Tagged with paranormal fiction
Clockwork Prince
Before I get into my review I need to whine about a weird glitch in NYPL's hold request system. I had a copy of Clockwork Prince checked out from Seward Park, which has a great teen section, btw, and sadly it came due before I was finished. The library system holds 67 copies of the book and is currently listing 27 available, which is probably similar to the number that were available when I attempted to renew the copy I had checked out. I say "attempted" to renew, because the system wouldn't let me. Since there were two or so holds on the book at the time, I was unable to renew the copy I had in hand, even though there were at least twenty copies on shelves in NYPL's circulating collection, including another copy at Seward Park. In order to continue reading the book, I returned the copy I couldn't renew to Seward Park and picked up their other copy, which was right on the shelf where it was supposed to be. Wtf, NYPL?
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Vampire Shrink, the
It might be time for me to stop reading so much romancey paranormal fiction. I'm becoming impatient with the bad writing. I just tried to get into a literary novel, and I couldn't, so I guess I just have to be choosier about the genre fiction I pick up. So yeah, The Vampire Shrink, while not terrible, tempted me to put it down on several occasions.
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City of Fallen Angels
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Alpha and Omega, in On the Prowl
"Alpha and Omega" is the first in this collection of paranormal romance novellas, and the only one I cared for. I could get into "Inhuman" and "Mona Lisa Betwining" at all, but I did read about half of "Buying Trouble" before giving up. A & O, while yeah, a romance, has more going for it than just kissery. The protagonist is a semi-recent wolf whose pack hasn't done right by her, and as it turns out has been behaving badly enough to attract the attention of the head werewolf in charge, who sends his hunky Flathead tribe son to bust some heads.
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City of Glass
Much the same as City of Bones and City of Ashes, but with more incest, City of Glass is compelling and an excellent companion for international travel.
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Succubus Blues
The best thing about this first entry in a paranormal fiction series is that the sympathetic characters are evil. The succubus, imp, vampires and demons have one angel in their posse, but the titular character doesn't think much of him. The others like the angel okay, but mostly because he's a drinking buddy.
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Perfect Blood, a
Books in the Hollows series are always compelling. In this latest entry, though, I felt like someone had told the author that she needed to work on the romance angle, so there's a half-hearted, poorly executed push-pull between our heroine, the witch demon and the elf who has been her nemesis since the first book, if I remember correctly. I do like that Rachel's love interests are always flawed, in a way that can't be brushed aside.
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Shattered Moon
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River Marked
The Mercedes Thompson series may have joined the paranormal romance genre as Mercy joined with Alpha werewolf Adam Hauptman and took his name. Ugh. Really? I know there are lots of good reasons women take their husbands names, and I don't mean to diss them, but I just don't see this bad ass coyote shapeshifter auto mechanic having a drive to do so. Plus she's part American Indian, and aren't most tribes matrilineal?