One Hot Booklist Series – Books That Make Us Say Oooh-Rah

K.C. — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:25:36 +0000

All books are not created equal. In a series, some books stand out above the rest. We’ve complied a hot booklist of our Fav books in a series, based on the best of the best, be all that they could be, and books that make us say Oooh-Rah.

Kresely Cole’s Immortals After Dark
A Hunger Like No Other
Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night
Dark Desires After Dusk

*Honestly You Can’t Go Wrong with any of her IAD books I prefer the Lykae and Demon books

Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter Series
Probably best to start from the first book or to read all of them, she weaves a lot of characters in her other books. She must have one hell of an editor!

Night Embrace
Dance With the Devil
Night Play
Seize the Night (you might want to read Night Pleasures first)
Unleash the Night
Devil May Cry
Acheron (You might want to read Dream Hunter first b/c Tory is mentioned in this series)
Dream Warrior

J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood
It’s best to read all her books, I know, even Vichous’s book. Her supporting characters end up making big guest or main appearances in future books.

Dark Lover
Lover Eternal
Lover Awakened (my all time fav)
Lover Avenged
Lora Leigh’s Breed Series
Scientists splice animal DNA and created the breeds. Caged like animals, they fight to escape and start to live amongst the humans. She is steamy so be prepared to arm yourself with a fan when you read her books.

Elizabeth’s Wolf (Published by Elloras Cave I would buy used)
Tanner’s Scheme
Dawn’s Awakening
Mercury’s War
Coyote’s Mate

Shelley Laurenston aka G.A. Aiken

The Beast in Him

Go Fetch

Christine Feehan GhostWalker Series and Latest Leopard Book
A brilliant but psychotic scientist Dr. Whitney, adopted gifted little girls ,(orphans) to conduct inhumane tests. The orphans named after flowers like test subjects, are enhanced psychically and physically, left to fend for themselves without anchors. Fast forward 10 years and now Dr. Whitney is testing on special ops, later to be called Ghostwalkers. The Ghostwalkers must find all of Dr. Whiteny’s orphaned test subjects before it’s too late.

Shadow Game
Night Game
Conspiracy Game
Deadly Game

*There are more, but these are my top favs.

Leopard Series
Burning Wild
Gena Showalter’s Atlantis Series, Alien Huntress, and Lord’s of the Underworld

Atlantis
Heart of the Dragon
The Nymph King
Vampire’s Bride

Alien Huntress
Enslave Me Sweetly

Lord’s of the Underworld
Darkest Night
Darkest Pleasure

Larissa Ione’s Demonica Series
She only has 3 out, but there all good!
Pleasure Unbound
Desire Unchained
Passion Unleashed
Nalini Singh’s Psy Changeling Series and Guild Hunter
*Her Angel’s Blood is my top pick

Guild Hunter
Angel’s Blood

Psy Series
Slave to Sensation
Caressed by Ice
Hostage to Pleasure

Karen Marie Moning’s Fever Series aka what I like to call Fae Series
You have to read them all! I am usually not a fan of one character series, but this series hooked, line, and sinkered me.
Darkfever
Bloodfever
Faefever
Series That Deserve a Mini Woot
Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dream Hunters
Christine Feehan’s Drake Sisters and Dark Series
Autumn Dawn’s No Words Alone (Don’t bother getting her second book in this series, stick to the first one)
Cheyenne Mccray’s Magic Series

Summer’s is here and many great books are coming out, I’ll be updating this Hot Booklist when I can get my hands on them! Air kisses, happy reading.

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She’s Baaaack: J.R. Ward’s Lover Avenged 4 1/2 Smokinhot Stars

K.C. — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:20:29 +0000

This book was all kinds of awesomeness! J.R. Ward’s 7th installment of Black Dagger Brotherhood series is a roller coaster ride leaving me, as always, wanting more. A quick confession, I absolutely love her as a writer, but her previous 3 releases in this series were not as good as her first 3 books. This book reads a lot like her 3rd book Lover Awakened, which is one of my all time favs. All I have to say is Ward still got it. I could not put this book down had to stay up all night just to finish it.

This is the story of Rehevenge, full time drug lord, pimp, and half sympath. You think you won’t, but you will fall in love with him. Because he’s part sympath, his identity needs to be kept secret- the revelation of which will result in his banishment to a colony for sociopaths aka the Sympath Colony. Ward does such a great job with this character and what he has to do for survival. The love tension with Ehlena, a vampire untainted by corruption, somehow works the opposites attract angle. Rehevenge will risk everything for the people he loves, even it means banishment to the crazy Sympath colony. Ward, again takes you into a whole other world of the Brothers and now the Sympaths.

Spoiler Alert

If you’ve been on any of the forums you might have run across some comments regarding Rehv’s sympath half sister’s intimate relationship with Rehv. His half sister is blackmailing him and as part of his payment he has to have creepy sex with her. This sounds a lot worse then when you actually read it. It really is not a pivotal shock scene (I’ve read worse thanks to Kate Douglas this is NOTHING). It helps to understand his compassion, loyalty and why he would be attracted to Ehelna, a wholesome woman with a good head on her shoulders. I think the Vicious book had way darker undertones that shocked me more.

Things I liked about the book

Rehev’scharacter, you think you won’t, but you will fall in love with him

Action, Action, Action

Major Appearances by John Matthew and Xhex, Wrath

The Symphath Colony

Ehlena rescuing Rhev from the scorpions (this is probably one of the best written action scenes I’ve come across all year)

Things That Could Have Been Better

the focus on the main characters Ehlena and Rehvenge took a back seat to the side characters

The Final Sex Scene: Her main characters had a lot of almost there sexy moments, but the final “act” he has this *ahem barb (cough cough much like Lora Leigh’s Breed Series), it was almost like she blew over it. Blink and you might have missed the sentence all together. I think she needed to expand on this or remove it completely. It was such a pivotalpart as to why he could not be fully intimate with Ehlena, Ward didn’t really offer any explanation or detail, it seemed odd.

This is a small problem throughout her books, she has a hard time keeping “in character” for her extras (characters) mentioned in previous books ex: Mary,(I think she has like 5 sentences with all 7 books combined), Beth, Rhage, Phury, and Vicious. It kind of bugs me when these characters are mentioned they read really 1 dimensional. Her spotlight characters and main supporting characters are always well written. Authors that kick ass keeping their characters in character are Sherrilyn Kenyon and Kresley Cole.

We give this one 4 1/2 Smokinhot stars. A great read filled with sexy moments, great dialogue, and gritty scenes. Sigh, now we have to wait until Oct 09 in order to get our hand on her next series Covet, it’s about angles. Pay close attention to a certain call girl in Rehevenge’s story, she may be the focal point for Covet (unconfirmed).

If you’ve read the book let us know what you thought!

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