Well, here we are again, friends. Another month of reading over and another one to look forward to. August has been a pretty good month. I visited family at the beginning of the month which slowed down my reading but was really nice. I read a few ARC’s this month as well and joined a new reading challenge in my book group on Goodreads. It’s a role playing strategy game based on the game Werewolf. So far it’s been a lot of fun!
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Brimstone Bound by Helen Harper
The first book in a new urban fantasy series set in London. As part of her training to become a detective, Emma Bellamy is assigned to the Supernatural Unit. On her very first night her partner goes missing and someone tries to kill her. Searching for her partner and would be killer leads her further into the supernatural world than she had any intention of going.
I found this one to be a bit slow in the beginning with all of the world building but I ended up freaking loving it! I love a good murder mystery with paranormal elements.
Get the book: Amazon US | Amazon UK
Nero Awakening by Keary Taylor
The third episode in Taylor’s Neron Rising Saga sees Nova enhancing her recently discovered abilities and deciding what to do next about Valen and the evil Cyrillius. This series is essentially a retelling of Rey and Kylo Ren from Star Wars and I freaking LOVE it.
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Athena’s Choice by Adam Boostrom
A dystopian world where all men were accidentally killed by a virus. Heck of a lot of potential with this one but it was just to tiresome to read.
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Kitty’s Mix Tape by Carrie Vaughn
A collection of short stories set in the world of Vaughn’s Kitty Norville series. Some of the stories were previously published in other collections and some were written for this one. This is the final instalment in the Kitty Norville series though not all of the stories follow her, some are even historical’s. I thoroughly enjoyed reading other character’s point of view and getting another look around the world.
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Fated by Rebecca Zanetti
Book One of Zanetti’s paranormal romance series, Dark Protectors. This is a brotherhood series similar to J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood which has a different romance in each book but follows an overarching storyline throughout the series. Serious Alpha Asshole possessive vibes going on in this one (pretty common with PNR to be fair) but I really enjoyed it anyway. The romance plot and suspense plot get equal attention which makes things a bit more interesting.
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The Other Half of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
This is a collection of blog posts Frost posted on her website of the first few chapters of Halfway to the Grave told from Bones’s point of view. I absolutely freaking loved reading what was going on inside his head when he met Cat and started training her. Halfway to the Grave follows Cat, a dhampire, on a mission to destroy as many vampires as possible when she comes across Bones who quickly opens her eyes to just how much she didn’t know.
Get the book: Available free on author’s blog
Blood Work by Kim Harrison
This is a prequel graphic novel to Harrison’s The Hollows series. The Hollows follows Rachel Morgan, a witch, and her scooby gang of supernaturals as they fight demons and try to save the world. It’s one of my favourite series though I wasn’t a fan of the first book. This prequel is from Ivy’s (Rachel’s best friend and room mate) point of view of their first meeting and first time working a case together. It was interesting to have a visualisation of the characters and of Ivy’s abilities.
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My Little Occult Book Club by Steven Rhodes
Very fun little creepy book. This is a horror parody of those old catalogues of children’s books. I loved the artwork, I wish I could get some of them as posters!
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I love periods of time where you like most of what you read, so congrats!
The templates are so cute, if I every make the jump to IG I know where to look for some quality looks ❤
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I love it when that happens too. Fingers crossed it will keep going!
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You get through a lot of books ! 😀
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I spend almost all of my evenings reading 😉
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Great list of books, and I love the templates! 💕
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Thank you 🙂
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Great post! I’m going to add Brimstone Bound and Fated to my tbr. They sound very appealing and I love Paranormal Romance!
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Awesome! I hope you enjoy them 🙂
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I love the Dark Protectors series. I just finished the Realm Enforcers series, which is an off-shoot of this series, and will be going on to book 8 in the DP series next. I have to say, there is a ton of Alpha Asshole vibes throughout, but the women get spunkier and sassier as the series progresses and always put the men in their place.
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The alpha asshole stuff annoys me sometimes but I have to remember the books are usually older and the leading ladies are usually able to wrangle them 😉 I’ll still always love these kinds of books!
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