Lalalala, look, a book post!

[leaveoutalltherest]

So, I went to the library. The main library downtown. Because the branch near my house is dinky. 8 miles round trip. I road through the UoA campus, it is pretty.

What did I get?

Four books by Anne Bishop "Daughter of the Blood", "The Invisible Ring", "Dreams Made Flesh", "Tangled Webs". They didn't have "Queen of Darkness" or "Heir to the Shadows", so I cheated and reserved them at other branches so that they would be delivered to my local branch. The girl said it usually takes a day or two. Whee.

So. Recommend me other authors.

Anyone who mentions the names McCaffrey, Lackey or Hamilton will be shot at dawn.



These are books I have put a hold on. Some of them may take a few weeks to get as there are people on the list ahead of me.

Jim Butcher

• Storm Front


• Fool Moon


• Grave Peril


• Summer Knight

Charlaine Harris

• Dead Until Dark


• Living Dead in Dallas


• Club Dead


• Dead To The World


• Dead As A Doornail

To Go On The 'To Read List'

• L.J. Smith - The Vampire Diaries


• The rest of each of the series above.

Comments

[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

How about Butcher? Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files, to be specific. The first couple of books drag a bit, but they really pick up by the third. At a push, you can skip the first two, but there's a lot of good world-building in them. (Also, I like his take on vampires.)

Kelley Armstrong, too. Her Women of the Otherworld is really interesting.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

I'll second this one: police procedural + urban fantasy.

Disclosure: I have known Jim for like 15 years.

[leaveoutalltherest]

I don't know whether to hate you or make you introduce me so I can fangirl him.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

We have drifted pretty far apart, over the years- however, he laughed his ass off at me when I finally realized that Thomas was based on an online RP character of mine (at least in part).

[colubra.livejournal.com]

Charlaine Harris- her southern vampire mysteries / Sookie Stackhouse books are what the show 'True Blood' was based on.
It's kinda LKH done right, with a sense of humor and an awareness that more than sex can be written about.

[shadowcat]

Kelley Armstrong!

[leaveoutalltherest]

*points up to the updated list*

[kajivar]

Jeanne Kalogridis's Diaries of the Family Dracul
Kim Newman's Anno Dracula books
LJ Smith's The Vampire Diaries

I sense a theme.

[aj.livejournal.com]

"Fool" by Christopher Moore. (And Lamb if you haven't read it yet.) Both are screamingly funny.

[thursday-gal.livejournal.com]

Rachel Caine's Weather Warden Series and Kim Harrison's Hollows Series.

I am actually a massive fan of the Kathy Reichs books that Bones is VERY VERY VERY VERY vaguely based upon.

Um. Yes. THat's about it for now.

[dkphoenix.livejournal.com]

Seconding the Anno Dracula series, although it could be hard to find. (The series is a pastiche of all sorts of literary characters, and a few historical ones, set in a world where Count Dracula handily survived the events of the novel, and went on to marry Queen Victoria.)

P.N. Elrod's Vampire Files series (Noir with a vampire PI, set in 1930s Chicago) and the Jonathan Barret series (Same universe, set during the Revolutionary War).

Tanya Huff's Blood and Smoke & Shadows series (Urban fantasy/PI, with vampires, werewolves, and other assorted supernatural stuff.)

L.J Smith's Vampire Diaries is YA, but it's far better than the Twilight series. (She also wrote another YA series, Night World, but I don't recommend that.)

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

JR Ward - Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Seven books, starting with "Dark Lover."

Lara Adrian - Midnight Breed series. Kiss of Midnight being the first, Kiss of Crimson being my favorite.

Jeaniene Frost - One Foot in the Grave and Halfway to the Grave are the two I remember, but they're not the first book of the series.

Terri Garry - Dead Girls are Easy. I'm sure of the title for the first book in the trio, but not the spelling of the author's name. Ghost Whisperer with a little more funk.

Allysa Day's - Warriors of Poseidon series. Atlantis Unleashed is the first one. I think.

Carrie Vaugh - Kitty and the Midnight Hour is the first book of a werewolf series.

Keri Arthur - Riley Jensen series. I think it's Full Moon Rising first.

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

*smacks LJ around for deleting this without permission*

Lynn Flewelling lj's own otterdance, wrote the Nightrunner Series, starting with Luck in the Shadows. Bone Doll's Twin starts another, earlier trilogy set in the same universe.