and sometimes the not so poor had some dental hygiene issues. It made me want to go home and floss.  And, my goodness, at the beginning Hugh Jackman is absolutely unrecognizable. The facial sores on the crowds in one of the first scenes are appalling.  I'm not sure what disease they represented it will make you appreciate modern sanitation.

So musically, here's a question: What is the point of singing every line of dialogue when it's not really a song? In opera, it is a style. And, maybe this is a modern opera, but then we need meolody or more mannered acting.  All I can think is it is an exercise in acting through the song. And in that Hathaway, Redmayne and Barker shine, really.  But, the contrivance of singing all the dialogue was like me singing to my husband, "Are you finished in the bathroom?"  Only of course being based on a classical masterpiece, no line has that little meaning. I have to say I didn't get it, and at times I found it downright annoying.  I haven't seen the musical, but is Jean Val Jean supposed to be off key most of the time?

And, no doubt, some of this performance quality is due to not having any dubbed-in singing. While it may have been remixed, or smoothed, it is not sung post-production in a studio. This is almost unheard of.  But, it's how stage musicals are done day after day.

I don't think there's much I can say about this story, the real Les Miserables. without having read the book.  It's a story of its time and eternal.  It's about courage and cowardice. Loss, and redemption. Poverty and pain ― you get the idea.rt of a musical adaptation is whether it sticks to the book it's based on.

Children in the production: There are two child hood actors of note in the film, the girls who plays Cosette, Isabelle Allen, and the boy who plays the martyr Gavroche, Daniel Huttlestone. I think they are both remarkable, and it the first film for both.

I recommend the movie as an experience.  Some of the performances are truly stand-outs I will remember for a long time.  One of the lessons I took away was Javert's inability to see shades of grey.  His absolute inability to think he may have been wrong, that the law may have been wrong eventually result in tragedy as he comes face to face with himself and the truth about his life and what he has done.  This show/film/story has layer on layer. I loved the experience and the cinematography.  But, love it or hate it, it is a fascinating film to watch and will definitely bring you to tears.

About the musical (FROM WIKIPEDIA)

Les Misérables, colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz /, is a sung-through musical play based on the novel of the same name by French poet and playwright Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a burly French peasant of abnormal strength and potentially violent nature, and his never ending quest for redemption after serving 19 years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for starving relatives. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a kindly Bishop inspires him to, but he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector named Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters he becomes entangled with get swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade.
The musical adaptation was originally conceived and produced in France, before its English language adaptation, which opened at the Barbican Centre in London, England, on 8 October 1985, where the production overcame bad notices through word of mouth, launching the beginning of what has turned out to be a global sensation.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%28musical%29

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THIRD GRAVE DEAD AHEAD Charley's Living on Caffeine and it Isn't Pretty

THIRD GRAVE DEAD AHEAD

Charley Davidson #3
by Darynda Jones
St. Martin's Press (January 31, 2012)
Available in Hard cover (320 pages), Paperback. Mass Market paperback, E-Book and Audio book formats.
Purchased

About the Book

Charley Davidson, who has quite a resume: grim reaper extraordinaire, private investigator, is desperately trying to stave off sleep with the help of caffeine, lots and lots of it.

She doesn't want to sleep because she is having disturbing dreams about the Son of Satan.  He's a little scary and a whole lot of sexy, plus she's bound him to his human body so he's a little ticked off. 

In the Private Eye side of the story, Charley's on the case of a man she is pretty sure has killed her wife and then wants to  her to protect himself from suspicion.

Reyes wants her to prove his father, the man he's in jail for killing, isn't as dead as they thought he was. It still seems Charley has a predilection for finding trouble, or at least attracting it. 

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My Take:

I started reading this series in September at the urging of my friend Dana. I am so glad she did. It's an excellent series filled with everything I love the most in stories.

One of my favorite things aboiut the books themselves are the clever "T-Shirt" mottoes at the beginning of each chapter. Some of them I have actually seen on T-Shirts but the others are, I'm sure right out of the somewhat twisted (but brilliant) mind of the series' author Darynda Jones.  I love this one, at the top of Chapter Four in Third Grave: I know karate  and like two other Japanese words.

But that isn't the reason why I love this series as a whole or this book even.  Darynda has created possibly the perfect imperfect heroine in Charley Davidson.  First, she wakes up snarky in a friendly way.  Most of her snark isn't mean; most of it is self-snark, but if it' s directed at others it is often that you-left-the-opening-I-just-took-it comedic way. It's often blurted out at inappropriate moments, like while someone is trying to kill her.

Another reason why I love this series is the super sexy son-of-Satan boyfriend/protector Reyes Farrow who she has only rarely met in person. Did I mention that he was his biological father's general of the legions of hell who decided to go good, sort of, and be born so he could be there for Charley when she was born.  There's some sex, but it is usually in her dreams. :-(

So this volume in the series is the third.  You might anticipate missing to much or being info-dumped on, it being the third and all. But, Where ever Darynda has been all my reading life, she was learning how to give good series explanation.  In serious danger of mixing metaphor, it is neither too hard or too soft. 

This book is very, very twisty.  I read book four first, so I was waiting for the big bad thing mentioned in Fourth Grave. There was a lot going on before that happened.  Twist on twist.

Charley is not quite as focused on "Danger" and "Will Robinson," her breasts, in this book.  She spends a little more time on her car, a red jeep named "Misery."  This deemphasizing of her physical assets (of which she  seems to have plenty) could be one of the reasons this was more of an "Urban Fantasy" than I recall the other three books having been.

One theme in this story is betrayal.  Charley never knowingly betrays anyone; little white lies are okay, but she tends to feel really bad about it. She seems genuinely good. I haven't quite figured out Reyes -- after all how good could a former general from Hell be?

The writing is good, fast-paced, and told from Charley's point of view.  She is often befuddled, but soldiers on. She is a really interesting person. Not quite human physically, but where the heart lies completely.

The language is varied, except for the word "chocolate" and "coffee" which seem to pop up a lot.

It's a touch deeper than Evanovich or Charlaine Harris, but still lives solidly in my beloved realm of genre fiction.  That means it is extremely readable and very enjoyable. If you enjoy Urban Fiction it is really a MUST READ! I highly recommend this book and the series. 




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Hex and the SIngle Witch Two Hot Guys — What's A Girl to Do?

HEX AND THE SINGLE WITCH

Vehicle City Vampires Book One

Roxanne Rhoads

Paperback and E-Book

Print Length: 244 pages

Publisher: Bewitching Books (September 24, 2012)

Disclosure:  Downloaded during free public promo on Amazon.  Author owns tour company, Bewitching Book Tours, for which I host. So in effect, she is sort of my boss. However, she did not solicit a review from me nor have I submitted it to her prior to posting. No remuneration was exchanged and the opinions herein are my own.

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Anwyn Rose is descended from a long line of powerful witches yet she can barely cast spells young witchlings have mastered. She has one functioning witch gift, the power of knowing, which she puts to good use as a Detective on Flint’s Preternatural Investigation Team (aka the P.I.T. Crew)

It’s a new era in Vehicle City, supernaturals are running the town. 

The P.I.T has their hands full with paranormal crimes. Top priority is a serial killer, who appears to be a vampire, draining young women in the city.

Anwyn is on the case with her sexy partner Detective Mike Malone. 

Complicating things is her relationship Galen, a vampire who looks more guilty than innocent, although Anwyn trusts her instincts even if her power is on the fritz.

Mysterious spells, compromising situations, and a possible demon on the loose make it hard to focus on the case, but Anwyn has to make things right before the human police execute the wrong vampire.

Hex and the Single Witch contains magick, a little bit of mystery, a lot of supernatural mayhem, and a sexy love triangle that will leave you wanting more.
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My Take:

This book was refreshingly good.  As you know I have a thing about self-published books or books published by the owner's company.  But this has a really good story, as well as  good plotting and continuity (although I thought it was a little predictable).  I thought the timing was great, with action and other kinds of "action" keeping things moving.  I liked Anwyn; she's a little insecure, unsure of er looks and doesn't mention much in the way of relationship history. So, she's not unlike many of us.  She's never really developed into her "full potential" and I think many of us feel the same way.  In this case there really are external forces keeping her down. I like her non-judgmental character and open mindedness. I liked her human beau, Mike, despite his crude boorishness; after all it's a smokescreen. But  I could do without the Regency-Period-Born formerly rakish Vampire; he was a little too feminine for me (granted, a Regency man might seem affected and effeminate with all those patches and ruffles.

Some things that were really well done:

• Main character development: You know a lot about Anwyn and how she experiences her abilities.
• Good sex writing — even the dead women's memories are somehow arousing to Anwyn. She feels really weird about it though.
• Description of magic and what it feels like to be magicked --Not many writers bother with this and I felt it added a lot when she would describe the different feelings associated with different spells or types of magic. Plus, Anwyn can in her self-described "slutty" behavior on a hex!
• Good interpersonal relationships with Anwyn and her quirky friend Melanie who reminds me of Abby in NCIS. Also, I liked the down to earthiness of Abby's Grandmother who can cause goats to appear when she gets pissed off - imagine the implications for road rage,

Four things I think Roxanne could work on:

• The dialogue is  a little stiff and characters need to use contractions to make the speech seem less formal. In some instances this is due to one character's formal nature. But it bleeds out  into other characters as well.
• You know the history channel where after each break they tell you everything you have learned so far over again.  Roxanne does that a little.  Now, if this were a serialized novel it would be important to reiterate the plot point that her mother has had the porch light on but no one home since her father died. There are a few other instances.
• Info-dumping: Roxanne generally escapes the evils of exposition and she has to give us her world's historic context somehow, but she dumps a lot of information into just a couple of conversations and internal monologue at the beginning of the book.
• Something with the verb tenses confused me but I can't quite put my finger on it.

All in all, I thought this was a pretty good book. It grabbed me right away and kept me involved through the end. Roxanne obviously works hard at developing her craft and knows her paranormal theme well.

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Show and TellHOW DO WE COMPARE? & How Do I Feel About What I Read?

So, It's that time of year when I look at how many books I read. 

If it weren't for the obscene difficulties in making a pretty numbered table in HTML there would be a number on each book and the total would be 286.


Wow, it's a lot; probably too many since I can hardly recall the last before I am on to the next one.  Maybe that's why I like series as much as I do; they give me a chance to reinforce the world I am reading — whether it's the world of rock and roll touring written by Olivia Cunning, or the revisionist Vlad Tepesh created by Jeaniene Frost, or the nanite-maintained vampires immortals who emerge from Lynsay Sands' pen.  I also enjoy stand-alone novels, but the trick is writing characters I can remember in just one read. 

I also want to take this chance to say that I have expanded what I read to include contemporary romance and erotica.  Other things will still be called and "Out of Genre Experience."  And, to thanks anyone who reads, for doing that. MWAH!

It's also a time for me to put my own thoughts about the body of what I read. I've learned so much reading, and writing about what I have read.   I am trying to learn something about writing and reading and what it all means to society and as a reflection of society. And, I want to understand why I like one book and not another. One of the variables I have noted is how a book is published. How a book is published affects many parts of the whole: editing, proofing, cover design, book design, etc.

I am noting a marked difference in story telling via the medium of writing. I see a proliferation of telling me a story rather than showing it to me through the dialogue and actions of the characters. And, I wonder if it is not the sign of a sea change in the art of writing. Certainly I better understand the writing style I know and and learned about; the one that has been developing since the late 18th century. But all forms of art change and develop.

I have been struggling with this all year and trying to understand it.   I am not a book snob (ask the book club I left).

Could this change be the result of a society traveling along the information super highway and undergoing major change? Is it a by-product of self-publishing?  Yes,  modern self-publishing is a result due to technology but doesn't necessarily represent the same depth of societal change, and may be more of an economic feasibility.  And, there has been an explosion in self-publishing simulateous with this style of writing.  But, plenty of mainstream publishing is picking up this style as well.

Is it possible this writing style has always been around and I am just running across it more often due to the self-publishing revolution? Is writing replacing the oral tradition but keeping the style?

As some good writers have told me this year, there are many reasons for self-publishing: Economic, artistic, egotistic.

In terms of artistic vision perhaps mainstream publishing is similar to the Paris salons of the late 18th and early 20th centuries that rejected Manet and Cezanne and many of the painters we now think of as great. Perhaps.

Some times I think it is the equivalent of opening a restaurant in the 1980s. I remember, people would be downsized and decide that they could open a restaurant because it wasn't rocket science.  Maybe self-publishing has created a lot of that "it ain't rocket science" feeling about writing. If FIFTY SHADES is so terrible then I could do better! And, then, why go through all that revision and criticism? Why be edited and have your idea ruined by a bean-counter?

I know of at least  one new novelist who endured the gauntlet of professional editing and emerged a better writer, and a published one too. And, I have at least one friend whose work has grown immensely through self publishing and, not being bothered by critique, she is really becoming more than a published author, she is an artist. Ideally, with someone who wants to help your vision shine, editing isn't domination (although it might feel like it), it's a way of bringing it to its best possible condition. 

And, I hear writers who say, It's all marketing anyway. Look! look at Fifty Shades! That's all marketing, right?

You've heard it. You may even have thought or said it. We humans have an enormous capacity for self-deceit. I know this feeling, I am a painter.  I've sold some, but I know my limitations and flaws.  I am, despite sales and years of work, an amateur. And, one of my problems is that I really don't like to be critiqued — sometimes because I am emotionally attached to my painting.

What am I saying here?  I don't know every side of this issue. But I also believe that what I am saying has at least a thread of truth. And, I am not hearing it said much. Both indy and corporate publishing have produced some masterpieces and so has self-publishing. But, we need to focus less on the publication of books and dig deeper into the craft of writing. Genre, literary, whatever — All writing is expression. But the will to express is not all there is.  All expression needs honing.  The sharpest knife is the one that's been at the stone the most.

Here then, is what I read this past year.  Any similarities? Any recommendations?

Grave Intentions (Read 2012)	Lori Sjoberg
Hot Ticket (Read 2012)	Olivia Cunning
The Blood Bar	Xandra Jones and others
Hex And The Single Witch	Roxanne Rhoads
The Temperate Warrior	Renee Vincent
The Darlings	Cristina Algers
White Trash Beautiful	Teresa Mummert
A Marquess For Christmas	Viviene Westlake
Kiss Of The Betrayer	Boone Brux
Last Kiss Goodnight	Gena Showalter
Dark Wolf Rising	Rhyannon Byrd
Flirting With Fangs	Peg Pierson
Fire In The Blood	Robyn Bachar
Breaking Leather	Delilah Devlin
My Lord Immortality	Alexandra Ivy
Fate’s Wish	MillyTaiden
Crimson Frost	Jennifer Estep
Nights Darkest Embrace	Jeaniene Frost
Release Me	J. Kenner
One Night With A Hero	Laura Kaye
Take Me	Olivia Cunning
Tempt Me	Olivia Cunning
Try Me	Olivia Cunning
Lancaster House	Taylor Dean
Mr. Buff	April Angel
All I Want For Christmas Is You	Lisa Mondello
River  Road	Suzanne Johnson
Lumberjack In Love	Penny Watson
Red Hot Holiday	K.A. Mitchell and others
Sealed With A Curse	Cecy Robson
Knight Awakened	Coreene Callahan
Bewitching The Duke	Christie Kelley
Laird’s Choice	Amanda Scott
Naughty And Nice	Ruthie Knox and others
Her Forbidden Hero	Laura Kaye
Angel In Chains	Cynthia Eden
Kissed By A Vampire	Caridad Piñeiro
Midnight In Your Arms	Morgan Kelly
My Bluegrass Baby	Molly Harper
The Prince	Tiffany Reisz
Fury Of Seduction	Coreene Callahan
Surrounded By Temptation	Mandy Harbin
A Touch Of Crimson	Sylvia Day
Afterlife	Joey W. Hill
Bleed For Me	Cynthia Eden
How To Date A Werewolf	Rose Pressey
No Reservations	Lily Cain
Rock Hard	Olivia Cunning
A Trace Of Moonlight	Allison Pang
Rogue Rider	LARISSA IONE
Lust For Life	JERI SMITH-READY
Hostile Take Over	Joey W. Hill
Board Resolution	Joey W. Hill
Ghost Planet	Sharon  Lynn Fisher
Pure And Sinful	Killian McRae
Double Time	Olivia Cunning
Backstage Pass	Olivia Cunning
Futures And Frosting	Tara Sivec
First Grave On The Right	Darynda Jones
Second Grave On The Left	Darynda jones
For I Have Sinned	Darynda JOnes
Incarnation	Emma Cornwall
Wrayth	Philippa Ballantine
Dark Heroine	Abigail Gibbs
The Mysterious Madame Morpho	Delilah S. Dawson
Cry Sanctuary	Sadie Hart
Devil’s Bargain	Rachel Caine
Hot And Haunted Anthology	Megan Hart, Saranna DeWylde and others
Stay	Julia R. Barrett
Sharp Change	Milly Taiden
If I Were You	Lisa Renee Jones
The Angel	Tiffany Reisz
Rogue’s Pawn	Jeffe Kennedy
Thirst	Karen Taylor
Tarnished Halo	Kayden Macleod
Reflected In You	Sylvia Day
Unconventional	K. Kaynak, T. Wooldridge, eds.
In A Fix	Linda Grimes
Starved For Love	Annie Nicholas
Alpha And Omega(Graphic Novel)	Pat Briggs
Seduced By A Pirate	Eloisa James
Mate Claimed	Jennifer Ashley
Seduction And Snacks	Tara Sivec
Into The Woods	Kim Harrison
Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet	Darynda Jones
How To Marry A Warlock In Ten Days	Saranna DeWylde
Fanpire	Tanya Erzen
Forbidden: The Nightwalkers, Book 1	Jacquelyn Frank
Death Is A Bitch	Cate Masters
The Lost Prince	Julie Kagawa
A Tale Of Two Vampires	Katie MacAllister
Wild About You	Kerrelynn Sparks
White Forest	Adam McOmber
The Kingmakers	Susan Griffith and Clay Griffith
Widow’s Web	Jennifer Estep
Immortal Surrender	Claire Ashgrove
The Guardian Of Bastet	Jacqueline Battisti
Destined To Play	Indigo Bloom
Where There’s A Will	Karen Kelley
The Better To Eat You With	Lena Matthews
The Nightwalker	Lisa Kessler
The Iron Wyrm Affair	Lilith Saintcrow
Charmfall	Chloe Neill
Artistic Vision	Dana Marie Bell
The Better To Eat You With	Lena Matthews
When Beauty Tamed The Beast	Eloisa James
Something Witchy This Way Comes	HP Mallory
Beneath A Rising Moon	Keri Arthur
Lifestyles Of The Rich And Undead	Katie MacAlister
Boyfriend From Hell	Jaime Quaid
Dark Nights	Christine Feehan
Mark Of The Witch	Maggie Shayne
The Siren	Tiffany Reisz
The Strix	KATALINA LEON
Hidden Paradise	Janet Mullaney
The Demoness Of Waking Dreams	Stephanie Chong
Immortally Yours Angie Fox	Angie Fox
The Mating Season	Alice Gaines
Storm Bound	Alice Gaines
Demon Hunting In The Deep South	Lexi George
Thirteen	Kelley Armstrong
Seven Day Loan	Tiffany Reisz
The Power Of Habit	Charles Duhigg
Alice's Sexual Discovery In A Wonderful Land	Liz Adams
Biting Cold	Chloe Neill
Bind Me	Stacey Kennedy
Beg For It	Stacey Kennedy
Backstage Pass	Olivia Cunning
No Peace For The Damned	Megan Powell
Kitty Steals The Show	Carrie Vaughn
The Care And Feeding Of Stray Vampires	Molly Harper
The Space Between Us	Megan Hart
Moonglow	Kristen Callihan
Magic Gone Wild	Judi Fennell
Call Of The Sea	Rebecca Hart
Sharing Hailey	Samantha Ann King
A Kiss At Midnight	Eloisa James
Storming The Castle	Eloisa James
Embrace Me At Twilight	Shayla Black
West Of Want Blog	Laura Kaye
Goddess In The Middle	Stephanie Julian
The Theory Of Attraction	Delphine Dryden
The Hunter And The Fox	Philippa Ballantine
Charlotte Markham And The House Of Darkling	Michael Boccacino
Heat Rises	Alice Gaines
The Ugly Duchess	Eloisa James
Once Burned	Jeaniene Frost
Creating Merry Hell	Emma Wallace
A Sliver Of Shadow	Alison Pang
A Blood Seduction	Pamela Palmer
Darkest Caress	Kaylea Cross
Where There’s Smoke	Karen Kelley
Shaman, Healer, Heretic	M. Terry Green
Beneath The Skin	Lauren Dane
Enemies And Playmates	Darcia Helle
Under A Vampire Moon	Lyndsay Sands
Shadow Magic	Donna Grant
Stuck With You	Trish Jensen
The Art Of Seducing A Naked Werewolf	Molly Harper
Bared To You	Sylvia Day
Elijah	Jacquelyn Frank
Dark Kiss Of Rapture	Sylvia Day
Big Game	CJ Ellison
Hearts In Darkness	Laura Kaye
Revelation	Lauren Dane
The Lady Is A Vamp	Lynsay Sands
Catch	Annie Nicholas
The Afterlife Club	Jude Ryan
Deadlocked	Charlaine Harris
North Of Need	Laura Kaye
The Claimed	Caridad Pifiero
Home	Stacia Kane
A Vampire For Christmas	Felicity Heaton
Make Me	Parker Blue
Chasing Magic	Stacia Kane
Summoning The Night	Jenn Bennett
Evil Dark	Justin Gustainis
Tears Of Crimson	Michelle Hughes
Captured By Moonlight	Nancy Gideon
The Mane Event	Shelley Laurentson
Darkness Becomes Her	Jaime Rush
Fifty Shades	E.L.James
Fifty Shades Darker	E.L.James
Fifty Shades Freed	E.L.James
Much Ado About Vampires	Katie MacAlister
Damian	Jacquelyn Frank
Capitol Magic	Mindy Klasky
Edge Of Passion	Tina Folsom
Seduced By The Vampire King	Laura Kaye
Kiss The Dead	Laurell K Hamilton
The Witch Is Back	HP Mallory
Fury Of Ice	Coreene Callahan
What Happens In Vegas After Dark	Anthology
Blue Blooded Vamp	Jaye Wells
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce
Somebody Like You	Candis Terry
But I Deserve This Chocolate	Susan Albers PsyD (reference)
Finding Magic	Stacia Kane*
Sunshine	Robin McKinley
War Of The Gods	Lizzy Ford (three Novellas in Omnibus)
Princeps	LE Modesitt, Jr.
The Hollows Insider	Kim Harrison
Shaman,  Friend, Enemy	M. Terry Green
The Darkest Day	Britt Bury
Pinterest For Dummies	Kelbie Carr
Dragon Justice	Laura Anne Gilman
Sacred Surrender	Ava Riley
Wishful Thinking	Gabi Stevens
Beauty	Laurell K. Hamilton
Lover Revealed	JR Ward
Royal Street	Suzanne Johnson
Forbidden Fantasies	Jadie Griffin (short)
Lover Unbound	JR Ward
A Kiss Of Pride	Sandra Hill
Fury Of Fire	Coreene Callahan
Lover Enshrined	JR Ward
Fair Game	Pat Briggs
Nice Girls Don’s Bite Their Neighbors	Molly Harper
The House Of The Wind	Titiana Hardie
A Perfect Blood	Kim Harrison
The Hollows Insider	Kim Harrison
Lover Avenged	JR Ward
Lover Mine	JR Ward
In The Flesh	Julia R. Barrett (short)
Lover Unleashed	JR Ward
Wicked Weekend	Gillian Archer
Motor City Mage	Cindy Spencer Pape
Forgiven	Jana Oliver
Witchful Thinking	HP Mallory
Grave Mercy	Robin LaFevers
The Hunt	CJ Ellison
Wicked As They Come	Delilah S. Dawson
Wide Open	Deb Coates
Sacrificial Magic	Stacia Kane
Cursed	Susan Abel Sullivan Short Collection
The Werewolf’s Wife	Michelle Hauf
Timeless	Gail Carriger
Dark Frost	Jennifer Estep
Lover Reborn	JR Ward
Safeword: Matte	Candace Blevins Shortish
Taken	Selena Kitt Very short
Holding The Cards	Joey W. Hill Novella
Getting Over Mr. Right	Chrissy Man
Immortal Rules	Julie Kagawa
A Rush Of Darkness	Allison Pang
The Department Of Magic	R. Kierkegaard,  Jr.
Gideon	Jacquelyn Frank
Cinder	Melissa Meyers
Lover Eternal	JR Ward
Lover Awakened	JR Ward
Planesrunner	Ian MacDonald
Jacob	Jacquelyn Frank
Honor Bound	CJ Archer
In The Service Of The King	Laura Kaye
Dark Lover	JR Ward
Dreaming Of The Wolf	Terry Spear
Killing Rites	MLN Hanover
Deadly Is The Kiss	Rhyannon Byrd
Driving Mr. Dead	Molly Harper
Hearts Of Smoke And Steam	Andrew P. Mayer
How Miss Rutherford Got Her Groove Back	Sophie Barnes
Pack And Coven	Jody Wallace
The Thirteen	Susie Moloney
Immortal Hope	Claire Ashgrove
Vicious Grace	MLN Hanover
Darker After Midnight	Laura Adrian
Firelight	Kristen Callihan
If Walls Could Talk	Lucy Worsely
Summer Solstice Celestial Seductions # 3	Eden Bradley
Pride And Prejudice Hidden Lusts	Mitzi Szereto
Darker Angels	MLN Hanover
The Kingdom	Amanda Stevens
Ali In Wonderland	Ali Wentworth
Demon Crossing	Eleri Stone
Spell Caster	Cara Lynn Schultz
Unclean Spirits	MLN Hanover
Marked By Passion	Kate Perry
The King's Druidess	Sky Purington
The Duke Is Mine	Eloisa James
Winning The Wallflower	Eloisa James
Under His Influence	Justine Elyot
Kitty Goes To Washington	Carrie Vaughn
Kiss Of The Vampire	Cynthia Garner
Shadow Heir	Richelle Mead
The Stubborn Dead	Natasha Hoar
The Canvas Thief	P. Kir

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