This is the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, and yet another vampire story.

For the most part this book is about Wrath, a pure blood vampire and semi-leader of the brotherhood. A group of vampire warriors whose main purpose is to hunt and kill Lessers. Lessers were once human, but they sold their souls to become vampire hunters.

Wrath is supposed to be the king of the vampires but instead he chooses to fight. Until he meets Beth. Beth is a human, or half-breed if you will. Her father was a vampire, but in the black dagger brotherhood world, vampires aren’t changed through biting, they are bred the same way humans are. The ‘change’ to vampire happens in the mid-twenties and Beth is about to go through her change.

Wrath was asked by Darius (Beth’s father), to help her through the change. As a favour to his brother, Wrath agrees. He does not expect to fall in love with the half-breed. Dark Lover is the story of Wrath and Beth, how they deal with the ‘change’ and each other.

What I liked most about this story is that it’s not really human-oriented. These vampires don’t feed on humans and as a whole, they don’t really care for humans in general. Their soul purpose is to keep the vampires alive. These vampires feed only on other vampires.

What I didn’t really care for, is that the story is told from so many perspectives. Some minor characters share their views, I am assuming at some point in the series these characters won’t be so minor. I just couldn’t get into this “Mr. X” character. He’s the bad guy. I really didn’t care what he was up to, I didn’t want to know what he was plotting, or what his strategies were.

The novel as a whole, is written very well and I look forward to reading the next book. The Black Dagger Brotherhood is very intriguing.

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This is the fourth book in the Night Huntress series and it is quite possibly the last in the series. I can’t confirm that at the moment but regardless of it’s truth, there will be spin off stories of the side characters, so that’s a piece of good news.

Cat begins having dreams about a man from her past. The man is a master vampire and claims to be her husband. She has no recollection of the past but Gregor is persistent in getting back his wife.

This could ultimately destroy everything she has with Bones. Meanwhile, Bones becomes a stubborn jerk and leaves Cat in a pile of garbage. Literally.

Cat has to make a choice in life, and she sacrifices it all in order to lose the husband she doesn’t want, and gain the husband she knows and loves.

This is another excellent book. If it is the final one of the series, it was a great way to end it. There are moments when I want to punch Bones across the face. He behaves like a child and doesn’t trust his own wife. I’m glad for the character change though, it’s good to show that even our favourite characters have flaws. Nobody is perfect, even drop dead gorgeous vampires.

I look forward to the spin off on Spade and Denise. Should be interesting.

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This is the fourth book in the Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) series.

I found myself bored and struggling to read through this book. Which is how I felt about the second book  in the series as well. It seems I have a pattern of liking every other book.

Every time I picked up this novel I saw the cover and just shook my head in disgrace. I realize all the covers in the series are very cartoonish but this one in particular just annoyed me.

Alright, on with the plot. Eric’s memory gets wiped but Sookie finds him and takes him in. Shortly thereafter, Jason goes missing.

Sookie wants to believe that the witches responsible for erasing Eric’s memory have also kidnapped Jason, but there are no leads on this theory.

This new Eric is completely endearing and Sookie struggles to resist his charm. Again, Bill is out of the country but given that he is officially the ex, Sookie finds herself thinking about him less.

Shape-shifters, vampires, and werewolves get together to fight a war against the witches that are causing trouble in town. But these witches are not easily defeated. They are very powerful and are ingesting vampire blood to boot.

There is a pretty good twist at the end, however apart of me wanted Sookie to end up with Alcide, again. Or perhaps she should end up with the new Eric and become committed to him. That’d be a great twist.

I don’t want to deter anyone from reading this book. If you like the series so far, this one will be enjoyable as well. There is lots of actions and with witches in the story, it proves to be more of a challenge for the original characters.

I, however, just could not get into it. I find I don’t care for any of them, aside from maybe Alcide, but even he gets on my nerves. I think I will wait a bit longer before picking up the next book. But I am determined to finish this series come hell or high water.

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This is the third book in the Night Huntress series.

Holy stressful! Lots of masters and betrayers are in this story. New vampires are created to help Cat and her team. But are their hearts in the right place?

A new enemy, Patra, will stop at nothing to accomplish her goals. Patra is very old and one of the deadliest vampires out there. She not only has her super strength, speed, and other vampire traits, but she is also fluent in witchcraft.

Cat finds herself in situations that she can’t get out of. She is not familiar with these spells and curses and she can’t seem to avoid them.

People die, hearts are broken, and Cat can’t stop for one minute.

The battle is intense from beginning to end. What could possibly happen next?

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This is the second book in the Night Huntress series. It starts off four years after the first book ends, but from cover to cover it’s go, go, GO!

Cat is still leading the team of highly trained men, and capturing or killing master vampires. Her and her mother are still living in disguise with new identities.

Soon Cat discovers there is a hit on her life and the dangers are worse than she could ever imagine. To make matters worse, Bones has returned. He finds her and starts dropping little messages to let her know.

Again Cat needs Bones to help her take out the master vampires and abolish the contract on her life. But having him close again will only make it that much harder to leave in the end. Does she even want to?

Together they join forces, her team with Bones’s team to devise a master plan for the master vampire.

Some steamy vampire ex’s threaten Cat’s relationship with Bones but it’s not long before he forces her hand in marriage. They discover who her father is, but does she want to have him walk her down the aisle? Or have him killed instead?

This novel is spicy to say the least. Good luck putting it down before it’s finished!

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This is the second book in the Anna Strong Vampire series. Anna is a new vampire and a bounty hunter. She finds out that she has a teenage niece who is in trouble and missing in action.

Connected to the mysterious disappearance is one of the teachers at Principal Strong’s (Anna’s mother) school. Anna learns through this suspected teacher (Mr. Frey) that vampires are not the only telepathic supernatural being on the planet.

Together, Mr. Frey and Anna help to locate her niece and keep her safe from what’s really happening.

Finding the culprit is harder than imagined when the only people with inside information are turning up dead.

Anna is left to her own devices and no one to trust. The thirst of a vampire becomes her strength and dictates her every move.

This book is a page-turner to say the least. I love the relationship between Mr. Frey and Anna Strong and I hope this continues throughout the novels to come.

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This is the third book in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Bill gets involved in a high end job for the Queen but finds himself in trouble. Eric enlists Sookie’s help in finding Bill when they discover he is missing in action.

Sookie is introduced to Alcide, a rich werewolf who is slightly indebted to Eric. Alcide agrees to help Sookie find and pursue the bad guys and together they encounter many difficulties and near death experiences.

I enjoyed this book more than I did the last in the series. It picks up in pace because when one crisis is averted the next one begins. Poor Sookie can’t get a break.

Bill screws up royally. Considering he’s a hero in the past books, I kind of enjoyed the twist. Eric doesn’t change in the least. He is still pursuing Sookie, but at least he protects her when Bill cannot.

Alcide spices up the novel. He’s handsome, rich, and a gentleman and he makes sure that Sookie has everything she needs on her mission to save Bill. By the end of the story I wanted Sookie to drop Bill for Alcide.

Here’s to hoping that will happen in the future.

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This is the first book in the Night Huntress series. Cat is a half-human, half-vampire mix. She goes to college during the day and hunts vampires on evenings and weekends. She’s doing well juggling this alter-ego lifestyle until she meets Bones.

Bones is a handsome vampire who has the same motives as Cat. He is also a vampire slayer, but he aims higher than the sleazy vampires that Cat meets in bars. Bones is determined to take out the big kahunas that are giving the word “vampire” a bad name.

Cat learns to be more than just a seductress with a lucky streak, when Bones trains her to be armed and dangerous. It’s not long before her vampire half takes over.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and it’s a great beginning to a series that I can only imagine will be just as good. Cat is a great female heroine, starting off a bit rough around the edges, but learning to love as well as embrace her strength and speed.

For those paranormal-romance lovers (like myself), this is a win-win.

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This is the sixth book in the Morganville Vampire series, and Claire finally turns 17! It’s about time, is all I can say to that.

So Rachel Caine decides to change it up a bit in this novel. First off, this story doesn’t start exactly where the last one finished. There is a small gap, but the time lost is quickly filled in with a few sentences or so.

Second, the book doesn’t end on a giant cliffhanger. It leaves you with the feeling that more is to come, but after all the anxiety in this story Claire finally gets her break.

Third, and possibly most importantly, Claire makes a mistake. It’s a potentially fatal mistake and I’m still not sure how she made it. Since this happens towards the end, I won’t say too much about it, however I will say that she deserves a good smack for her stupidity. She figures out who the person is but can’t seem to understand that the person is guilty. It’s just not a mistake we expect from Claire.

This book is great from start to finish, and the changes the author made to the story line are refreshing but not detrimental to the plot.

It’s another race against time for Claire and her friends to save the town from Bishop.

Looking forward to the next edition to the series for sure!

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This is the first of the Riley Jensen Guardian novels. Riley Jensen is half werewolf and half vampire, a truly rare breed that makes her dhampire, AKA the “mule” of the paranormal world.

She’s also got a twin brother, Rhoan who she senses is in great danger. On her mission to save him she finds herself in more danger and the twists and turns just don’t stop. She learns, perhaps a little late, that no one can be trusted.

Riley must team with the vampires to find the enemies and take them down. However, life is just not that easy. This is the week of the full moon, which also happens to be the mating period for all the wolves. As soon as the sun goes down, the lust goes up, along with the aching passion for doing the moon dance in the nude with whoever happens to be in her presence.

Bring on Quinn. Riley gets partnered up with a very old, but very sexy vampire named Quinn. You don’t have to be very creative to imagine what happens between the two!

I absolutely loved this book. It’s got so much adventure and romance it felt like I was reading a James Bond story where James Bond meets a nymphomaniac.

I look forward to reading the rest of this series and can only hope it keeps up with the first book!

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