From even the earliest days of the vampiric genre, women
who lust after or love other women saturated the genre.
Carmilla and Christabel were some of the first depictions,
but GIRLS WHO BITE continues the theme. Some of the works
are surprising, with intriguing twists that continue the
discussion of Read more...
This is a lush anthology of paranormal romance. Certainly
the stories within should provide varied enough content to
suit every taste.
Cover Him With Darkness by Janine
Ashbless is less about the passion and more about the rich
details and exquisite emotional rendering of the
story. The Blood Moon Kiss Read more...
Vampires are vanishing. They all seem to know what's going
on, at least the founder and her head cronies do, but the
rest of Morganville's populace, human and vampire, seem to
be spending more time taking sides for or against a
human/vampire wedding. Everyone is stressed out Read more...
Grace Andreas and Simon Parran knew each other in med
school and have been thrust together again because of some
stolen biological weapons. However, their reunion is
anything but sweet because the secrets they kept from each
other then has festered as Simon works on not-quite-
approved research and Read more...
Sorcha Ferguson is bound and determined to snag a Lycan
like some of her coven sisters; however, her close friend -
and seer of the coven- says this is not her destiny. She'd
be perfectly happy with the brooding vampire, Alec
MacQuarrie, but he has always wanted now-married Cait Read more...
Teresa, codename Trance, used to have powers. Fifteen years
ago, something happened to make all of the people with
paranormal abilities, mostly kids on the "good guy" side
and adults on the "bad guy" side, lose their abilities.
They went from comic book action characters to reviled
enemies---both sides Read more...
Okay. So a body-snatching demon made vampire Glory St.
Clair do some bad stuff...like cheating on her boyfriend
and sire, Jeremy Blade, but now the vampire council doesn't
trust her, and her boyfriend wants space. Again.
As a boon
and a way to try to win her Read more...
Lacey has always been best friends with Ry and Bram,
honorable guys who decided they wouldn't fight over her
affections when they were kids. However, their honorable
hands-off policy leaves Lacey ripe for the picking from
jerks. Now, on the rebound and verbally assaulted by a jerk
of Read more...
Kim Harrison's amazing urban fantasy series featuring
Rachel Morgan and Ivy Tamwood and all of
their...pals/friends/acquaintances/frenemies...
demonstrates that you just don't always know who wears the
white hats, who the black, and who balances on that
precarious edge of light gray, medium gray, and Read more...
Even before her sister got turned into a werewolf,
Bathsheba has been protecting her. Now, they stay on the
move, trying to keep away from any wolf packs that might
notice and want her. Bathsheba and Sara work at Midnight
Liaisons, a dating service for the fanged, fey, or fluffy Read more...
Although the themes are of societal importance even in the
modern mundane world, and the character development is
finely-honed and excellent, that childish wonder of "what
would it be like to wander around a body as though it were
a world?" digs in deep throughout the work. In the Read more...
Calla Tor's life has made a 180 degrees juxtaposition. Her
enemies are now her friends---sort of---and she has to
rescue her Pack from those she always thought were her
friends---sort of. She finds herself at the mercy of the
Searchers, as they provide the opportunity to Read more...
Self-help books are often boring, condescending, and
annoying. However, this book chats up the reader like an
experienced sister who's been where you've been and wants
to help you avoid the pitfalls of life...or, at least, help
you get through them more effectively!
Set up in Read more...
For anyone who loves a good mystery, TO FETCH A THIEF
really delivers. In the best tradition of first-person
mysteries from the point of view of the animal, Spencer
Quinn's Chet and Bernie mysteries provide excellent
mysteries as well as great insight into potential workings
of the canine Read more...
Part of Brooks' Guardian Novels, DEMON MARKED is a smash-
hit!
Ash, covered in tattoos but with no memory of her past
but for snippets of chanting and pain, must join forces
with Nicholas, a man who has no reason to trust her and
every reason to distrust everything that Read more...
The Guild Hunter Series is excellent and should be required
reading for lovers of paranormal romance, but the works may
also be read alone.
ARCHANGEL'S BLADE documents the tale of
Honor, a damaged young woman attempting to come back to
herself after a horrible torturous attack. Helping her do Read more...
This is an excellent book! Ginger intercedes to rescue
Wren, a half-breed archangel, from poachers who want to
harvest his beautiful feathers. In doing so, she must call
on family ties to try and encourage him to allow himself to
be rescued; in addition, she puts herself in danger Read more...
Although a modern day spa might seem like an innocuous
place for magic and tradition, the Seven Sisters Spa houses
and is run by the unusual Ionian priestesses, women who
keep to themselves and their own ways in order to maintain
the balance of the universe. They do not have Read more...
Kate Bradley and Calisto Terana have been entwined for
lives: she dreams about hers, and he has never left his.
However, instead of immediately jumping for this second
chance together, they have to evade a group of fanatical
priests, a group to which Calisto once belonged in his
first life Read more...
One would think that Kara and Dante would be perfect for
each other: she has extreme desire connected to submission
while he is a strong dominant. However, Dante has hidden
for years behind the mask of constantly being in control of
everything, his career, his friends, and his sexuality. If Read more...
Vicky Gilpin
Dr. Vicky Gilpin teaches Composition,
Literature, and other courses at Cerro
Gordo High School, Millikin University,
and Richland Community College. She
recently took the course Vampires in
Literature and Film through Harvard
University Extension School and teaches
an English 101 course with the theme of
vampires. When she's not teaching,
reading, writing, and taking courses,
she spends time with her husband and
their six animals.
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