So instead I decided to seek recommendations from the crowd! True I do not need a lot of new books as I have plenty. BUT sometimes I feel like reading something different. The past week or so I have been thinking paranormal.
I have read or listened to all of the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. I just checked and I have to wait until May for book #10 Dead in the Family.
I have also read or listened to all of the Rachel Morgan Hallows series by Kim Harrison. Looks like the newest, #8, Black Magic Sanctions, is coming out February 23 so I don't have too long to wait for that one. I hope it will be at Audible!
Then there is the Karen Chance
Cassandra Palmer series.
I have read or listened to those so far too.
Book #5 isn't due out until Summer 2011
so I'll be waiting a while for that one.
Touch the Dark is Book #1.
I enjoyed Red Fire by Deidre Knight and I have Red Kiss and also Parallel Attraction to read.
So do you see a pattern here? I like my paranormals in series it seems! Now lets look for something a bit different --- how about a good werewolf book? Or a good Dragon Shapshifter - I haven't read too many of those and think I'd like them. Or other shifters too.
I'm looking for more choices and need your help!
What books would you like to recommend for me to look at when I really need a different paranormal read?
Hi, Suzanne! "Up on the Housetop" sounds like a great, smokin' hot read! A paranormal romance with an unusual twist is "Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake" by Laurie Brown: A modern career woman is thrust back in time into the glittering Regency period and the arms of an unscrupulous rake. Josephine Drummond is a professional paranormal researcher (aka, a ghostbuster) hired to prove that the ghost of Lord Deverell Thornton, the very handsome Earl and a notorious rake in his time, haunts the crumbling Waite Castle. But the ghost drags Josephine back to the Regency period to help him try to prevent the swindle that impoverished the Earl and threatens to turn his castle into a most undignified
ReplyDeletemodern-day tourist attraction. Josephine has to contend with being a modern career woman trying to navigate the complex social scene of the Regency period, make sure no one discovers her real identity and unmask a charlatan. But all of these are easier than resisting her undeniable attraction to the Earl, who is clearly determined to sweep her off her feet. Very good read!
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I've read a few paranormal stories, though they are not my preferred genre. I enjoy those ghost stories where the ghosts fall for the new owner of the house, and the ghost isn't vindictive or anything, just lonely. Am I making sense? BTW, love the story you're sticking to regarding the forgotten post. :D
ReplyDeleteNot until May for the next Sookie Stackhouse? Ah man. I recommend "Afterthoughts" and "Left in the Dark" by Lynn Tincher and "Scribbles" by Tommie Lyn.
ReplyDeleteI don't read Paranormal, except when a friend writes one. Does Time Travel fall under Paranormal? If it does, read Bess McBride's "A Train Through Time." Bess has written five books for The Wild Rose Press, and I believe every one of them has received five somethings--she's very good--writes "for the shy girl in all of us." That's my recommendation. Celia
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorites is the oldie, but goodie: She by H. Rider Haggard. It's the story of Ayesha, "She who must be obeyed," the mysterious white queen of an African tribe. The author drew on an ancient legend to write the book.
ReplyDeleteI first read it in seventh or eighth grade and have reread it many times.
Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series, Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld series, and Gena Showalter's Atlantis series (that one has Dragon shifters)
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Hi Martha!
ReplyDeleteI love Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series and have heard great things about Suzanne Collins. Ms. Collins is up next on my TBB list.
If you like shape shifter stories, Terry Spear's werewolf series are divine. :)
Terry Spear: Heart of a Wolf, Destiny of the Wolf. To Tempt a Wolf, Legend of the White Wolf. You don't have to read these an any order. They're stand alone books. She's also written a vampire story. I think it may be a start of a series. It's called Deadly Liaisons.
ReplyDeleteKendra Leigh Castle: Call of the Highland Moon, Dark Highland Fire, Wild Highland Magic(my favorite)
Cynthia Eden: Hotter after Midnight. She has many more books, but this is the only one I've read so far.
If you don't mind young adult, I just read Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick (Fallen Angels.) I really enjoyed this one. Very quick read.
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. A great start to a paranormal series that has it all.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know if you have read it yet but I would recommend Maggie Steifvater's Shiver. It's a werewolf book but with a twist. It's one of my fav all time books! It's the first of the Wolves Of Mercy Fall trilogy. The sequel Linger is coming out in July.
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I love Christine Feehan's Dark Series, J.R. Ward's Blackdagger Brotherhood, Angela Knight's Mageverse Series, Lora Leigh's Breed Series and Christine Warren's Others Series to name a few.
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Patricia Briggs'? books are great, I love her werewolves series! And First Drop of Crimson seems like a good vamp book..
ReplyDeleteThis isn't a genre I read...but I have read some good reviews of this werewolf series by Terry Spear. Legend of the White Wolf might be a good alternative for you.
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I love this genre. I love the Sookie books
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorite genres to read!
ReplyDeleteI suggest reading the Vampire Huntress series by L.A. Banks, the Guardian of Eternity series by Alexandra Ivy, the Dragon and The Dark One series by Katie MacAlister, the Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian, the Morgan Kingsley series by Jenna Black, the Love at Stake series by Kerrelyn Sparks, the Argeneau and Rogue Hunter series by Lynsay Sands and the Companion series by Susan Squires.
There are alot more I would suggest but I think that is enough for now!
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I don't read a lot of paranormal but I do like Katie MacAlister's Aisling Grey Series.
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