Vampire Alert

This memorial day weekend, I read Dark Desires after Dusk by Kresley Cole (book 5) and One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost.

The Kresley Cole book, as always was a fascinating read. It is very good writing that makes you root for the demon. 

The Jeanine Frost book is only her second book and it is Great! I'm going to take them to Jennifer tonight because I know she'll love them. It has been so long since I read the first one that I didn't know how much I was going to want to read the second, but she didn't let me down. Very good read. 

Spoiler for Book 1: The main character is a half-vampire, half-human enforcer for Homeland Security who eliminates vampires who kill humans. In this vampire world, the human race has no idea that vampires exist and that ghouls are cool. 

Catching Up.. Again

I've not been in the mood to post lately, but here it goes...

The Hollow by Nora Roberts
This is the second book in the Sign of Seven trilogy. It didn't disappoint. There is mystery, magic, and mayhem. Love it.

Quicksand by Iris Johansen
Once again, a serial killer is taunting Eve Duncan by claiming to be the killer of her missing daughter, Bonnie. This was very well done. I liked the recurrence of the "Pandora" from the last book.

Playing with Fire by Katie MacAllister
This is the first of the Silver Dragons series, but we still have contact with Aisling and Drake from the previous dragon books. We get the story of Gabriel which is great and makes you just yearn for the next book.

She throws a lot of obstacles in the way of her characters and I can't wait to see how they get out of them. This book has dragons, witches, guardians, demons, and doppelgangers. Fun. And I must mention my favorite, the demon who chose "the most beautiful form" - a talking dog named Jim.

The Third Circle by Amanda Quick (Jayne Ann Krentz)
Jayne Ann Krentz writes her historical books under the name Amanda Quick. For this series, the Arcane Society, she is jumping back and forth between the past and the future in different books under different names. I don't care what name she puts on the book, they are all good. It took me a while to remember some of the main characters from the last books, but then I was happy to check up on them.

This book opens with a murder in a prosperous Lord's home and a man and woman with paranormal senses working together to find a murderer and uncover a secret society plot. Very intriguing.

And Amazon Rocks!

My Amazon shipment came in today. It wasn't supposed to arrive until May 12th! (And two books weren't supposed to be released until that date, so cool...

I don't know what I am going to start with next... so much to choose from. This is what I received.

• Many Bloody Returns (an Anthology) edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner
• From Dead to Worse (the newest Southern Vampire Series - book 8) by Charlaine Harris
• The Third Circle by Amanda Quick
• Quicksand by Iris Johansen
• One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress - book 2) by Jeanine Frost
• Playing with Fire (Silver Dragons - book 1) by Katie MacAlister
• The Hollow (Sign of Seven Trilogy - book 2) by Nora Roberts

Wow- so many good books. I don't know where to start! Probably The Hollow and then Playing with Fire. Or maybe Quicksand... Oh wow. There will be many late nights in my near future.

Big Fat Book of Supernatural Short Stories

I am reading "My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding" currently. I bought this book because I saw that both Sherrilyn Kenyon and Charlaine Harris are listed as contributors. There are nine short stories in this anthology and so far I have read the following:

• Spellbound by L.A. Banks
  
• Something Borrowed by Jim Butcher (This is the Dresden Files series.)
  
• Dead Man's Chest by Rachel Caine
  
• All Shook Up by P.N. Elrod

I'll definitely look into more P.N. Elrod. It reminds me of Janet Evanovich. I feel good about my Jim Butcher book that I have in my amazon cart as well.

Night Watch

This Russian bestseller was very interesting. At times I wondered if some elements were lost in translation because I felt that the premise of the world wasn't explained fully.

The book is basically about the dichotomy between good and evil. The Night Watch lives in the night policing the Dark magicians and the Day watch spends the day policing the Light magicians. Darkness and light have created a truce. If there is too much of good or evil, there will be an unbalance in the world. This makes a difficult task for the Night Watch because the Day Watch is devious and will sacrifice the "unimportant" of the dark ones so that they can accuse the Night Watch of eliminating them. The Day Watch do this so they can get their "retaliation" to even out the scales.

Quite complicated, but quite interesting.