DEFINITELY DEAD (Sookie Stackhouse #6) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: 2009 PAPERBACK: 324 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley—a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. After all, technically speaking, Hadley was already dead. And now, as unexpected heir to Hadley’s estate, Sookie discovers the inheritance definitely comes with a risk. Someone doesn’t want Sookie looking too deeply into Hadley’s…
Chase Me by Tamara Hogan (Underbelly Chronicles #2) Sourcebooks Casablanca ( June 2012) Paperback, 331 pages Paranormal Romance I really wasn’t sure what I was going to think of Chase Me. Tamara Hogan is a new author for me, and upon reading the blurb I was, I have to say, rather dubious about reading the book. After all, I like paranormal romance, not sci-fi! Things from out of space just aren’t my thing. Far be it from me to not read a book just because of its cover however, so…
FAIR GAME (Alpha & Omega #3) by Patricia Briggs PUBLISHER: Orbit (UK) | Penguin (USA) RELEASE DATE: March 2012 FORMAT: Ebook, 304 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy SUMMARY: They say opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves Anna Latham and Charles Cornick, they mate. The son-and enforcer-of the leader of the North American werewolves, Charles is a dominant alpha. While Anna, an omega, has the rare ability to calm others of her kind. Now that the werewolves have revealed themselves to humans, they can’t afford any bad publicity. Infractions that…
DARKFEVER (Fever #1) by Karen Marie Moning PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: Sept 2011 (First published Oct 2006) FORMAT: Paperback, 347 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks… until something extraordinary happens. When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death – a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone – Mac journeys to Ireland…
UNDER THE NEVER SKY (Under the Never Sky #1) by Veronica Rossi PUBLISHER: Atom (UK) | HarperCollins (US) PUBLICATION DATE: Feb 2012 (UK) | Jan 2012 (US) FORMAT: Paperback, 376 pages GENRE: Dystopian, Romance, Young Adult Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse. Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland – known as The Death Shop – are…
AUTUMN: PURIFICATION (Autumn #3) by David Moody PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: April 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 261 pages GENRE: Horror, Zombies One day in September a virulent plague spread throughout the world, killing billions in one day. Even now the full horror of the plague is just beginning, for the dead are not just dead… One small group of survivors is imprisoned in an underground base, trapped between the door to the outside world and the sealed entrance to the airtight cocoon where hundreds of soldiers sit and wait for rescue….
Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon (The League #1) Piatkus Books (Oct 2009) Paperback, 560 pages Paranormal Romance To be honest, I stopped reading Sherrilyn Kenyon’s books after Acheron, from her Dark Hunters series. This was mainly due to the fact that I felt each book was going over the same old ground and only the names of the characters changed. So I picked up this book since I found out that Born of Ice, which I have on my bookshelf, was book 3 in the series. So instead of…
DEAD AS A DOORNAIL (Sookie Stackhouse #5) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: 2009 PAPERBACK: 295 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Sookie’s got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead – and to stop the fiend! Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She’s a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life – but things…
THE SWEET SCENT OF BLOOD (Spellcrackers.com #1) by Suzanne McLeod PUBLISHER: Gollancz (UK) | Ace (US) RELEASE DATE: Nov 2011 (UK) | April 2010 (US) FORMAT: Paperback, 400 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Genevieve Taylor is a sidhe – one of the noble fae – and she’s unusual even in a London where celebrity vampires, eccentric goblins and scheming lesser fae mix freely with humanity… Genny is a rising star at Spellcrackers.com, where she finds the “M” in magic – which can mean anything from mischief to malice to murder. The spellcrackers…
WHITE HORSE (White Horse #1) by Alex Adams PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster (UK) | Atria (US) RELEASE DATE: April 2012 FORMAT: ARC, 292 pages GENRE: Horror, Post-Apocalyptic SOURCE: Publisher Then: Her life may have taken a couple of wrong turns but thirty-year-old Zoe is trying to make the best of what she has. A part time cleaning job to pay for college, a weekly appointment with her therapist to straighten out the problems in her life. The same problems that any thirty-year-old girl would have. Nothing major. Nothing too life threatening….
Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison (Elder Races #1) Piatkus Books (May 2012) Paperback, 312 pages Paranormal Romance Although Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison has been out in the US for some time now, its UK release from Piatkus was 3rd of May 2012. If like me, you love a paranormal romance that has a great meaty story along side great romance and fabulously hot, sexy scenes, then you’re in for a treat. Dragon Bound is just brilliant – I didn’t want to put it down or for the story to end….
AUTUMN: THE CITY (Autumn #2) by David Moody PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: Jan 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 278 pages GENRE: Horror, Zombies A virulent disease has ripped across the face of the planet, killing billions of people in under twenty-four hours. Few remain alive to care how it happened; all they know is that the full extent of the disease is yet to be revealed. A small group of survivors have been cowering in fear in the desolate remains of a silent city, besieged on all sides by the thousand upon…
DEAD TO THE WORLD (Sookie Stackhouse #4) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: 2009 PAPERBACK: 321 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire – and ends up in the middle of a war between witches, werewolves and vampires! Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She’s pretty. She does her job well. She keeps to herself – she has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie’s gift: she can read minds. That’s not exactly every man’s…
HEXED (Iron Druid Chronicles #2) by Kevin Hearne PUBLISHER: Orbit Books | Brilliance Audio RELEASE DATE: June 2011 DURATION: 8 hours & 52 mins NARRATOR: Luke Daniels GENRE: Urban Fantasy Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn’t care much for witches. Still, he’s about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treaty when suddenly the witch population in modern-day Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just bad, they’re badasses with a dark history on the German side of World War…
Plague Town by Dana Fredsti (Ashley Parker #1) Titan Books (April 2012) Paperback, 350 pages Urban Fantasy | Zombies One night when Ashley Parker and her boyfriend, Matt, are having a late night picnic and are busy making out, Ashley feels something’s on her, and at first she’s angry as she thinks it’s Matt getting a bit carried away, but when she shoves Matt off her and he shines a light to see what the problem is, they find a half eaten woman rolling around on the ground, wanting to chomp…
