Goodness, it's been a while since I posted here. I just started doing my next 50 books challenge, after a bit of a hiatus, and in so doing discovered a bunch of books I never wrote up from last time, and am slowly trying to plough through them ( Read more... )

9) Blood Pressure by Terence Taylor

It's sequel to Taylor's excellent vampire/zombie novel Bite Marks, and I believe it's book 2 of what will eventually be a trilogy. It jumps the action 20 years ahead, from the 1986 New York of the original novel to Summer 2007. Taylor is fantastic at grounding his story in that particular sense of time and ( Read more... )

#7: The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez.

( The Gilda Stories )

46. Terence Taylor, Bite Marks: A Vampire TestamentOn Christmas Eve, in Times Square in the mid 1980s, a hooker named Nina is violently murdered by a vampire. Just before she dies, she manages to turn her small infant into a vampire itself to give it a chance to survive. Now everyone's trying to find that baby: the Veil, a secret government of ( Read more... )

3. Cynthia Leitich Smith, Tantalize.
4. Cynthia Leitich Smith, Eternal.

Both novels are set in the same world, but Eternal is a prequel to Tantalize. Even though the two books don't share any cast members in common, the sequence would have been nice to know going in: what happens to the Eternal cast sets up the possibilities established for the ( Read more... )

#27: Drew Hayden Taylor, The Night WandererTiffany Hunter has a lot of typical teenager problems: her dad hates her white boyfriend and thinks Tiffany should study more, her boyfriend's friends seem uncomfortable with her because she's Native, and her mom took off with another guy. She longs to be older and to be able to leave boring Otter Lake ( Read more... )

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Butler, Octavia. Fledgling

in short:The story of Shori a young genetically-engineered vampire with no memories of her past looking for family, answers, and justice.

in which it is all about me: So I have a back-log of other books to write up before this one, but I don't care ( Read more... )

Happy Hour at Casa Dracula, by Marta Acosta, is a fun vampire/romance/comedy. Actually, I kind of hate to call it a romance because there is nothing of the explicit sex in this one (though some characters do, thankfully, get it on). Basically, if you are on a smut mission, this is not the book you are looking for. However, it IS clever and ( Read more... )