The mythical warriors of Atlantis return for their fourth novel in Atlantis Unmasked, the story of the disfigured hero, Alexios, and Grace, a human woman sworn to vengeance. Though its pace suffers a bit as a real middle piece in the series, Atlantis Unmasked is one of the more interesting stories in the series and the hero/heroine pairing is extremely good.

Grace Havilland, an archer and the descendant of Diana, never misses a target. She puts such talent to good use as one of the humans rebelling against the increase in vampiric authority from which her modern world suffers. The rebels have formidable allies on their side as well: warriors from the long-lost, mystical world of Atlantis, whose millennia-long struggle against the vampires has only become more brutal through the years.
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The third book of the acclaimed Atlantis series, Atlantis Unleashed, packs a punch exploring a lot of new settings for its heroic cast and taking some great risks with its edgy hero, Justice. The novel continues the storyline of the Atlanteans’ search for the missing gems of the mystical Trident of Poseidon but takes the ongoing quest away from the vampires already met throughout the series; instead, Day takes her readers through a story of healing and self-acceptance, largely centered in the lush jungles of Guatemala.
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Morgan returns with her latest edition into her thrilling Paladins series with The Darkness Beyond, the book centered around the young cyber-whiz Paladin, D.J. Clayborne. D.J. has been a constant presence in the series, and it is high time that he receive his own book—and heroine.
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Kitty is back for her latest full-length novel in one of her best outings yet. Visiting London for the first International Conference of Paranatural Studies, she has a chance to scout out the Old World’s place in the Long Game — the vampire Roman’s far-reaching, nefarious plan for vampires — and see both old friends and some who do not quite fall into that category.

Visiting London, however, is not quite the diplomatic outing and chance to reconnect that she is expecting. Roman already has allies, also swarming London for the convention, and if Kitty plans to make any progress in summoning together her own forces against him, she has to learn to play by the rules of new kinds of vampires and lycanthropes. (more…)

Kitty is back in one of her most action-packed, fast-paced novels yet. The action moves out of the Front Range to the Bay Area as the Denver Alpha goes on a quest to track down the mysterious magical device known as the Dragon’s Pearl.

The ever-ebullient and ever-snarky host of the popular talk radio show The Midnight Hour has been on the trail of discovering whether some of the famous figures in history were in fact tied to the preternatural world when she gets a call asking her to come to the aid of one of her old allies. (more…)

Morgan delivers another thoroughly satisfying entry into her Paladins series with this book, as the Kalith warrior Larem gets his story — and the girl.

After the conclusion of Defeat the Darkness, the Paladin warriors, who protect Earth from insane members of the transdimensional alien race known as Others, or Kalith, are at a crossroads. One of the Regents, the administrative keeers of the Paladins, has been exposed as a traitor, and a new administration has come in to manage the Seattle Paladins. (more…)

The sixth book in Morgan’s Paladins series surpasses all of its predecessors by leaps and bounds with a delightful setting and supporting cast for the story and romance. Morgan has outdone herself with this book, and it is by far my favorite of hers to date.

Hunter Fitzsimmon was the tortured—literally—Paladin of the last novel, relocated for reconnaissance and recuperation to a sleepy Washington town in pursuit of an illicit ring of Others—aliens crossing over to earth through a shaky transdimensional barrier. (more…)

In this, the second volume of the Gardella Vampire Chronicles, author Colleen Gleason seamlessly continues her poetically elegant tale — any (oft-suggested) shades of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” are soon forgotten in her Venators — slayers — these books are utter class and sophistication.

A year has passed since the death of Victoria’s husband, and while she continues to grieve, there is a new undercurrent forming in the waters of vampire society: Victoria’s mourning will have to be set aside in favor of combating a rising new evil. (more…)

The final novel in Charlotte Caissie and Max Savoie’s tale concludes their story, packing one hell of a punch in the process.

Police detective “Cee Cee” Caissie had a tormented past, which, throughout the course of the previous novels, she has been slowly overcoming with the help of her lover, Max. For his part, Savoie has some secrets of his own, notably the fact that he is more than the average human.
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The undead and living citizens of Morganville, Texas return for another book in the eponymous Morganville Vampires series, and readers are in for one hell of a ride.

Claire Danvers has a lot on her plate. MIT has finally come a-callin’ for her, and she has an aspiring scientist’s dream of a lifetime just waiting for her to accept. (more…)

Daisy O’Donnell makes a living siphoning vampire blood out of the slumbering undead, earning a reputation as the infamous “Blood Thief.” Things quickly start to get out of hand when she has to stake a vampire in self-defense, and the local vampire community starts to take notice — and as more deaths start piling up in the area, so does the hatred of the Blood Thief.
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These books are so damned sultry. I adore them. They are hot and spicy and everything too sexy to be “nice.” I also have to admit that I started this book this morning and did not get through it before work — then came back home to it instead of running errands and doing ten thousand other things that I needed to do…
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Life goes on for the Morganville residents and their fellow vampire citizens and keepers in typical fashion. The tenuous peace between mortals and immortals wavers daily, and Claire Danvers and her friends in the Glass House continue to try to live their lives as semi-normal young adults without getting too deeply enthralled in vampire business. This, of course, fails miserably.
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Readers of the “Cat Star Chronicles” meet their first Zetithian female in Hero, the sixth novel in the series. The “Chronicles” detail the stories of a species which lost the majority of their people and their planet in an act of violence; Hero is the first book to get at the backstory of that crime, and it does a great job of it. Fans also will remember Trag, the pseudo-anti-hero of Rogue, a previous book in the series, and brother to Tycharian. (more…)

Oh my God! I really, really (add on a lot of “really”) like the Cat Star Chronicles. To make a long story short, although I have read all of the novels in the series up through Fugitive, this is the first that I am actually reviewing, as one of the other Bitten reviewers tackled the earlier novels before Real Life got in the way. Nevertheless, before I (finally!) got to Fugitive, I read the tales of all of the previous Zetithian males and their mates. (more…)

Bellona is a valkyrie, long ago promised to help Odin gather the souls of dying human heroes to fight for him in the fated war of Ragnarök. However, the agreement has been altered recently, and instead of acting as escorts for the heroes, the valkyrie have been charged with taking their lives before their time on earth is done. Bella does not care for this new policy, and when the town of Vista Loma, California, is struck by an earthquake, she takes the newly-revealed heroes under her wing to protect them from her sisters who are hunting for heroes.
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Although this is the tenth entry into Angela Knight’s Mageverse series, this is the first novel I have read. I thought it was a good standalone that explained what I needed to know while not giving away enough about the rest of the books to spoil too much. I have not read a lot of the author’s work before, though an unrelated novella in the Shifter anthology stands as my favorite short fiction romance, so I had high hopes for this, my first full-length Angela Knight book. Generally I was rewarded — the book was hot and she definitely has a wonderful universe established for her characters.
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Daniel has been the singular “good vampire” regularly seen throughout the Warriors of Poseidon series, but he is ready to renounce the political ranks he has achieved — and his life — and walk into the sunlight. Instead of burning, however, he falls into the infamous portal that leads the way to Atlantis, and is reacquainted with the woman he loved — and thought had died — eleven thousand years ago.
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Petra Holtz knows nothing about Roman history, but her rich boss is a sucker for all things Roman. When she gets stuck taking care of his house—and a valuable replica of a Roman antiquity within it—for the weekend, she has no idea that she is about to get a lot more interested.
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Another entry into the series of Atlantean warriors and their predestined mates continues the “Warriors of Poseidon” saga, this time focusing on the emotionless warrior, Brennan, and his truth-teller aknasha — beloved — Tiernan Butler. Tiernan was introduced in an earlier novel as a scrappy journalist whose unique gift makes her perfect for ferreting out the truth in a breaking story; Brennan is cursed never to remember her after she leaves his sight, as she is his mate.
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