Thought we’d start a new weekly topic here at fang, so you can be sure you’re not missing out on some of the most popular titles around.
Most popular books, across Fangtastic Fiction sites, for the week 19 July – 25 July.
Nicole Murphy: Secret Ones
Maggie Shaunessy is used to keeping secrets. She?s a fantastic teacher, but she?s also gadda, part of a hidden, powerful race – and she has a habit of annoying the wrong people.
Gail Carriger: Soulless
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there?
Gail Carriger: Changeless
Alexia Tarabotti, now Lady Maccon, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears – leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria.But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions and an arsenal of biting civility.
Deidre Knight: Red Demon
After assuming the power of life and death for the immortal Spartan brotherhood, Aristos Petrakos still hasn’t mastered his unpredictable, newfound abilities. And now a medium brings him a message from the other side—a romantic message Ari doesn’t want to hear…
Nalini Singh: Bonds of Justice
Max Shannon is a good cop, one of the best in New York Enforcement. Born with a natural shield that protects him against Psy mental invasions, he knows he has little chance of advancement within the Psy- dominated power structure. The last case he expects to be assigned to is that of a murderer targeting a Psy Councilor’s closest advisors. And the last woman he expects to compel him in the most sensual of ways is a Psy on the verge of catastrophic mental fracture.
Maya Banks: Wild
When Duncan finds an injured cheetah, questions about how she wound up in his mountains—and going after the poachers pursuing her—can wait. First he brings her home. Then he checks in on his patient, and finds not a cat, but a gorgeous, very naked woman.
Christine Johnson: Claire de Lune
Claire is having the perfect sixteenth birthday. Her pool party is a big success, and gorgeous Matthew keeps chatting and flirting with her as if she’s the only girl there. But that night, she discovers something that takes away all sense of normalcy: she’s a werewolf.
Sherrilyn Kenyon: Infinity
Teenager Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is renowned. But his whole world is suddenly turned upside down on the night his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters – immortal vampire-slayers who risk everything to save humanity – and he quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one that s filled with all kinds of evil. However, before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students start turning into flesh-eating members of the undead. Nick knows he s in real danger and he soon has a lot more to deal with than starting high school: he s under pressure to hide his new friends from his mother and his chainsaw from the principal while trying to impress the girl he has a crush on ? all without getting grounded, suspended…or killed.
Jenna Black: Devil’s Playground
Morgan Kingsley, a kick-ass exorcist, can deal with Lugh, the super-sexy demon living inside her, but does he have to moan softly during her intimate moments with her mortal lover? Understandably, Brian is reluctant to share the pleasures of Morgan’s flesh with a gorgeous rogue from the Demon Realm.
Colleen Gleason:As Shadows Fade
Directly descended from the very first vampire hunter in the Gardella family, Victoria knows she must continue the lineage so humanity will have protectors against the undead. While Sebastian Vioget appears to be both the perfect warrior and lover to ensure the Gardella legacy, Victoria cannot forget Max Pesaro—the former slayer still haunted by the vampire queen Lilith’s obsession with him.
| 11. | The Bookman | Lavie Tidhar |
| 12. | The Demon in Me | Rowen Michelle |
| 13. | Lion’s Heat | Leigh Lora |
| 14. | Lover Mine | J.R. Ward |
| 15. | An Original Sin | Nina Bangs |
| 16. | Moon Sworn | Keri Arthur |
| 17. | Spirit Bound | Richelle Mead |
| 18. | Black Magic Sanction | Kim Harrison |
| 19. | Dark Flame | Alyson Noel |
| 20. | Power and Majesty | Tansy Rayner Roberts |
We will be adding and changing our bookstore options overtime, as we still want to be able to support in dependant local bookstores, but we also understand that choice is important. With the changing landscape of book buying, and the increasing availability of eBooks in Australia and New Zealand we don’t want to limit your options, so if you have a independent bookstore to recommend (or if you run one and would like us to know about it) feel free to let us know. We certainly want people to be able to find their new favourite book at their new favourite local – as well as from larger bookstores.
