This Chick Read: Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare

Lady Midnight is the first novel in the Dark Artifices series, which follows Emma Carstairs and her parabatai Julian Blackthorn of the LA Institute.  We were introduced to the Blackthorns, and Emma in the City of Heavenly Fire.  As children, they watched their parents fall to Sebastian’s evil machinations, leaving Julian, at twelve years old, to raise his four younger siblings.  Even though Julian and Emma are only 17 in this book, it feels much more adult because they were forced to be parents to his brothers and sisters. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare”

This Chick Read: Wicked Burn (Realm Enforcers #3) by Rebecca Zanetti

Rebecca Zanetti’s bio on Amazon says she wasn’t finished with the Dark Protectors series, so she created the Realm Enforces series, to continue some of these characters storylines. Thank Goodness for that! Zanetti created a world in the Dark Protectors series that had good Vampires and bad Vampires, a war, some psychics, shifters and witches, OH My!  I, along with the rest of the paranormal loving, reader universe ate these books up, Continue reading “This Chick Read: Wicked Burn (Realm Enforcers #3) by Rebecca Zanetti”

This Chick Read: The Undoing (Call of Crows) by Shelly Laurenston

Shelly Laurenston is a paranormal romance author, whose past books feature men and women who turn into lions and tigers and bears, oh my!  As a fan of paranormal romances, one of my biggest pet peeves is a shifter romance that makes the story only about the romance.  Because it’s not weird enough that we are reading books about wolves and panthers having relationships (insert “sex” here), right?  Ms. Laurenston writes exactly those kind of books!  BUT, the difference is that the story actually has a plot, other than the main characters relationship, although, don’t get me wrong, it’s a big part of it.   Continue reading “This Chick Read: The Undoing (Call of Crows) by Shelly Laurenston”

This Chick Read: All the Broken Places by Anise Eden

On the surface, All the Broken Places seems to be a paranormal romance, and it certainly has those elements.  The romance was key, but, I think the bigger story was Cate’s involvement with the MacGregor Group, and finding a place that she would fit in.  This book was about how our insecurities Continue reading “This Chick Read: All the Broken Places by Anise Eden”

This Chick Read: Firelight by Kristen Callihan

As you all know from my previous blog This Chick Read: Kristen Callihan’s The Game On series, I really enjoyed Kristen Callihan‘s style of writing.  She has a great gift for character development and yep, ok, I’ll admit, she writes great love scenes!   Continue reading “This Chick Read: Firelight by Kristen Callihan”