Anybody else have an interest in paranormal/fantasy/romances?

My favorite authors in this genre are Christine Feehan, Sherrilyn Kenyon and J.R. Ward. I just read a short story by Marjorie M. Liu in the book Dark Dreamers about a psychic and a gargoyle which I absolutely loved and am curious if anyone has read anything else by her

My new favorite author is Lynn Viehl, who writes the Darkyn series. Her writing is more intelligent than some and I like her characters a lot! Another couple of authors I like are Mary Janice Davidson (the Betsy, Queen of the Vampires novels starting with Undead and Unwed, which are just hysterical) and Charlaine Harris (the Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire series). I also loved Sunshine by Robin McKinley and the paranormal romances of Kay Hooper. I also recently read one I liked about a female werewolf, but I can't remember the title or who wrote it.

(I just posted the message below in the "What are you reading now" section, but thought I'd also stick it here since it seems to fit with the subject of this board.) I just got Morrigan's Cross from the library, so I'll probably start that next. Right now, I'm reading an anthology of paranormal short stories. The first was Haunted in Death, one of Nora Roberts Eve Dallas mysteries. It was really good! There are 3 more by authors I haven't read before (Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langman, and Mary Kay McComas.

Edited to add a touchstone.

There is a group : SF, Horror and Fantasy Romance. It doesn't have many recent posts but I think this mainly reflects all the other groups taking a lot of our time more than lack of interest in this subgenre.

Yeah, I like paranormal/fantasy romances a lot.

I love paranormal fantasy type books; Marjorie M. Liu was part of series of authors who each wrote a novel for a collaborative series called Crimson City. I haven't read them yet, but my friend raved about them, apparently they are quite like the underworld universe, but better!

Moon Called is a fantastic new shifter novel, urban fantasy type thing about a skinwalker, written by Patricia Briggs. Oh and Working for the Devil by Lillith Saintcrow was fantastic too.

I didn't know about the group SF, Horror and Fantasy Romance. I'll have to go find it.

Scriberscouse - Moon Called is going to be one of my next library requests. I've seen your suggestion for this before and I'm very curious.

Storeetler - I've read Robin McKinley's novel Sunshine as well and really liked it. I keep hoping she'll give us a sequel.

I'm so happy everyone is sharing!

Hi again, I checked out the SF, Horror and Fantasy Romance Group but you can't join it. Anybody know why?

Hi, demon ~ I looked for SF, Horror and Fantasy Romance group but couldn't find it. Is that what it's actually called? (Edited to add: Never mind ~ I just found it. Gotta get my eyes checked.) :)

Frankly, I think it's just fine to have this thread within this group. I mean, romance doesn't only mean regency. :)

Paranormal fans, please don't leave us! Maybe we should rename the group "Romance From A to Z and Everything In Between". I for one enjoy looking at all the threads, and I read every post. Post as many threads as you like on your paranormal interests!

CC

Don't worry I (for one) am not going anywhere, I'm enjoying this group too much! I was just puzzled why the SF, Horror and Fantasy Romance group didn't have the little "join this group" button.

Thanks, CarolinaCatherine ~ appreciate it.

I love all subgenres of romance, not only paranormal ~ historical romance, romance mysteries, romance thrillers, modern romance, and everything in between. Be nice to be able to share about all of it in one place!

Are you logged in, from the outset the SF, Fantasy and Parnormal Romance group was set up as open to all. I should know, I set it up, if you have any further problems I'll invite you.

I double checked and I'm all logged in. When I go to the group my only options are to "Watch Group" or "Invite Others". There is no "Join Group" option (or "Leave Group" option so I know I didn't already join and just blank it out). If you wanted to send me an invite that would be great :-)

Done.

May I come play with the SF, Fantasy and Paranormal Romance group too, please? ;)

Have any of you read Karen Marie Moning? I bought one called The Dark Highlander that was slightly weird, but interesting.

I love Robin McKinley, but did not read Sunshine when it came out because it was about vampires. I thought I wouldn't like it. But I found it at the library today and I'm going to give a shot. If anyone could make vampires appealing, I think it would be McKinley.

I read many of Karen Moning's highlander series. My favorite of her series were The Dark Highlander and The Immortal Highlander, I really liked her story of Adam Black. The only thing I didn't like about her writing (which is purely a personal reason) were her not very subtle stabs at litigation/personal injury attorneys. Since I work in such an office I couldn't help but take offense. But that's just me and I might be hypersensative about the subject. I know lots of people who adore her stories and I did enjoy the ones I read, with that exception.

The only Robin McKinley story I read was Sunshine. Although I found the story to be slightly convoluted that just meant I had to pay more attention than usual to the storyline. I really enjoyed the book.

demonlover, Dark Highlander is the book I have. I'm such a fan of historical fiction that I didn't really take to it. I did finish it, though, which means it at least kept my interest.

If you like fantasy novels, you might like McKinley's re-telling of Beauty and the Beast. I think it's called Beauty (?). It isn't steamy, but it has its romantic moments.

I actually had Beauty in my hand at Borders the other day but fought for control because I have to really limit my spending right now. I definately have plans to read it, but have to get through the library stack I have now. I've been sick over the last week which has cut into my reading time.

Christine Feehan also did kind of a Beauty and the Beast retelling called Lair of the Lion it was okay but not one of my favorite stories by her.

I'm like you demonlover; I have to watch the budget. And a bookstore is the WORST place to be when I need to do that!! I admire your willpower! I might try Lair sometime. I generally like fairy tales. (That's why I read romances!) :)

I just came upon this group and I'm so glad I've found y'all! In reading the past threads, Storeetllr mentioned a female werewolf... Just in case anyone is interested there is a female werewolf/shape shifter in Kelley Armstrong's Bitten. She has two other ones with the same character - one is called Broken and the other is Stolen

I just read Bitten a few weeks ago. It was pretty good. I've been unsure if I want to read the others in the series, but may in the future. I was especially intrigued with the character of Jeremy in the story and I heard he may be having a bit of a romance of his own which I would be interested in reading.

There is another book called A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole which I enjoyed. The werewolf in that was a guy though. She has a new one out in this series which looks interesting.

Has anyone read anything by Maggie Shayne? I'm reading Edge of Twilight now, an erotic vamp thriller, which may not be the first in a series. It started out a bit slow, but it got a lot better toward the middle and now, toward the end, it's hard to put it down.

I'm also reading Sky Knife by Marella Sands, which is a historical mystery set in the time of the Aztec Empire. I wouldn't normally mention it here, except that it has elements of magic and the paranormal in it. I'm enjoying it, though it too took awhile to "get into."

Maggie Shayne seems to be very popular. I've only read one short story by her and I can't even remember what it was about. I checked out the amazon listing for Edge of Twilight and it does appear to be the middle book of a series. Have you read anything else by her?

Hi, Demon ~ I thought I'd read Maggie Shayne before, but none of the books in the Amazon listing sound familiar, so apparently not. I just finished Edge on the trainride home tonight and enjoyed it enough to look for more of her stuff.

I found a new (to me) author! Yay, me! I started Bitten & Smitten by Michelle Rowen last night, and am liking it so far (page 33). It reminds me a bit of MaryJanice Davidson (of the Vampire Queen Betsy series).

I'm pretty sure the first of the Maggie Shayne Twilight books was Twilight Phantasies originally published by Silhouette in 1993.

It probably has something to do with my mood, but I am not able to get into Sunshine by McKinley. I regret that because I like her writing very much. I intend to try it again later.

In the meantime, I remember Devonna saying how much she liked a Nora Roberts (Montana, I think). I haven't read Roberts, but ran across a new one today, first in a new series about witches, warlocks, and vampires. This one is called Morrigan's Cross. Have any of you read it? I think I'm going to give it a shot, right after the Ivory one.

(Bad Touchstone! Down, down! :)

I've never read Nora Roberts either. Let me know what you think :-)

I am not a fan of Nora Roberts, although I have read several of her books. I have not read Morrigan's Cross, and I am no expert on the paranormal, fantasy, magic, etc. genre. I read her "Key" trilogy and the Irish trilogy with the "magic" theme (although I forget at the moment what the names of those books are).

The paranormal elements were very tame in the ones i read. If you're used to creepy fantasy villains, blood and guts and erotic danger, you won't find it in her books.

Just my 2 cents worth.

CC

Will do, dl.

cc, I love fantasy/magic/wizards, etc., as in folk tales (for example, Tam Lin), but am not into paranormal. I don't care for the creepy stuff and definitely no blood and guts. So maybe she will be OK, unless she puts me to sleep... ?

I don't think she'll put you to sleep. I know I am in the minority when it comes to not liking her, but there is something missing in her novels for me. I don't know what it is, but that's the way I feel when I finish one.

CC

My take on Nora Roberts (and Linda Howard - I kinda think of them as one and the same): Some books are really great and some books really positively suck.

I have only been disappointed by one or two Kay Hooper books, once by Tami Hoag, once or twice by Christine Feehan, once by Iris Johansen, never by Diana Gabaldon, and only by Catherine Coulter when she mixes magic and romance. Oddly enough, her paranormal/suspense novels are great. I'm one of those freaks who finds an author she likes and immediately reads every book she can find by them. :P

cc, I'll let you know what I think about her. I started the Ivory (Beast)and so far, it is very good. Not my favorite time period (1900), but still historical and interesting. I like her writing style very much.

Imagine, I have never done that (read everything by someone in one go) and it intrigues me that people do. It also intrigues me that I don't and I wonder why. I always just read the next one I find that interests me. I am sure I've missed out on a lot of good books that way. But then again, I remember trying to read Even Cowgirls Get the Blues after having read Still Life With Woodpecker (one of the greatest books I've ever read) and I never finished it. I read about 2/3 of it and just stopped. Ran out of steam, I guess.

But I have slowly read many of Marsha Canham's and Julie Garwood's, though not back-to-back. And neither of them has disappointed me yet. And I agree with you, Gabaldon has never disappointed, either. She is the most amazing writer. And I also like Catherine Coulter's historical romances very much, but do not read the FBI ones.

I can't believe I forgot to mention this book on this thread....What Do You Say to a Naked Elf? is one of my favorite books ever. Clever, romantic and a great storyline I figured I better mention it while I was thinking about it.

Today I picked up Touch of the Wolf by Susan Krinard. Has anyone else read books by her?

I've liked the ones I've read by Krinard including some of the 'Wolf" ones.

The other day at the used book store I picked up two paranormal romances. After Midnight by Teresa Medeiros and To Tame a Wolf by Susan Krinard.

The thing is that once I buy books I always feel driven to read my library ones first, so the ones I own never get read. I have a YA book I bought about 2 months ago called Reality Chick which I still haven't read.

I heard that Sherrilyn Kenyon has two Dark Hunter short stories out in a couple new anthologies. I know one is called My Big, Fat Supernatural Wedding but I can't remember the other. Has anyone read these? Also, for anyone who is a Nick fan (you know who you are LOL) I was tipped off that Sherrilyn is planning on releasing a Nick story as an ebook on her website and possibly as a short story at the end of one of her upcoming novels. I've always loved Nick in her stories and am looking forward to reading more about him.

I'm right there with you, Demon ~ I've got a dozen or more books that belong to me that have been waiting for MONTHS to be read, while I finish all the library books first. Since I go to the library twice a week, they may wait for a long, long time! :)

I love Teresa Medeiros! I haven't read After Midnight yet, but everything else I've read by her has been top notch!

I finished Touch of the Wolf last night. It was pretty good. I requested the other two books in the trilogy Once a Wolf and Secret of the Wolf. Touch of the Wolf was kind of like a historical/paranormal romance and I haven't read many of those outside of some of Karen Moning's Highlander books. Mostly the paranormal ones are contemporary.

Hello DemonL over I am a Newbie all the way round . new to LibraryThing and to this group. Paranormal /fantasy/romances are my favorites I have over 1,500 books and I would say that most of them are paranormal romances. My favorites are Feehan,Hamilton,Kenyon,Liu , J.R Ward and Kresley Cole . I have just started reading Toung adult paranormal Stephanie Meyer and Rachel Caine I adore both and cannot wait until the next in their series. I still have loads of books on my TBR shelf (to be read) and hva not inventoried them either on my computer or LibraryThing. Thanks for starting this message.

Linda

Hi, Soo ~ Welcome to LT and the group!

I am in the middle of A Taste of Darkness by Nina Bangs and am really enjoying it! Sparkle Stardust and her gang of cosmic troublemakers are at it again, this time busily matching a sexy shapeshifter whose alter-ego is a sabre-toothed tiger together with an ancient & powerful hunk of a vamp.

Hi Linda! No Rest for the Wicked by Kresley Cole is actually my next book to be read :-) I can't really remember A Hunger like No other too well, but I'm hoping that it will not be too much of a problem.

You've actually named some other authors that I have books I've bought to read. I've only read one short story by Marjorie Liu in Dark Dreamers but loved it. I have one of her other Dirke and Steele books that I picked up from the used book store but haven't had a chance to read it. I also loved Glass Houses and my mom bought me Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series for Christmas that are on my TBR soon list. I only recently noticed on Amazon that Rachael Caine also writes romance novels, have you read any of those?

Have you read any of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes stories? If you haven't I would recommend them.

Hi! I’m a bit of a newbie here.. so mind if I hop on in?
Demonlover… I was just curious as to whether anyone answered your question about the Sherrilyn Kenyon short stories? IF they haven’t the anthologies are called Love At First Bite, Stroke of Midnight, My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, and Midnight Pleasures. They have a great website. Here’s the link. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com/hunter//excerpt.htm That’ll take you to all of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s books where you can get a sneak preview. You can also find the correct reading order in the FAQs. It is really a great series especially if you go in order. The characters from the different books continue to interact with each other throughout the series. I am anxiously awaiting the next one. I am an avid fan and reader. I have read and own every book in the series. Except I am missing two anthologies.
Can I ask the Sherrilyn Kenyon readers who their favorite characters are and why?
I haven’t read anything by Marjorie M. Liu as of yet, but I am very tempted to try her out.
I have read one of the Amelia Atwater-Rhodes books. I’ve been meaning to get more of them…. I actually might have to splurge a little and order one… :)
Right now I am in the middle of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter series, Rhonda Thompson’s Wild Wulfs of London series (which is really good, but it may have the opportunity to become redundant), Christine Warren’s Other series and reading any other books I can get my greedy little hands on. Every time I get a paycheck I go and buy more books.
I was even going to try to get a job at the local Books A Million, but my best friend advised me not too because if I did… I would end up being paid in books.
~E.K~

My favorite Dark Hunter characters are Wren, Vane, Kyrian and Nick, probably in that order. Wren would be my absolute favorite just because I love cats and she did such a great job introducing him in the books before and leading up to Unleash the Night. I have read the short story in Love at First Bite but not any of the others yet. I'm really looking forward to reading a story about Ash too :-)

I don't think I've read anything by Thompson or Warren so thanks for mentioning them.

Last night I finished No Rest for the Wicked, have you read it?

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Dont look ahead with the Weather warden series there are major spoilers I remember the advert for the second at the back of the first gave away far too much when I glanced at it halfway through.

yes I have read and reviewed two romance she has written as Rachel Caine, Devil's Due and Devil's Bargain. But she is an old hand and was using a number of other names before that. I remember one of my first acts of combining was to track down and combine her pseudonyms. so Click on Rachel Caine and enjoy my hard work.

The last two paranormals I read were A Taste of Darkness by Nina Bangs and How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks. I wasn't blown away by either of them, though I did enjoy the Bangs' better as it was better written. I thought the characters in the one by Sparks were annoying and not well-drawn, plus the story wasn't as coherent/together as it should have been.

Next up in the paranormal area: One of DL's favorite Sherrilyn Kenyon's, Night Pleasures.

Stor- You definately have to let me know if you like Night Pleasures or not. I thought it was awsome!

Simon-Thanks for the info! I wonder what her real name is? She must be older than I thought she was to have written so many stories! Based on your review I think I'll have to put Devil's Bargain on my TBR list (after I've gotten through my Christmas stack!) I'll make sure I don't read any of the backs, at least any more than I already have. I did notice what you were talking about spoilerwise from the back of the second book.

I haven't read No Rest For The Wicked, but my mother has it so I may give it a try.. And thanks for he tip on the Warren series... I'll try not to peek...

I'm glad we are taking up this thread again as I love paranormal/fantasy romance and am getting some great recommendations here. I haven't read Kresley Cole or Nina Bangs and only have read (like DL) Marjorie Liu in Dark Dreamers.

CJ, all the threads are active. You can post on any or all of them if you like! Please do!

CC

My current favourite sub-genre is "vampires", and I am a sucker for sci-fi or futuristic romances as well.

A couple of books I could suggest (apart from all the wonderful books mentionned above are Forbidden Magic and Seduced by Magic by Cheyenne McCray. It is a series about D'Anu Witches (white witches) and includes characters that are warlocks, demons, and fae, including Tuatha D'Danaan warriors.

Brendelicious - If you're into vampires and don't mind a little G rated romance I would highly suggest Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It's not catagorized as romance but it was a very romantic book.

I second Twilight. It's one of my favorite books.

Can someone tell me the order of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter books? I have picked up Unleash the Night and Seize the Night but don't want to read them out of order. Thanks.

Copied and pasted off of Sherrilyn's website. Some of these stories are short stories in anthologies and some are only on her website. I'll try to mark which ones are which.

1. Fantasy Lover (novel)
2. The Beginning (website)
3. Dragonswan (mini-novel)
4. Night Pleasures (novel)
5. Night Embrace (novel)
6. Phantom Lover (anthology story)
7. Dance with the Devil (Novel)
8. A Dark-Hunter Christmas (website)
9. Kiss of the Night (novel)
10. Night Play (novel)
11. Seize the Night (novel)
12. Sins of the Night (novel)
13. Unleash the Night (novel)
14. Dark Side of the Moon (novel)
15. Love at First Bite (anthology)
16. My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (anthology)
17. Fear the Darkness (website)
18. The Dream-Hunter (upcoming novel)

Hope this helps!

This was a great thread. I like just about every kind of romance out there and love the paranormal ones. I've gotten some great suggestions from these threads of authors I hadn't tried yet.

Thanks!

Hi, Bennettsmama ~ me too!

Question for the group: Has anyone read anything by Keri Arthur? I picked up a book yesterday by her titled Full Moon Rising, got it home, and realized I'd already read it. Upon further consideration, I remembered also that I liked it, but for some reason haven't read any others of her novels. If anyone has any recommendations for any of her other books, I'd love to hear about them.

Stor- Full Moon Rising is another one that keeps popping up on my Amazon recommendations LOL I haven't read anything else by her, but that one looks pretty good. Another one for my TBR list!

Thanks for the list demonlover. I suppose I should have just gone to her site myself. But now that I realize that there are so many, especially before the two that I have, I don't know what to do!

That's funny Storee because it's the only thing I have of Arthur's too. I downloaded it from audible.com and listened to it last summer. I liked it too but haven't read anything else by her. It was the first book of a new series. I liked that it took place in Australia, that was different. And I also like the vampire/werewolf mixture. I think maybe the next book will be better as the story evolves. I noticed she has Kissing Sin (the next Riley Jenson book) coming out this month so I'll probably pick that up.

That's funny Storee because it's the only thing I have of Arthur's too. I downloaded it from audible.com and listened to it last summer. I liked it too. It was the first book of a new series. I liked that it took place in Australia, that was different. And I also like the vampire/werewolf mixture. I think maybe the next book will be better as the story evolves. I noticed she has Kissing Sin (the next Riley Jenson book) coming out this month so I'll probably pick that up.

Full Moon Rising is on my TBR pile I ordered it from a dealer on amazon three months ago. and they refunded the money when it did not show. then last week it turned up.

Anything by Christine Feehan and I am also a lover of Lynn Kurland's time travel romances.

Today I'm starting Goddess by Mistake which appears to have been catagorized as Sci-fi/fantasy, but I am assuming is a romance as well. Although a romance between a school teacher turned goddess and a centaur (based on the description from the back of the book) seems kind of anatomically impossible I'm willing to be open minded LOL

I think I read Goddess by Mistake and remember enjoying it. I don't remember the details, though, so I can't help you with the solution to the anatomical problem. :)

Picked up After Midnight by Teresa Medeiros from the library last night and read a little of it on the trainride home. If the rest of it is as great as the beginning, it's going to be one good read!

NC ~ Medeiros is a favorite of mine. I love historical romances (and mysteries and historical fiction ~ even actual history), paranormal romances, sci-fi/fantasy romances, contemporary romances and, to a lesser extent, thriller romances. I'm not crazy about Western romances, but I've read some that were really good too.

Have you tried Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Breathing Room) or Jennifer Crusie (Welcome to Temptation)? They're two of my favorite contemporary romance authors who seldom disappoint.

I my little stalker started Divine By Mistake last Friday. Different title same plot summary. Any one seen both should they be combined or are there substansive changes?

LOL I see I have another potential nickname I could add to my list other than DoofyBoots. Do you think LittleStalker would raise more eyebrows than Demonlover?

I checked out some of the amazon reviews for Divine By Mistake. Apparently what the author did was take Goddess by Mistake and updated it with a new cover and some different content. There are a lot of pop culture references in Goddess that she changed. I'm only a couple chapters in and I recognized most of the references so far but maybe younger romance readers would not. It appears as though it is a new and improved version of the same story.

The acknowledgment seem to imply they are the same more. I will ask her when i email her for a photo to see which she would preffer them combined. A quick glance at her website left me thinking she would want them kept separate. Got an example of something that you think might have been amended? The Guy from Children of the Corn at the auction seemed the most dated refference what did you spot?

Simon

NC ~ no worries, All of us have different and sometimes very definite tastes in literature. :) For instance, I'm not crazy about time travel stuff, and I seldom read thrillers, but I love paranormal/supernatural and historicals. CC doesn't read supernatural/paranormal stuff but likes historicals and thrillers. Sometimes, if enough people tell me a certain novel is wonderful, I will read it, even if it's not something I would ordinarily read, and often I'm surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Sometimes, though, I just don't see why it was so highly recommended.

I love the diversity (diversity, I heard, being one of this year's buzzwords) as well as the sharing and acceptance of everyone else's preferences.

*okay, stepping off soapbox and sitting down*

(Edited to change recipient from CJ to NY, the person to whom I was responding.) :)

Storee~ I completely agree with you. I'm thinking though that your message was to ncflyergal? LOL.
I love diversity too in romance and in my other interests. I don't just read romance, ya know ; ). I read historical fiction, science, sci-fi, fantasy, philosophy, thrillers, and some non-fiction. I guess I read just about everything with the exception to westerns. I do not relish westerns. Medieval, regency and paranormal/fantasy romance are my favorites.

Also I see you don't enjoy time travel romance and I have to say it never appealed to me either. But did you read outlander? It changed my mind about time travel completely.

CJ ~ Yes, you are 100% correct; I did mean to respond to NCFlyerGal. Must have been thinking of you for some reason. Anyway, the message has been edited to reflect the correct recipient.

I did read Outlander and enjoyed it, but it is one of the few time travel romances I've enjoyed. I haven't really been knocked over by the sequels to it, although I did read the second and I think the third in the series.

As far as Westerns go, I used to loathe them until I read Lonesome Dove. It is a wonderful, wonderful novel! I highly recommend it.

My favorite romance book is Sweet Liar by Deveraux. You have to love a book that has a book store shopping spree in it!

I don't really like Jennifer Crusie either so you are not alone. But I do like SEP.

I read (and write) paranormal romance and have had a book accepted by ImaJinn publishers. I'm reading the Nocturne series from Silhouette as I want to start writing urban fantasy.

My favorite authors are Susan Krinard, Keri Arthur, Christine Feehan and Nora Roberts.

Do you remember the old Silhouette Shadows series? That's what got me hooked on paranormal romance. I loved that series.

Two other books I really liked were "The Passion" and "The Promise" by Donna Boyd. Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to be writing anymore.

I loved the Silhouette Shadows books!! Those are also the ones that got me hooked on the genre. I just put in what I have left of the series into my LT library.

>70 SimonW11: There was also reference to Star Trek's Deanna Troy and some musical references. I can't remember exactly what they were.

oh yes I vaguely remember a Deana Troy compararison. Frightening to think that might be dated and she definately pushes arts appreciation. I have already decided the heroine is TSTL.

Simon

Has anyone read The Marriage Spell by Mary Jo Putney yet? It came out in May 2006, according to Amazon.com and has an almost 5-star customer rating overall. I notice that CC and Bennettsmama have a copy of it in their libraries.

I love Putney's romances, both the straight historicals and the ones featuring magic, but I haven't read this one yet.

Hey, Stor. I ordered it last week, it hasn't arrived yet.

Edit: I was thinking of another title when I answered this. I do have Marriage Spell on my wish list, but I didn't realize it was a fantasy. I'm going to delete it now. LOL

CC

Oboy, oboy! Jayne Krentz has a new one coming out this month titled White Lies. I'm going to order it right away! Here's the blurb from the B&N romance readers' site:

The mysterious Arcane Society, first introduced in Amanda Quick's Victorian thriller Second Sight, takes center stage again in this contemporary romantic paranormal thriller by Jayne Ann Krentz. Her main character, Society member Clare Lancaster, is a Level 10 parasensitive. This means she's a virtual human lie detector, a talent that makes her a very bad blind date -- but she's also the only one to believe that the husband of her half sister, Elizabeth, was really abusive. Having saved Elizabeth, Clare begins to get to know her very wealthy biological father, Archer Lancaster, who summons her to the family estate in Arizona. Tensions begin to swirling when Elizabeth's husband is murdered, and both Elizabeth and Clare become suspects. When Clare meets her father's associate, the very alpha, very mysterious Jake Salter, she knows right away he is not who he pretends to be. Jake, on the track of a mysterious Arcane Society cabal, finds it most inconvenient to be attracted to the very woman who can blow his cover. Their instant chemistry and their psychic talents take them into dangerous territory, both in and out of the bedroom. You may never feel relaxed at a spa again.

Oh I'm looking forward to this one. I like Jayne Krentz's paranormal victorian stuff. I liked the previous one.

Hey, Wy! It's so good to hear from you. It's been awhile.

CC

Yes and no I guess. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Anne Rice I have read and liked quite a bit of. Kim Harrison (who I thought was fairly amusing) and Laurell K. Hamilton too.

Last year I came across a couple of things that were sendups of the superhero genre to some degree, and romances to another.

Ultimate Warriors and La Pantera

Then I found out Nora Roberts had written Night Shadow.

A few days ago, someone mentioned to me on the blog where I compile this stuff at http://superprose.blogspot.com
the Pink Carnation, which it appears, is pretty obviously a Scarlet Pimpernel take-off.

I keep a list of this sort of thing, so decided to make a section for it, superhero type romance fiction and related. My sister reads this sort of thing, so she gave me some suggestions, and an internet expert some more, today, and I will list them below. Does anyone else have any recommendations for things that fit this area?

There are take-offs and satires and spoofs of various things I have noticed already, from Bond to Superman.

The categories I have that aren't romance, to try and give you an idea of the sort of thing I am looking for in general are
Adventure - The Executioner,The Destroyer, etc.
Buffyverse - Buffy and Angel
DC - Superman,Batman,Wonder Woman etc.
Eternal Champion - Michael Moorcock's Massive Multiverse
Flying Aces - G-8, your Biggles types
Ghostbusters - Carnacki,John Silence through Kim Newman and Brian Lumley
Judge Dredd and 2000 AD - Judge Dredd,Strontium Dog,Durham Redd, etc.
Jungle - Tarzan,Shanna,Sheena,Ki-Gor etc.
Marvel - X-Men,Spider-Man etc.
Old - Sherlock Holmes,Allan Quatermain,Arsene Lupin etc.
Original - Wild Cards,Superfolks,Flyboy Action Figures Comes With Gasmask,Temps etc., etc.
Other and tie-in - Your Hellboy,Vampirella, other comics/tv/movies
Pulp Heroes - Doc Savage,The Shadow
Pulp Villains - Fu Manchu et. al.
SF - Science fiction with a superman theme - Dune,More Than Human,Children of the Atom,Slan and bunches of others
Space - Flash Gordon,Buck Rogers,Perry Rhodan etc.
Spoof - Sendups and satires - The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust, The Sexecutioner (which if written today could almost sneak in on one of those erotica brands),Chicks In Chainmail,The Magic Goes Away,Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson etc.
Lone Riders - Lone Ranger,Zorro etc.
Spy - James Bond,Modesty Blaise,etc.
Sword and Sorcery - Conan,Jirel of Joiry,Red Sonja and others - heroic fantasy heroes, not your epic fantasy trilogy types

So, for example, Dr. Yes is a James Bond type of thing, and The Legend of Banzai Maguier is a Buck Rogers riff. Night Shadow is either a take on The Shadow or Batman or someone like that, can't say as I haven't read it. There are plenty of action hero vampire hunters it seems. Any romance genre Jungle Queens or sword swinging barbarians? La Pantera and Ultimate Warriors are other straight superheroes complete with spandex costumes. The Doppelganger books may be the heroic fantasy types perhaps?

Paranormal romance itself wouldn't go on the list, where it is just basically a straight romance story, or garden variety detective type tale, with no heroic, superheroic, crazy or superpowered type action, if you get what I mean. Post #84 here for example looks like it may be of definite interest to the list.

This is what I have got so far, thanks mostly to suggestions from others and what I have read myself.
For series etc. I have chopped out the others as this is long enough already!

Unique : Touch the Dark - Karen Chance
Unique : Claimed by Shadow - Karen Chance
Unique : Ultimate Warriors - Jaide Fox,Brenna Lyons,Joy Nash,Michelle M Pillow
Unique : Night Shadow - Nora Roberts
Unique : La Pantera - Ela Scopilo
Unique : Playing With Fire - Gena Showalter
Unique : Hunting the Hunter - Shiloh Walker
Unique : Dr. Yes - Lisa Cach
Unique : Dead Sexy - Amanda Ashley

2176 : 1 The Legend of Banzai Maguier - Susan Grant

Alien Huntress : 1 Awaken Me Darkly - Gena Showalter

Anita Blake : 01 Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton

Black Dagger Brotherhood : 1 Dark Lover - J. R. Ward

Blood Ties : 1 The Turning - Jennifer Armintrout

Compass Rose : 1 The Compass Rose - Gail Dayton

Dante Valentine : 1 Working For the Devil - Lilith Saintcrow

Dark Series : 01 Dark Prince - Christine Feehan

Dark-Hunters : 01 Fantasy Lover - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dark Ones : 1 A Girl's Guide to Vampires - Katie MacAlister

Darkwing Chronicles : 1 Beyond the Pale - Savannah Russe

Doppelganger : 1 Doppelganger - Marie Brennan

GhostWalkers : 01 Shadow Game - Christine Feehan

Guardian's League : 1 Hunted - Amelia Elias

Immortals After Dark : 2 A Hunger Like the Other - Kresley Cole

Laws of the Blood : 1 The Hunt - Susan Sizemore

Pink Carnation : 1 The Secret History of the Pink Carnation - Lauren Willig

Rachel Morgan : Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison

Riley Jensen : Full Moon Rising - Keri Arthur

Slayer : 1 Slayer - Karen Koehler

Society : 1 The Society - Lilith Saintcrow

Steele Street : 1 Crazy Hot - Tara Janzen

The Circle : 1 Morrigan's Cross - Nora Roberts

The Hunters : Eli and Sarel - Shiloh Walker

Vampire : 1 Beneath a Blood Red Moon - Shannon Drake

Vampire Huntress : 1 Minion - L. A. Banks

Watcher : 1 Dark Watcher - Lilith Saintcrow

Any others similar? I know very little about all this.

Thanks,

bluetyson

Also, Keri Arthur of Full Moon Rising is apparently a friend of one of my female relative types. She does have a bunch of books written, but I think they are probably just starting to come out overseas, so any questions there I can have her ask, if you like.

She has multiple series and other books I am told.

Reply to #1
Yeah I've read Eye Of Heaven which is about a shapeshifting leopard woman and a psychic it's one of her Dirk & Steele books and was pretty good. I too am a fan of Kenyon and Ward.

Reply to #88
Ohhh really? I just read Full Moon Rising and totally loved it and am looking forward to the next ones. What other series has she written and are they out or will they be out in the U.S.A. any time soon?

Here's a booklist, I will ask about the other info :

Keri Arthur booklist

Okay I'm new here and to how the format works. I thought this set up had comments like LJ so my two previous posts are replys to other posts. I think I'll go back and try to reference them.

On to the good stuff! Paranormal Romance, Fantasy and Sci-Fi is my personal trifecta. My favortie author is Sherrilyn Kenyon. She is the the AG (author goddess). I am in love with the Dark-Hunters. My personal favs are Wren, Vane, Zarek, and Valarius. And of course I love the Simi.

I also really enjoy in no particular order:
Angela Knight, Mary Janice Davidson,P.C. Cast, Robin D. Owens, J.R. Ward, Kelley Armstrong, Kim Harrison, Keri Arthur, Gena Showalter, Elizabeth Vaughan, Laurell K. Hamilton, Eileen Wilks, Christine Warren, Deidre Knight, Lora Leigh, Susan Krinard, Katie MacAlister, Cheyenne McCray, Stobie Piel, Stephanie Rowe, Savannah Russe, Nalini Singh, Catherine Spangler, and Lynn Viehl or as S.L. Viehl,

I used to really like Christine Feehan but now I'm really over her at least her Dark series as it all seems to be the same and rather formulaic. Just change name and a few details and there you go a new book. But I still really like the Ghost Walkers.

#86
My brain has been taking a bit of a break, I've been down with a flu for 2 weeks, didn't go back to work after christmas, off until this thursday. The flu got into my chest and hasn't really let go, I've been reading but being a bit quiet cause I could barely string two words together.

#92 I read 2 or 3 of the Dark series and I hated them but I also read two of the Ghost Walkers and really liked them, I think it's because the main female characters actually had ideas and backbones that they retained throughout the book.

I don't mind alpha males, I just don't like women who just submit, particularly if they were described as quite self-reliant and strong before meeting the male lead.

Finished After Midnight by Teresa Medeiros yesterday. I've loved everything I've read by Medeiros before but just couldn't seem to get into this one. None of the characters really gelled for me, and much of the tension between the two main characters seemed contrived. Even the surprise twist 2/3 of the way through it wasn't enough to save the novel for me, and the ending was so obviously a set up for her next novel. Oh, well, maybe it was my mood. I had a couple of romances (from the Royal Brotherhood series) by Sabrina Jeffries waiting for me and was impatient to move on to them.

#94
I totally agree with you. The spunkier and sassier the woman the more I like her. I hadn't really made that connection with the Dark series until you said that, but it really makes sense to me. I think you hit the nail on the head. I like Alpha males with spunky Alpha females cause much hilarity ensues as they learn to compromise.

ssg,

I asked the female relative re: Keri Arthur and here is what she said :-
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She's written a couple of others....they were published by Imajinn, which is
a small press...they can probably get them off Amazon or from the publisher.
Www.imajinnbooks.com.

The next four Riley books will be out feb, march, april and june I think.
She's writing number six now.
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"I don't mind alpha males, I just don't like women who just submit, particularly if they were described as quite self-reliant and strong before meeting the male lead."

Well said, wyvernfriend! I'm reading a favorite author now and the hero is predictably wonderful, but the heroine doesn't have two brain cells to rub together. I intend to finish it for his sake. I keep hoping he will find someone else! rofl.

She sent me a Keri Arthur/paranormal romance trend link from the Brisbane Murdoch rag : - Undead breathe new life

Interesting article, thanks for posting it :-) I can honestly say neither Buffy nor Anita Blake had anything to do with my vampire fettish LOL I think I've watched one Buffy ep and read one short Anita Blake story I didn't really care for. Honestly, I'm not sure why I like them, I just do.

edited for my atrocious grammar!

Last night I started Midnight Pleasures which is an anthology with stories by Amanda Ashley, Maggie Shayne, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Ronda Thompson which I must have slipped in as a last minute pre-resolution library request along with She's No Faerie Princess. Since I do not usually read much by Amanda, Maggie or Ronda (if anything? I can't remember) it should be interesting.

Demon, I have both of those books and I liked them both very much. The Short story in Midnight Pleasures by Ronda Thompson is what made me start reading her Wild Wulfs of London series. And I enjoyed She's No Faerie Princess immensely!

Finished one book at lunch today and had no backup with me for the commute home so picked up Charmed by Nora Roberts. It's one of a romance series about a family of wicca. The mfc of this one is a healer and empath, Anastasia Donovan, who was once rejected by the man she loved when he learned of her paranormal abilities; the mmc is Boone Sawyer, a widower with a 6 year old daughter and author of fairytale novels. So far, I'm liking it a lot, though I think it's the third in the series. Has anyone read any of the novels in this series? The other titles in it are Captivated and Entranced, and I think she's got one more in the works.

Reply 101 and 102

I liked She's No Faerie Princess so much that I went out and bought the previous book in the series Wolf At The Door which was equally as good.

Next up for me is Blood Lines by Eileen Wilks. I've liked all her previous work so am looking forward to this one.

I know that I read Wolf at the Door and I know that's why I requested She's No Faerie Princess, unfortunately I keep forgetting what Wolf at the Door was about. Ugh! I read it 6 months ago or more and have read so many books since then I think it got squeezed out LOL.

I'm enjoying the first Midnight Pleasures story and wish I had more time to read, rather than having to be stuck at work!

Re: 103

I've read the series in which Charmed is one of the novels. These were some of the first Nora Roberts that I kept and reread eventually. Enchanted was a follow-up story to the original trilogy and featured Liam Donovan. (Sometimes Liam runs as a wolf.)

Thanks, Hailelib ~ I guess if you kept them it must mean you enjoyed them.

I forgot to bring Charmed with me to read on my commute today so had to make do with one of the books I keep in the back seat of my car for emergencies. ;D I chose The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. So far, I am rather surprised to be enjoying it.

I thought I was the only person who kept emergency books in their car LOL I have one in my glove box. It is Sherrilyn Kenyon's Unleash the Night I love the book and can just pick it up and start reading anywhere if I'm stuck and the mood strikes me. Although, I do try to avoid doing that while traversing the interestates.

Oh, no! I've been keeping spares in my car since the morning I realized I'd forgotten my book at home and panicked when I was almost at the train station and had to turn around to go back home and get it (pre-iPod days), thus missing my train and getting to work an hour late. I swear, just thinking about being without a book makes me jittery.

When I was having to sit in the car in a long line of automobiles to put up my son from school I kept a couple of paperbacks in the car! That was a number of years ago and I no longer have one there all the time. However, if my my husband is driving the latest book goes with me and I often get in a few pages.

It's so nice to see that other people keep auxiliary back-up novels in their cars/purses in case of emergency. I thought I was nuts all these years! But, hey, you never know when you might have to wait on someone, or your car might break down on the side of the road and *gasp* you might not have anything to read!!

Also:
#107 Storee:
I have a coworker who read The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and LOVED it! Let me know how it turns out - I may want to pick it up some time.

Katy--

My mother likes these little tiny purses (which suit her because, unlike me, she's a little tiny person) and she's always trying to get me to buy them. My response is always "but I can't keep a book in there!"

I don't use a purse, I use a nice leather backpack. I can't fit my water and book in a purse without it being outrageously-sized.

now if you were in the radio 4 group you wold know that they are serialising one of The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency stories online
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/afternoon_play.shtml

The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency: Adapted from the books in Alexander McCall Smith's series set in Botswana. 1/4. How to Handle Men Through the Application of Psychology.

A palm with a bunch of books in it means no need to be anywhere with a whole lot of books ever again.

I've got my 30gb iPod, which I carry with me everywhere, loaded with audiobooks, but what if I should run out of juice? Eeek!

Yeah, well the battery on an old greyscale palm will last a couple of weeks, in general, so if you were stuck in a car or somewhere else for 2 weeks, probably more problems than books! :)

Finally posted my review of Divine by Mistake I only gave it two stars too fluffy for me.

Ok I for those of you who like a spicier/romatica paranormal I love the ellora's cave authors most of which are now becoming mainstream.

Shiloh Walker (the Hunters series)
Lora Leigh (The Breeds series Wolf, Feline, Coyote)
Christine Warren (ummm Fantasy series?)
Cheyenne Mccray (the Magic series)
Sheri L. King (several series LOL but... Moon series and Horde Wars)
Judy Mays (wolf series)
Marly Chance
J.C. Wilder
Angela Knight (Arthur series)

Most of these authors also publish non paranormal books at EC as well. If you have read theier mainstream paperbacks try EC for the beginnings of the series. EC also started selling their own paperbacks which I have been able to find at Borders mostly but Waldens carried them in the mall as well.

I know alot of people don't like or refer to these as "porn" I feel that the ones I have mentioned have a really strong relationship going on and I would read them even without the hanky panky. The world building is great particularly in the King books and Leigh books.

Tina

oh sorry forgot to say that Ellora's Cave is an e-book seller which means you read it using a hand held e-book reader or as I do on my computer as a PDF.

If you liked Christine Warren check out EC for the beginning of the series. You can read the 2 mainstream w/o having to understand the background but it adds more when you know the background of the other characters talked about in those two mainstream books.

Tina

Ok lol another by me. Keri Arthur is another ebook writer that became mainstream. Google her and her ebook publisher should come up with her name. I think she had 2 other ebooks that she wrote.

SF, Horror and Fantasy Romance...I can't find it! Can someone invite me?

>123 rianoel: I sent an invite along for you. Let me know if it doesn't show up, I've never done an invite before.

I finished Midnight Pleasures. I really, really liked Rhonda Thompson's Wild Wulf of London story, I've never read any before. I will most definately keep an eye out for them now :-) Sherrilyn Kenyon's short stoy in there was really good too.

Started Christine Warren's, She's No Faerie Princess book. It's very cute so far! I keep having a feeling of deja vu. I know I've read at least one, maybe two other stories by her. Even though parts of the mythology of her story sound familiar, I have no real recollection of them. It's weird.

I have a couple Ellora's Cave books and I really like Angela Knight's stories. Some of the other authors recommended here are ones that come up on my amazon recommendations list, eventually I'll have to check those out. Shiloh Walker and Lora Leigh both sound very interesting, but I haven't read anything by them yet.

#103 I read all three of those Nora Roberts stories and I enjoyed them, as long as I pretended that the bits in Ireland had nothing to do with reality.

Wyvern ~ LOL!

Ellora's Cave is becoming more and more established all the time they print POD nowadays dont they and even distribute to bookshops. are the book shop editions also POD or traditional runs? Wyvern I don't think you had to pretend that about the Nora Roberts stories.

Have you encountered My fair temptress by Christina Dodd Where they have scones for breakfast every morning?

There are parts of Nora Roberts stories that reflect reallity but sometimes she expresses distances in an American reality, Irish roads are DIRE, the traffic jams are insane in some places.

Yes some parts are primitive, comparatively, my parents live somewhere that has bad broadband availability, however mobile phone penetration is over 90%. One of the biggest exports in Ireland is software (and bananas).

There was one book where the american hero took the irish heroine to the north via plane. That would be fine if it wouldn't have been quicker to drive. For the american going to the north could have had interesting moments regarding moving to another country. Travel within the EU is unrestricted to EU citizens.

It's hard not to get angry at writers who only see the tourist end of things, where for years people have been pandering to a want and need for the "ah and begorrah" ireland and then wanting to slap the people who complain that it's not really like that when they move to live here.

Ireland is a bit like the US compressed on a grand scale, yup we have our hilbillies but you could be surprised at their literacy (99% according to the CIA handbook on Ireland); many farmers have other jobs, one where I came from worked as a lab technician.

I never would have thought bananas would be a big export for Ireland, you learn something new every day :-)

I tend to think of a lot of Robert's settings as being in a slightly alternate universe. That's how I continue to enjoy the "...in Death" series since the history of Eve Dallas' world has started to diverge somewhat from ours (at least, I think so). But she has done a good job of keepng that world fairly consistent even though the writing has spanned more than a decade.

>127 SimonW11: They have a huge selection of Ellora's Cave novels at the Borders near where I live. I agree that they've always resembled POD books to me as well. Even the typesetting changes from book to book.

Yeah, Rourke and Eve went to Ireland and they went to a smoking pub, it was written the year before the smoking ban came into force in Ireland. Amusing when I read it the next year.

This group moves too fast. I just got back from a short trip to Seattle and it's taken me over an hour just to catch up.
#103+ As anyone can tell by looking at my library, I am a Nora Roberts fan. The Donavan series, Captivated, Entranced, and Charmed are some of my favorites. I also have Enchanted, but it it is not one of my favorites. I have never been able to get excited about her Robb titles. I enjoyed her latest trilogy, Morrigan's Cross, Dance of the Gods, and Valley of Silence.

Richard

I read (and wrote) a lot of fantasy during my teens, so, yes, I love romances with fantasy elements and vice versa. I've recently discovered P.C. Cast -- Divine by Mistake is a great book with a rather unusual hero (the horse-guy).

One of my favourite 2006 novels was Kresley Cole's A Hunger Like No Other -- those Valkyrie aunties had me giggling all through the book.

Just read Full Moon Rising and realized a few pages in that I had in fact read it before but since I didn't remember much about it I kept reading. Even the second time it was a page turner. Today I'll return it to the library and pick up Valley of Silence.

Now y'all don't have a conniption fit, but I actually read Prince of Ice last week after hearing so much about it. It was erotic, and the sex scenes were titillating, but the rest of the book bored me. And, I thought it was supposed to be a Victorian era romance. Would some of you who love the paranormal stuff explain the attraction to this genre to me? I'm still not getting it. LOL

CC

cc- I think it's all just a matter of individual preference. You like geneology and references so it makes sense that you would enjoy historical novels. I like to read about things that don't necessarily have to exist. It's my way of escaping from the real world. I also prefer action to description and I've noticed that the historical novels tend to have a lot more description than some of the fantasy/paranormal books I've read. I have a bad habit of skipping over long descriptions in almost every book I read and then having to go back and re-read when I come across stuff that doesn't make sense LOL

Yes and I like the world building you find to some degree in paranormal romance but more so in fantasy. I sometimes like to be taken away to another reality (figuratively speaking, of course ;) ). I love historical romance too and it does do that somewhat. But I like the imaginative worlds of fantasy, where the rules and social norms may differ from ours but still take place in our world. Mostly the characters are still driven by human instincts, weaknesses and needs. There are still moral fibers that should not be broken especially with the heroine/hero(s). Speaking of hero/heroes: I like that in fantasy there is no set hero. The hero may start off as one person and end up as another. Usually there are multiple heroes. Where historical romance has the rigid boundary where you know the heroine is going to end up with the one guy: THE hero. In historical romance you expect the HEA ending, even if the guy is a jerk. In fantasy sometimes she doesn't choose the jerk.

I just wanted to add, I say historical but it can also be contemporary romance. And I like reading them because I do love the HEA.

I suppose that part of the appeal for me is that paranormal and futuristic romance have science fiction elements which is another favorite genre. In fact, I have been reading sf longer than I've been reading romance.

Thanks for the comments about my dislike of the paranormal/fantasy/magic genre, etc. I was discussing this with a friend of mine yesterday and she suggested Lora Leigh's "Breeds" series. She thinks I might like the "milder" end of erotic paranormal, where nobody changes into a werewolf or vampire or other beastie.

I've read several of Laura Leigh's contemporary, "regular" books, and I think I even have some of the Breeds books, just haven't read them, so I'm going to give them a go.

CC

CC-If you do read any of the Breeds books do you want to post a review? They keep coming up on my recommendations list, but I haven't decided if I want to start another series or not. Right now I'm just working through my TBR pile (Blood Bound, which I just picked up and immediately began reading, being the exception), but I'm trying to keep mental tabs on what I want to read when I'm done.

Demon, you're a brave woman to want a review of a paranormal from me! LOL I don't know if I'm the right one to do that or not, but I'll sure let you know what I think.

CC

CC- Good or bad I totally respect your opinion :-) Just imagine, if you like it it could open up a whole new world of books for you LOL

Yall are making me really curious about paranormal romance now. I'm more of a regency/historical gal, but I found myself scoping out my library's catalog for a Sherrilyn Kenyon novel today. (heee)

Perhaps after I finish with Julia Quinn's Bridgertons series, I'll check out Fantasy Lover just to see what all the fuss is about!

Fantasy lover is the prequel to the Dark Hunter series and doesn't really have anything to do with the Dark Hunters. It has more to do with Gods and Goddesses and mythology. Oh and a gorgeous sex slave! ;)

Sometimes a mistake can turn out to be one of the best things to happen to a person! So yesterday I went to the library to return some books but forgot one that was due, which meant I had to go back today on my lunch. I meant to just drop off the book and pay the quarter fine, but I couldn't help myself ~ I went to the popular section "just to look and see what's new." OMGosh! I found four novels I'd been hearing about from various LT groups, just sitting on the shelves waiting for me to check them out (which I did): Dark Celebration by Feehan; Winter Moon, a collection of novelettes by Mercedes Lackey, Tanith Lee, and C.E. Murphy; Must Love Dragons by Stephanie Rowe; and The Dream Thief by Shana Abe. I am almost as excited as I'd be if I won the lottery! :)

Stor- Have you read any of Christine Feehan's previous carpathian novels?

Oh, yes, maybe 3 or 4 of them (Dark Desire, Dark Prince, maybe Dark Gold). Like I said in an earlier post, I read Christine Feehan but find her writing somewhat uneven, so she's not a favorite. However, I see that I have a lot of catching up to do with her Carpathian novels ~ what's she up to now? 15? :)

What are your favorites?

Sorry I should have checked back *blushes*.

My fave of Christine Feehan's books are Dark Desire, Dark Fire, Dark Melody, Dark Challenge and Dark guardian. It was funny because when I was first reading the series I skipped the trilogy about the Troubadours because I thought the premise was silly (musical vampires in a rock band LOL) But when I read them I really, really liked them.

The first Feehan that I read was Dark Fire. I loved it so much I went back and read the whole series. I'd have to say that my second favourite in the series is Dark Desire.

Vampires seem to be the biggest growing genre in paranormal romance, as evidenced by the series of Feehan, Kenyon, J. R. Ward, and others.

I think it's got to do with the fact that they get to be the good guys, whereas in movies and tv, vampires are the bad guys (Buffy/Angel, etc.)

DL ~ I am the one who is blushing, because my comment about Feehan must have been on another thread since it sure isn't on this one (I just checked). Anyway, I'm sorry.

Thanks for your recommendations ~ I'll start with them.

Bren ~ Dark Desire is my favorite so far, but I haven't read Dark Fire yet. I'll let you and DL know which one I favor when I've read it. ;D

I think it might also be the thrill of the forbidden, esp. in contemporary paranormal romances, where sex is sort of the norm (as opposed to historicals where having sex outside of marriage is taboo, and even enjoying it inside marriage is a bit naughty). So, esp. in contemporaries, add a vampire or shapeshifter or demon and you have your taste of the forbidden. If that makes sense.

I liked a lot of the Christine Feehan Dark series and all of the game series, but I also really like her Drake sisters (seven sister/witches) series. The next one is coming out this summer I think. There will be a new game one at the end of February.

I love audio books and always have extra audio and print books in my car (as so many of you do)!

That's a good point Stor. That probably has a lot to do with why I read paranormals.

I'm glad to see other people liked Dark Desire. I loved Jacques in Dark Prince (hmm, no touchstone for this today) and was heartbroken by what happened to him at the beginning of the book. I've chatted with other people who have read these books and nobody else ever liked that one.

I'm thinking I will probably go up to Borders this weekend and pick up the first Feline Breeds book. I looked over the amazon description and it sounds very promising. Thanks CC for bringing it up :-)

BTW-I saw that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows now has a release date of July 21st on amazon for all my fellow Potter fans! I probably won't pre-order it though, the bookstore in the town where I work usually throws a Harry Potter release party so I pre-order there. It's more expensive but more fun.

I had some trouble posting on this thread this morning and am thinking maybe we should start a "Paranormal/Fantasy Romance Part 2" thread. Any thoughts on that?

In the meantime, just wanted to report that I just started Derik's Bane by MaryJanice Davidson and enjoying it so far.

Wanted to let you know that I have read all but one of Feehan's Dark Series books and they were all absolutely great. I just hate there aren't any more in the series. I still have Dark Celebrations to read but am reading Midnight Moon by Handleland so I can save this last book of the series. I just don't want it to end.

No fear, Christine Feehan's new Dark book Dark Posession is due out in August, 2007 according to her website and then Dark Celebration will be out in paperback in September :-)

demon, since you love vampire books, wonder if you know about a new series starting on lifetime TV this Sun. night called Blood Ties. I read some books a few years ago by Karen E. Taylor & they remind me of those. While the previews I've seen make no mention of her, I believe she had a book out called Blood Ties; the names of the characters sound like her books.

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I like vampire romance novels. Like twilight andvampire kisses

>160 midnightrose: Twilight is my favorite book :-) I've read all the Vampire Kisses stories so far (except the new one that either just came out or is coming out soon) but I didn't like them quite as much.

Have you ever tried Katie Maxwell's or Rachel Caine's vampire stories? They're really, really good too.

No. I've only have read the first and second books of vampire kisses. But l'll remember this.

Many of Barbara Michaels' books, like Stitches in Time, Shattered Silk, Patriot's Dream and Ammie, Come home have paranormal aspects to them.

Elizabeth Peters is a pen name, so don't be puzzled. They've been combined, which wouldn't be my preference, but...