A couple of weeks ago there was an interesting subject mentioned on the Booking Through Thursday meme. I really wanted to take part in that meme that week, but I didn’t have the time sadly and wasn’t home much that day either. Still though, the topic did interest me greatly, and after some thought, I [...]

Halfway to the Grave
Night Huntress Book 1
By Jeaniene Frost
After finishing Frost’s Halfway to the Grave, my only regret is that I did not get a chance to read it sooner. Frost introduces us to a new heroine in the urban fantasy genre by the name of Catherine Kathleen Crawford, a lanky redhead with a rather [...]

Night World No.3
by L.J. Smith
This is the third set in the newly reprinted collection of the Night World series by L.J. Smith that was first published in 1996. The series is being reprinted now in three volumes, each containing three Night World stories that were originally published on their own separately. Included in this set [...]

Night World No.2
Dark Angel, The Chosen, and Soulmate
by L.J. Smith
This is the second set in the newly reprinted collection of the Night World series by L.J. Smith that was first published in 1996. The series is being reprinted now in three volumes, each containing three Night World stories that were originally published on their own [...]

A Lick of Frost
6th book in the Meredith Gentry series
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Despite my dwindling interest in the Anita Blake series by Hamilton, I still enjoy her Meredith Gentry series. I suspect it’s because the gratuitous sex fits Merry’s character and doesn’t seem quite as “thrown in to stretch the book” as is the case [...]

Dancing with Werewolves
1st book in the Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator series
by Carole Nelson Douglas
At the dawn of the new millennium everyone was concerned with the threat of Y2K. Instead of computers crashing worldwide however, vampires and other so-called mythical creatures stepped out of the shadows and into the spotlight. During this time, Delilah was growing [...]

Night World No.1
Secret Vampire, Daughters of Darkness, and Spellbinder
by L.J. Smith
This is the first set in the newly reprinted collection of the Night World series by L.J. Smith that was first published in 1996. The series is being reprinted now in three volumes, each containing three of the Night World novels that were originally published [...]

In the Forests of the Night
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
In the Forests of the Night, Atwater-Rhodes’ first novel, which was written while she was only thirteen years old, is an engaging tale told from the heroine’s point of view in first-person. The book’s title is a line taken from a poem written by William Blake, entitled “The [...]

The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
By Francesca Lia Block
As the title might suggest, Francesca Lia Block’s The Rose and the Beast takes some of the most popular of Grimm’s fairy tales and plops them down in modern-day Los Angeles. The tales are reworked to fit a modern day world, but the lessons, both [...]