Paranormal

Damned by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie

Jenn Leitner has been appointed the leader of Team Salamanca and she feels like she is in over her head. After a failed attack in New Orleans, she is struggling to deal with the guilt she feels over not being able to rescue her sister Heather before Heather was converted. Now she prays that Father Juan and Antonio will be able to save Heather and restore her humanity.
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Kisses from Hell by Richelle Mead, Alyson Noel, Kristin Cast, Kelley Armstrong, Francesca Lia Block

Kisses from HellSunshine by Richelle Mead

Eric Dragomir and his graduating class spend a weekend celebrating on an island getaway. While contemplating his life and the plans his father is pushing on him, his mind keeps going to the young woman he met on the yacht. Rhea Drozlov has no idea who Eric really is but is thankful that she made an impression on him when she needs him the most.
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A Sliver of Shadow by Allison Pang

Moira is in Faerie, dealing with court and the increasingly insane Queen, leaving Abby in charge of the shop and Midnight Marketplace. Brystion is sticking to the shadows in the garden surrounding Abby’s house in the Dreaming. Talivar is giving some seriously un-bodyguard like signals. And Benjamin, Moira’s newborn, is sporting some interesting appendages.
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Movie Review: The Woman in Black (2012) (PG-13)

Lawyer Arthur Kipps struggles to come to terms with the death of his wife four years earlier in childbirth, and despite his devotion to his young son, finds it difficult to focus on his job. Arthur’s boss gives him the chance to redeem himself by sending Arthur to an isolated village to go through the papers of the recently-deceased owner of Eel Marsh House. The local man that the firm has been corresponding with has not been particularly helpful, so Arthur sets off on his business trip with plans for his son and the nanny to visit at the end of the week after the he completes his task.
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How to Worship a Goddess by Stephanie Julian

The forgotten goddess of the moon is in fear for her life. She has a demon on her tail and has no idea how to shake him. One stumble and he will have her—and her powers—for his own. With the help of a town of werewolf-worshipers and the unlikely ally of a minor league hockey player, she will fight to the end if she has to—anything to keep from being banished to the land of the dead for all eternity…
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Legacy of the Bear by Lori K. Johnson

The long winter is nearly over and Marin, Guardian of his Bearwalker Clan, awakes from his hibernation to the arms of his human lover, Lindy, and the almost insurmountable problem of rebuilding his clan. After the disastrous revolt of his clan against Marin’s guardianship led by the cruel Lucien (later thought to be a Devil Bear), the clan numbers are so small that the only hope of survival is to join with another clan. Read More »

Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs

Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn ChildsLily is not your typical girl next door. Sure she has an unrequited crush on the captain of the swim team and she worries about her grades and her looks just like any other high school girl. But Lily is also a mermaid and not just any mermaid; Lily is a princess and heir to the throne of Thalassinia. Lily only has until her 18th birthday to find her bond-mate and she is sure she has already found him. Read More »

In Memories We Fear by Barb Hendee

In the latest installment of Barb Hendee’s Vampire Memories series, we catch up with the group as they are between missions. Their last one did not go so well, and Wade is determined to find another vamp for them to try and rescue, hopefully successfully, and draw the group out of the funk they have fallen into. When he finds a rogue vamp in England, Read More »

What a Goddess Wants by Stephanie Julian

No one ever likes to have their job phased out from under them, but when you’re the Etruscan Goddess of the Dawn, it’s just plain unfair. To make matters worse, Charon, the God of the Underworld is trying to steal her powers for his own. What’s a goddess to do in these dire circumstances? Enter Caligo, Cimmerian warrior to the extreme. Will they be able to defeat the forces of evil on their own or is all lost?
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Bite Club by Rachel Caine

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. Read More »

Love Immortal by Felicity Heaton

Stunned when a werewolf appeared in front of her as she was leaving her martial arts class, Lauren nevertheless did her best to defend herself, as she had been trained to do. Exhausted and terrified, Lauren hoped a passerby would come along and rescue her, and just as she had nearly given up hope of survival, she heard “the sing of metal cutting through air, an ear-splitting howl of pain, and then a wet slapping noise.” Read More »

Blood Moon by Heather Kuehl

This fast-paced final installment in her intriguing series finds newly-enhanced werewolf Sarah Vargas on the run from her former employers, the Blood Moon Corporation (an organization that polices the paranormal races), and at a judgment for her former mentor, Dom, a vampire, for his attacks against her clan. Since Dom was controlled by a vampire necromancer at the time, the clan leader, Donavan, shows him mercy, but with a warning. Read More »

Blood and Bullets by James R. Tuck

Deacon Chalk has seen a lot of weird creatures during his five years as an occult bounty hunter, but the young girl vampire he finds next to his car outside of the club he owns creeps him out more than most do, especially given her similarities to his dead daughter. Making the experience even stranger, the disturbing vamp claims that she would like to hire him to protect her from the Nyteblade, someone Deacon has never heard of. Read More »

Dark Passion Rising by Shannan Albright

A worldwide rise in Breeds turning feral and attacking human females endangers peaceful coexistence among the Breeds and with humans, who for the time being remain unaware of their existence outside myth and fiction. Tambra Ellis is a Las Vegas cop who is attacked by a Lycan while tracking a perp. When it turns out that the Lycan that attacked her was a Pure Blood, Tambra is thrown into the center of a struggle for power and control between Lycans, Weres, Vampires, and other Breeds.
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That Thing at the Zoo by James R. Tuck

Deacon Chalk, Occult Bounty Hunter, gets called in by a detective to Zoo Atlanta to help determine who or what managed to heft a five-hundred-pound lion over the fence and up a tree, as well as take all of its blood. Firmly ensconced in his role as the go-to guy for the weird deaths in town, Deacon nonetheless finds himself puzzled by the condition of the remains, resulting in calling upon his team to help with research. Given the parameters, Deacon’s assistant Kate narrows the field of possibilities down. After the zoo closes, Deacon and Zookeeper Jimmy lie in wait for the creature, and get more than they bargained for. Read More »

Shifted Perceptions by Diana DeRicci

Gage and Rex are not gay, but the thought of sharing a woman turns them both on like nothing else. They share a deep friendship, and it’s been a while since one woman has stirred both of them—that is until Dali sneezes her way into Rex’s life through a mutual friend. One look at Dali and he knows Gage has to taste her. There’s something more: Rex and Gage are shifters, which makes relationships between them interesting, to say the least. Read More »

Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg

“On my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die face down in a cesspool. On that same occasion, my mother, will all the accompanying mystery and elevated language appropriate for a prominent diviner, turned her cards, screamed delicately, and proclaimed that my doom was written in water and blood and ice. As for me, from about that time and for the twenty years since, I had spat on my middle finger and slapped the rump of every aingerou I noticed, murmuring the sincerest, devoutest prayer that I might prove my parents’ predictions wrong. Not so much that I feared the doom itself-doom is just the hind end of living, after all-but to see the two who birthed me confounded.”
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Breath and Bone by Carol Berg

Breath and Bone starts where Flesh and Spirit finished: Valen contracted in service to the most feared of the three princes who are waging war for the throne. In this book, he also finds out why he is so different from the rest of his family. There is more found out about Osriel, the man who holds Valen’s contract and who is oft accused of working dark magic, and Sila Diaglou, an apocalyptic priestess whose followers have a tendency to lay waste to the countryside in order to “cleanse” it. The Danae also make a greater appearance in this book than they did in Flesh and Spirit. Read More »