I received an advance digital copy of this novel from the publisher, St. Martin’s Press, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Inheritance waI received an advance digital copy of this novel from the publisher, St. Martin’s Press, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Inheritance was one of my favorite books of 2023, and it ended on a major cliffhanger. So when I was offered an advance digital copy of The Mirror, which was quite possibly my most anticipated read of 2024, I couldn’t hit the download button fast enough. And I loved every single page. There’s not a single thing I would change about The Mirror, except for the fact that I have to wait over a year to see how the story ends.
Thankfully, our story picks up exactly where Inheritance left off. Because of that, there’s not a ton I can say about the plot. What I can do is offer a brief synopsis of Inheritance. Our main character, Sonja, is watching her life unravel. Right after we meet her, she finds her fiancé in bed with one of her bridesmaids—who also happens to be her cousin. From there, she has to deal with throwing him out, cancelling the wedding, and drama at her job, as both she and the ex-fiancé work for the same graphic design firm. In the wake of all of this, an additional piece of drama completely upends her life. It turns out her deceased father was a twin, and that the uncle she never knew has left her Lost Bride Manor, a massive mansion on the coast. She takes a chance and moves in, only to find that the house isn’t empty. It’s insanely haunted. Most of the ghosts are helpful and friendly, but there’s one that will stop at nothing to drive Sonja away. There’s a mystery to solve, a romance to be had, and some truly fantastic friendships to be found within the book, as well.
There’s not a ton of forward momentum to the plot in The Mirror, but I didn’t care. It was never, ever boring. Nora weaves a spell in her portrayal of the everyday; even the mundane is magical in her hands. This is one of the best examples of a slice-of-life story I’ve read in recent years. It gives us a ton of character development in Sonja, as well as in her best friend Cleo, who I absolutely adore; Trey, Sonja’s love interest on of the steadiest, sweetest men in Nora’s vast back catalogue of romantic leads; and Owen, Trey’s best friend and Sonja’s cousin she didn’t know about until moving to the Manor. I love every single member of this inner circle of the cast with all my heart. They’re just a wonderful group, and I love the many bonds between them. (Also, can I just say that Cleo, Owen, and Cleo’s grandma are some of the most naturally, effortlessly sexy characters I’ve encountered in any book?) Then there are the other two main groups of characters: the pets, who all somehow resemble their humans in personality; and the ghosts, who are an eclectic and by-and-large charming bunch, with one glaring exception.
I’m not a big crier as I read, but I had to put this book down multiple times because I couldn’t see the words. Sometimes the tears were from sorrow, shared with one of the characters. But more, they were from sheer sweetness, from scenes that made my heart ache in the best of ways. Nora has a way of bringing out the emotions in me, and I’m not sure she’s ever exemplified that more than in the last 10% of this book.
Let’s talk about the bookends of the story: the prologue and the final chapter. Nora’s prologues are always exceptional. They plunge us into the tone and atmosphere of the story to come, but they’re also different stylistically than the rest of the book. This one in particular was musical, moody, darkly whimsical. I was instantly transported and drawn in. And then there’s the last chapter. That ending, man. What is up with Nora’s endings in recent years?! They leave you desperate for the next book. Which is all well and good when you actually have the next book in hand. But when you have to wait a year? It’s torture! But it’s torture of the best kind. It guarantees that I’ll be thinking about this book for months to come, and will be reading the last installment as soon as I can get my hands on it.
One of my dreams when I first started reviewing books in 2016 was to, someday, be able to read Nora Roberts books before they were published. It seemed like such a lofty goal to me, but she’s one of my absolute favorite authors, a favorite I share with my mom, my grandma, and my brother. If I could get anything out of reviewing books, that’s what I hoped for. Lo and behold, my dream has become reality. Every time I get one of her books early, it feels like the best Christmas ever. I’m so thankful to have gotten to read The Mirror early, and am even more thankful that I loved it so much. Nora Roberts is a master of her craft, and I can’t wait to see how she brings this story to a close in 2025!
The Sentence is a story set in a very specific moment in time. There’s the fun, interesting story of the haunting at the bookstore, but laced through The Sentence is a story set in a very specific moment in time. There’s the fun, interesting story of the haunting at the bookstore, but laced through it are vignettes of life during 2020, the year from hell. We see the beginnings of pandemic and the lockdown. We see the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests and riots. There’s a lot of hard, not-too-distant past woven into this story, and those slaps of reality were sometimes difficult to face again. But those elements were well balanced with with story being told.
While there’s the mystery of the haunting, and the fun of a story set in a bookshop, and the tension of reliving 2020 through someone else’s eyes, this is at its heart a story of identity. Tookie, our main character, has had a rough life, and has actually forgotten some of who she is. She knows she’s Native, and that she loves her husband and her job, but there are holes. When one of the shop’s most faithful customers dies and begins haunting her, Tookie finds herself forced to face herself with eyes wide open. She’s an interesting character, and I enjoyed my time with her.
I thought this was a solid story, thought-provoking and with a good deal of emotional depth. I appreciated it. I couldn’t quite love it from some reason, but I definitely respected it. I don’t think I could have even made it through the entire book had I read it when it first came out. But being a few years distant from the events of 2020 now, I can look at them more objectively. Revisiting them through the eyes of another, one who experienced the year in a radically different way and setting, was an interesting experience. It’s not a time and place I’d like to revisit often, but I appreciated the learning experience, and I enjoyed the story itself....more
I received an advance digital copy of this novel from the publisher, Berkley, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
IActual rating: 4.5 stars
I received an advance digital copy of this novel from the publisher, Berkley, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I can’t remember the last time I read a 400+ page book in less than 24 hours, but that was exactly my experience with Bride. I was pretty excited when Hazelwood announced her first foray into paranormal romance. And somewhat hesitant. While I thoroughly enjoyed The Love Hypothesis, I haven’t been able to get into any of her work since. I was hopeful that a shift in genre would change things, and I was absolutely correct. Bride had me in its thrall from the very first page. I couldn’t put it down.
Misery Lark is being used from political gain. Again. As a child, she was made the Vampyre Collateral to the Humans, growing up among a people who hated and feared her kind. Her presence guaranteed her people’s good behavior for the entirety of her childhood. She thought the had aged out, and has been passing for Human in their land because she’s no longer accepted by Vampyres, either. But she is being used for leverage once again, this time being given as a Vampyre bride to the Alpha of the Weres in pursuit of peace between their peoples. Misery seems to be living up to her name.
I really enjoyed the interplay between Misery and Lowe Moreland, her Alpha husband. It took a good while for them to share much space together on the page, but I actually appreciated the slow burn of that. Especially since there was never really a dull moment in terms of plot. But the chemistry between the two leads whenever they were together was through the roof. Often awkward, but through the roof. That would have been enough to keep me reading, but it was the world that had me so invested. Hazelwood created a pretty fascinating set of societies. I was actually reminded of Anne Bishop’s The Others the tiniest bit. In set up, not in tone. I liked that the Vampyres and Weres are born, not created. It’s genetics that sets the three races in this world apart, and that made for a much more interesting story, in my opinion.
I also just really love Hazelwood’s writing style. There’s something easy and addictive about it. And yet, the easy tone in no way meant a sacrifice in depth when it came to her characters. Some writers can tell you all of the secret hopes and fears of their characters in a way that still comes across as shallow somehow. Hazelwood takes the opposite approach. We glean these depths from watching the characters. She does a fantastic job of showing, not just telling. There was plenty of tension here, both in terms of plot and romance. The romantic tension was through the roof. The aforementioned chemistry mixed with the slow burn of said romance made each scene the two shared rife with tension. And while the sex scenes might’ve been a bit messy, they were undeniably hot. As a side note there, this is the first time I’ve read knotting in a mainstream book. So consider yourself warned if that’s not your thing. I’ve not encountered that outside of fan fiction, really, so it was a surprise, to say the least.
Is this a modern masterpiece? No. It’s not going to revolutionize the genre or anything like that. But I enjoyed my time with it immensely. Sometimes a book isn’t trying to be brilliant; it’s just shooting for fun. And this book is the most fun I’ve had reading in a long time. If I could erase yesterday and reread this again for the first time, I would, just for the sheer joy of the experience. I preordered a physical copy for when it releases in February, because I can see this becoming a comfort reread. She also left herself an opening for a sequel, and I really hope she gives us one!...more
July 2024: Rereading this a year later was just as wonderful as my first time through it. I stand by everything I said below!
Original September 2023 rJuly 2024: Rereading this a year later was just as wonderful as my first time through it. I stand by everything I said below!
Original September 2023 review:
I always get so excited when a new Nora Roberts series is announced. I love her standalones. I love her J.D. Robb series, following murder cop Eve Dallas in the late 2050s and 2060s. But her trilogies and quartets are the stories I truly sink into the most. While I have loved her last couple of trilogies, where she was doing new and exciting things outside of her norm by going more fantasy-heavy, I was also excited to hear that she would be going back to her roots, so to speak, with her newest offering, The Lost Bride Trilogy. Firmly rooted in reality with a healthy dash of the supernatural, it’s a romance and a mystery and, if Inheritance is any indication, a compulsively rereadable story that is going to stick with readers long after they read the final pages.
In Inheritance we meet Sonya right as her life comes crashing down around her ears. She comes home to find her fiancé in bed with her cousin. To make matters worse, said (now former) fiancé works in the same office as Sonya and embarks upon making her life a living hell after she refuses to see reason and forgive him for “slipping.” But when a cliché in the form of a long lost, wealthy, recently deceased uncle falls in Sonya’s lap, leaving her his (their) family home, a mansion by the sea, Sonya embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. The house is perfect. And very, very haunted. But with the support of her wonderful mother, her best friend Cleo, and the new friends she makes in her new town, Sonya is determined to make this manor her home. Most of the ghosts are happy to have her. But one will stop at nothing to drive her out.
There is a very compelling mystery at the heart of the story, that of the Lost Brides of the manor. Seven brides have died in the house within the first year of their marriages, multiple on the actual day of their weddings. A bride per generation. The ghosts of brides and their killer reside in the house, alongside who knows how many others. And yet, most of these ghosts are fairly cheerful. My favorite is one who plays DJ, always playing just exactly the right song for the moment through Sonya’s phone or tablet. That addition brought me joy all the way through the book. As did the manor itself. It’s a house with a ton of character and charm and hidden depths, with just the right amount of creep factor. I could happily live in that library.
The characters here are wonderful, as always. I love the chemistry between our main character and her love interest. I love the family dynamics of Sonya and her mother, as well as those of the Doyle family of lawyers who brought Sonya to her new home. I adore the friendship between Sonya and Cleo, who won me over immediately as a fellow Louisiana native. And then there are the dogs. There are three dogs in this book, and all three are wonderful. Nora has a way with dogs, and hers always seem like characters in their own right.
What I didn’t love as much was the cliffhanger ending. Strangely, while the two stories have very little in common, Inheritance had almost exactly the same ending as The Awakening, book 1 of her last trilogy. It’s a striking ending, but it’s a frustrating place to wait for over a year until I can get the second installment in my hands. But other than that, there’s not a thing I would change about this book. It was absolutely fantastic, and I seriously cannot wait to find out what happens next....more
I remember being so excited when I first found Bishop’s The Others series. It felt like a breath of fresh air in Actual rating: 2.5 stars, rounded up.
I remember being so excited when I first found Bishop’s The Others series. It felt like a breath of fresh air in the urban fantasy genre, balancing genre favorite entities, like vampires and more common shapeshifters, with the less familiar, like elemental spirits and blood prophets. The series also managed to be both more brutal and somehow more innocent than most I had read in the genre, which I thought was a very interesting dichotomy. But, as much as I enjoy this world that is so similar to ours except in one major way, part of me wishes Bishop would have moved on after the original series ended in the fifth book. The World of the Others, the spinoff series, has not felt nearly as strong or as special as the original. This is obviously just my own opinion, but the wonder has worn off and, as much as I liked the idea, I think I’ve decided that this is the last book set in this world that I’ll be reading.
Bishop’s original five-book series set in this world fascinated me in terms of tone and world building. There was a simplicity and quaintness to the community of the Courtyard, which was an interesting foil to the expansive, terrifyingly unknown Wild Country surrounding the cities. Because so many of these characters could shift into human, but were most definitely Other, there was an innocence to their outlook on life that charmed me in comparison to many of the humans in the novels, whose complexities tended to hide evil. I found all of these building blocks, when paired with the almost oddly simplistic writing style, a truly compelling and original mix.
However, after transitioning from the Courtyard and Meg’s story into Wild Country and the small communities scattered within it, something about the series lost me. The simplistic style I enjoyed suddenly felt too simple, like the kind of writing we use to teach kids how to read. It lacked the nuance that helps readers embed themselves in a story. And oddly, the charming quaintness turned into a tendency to bog down so deeply in minutia that it became difficult to keep from skimming. These two concerns are a really weird mix, and no amount of intriguing preternatural entities could make up for them. Whatever magic imbued the original series is missing from The World of the Others.
Crowbones in particular felt as if Bishop was trying to juggle too many strands in the plot, leaving the overall narrative feeling muddy. And while I liked the idea of the Jumble, it just didn’t deliver the same level of charm as the Courtyard. There are some interesting characters here, and even some reprisals from the original series, but none of them felt quite as special as that original cast. Vicki, the closest thing we have to a main character, feels as though Bishop has tried too hard to make her quirky, lovable in spite of the fact she feels very unlovable. Something about the way Bishop wrote her fell flat in comparison to Meg. The other characters were fine, but forgettable.
Actually, my description of Crowbones, as well as Wild Country and Lake Silence, would be exactly that: fine but forgettable. Which is really a shame, considering how much I enjoyed the first series set in this world. But these three… none of them were bad. I finished them, and didn’t hate them. But I didn’t love them, either. These are “meh” incarnate....more
Super stinking cute. Light and fluffy without being overly saccharine. However, it found it a bit lacking in the plot departmeActual rating: 3.5 stars
Super stinking cute. Light and fluffy without being overly saccharine. However, it found it a bit lacking in the plot department. The characters are adorable, and the romance was sweet without making my teeth hurt. But the plot and the magic seemed a bit like afterthoughts, more like trappings than actual essential pieces of the story. The final resolution for the non-romantic portion of the main conflict seemed like a blip of an event, instead of being given the importance that if felt needed after having been so built up over the course of the novel. All in all, it was a fun story with a really stinking cute romance, but I found it forgettable....more
This is one of the most melodramatic things I’ve ever (re)read. Seriously, so much of this plot could’ve been lifted from a daytime soap opera, it’s rThis is one of the most melodramatic things I’ve ever (re)read. Seriously, so much of this plot could’ve been lifted from a daytime soap opera, it’s ridiculous. Was I ever tempted to put the book down, though? Nope. I might’ve been spraining eye muscles from rolling them so hard every few pages, but no one could have pried the book from my hands. You’d think I’d be burning out on the dramatic, but nope. It’s embarrassingly addictive....more
I do not have words to adequately express how much I wanted to strangle multiple characters in this book. Including War for introducing such a jacked I do not have words to adequately express how much I wanted to strangle multiple characters in this book. Including War for introducing such a jacked up storyline. I can’t even get into it without heavy spoilers, but I will say this: grief should be respected, for however long the grieving party needs. No one should be rushed through healing from something traumatic. I was still totally invested, but also furious at a good many of these characters. Except for Lassiter. He’s awesome....more
While I enjoy Payne and Manny, this book isn’t my favorite for a couple of reasons. First, it feels a bit more shallow than its predecessors, at leastWhile I enjoy Payne and Manny, this book isn’t my favorite for a couple of reasons. First, it feels a bit more shallow than its predecessors, at least when it came to the central romance. Second, I just can’t read about literal sexual healing, as in the healing of the body through sex, without rolling my eyes. Hard. What I did appreciate about this book was its return to Vishous and Jane’s story. I love Ward’s decision to revisit part central romances in later books, at her peeling back the curtain and showing that things aren’t all rainbows and unicorns just because you love each other and tied the knot. Relationships take work, and that work doesn’t end at happily ever after. Seeing that on the page, and seeing these couples work through whatever life throws at them, is really satisfying....more
This installment is one of my favorites, and the one I’ve been most looking forward to rereading. John Matthew is one of the most compelling characterThis installment is one of my favorites, and the one I’ve been most looking forward to rereading. John Matthew is one of the most compelling characters in Ward’s world, and Xhex is one of the most mysterious. And they’re both total badasses. Their story is among the most melodramatic, but so utterly entrancing that it’s almost impossible to stop reading. As their interest in one another has been present in multiple preceding books, the romantic payoff in this novel is pretty exceptional. But man, did they have to undergo some serious trauma to get there....more
I love Rehvenge. And Ehlena. And Ward’s weird addiction to adding random Hs into common words or names to make them more vampire-y. The entire symphatI love Rehvenge. And Ehlena. And Ward’s weird addiction to adding random Hs into common words or names to make them more vampire-y. The entire symphath subplot was fascinating. I have both a deep desire to see a representation of those three-knuckled fingers as well as a profound revulsion of the thought. I enjoyed getting more of Xhex and Trez and iAm. (And how do you like those names?) I’m still thoroughly addicted to this series, and started rereading the next installment as soon as I finished the final page of this one....more
I love Phury on a superficial level. He sounds gorgeous. But I hate being inside his head. All of the Brothers have their struggles, but Phury’s battlI love Phury on a superficial level. He sounds gorgeous. But I hate being inside his head. All of the Brothers have their struggles, but Phury’s battle with addiction and self-loathing is hard to stomach. And while I like Cormina fine, I don’t connect with her in any deep way. This book is all about the plot and the other characters for me. The central romance feels a lot less important than what’s going on in the periphery....more
I didn't love this one quite as much as some of its predecessors, but I love Vishous enough as a character to overlook that. A good bit of plot setup I didn't love this one quite as much as some of its predecessors, but I love Vishous enough as a character to overlook that. A good bit of plot setup for future novels happened here. So while it wasn't my favorite, it was important to the overall story. And I was definitely neither bored nor tempted to put the series to the side for a while, so I obviously still enjoyed it plenty....more
Aaaand I’m still loving them. I’m not really sure what to say at this point. I love the world, I’m incredibly invested in the conflict, I care about tAaaand I’m still loving them. I’m not really sure what to say at this point. I love the world, I’m incredibly invested in the conflict, I care about the characters deeply, and the romances in each book are satisfying. This series is such a fun rereading experience....more
I keep promising myself that I’ll put this series aside and read something else for a while. Nope. They’re getting more and more addictive. I suddenlyI keep promising myself that I’ll put this series aside and read something else for a while. Nope. They’re getting more and more addictive. I suddenly understand why Haïfa has reread the Kate Daniels books so many times. Turns out good paranormal romance series just gets better every time you revisit them. Yet again, this book made my heart ache in the best way. I love these so much more than I remembered. On to the next!...more
Oh, man. I can’t believe I was this emotionally invested in a book that I’ve read before. My heart hurt the entire time I was reading. In the best wayOh, man. I can’t believe I was this emotionally invested in a book that I’ve read before. My heart hurt the entire time I was reading. In the best way. These are so dramatic, but right now I’m thirsty for that for some odd reason. As long as I can be fairly certain that everything is going to work out in the end, which is why I think I’ve been so drawn to the romance genre this year. I’m pretty sure these books are better on a reread than they were the first time around. I’m ready to see if that holds true for more of the series....more
I read the first 10 of these when I was in college, and they’ve been on my mind lately. Now seemed like a good time to revisit the series. Is it high I read the first 10 of these when I was in college, and they’ve been on my mind lately. Now seemed like a good time to revisit the series. Is it high quality literature? No. But it sure is fun. I love Ward’s take on vampires. The names and terms might be cheesy, and I’ve definitely been known to roll my eyes while reading them, but this is the kind of series that I think back on fondly. I blew through this first one in a day, and I’m eager to read more. Literary comfort food....more
I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher, Berkley Publishing Group, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Near the Bone is I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher, Berkley Publishing Group, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Near the Bone is the story of Mattie, a young woman living alone on a mountain with her abusive, much older husband. Something isn’t right on the mountain. Something besides the abuse Mattie can never seem to escape. A new creature has made the mountain its home. It’s huge, a master at staying hidden, and far too intelligent to be a bear or any other average predator. Can Mattie find a way to escape them mountain, and leave both of her monsters behind?
I flew through Near the Bone in less than 24 hours. I’ve never read anything by Christina Henry, but I found her prose to be compulsively readable. There’s something about her writing style that really drew me in. It’s like the words just disappeared from the page, leaving a movie of sorts in their place. And while this is a novel about a preternatural creature, and while there are a handful of other characters in the narrative, this is largely a character study of Mattie. I loved watching her reclaim her courage and her voice over the course of the novel, as well as her mission to uncover her own past. She was without a doubt the star of the show.
While the story was incredibly compelling, there was a lack of depth outside of Mattie’s internal story that left me feeling a bit dissatisfied. If it were a movie, Near the Bone would have been a made-for-tv, SyFy cut, not a big-budget HBO or theatrical release. This could totally be an issue on my end, though, instead of with the book itself. I tend to find a lot of horror novels a bit shallow, and I think this is because my first loves of the genre were Dean Koontz and Stephen King. As both of these authors tend to pen chonkers, I think it’s an unfair comparison to make with shorter novels, but it’s one that I can’t seem to help making. However, Near the Bone fared better than most in my mind due to the depth of Mattie’s story. I just wish a bit more of that wonderful depth had been applied to the creature itself, and to the mountain survival scenario.
If you’re in the market for a well-paced survival horror with a compelling protagonist and a slim page count, Near the Bone should definitely be at the top of your list.
The Screaming Staircase is a fun, action-packed romp through a speculative alternative to modern(ish) London. In this version of London, England and tThe Screaming Staircase is a fun, action-packed romp through a speculative alternative to modern(ish) London. In this version of London, England and the world at large are plagued by a pandemic of phantoms and phantasms. Adults are, for the most part, blind to these apparitions. However, this blindness does nothing to protect them from the malevolent entities. This is how the world finds themselves beholden to the younger generation, who can see and hear and otherwise sense the ghosts. Agencies have been put in place and are fun by adults who directed their more sensitive employee base. However, there are no laws that say gifted children have to work for adults, which is how Lockwood and Co. came to be. Lockwood, still a child himself, runs his own ghost hunting firm with two other children: George and Lucy. When what should have been a simple case goes horribly awry, the company find themselves taking on a terribly dangerous job with very little time to prepare. If they fail, they will lose any chance of future clients, along with the company itself and the house they live and work in.
This was my first encounter with Jonathan Stroud’s writing. I’m a fan of middle grade fiction and have heard great things about both this series and the Bartimaeus series. While The Screaming Staircase was by no means boring, I found myself just trying to push through it so I could move on instead of deeply enjoying it. I thought the best element of the story was Lockwood himself, who came across as a younger ghost hunting version of Sherlock Holmes. Even the fact that we were getting his story secondhand, through the eyes of Lucy, reminded me of Sherlock’s relationship with Doctor Watson. Lockwood was a very intriguing character, and I can see where he and his tiny gang would entrance readers. Unfortunately, I simply wasn’t one of those readers. I wanted more character development outside of merely seeing quirks and chemistry, whereas this book was concerned far more with action and its mystery elements.
While I didn’t love this book, I didn’t hate it by any means. I don’t see myself continuing this particular series, but I’m definitely interested enough in Stroud’s writing to give his Bartimaeus series a try....more
Okay, so I like this story. A lot. There was more plot to this book than was present in the previous installment. However, the sex was worse. So much Okay, so I like this story. A lot. There was more plot to this book than was present in the previous installment. However, the sex was worse. So much worse. I rolled my eyes dozens upon dozens of times.
I’m so conflicted about this series. On the one hand, it’s a really interesting concept, full of fun and compelling characters. On the other, it’s just so consumed with sex. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve been very happily married for 11 years. I love sex. It’s incredibly fun, especially when it’s with the person you love most in the world. However, there’s something about how Danann has written her sex scenes in the past couple of books that just really turns me off. It’s eye-rollingly bad. Seriously, there was a scene at the end of this book that involved toes fondling a scrotum. I actually said “Ick.” Out loud. And had to explain to my husband why I was saying ick while reading a sex scene.
This is the kind of story I would have eaten up in my late teens and early twenties, when I was newly married and running on hormones. But now, books with this level of descriptive sex scenes just strike me as cheesy, and I have a hard time pushing through to the more interesting plot. But this is a personal preference. I’m not a big read of erotica, and I prefer to read about the feelings evoked during sex than the physical mechanics of the act. That being said, I know there is a huge audience for this type of story. Fans of Anita Blake and Sookie Stackhouse would undoubtedly love this series, and I highly recommend it for them. I guess I’ve just lost my taste for such stories.
However, I’ll more than likely pick up the fourth book in Danaan’s Black Swan series eventually. Even though I’m not a fan of how she writes sex, I do really enjoy the story and the cast of characters she’s created, and I want to see where their story goes. Eventually. But right now I need a break from beautiful people who have sex on the brain even in the midst of life-or-death situations. It’s just too much for me right now....more
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