Dare (Pixieland Diaries #3)
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***BEWARE*** If you don’t like pixies, then don’t read this diary. Also, if you don’t...
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Radiant Shadows (Wicked Lovely, #4)
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Half-human and half-faery, Ani is driven by her hungers. Those same appetites also attract...
faeries
Rowan Wood Legends (The Lost Clan #2)
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SOME LEGENDS ARE BETTER LEFT UNTOLD. I wasn’t the sort of girl who believed in fairytales, let...
David McK (3728 KP) rated A Court of Thorns and Roses in Books
Jun 29, 2025
A mix of Romance and Fantasy.
Not a genre I'm familiar with, nor one that - to be honest - really holds all that much appeals to me. However, I still thought I would give this a go, mainly out of curiosity.
This is the first in Sarah J Maas's 'Court of Thorns and Roses' series, set in a not-too-dissimilar world to our except where fairies (and not necessarily the Tinkerbell, happy-go-lucky type) are real, and in which - after killing one such who was in shapeshifted wolf form to feed her starving family - Feyre is dragged across the wall (which is the dividing line between their world and ours) to the faerie realm, where things prove not at all to be what she expected.
I can say I've read it now.
I *may* read some more of the series, but not in any rush to do so.
Magical Dimensions Oracle Cards and Activators
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Awaken your intuition and receive guidance and wisdom from the Angelic, Elemental and Faerie, and...
Shadow of the Swan
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A determined academic, trapped by her ancestor’s pact. A gentleman vampire, sworn to protect her....
Historical Paranormal Romance
Changeling (Outcast Mates #2)
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Dominus—an incubus who runs a brothel called The Twig & Berries—is bored with his life and...
MM Historical Paranormal Romance
Cynthia Armistead (17 KP) rated Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10) in Books
Feb 23, 2018
As the GoodReads synopsis suggests, there are plenty of subplots that should keep a long-time reader busy, but I found most of them boring.
Jason has settled down with a decent-seeming woman - that's good. And he actually seems to be willing to stand by his sister when she needs him, which is even better--without being asked, without so much as a reminder! Will wonders ever cease? (That one example says so much about why I prefer the books to the televised version.)
Otherwise, though, Eric's maker has shown up with a "brother" for Eric - one who is utterly dysfunctional. If this maker were as powerful and decisive as we are told he is, why hasn't he already taken care of business and put the "brother" down? Why bring him to Eric, as if he needs Eric's help to do the deed? That's completely backwards for this (or any other) vampire mythos. If a younger vampire couldn't handle one of his offspring, he might bring that one to his sire for help or judgment. Now, knowing Eric, and how very proud he is - his sire <b>must</b> know him very deeply, and must know that asking Eric for help will lose Eric's respect completely. How could he possibly lower himself to do that?
I'm more willing to believe that Sookie is having problems with her experiences during the Faerie "war" - why doesn't anybody else ever have PTSD in paranormal romance or urban fantasy books? Her "cure" comes WAY too easily, but it is a fantasy.
Some of a faerie relative's "explanation" for his behavior simply doesn't jive with what we've been told in prior books. Maybe the person in charge of continuity lost his or her job. Maybe Harris is tired of the series. Who knows?
Some of the little details left me befuddled. Bill dated who and now reveals he's her what? Why do crosses hurt vampires, but Bibles don't?
Maybe this book should be left for the diehard Sookie fans. I don't think I count as one.
David McK (3728 KP) rated Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10) in Books
Apr 18, 2021
I think it's fair to say that one of the defining characteristics of this novel is the notion of family, and of friendship: when does one stop, and the other start? As it relies on previous events and (some) knowledge of the characters involved, this isn't really a good jumping-on point for anybody new to the series. For those who have read the previous, I actually felt this was one of the weaker novels: I just couldn't really get into this one as much as some of the others (but, without saying more, also think it will be interesting to see how Michael's role in the series progresses ...).
imPerfect Fae (The imPerfect Cathar #3)
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Body-jacking a legendary assassin when I’m running on empty. No problem, right? After the last...
Dark Humour Supernatural Mystery