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1gkmiller4
Feb 19, 2011, 8:17 pm

I would really like some suggestions for paranormal series, but no young adult books/series. I have read all of the heavy hitters...
LKH, JR Ward, J. Frost, K. Arthur, Briggs, Kenyon, Ione, Adrian, Cassidy, MJD, Harris, Hallaway...etc.

I am not a fan of Cole, Showalter or Frank.

Ideas for me?

Keri

2BookLizard
Feb 19, 2011, 9:58 pm

Jaye Wells
Kim Harrison
Karen Chance (I didn't like, but others really do)
Chloe Neill (started out good)
Lynn Viehl (others like more than I do)

More romance than urban fantasy:

Kerrelyn Sparks
Lynsay Sands
Christine Feehan (you either love or hate)
Katie MacAlister
Kathy Love
Maggie Shayne (others like more than I do)
Amanda Ashley (others like more than I do)
Linda Lael Miller (old, but I remember enjoying them)

3CurrerBell
Edited: Feb 20, 2011, 4:34 pm

@2>> I strongly second Kim Harrison's The Hollows series, and definitely make sure you read them in order or you get messed up on backstory and spoilers. There's a new installment coming out in just a couple days, and I'm anxiously awaiting it. My only quarrel is that the more recent books are becoming a little bit too serious at the expense of some of the snarky humor of the earliest installments.

There's also Cherie Priest. Check out her Eden Moore trilogy, again reading them in order. I like Eden's mixed-race background, which is somewhat unusual in paranormal thrillers.

Priest's post-Eden work seemed to be mainly steampunk and alternative history, neither of which subgenres I particularly care for, and as a result I hadn't read anything else by her. Just recently, though, she's started a new series about a vampire and master thief, Raylene Pendle (a/k/a "Cheshire Red"), and I absolutely love it. (The title of this first "Cheshire Red" book is Bloodshot.) Raylene's snarky voice reminds me of Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan, only a whole lot snarkier. No sex, but a fair amount of violence and copious use of the "f*ck" word. For those who don't like interminable series, I have a feeling from the plot of Bloodshot that Priest is moving toward a definite conclusion in a series of limited length.

EDIT to fix Touchstone.

4aideed
Feb 20, 2011, 5:08 pm

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5aideed
Feb 20, 2011, 5:10 pm

yoyou could read a book called tainted memories its bu aideed arif hossain its going to be p;ublished next month

6scrpo1027
Feb 22, 2011, 12:51 pm

I have to agree with booklizard on most the suggestions - I am a huge Cole fan and have read a lot of the names you suggested as well. I did like Christine Feehan but I found the books got better later in the series. If you get hooked on the first few books then you will really like the later books. I enjoyed Lynn Viehl as well - kinda reminded me of J.R. Ward in a way but very good stories - again I think these books keep getting better as the series go on which is always good. Kim Harrison I enjoyed the first several books or so but then it teetered off for me. I could maybe pick up hers if I dont have anything else to read.
I just started reading Larissa Ione and there is a mix of characters not set on just vamps but all sorts of demons and vamps are thrown in as well but pretty good series as well.

7LoreLush
Feb 23, 2011, 12:23 pm

Nalini Singh
Karen Marie Moning
Karen Chance
Kimberly Raye
Michelle Rowan
Molly Harper
Chloe Neill
Alexandra Ivy

8gkmiller4
Feb 23, 2011, 7:08 pm

I had started K.M. Moning series...I wasn't very interested. But I started it again and it is not bad. does it pick up a bit after the first book (Darkfever)?

9CurrerBell
Feb 25, 2011, 9:17 pm

Yayyy! I'm just about halfway through Kim Harrison's new Pale Demon and liking it a lot better than the past couple of her "Rachel Morgan" books, which seemed to be losing the snarky humor from earlier in the series. I'm sure what I also like about Pale Demon is that Ivy is returning to a much more prominent role, and she's my Number One Love in the series.

10cheyshaven
Mar 23, 2011, 4:27 pm

You may want to try Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh, Gini Koch, Ann Aguirre, Michele Bardsley, Richelle Mead, Jennifer Rardin, Molly Harper, Jeaniene Frost

11spoiledfornothing
Edited: Apr 1, 2011, 9:36 pm

Some less well known, but still good books include

1) Dog Days series by John Levitt
2) the Cal Leandros series by Rob Thurman
3) the Connor Grey series by Mark Del Franco
4) Pack of Lies series by Laura Anne Gilman
5) October Daye series by Seanan McGuire
6) Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey
7) World of the Lupi series by Eileen Wilks. This is one more romancy.
8) Deadtown series by Nancy Holzner
9) Jane Yellowrock series by Faith Hunter
10) Mark of the Demon series by Diana Rowland
11) Grave Witch series by Kalayna Price. only one book in this series so far, but it is pretty damn good.
12) Death Most Definite series by Trent Jamieson.

12S.Alexander
Apr 18, 2011, 7:44 pm

You should DEFINITELY read The Cassandra Palmer Series by Karen Chance. It is AMAZING and more for adults versus young teens!!! (vampires, clairvoyants, time travel, magic, etc.).

AND, if you visit and like the Facebook page, you have a chance to win autographed copies of the books. Who doesn't like a chance to get free books, right? Check it out. http://on.fb.me/cassandrapalmerseries

13gkmiller4
Apr 20, 2011, 11:40 am

Thank you everyone. Keep 'em coming. I am stocking up! I found some good ones.

14oxtina143
Edited: Jul 24, 2011, 6:40 pm

shelly laurenston- shifter series
erin mccarthy (vegas vampires)
lara adrian (midnight breed series)
darynda jones (first grave on the right)
d.b. reynolds (vampires in america)
r.g. alexander- has numberous paranormal series
lynsay sands- (the argeneau series)
cynthia eden- has a bunch of series to pick from
angie fox- the accidental demon slayer
susan sizemore
melanie nowak- almost human series
diana gabaldon
kathy love
jennifer estep
laura kaye

15TinaV95
Jan 20, 2012, 4:39 pm

Have Darynda Jones on my TBR! :)

16NicNacNoodle
Jun 21, 2012, 7:00 pm

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