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Georgina Kincaid has formidable powers. Immortality, seduction, shape-shifting into any human form she desires, walking in heels that would cripple …
There's a formula; this book follows it; and that's what I wanted. Solid cowboy romance.
Georgina Kincaid has been a bad, bad succubus……which should be a good thing. But lately, thanks to her foul mood …
Another fantastic book from Richelle Mead featuring Georgina Kincaid, a fresh sassy vampire.Some days, a girl just can't catch a …
It seems completely unfair that a she-demon whose purpose is seduction can't get hot and heavy with the one mortal …
Her only hope for survival... Handsome, wealthy and respected, Sir Mark Turner is the most sought-after bachelor in all of …
"Seven years ago Atagaris set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film …
I went in with high expectations (and not having read the short story prequel). They were met. This is delightfully horrifying--less viscerally so than Grant's Parasitology series, at least for me, but in a way that will stick with me, the next time I'm far enough out on the water that I can't see the shore. If you're a long-time Grant fan, it's worth saying: this one is more gruesome than the Newsflesh series, but not as lingeringly gory as some horror stuff by other authors can be.
As is universal (or at least nearly so?) in Grant/McGuire books, this one has people of various (dis)ability levels, of various races and orientations. It includes more of the human experience than most speculative fiction seems to, and it is better for the inclusion.
And the science is fantastic, as always.
Mara Wilson was right: this series is better in every way than the Christian Grey books.
The protagonist does some idiotic and annoying things, sure, but overall she's funny, mostly likable, and not totally spineless. The writing is 100% better. The sex scenes are better, too. There's way less chance of someone ending up in the hospital because they are "inspired by" these than it seemed like there was with the Shades of Grey series—like, I'm pretty sure Abigail Barnette actually read a book on BDSM before writing these, probably more than one; she is a far more authoritative source than EL James.
And, most importantly, consent is a real concept to everyone in the series. It matters.
"As the Chicagoland Vampires series continues, Merit and Ethan find themselves in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, where winning may …
"A vampire never gets old. But neither do his enemies. When a figure from Ethan's …
I haven't been good about reviewing this series (which I'd feel more guilty about, but it's apparently finished, meaning that the author does not need reviews that badly). I can't help but comment, at least briefly, about this installment, though: it feels like it's full of homages to other paranormal romance/urban fantasy authors, notably Laurell K. Hamilton (an antagonist with a French accent and sex-based powers? come on, it was like she mashed up Jean Claude and Narcissus into one guy) and Kim Harrison (two characters used one of Jenks's catchphrases, "crap on toast"). I wonder which others I missed.
(Homer doesn't count.)
I keep giving these books 4 stars, so clearly I like them well enough. They're not super deep, and they feature Yet Another Lit Major As Paranormal Heroine, but they're entertaining. And the audiobook performer has finally started pronouncing "sups" as "soops" and not "suhps," at this …
I haven't been good about reviewing this series (which I'd feel more guilty about, but it's apparently finished, meaning that the author does not need reviews that badly). I can't help but comment, at least briefly, about this installment, though: it feels like it's full of homages to other paranormal romance/urban fantasy authors, notably Laurell K. Hamilton (an antagonist with a French accent and sex-based powers? come on, it was like she mashed up Jean Claude and Narcissus into one guy) and Kim Harrison (two characters used one of Jenks's catchphrases, "crap on toast"). I wonder which others I missed.
(Homer doesn't count.)
I keep giving these books 4 stars, so clearly I like them well enough. They're not super deep, and they feature Yet Another Lit Major As Paranormal Heroine, but they're entertaining. And the audiobook performer has finally started pronouncing "sups" as "soops" and not "suhps," at this point in the series, so that's nice. (I get the sense she doesn't have quite the vocabulary the author does. She's an excellent performer, with good character voices and accents, but her mispronunciations—of real words, not just common made-up ones—can be really distracting.)
"Since Merit was turned into a vampire and became the protector of Chicago's Cadogan House, it's been a wild ride. …
