Archive for August, 2010

Weekly Most Popular 23-29 August

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Most popular books, across Fangtastic Fiction sites, for the week 23 August – 29 August

1.

Blameless Gail Carriger

Blameless Quitting her husband’s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, u … Read More
2.

13 to Life Shannon Delany

13 to Life Something strange is stalking the small town of Junction…

When junior Jess Gillmansen gets called out of class by Guidance, she can only presume it’s for one of two reasons. Either they’v … Read More

3.

Unholy Magic Stacia Kane

Unholy Magic The second book in this edgy urban fantasy trilogy.

Chess is a fiercely independent witch and talented Debunker — working for the Church of Real Truth to exorcise ghosts and expose human liars. But she has a dark little secret that is c … Read More

4.

Secret Ones Nicole Murphy

Secret Ones She?s from an ancient clan. He has no family. Can they save the world … together?

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 … Read More

5.

Soulless 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. … Read More
6. Death Most Definite Trent Jamieson
7. Lover Mine J.R. Ward
8. Caleb Sarah McCarty
9. The Red Thread Dawn Farnham
10. Changeless Gail Carriger

Weekly Most Popular 16-22 August

Monday, August 23rd, 2010
1.

The Red Thread   Dawn Farnham

The Red Thread Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is, by turns, gentle and strong, exploring a love that breaks through the divide of race and culture, a love that is both deeply physical and a marriage of souls.

Set against the … Read More

2.

Devil’s Playground   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 Morga … Read More
3.

Secret Ones   Nicole Murphy

Secret Ones She?s from an ancient clan. He has no family. Can they save the world … together?

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 … Read More

4.

Moon Sworn   Keri Arthur

Moon Sworn A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson works for Melbourne s Directorate of Other Races, an organisation created to police the supernatural races – and protect humans from their depredations. More werewolf than vampire, Riley is vulnerab … Read More
5.

Black Magic Sanction   Kim Harrison

Black Magic Sanction Having barely escaped being skewered by the criminal vampire overlord of Cinncinati, Rachel now has even bigger problems to contend with.

The demon, Algaliarept, although banished back into the everafter has infected others of his kind wi … Read More

6.

Red Demon   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 o … Read More

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Soulless   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. … Read More
8.

Bonds of Justice   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 … Read More
9.

Unholy Ghosts   Stacia Kane

Unholy Ghosts The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen and constantly attack the living. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Consequently, there a … Read More
10.

Jealousy   Lili St. Crow

Jealousy Love is a battlefield.

Just when Dru thought she was safe, everything exploded her face. Her mom and dad are long gone, her protectors Graves and Christophe kinda want to rip each other’s throats out, and a four-hundred-year-o … Read More

11. Halo   Alexandra Adornetto
12. Lover Mine   J.R. Ward
13. As Shadows Fade   Colleen Gleason
14. Changeless   Gail Carriger
15. Claire de Lune   Christine Johnson
16. My Soul to Keep   Sharie Kohler
17. No Mercy   Sherrilyn Kenyon
18. Tsunami Blue   Gayle Ann Williams
19. An Original Sin   Nina Bangs
20. Silver Borne   Patricia Briggs

Weekly Most Popular 9-15 August

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Most popular books, across Fangtastic Fiction sites, for the week 9 August – 15 August

1.

Lover Mine J.R. Ward

Lover Mine John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown to himself and to those around him. After he was taken in by the Brotherhood, no one could guess what his true history was- or his true identity. Indeed, the fallen Brother Darius has returned, but with a different face and a very different destiny. As a vicious personal vendetta takes John into the heart of the war, he will need to call up on both who he is now and who he once was in order to face off against evil incarnate.
2.

Halo Alexandra Adornetto

Halo Nothing much happens in the sleepy town of Venus Cove. But everything changes when three angels, Ivy, Bethany and Gabriel are sent from heaven to protect the town against the gathering forces of darkness…But the mission is threatened when the youngest angel, Bethany, is sent to high school and falls for the handsome school captain, Xavier Woods…Things come to a head when the angels realize they are not the only supernatural power in Venus Cove. There’s a new kid in town and he’s charming, seductive and deadly. Worst of all, he’s after Beth.
3.

Jealousy Lili St. Crow

Book Title: Jealousy Love is a battlefield.

Just when Dru thought she was safe, everything exploded her face. Her mom and dad are long gone, her protectors Graves and Christophe kinda want to rip each other’s throats out, and a four-hundred-year-old nosferat named Sergej won’t stop hunting her until his bloodthirsty army of suckers has torn her to shreds.

4.

Unholy Ghosts Stacia Kane

Unholy Ghosts The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen and constantly attack the living….Enter Chess Putnam, a fully-tattooed witch and freewheeling Debunker and ghost hunter. She’s got a real talent for nailing the human liars or banishing the wicked dead. But she’s keeping a dark secret from the Church: a little drug problem that’s landed her in hot and dangerous water. Chess owes a murderous drug lord named Bump a lot of money. And Bump wants immediate payback. All Chess has to do is dispatch a very nasty species of undead from an old airport. But the job involves black magic, human sacrifice, a nefarious demonic creature, and crossing swords with enough wicked energy to wipe out a city of souls. Toss in lust with a rival gang leader and a dangerous attraction to Bump’s ruthless enforcer, and Chess begins to wonder if the rush is really worth it. Hell, yeah.
5.

Warrior Ascended Addison Fox

Warrior Ascended First in a dark and sexy paranormal romance series starring the immortal warriors of the zodiac

Charming, proud, and impulsive, Leo Warrior Brody Talbot is fighting what may be his final battle. Enyo, the Goddess of War, plans to fulfill an ancient prophecy to destroy humanity by harnessing the dark power of the Summoning Stones of Egypt. There’s only one person who knows enough about the stones to help Brody stop her-beautiful museum curator Ava Harrison.

6.

Black Magic Sanction Kim Harrison

Black Magic Sanction Having barely escaped being skewered by the criminal vampire overlord of Cinncinati, Rachel now has even bigger problems to contend with.
7.

No Mercy Sherrilyn Kenyon

No Mercy Shapeshifter Dev Peltier thought he knew it all. But one night when a Dark-Hunter, who is also an official member of the Dogs of War, sashays into his bar, he realises that he might have met his match. Samia, aka Sam, was one the fiercest Amazon warriors in her tribe. But an act of brutal betrayal made her a Dark-Hunter and she’s been angry ever since.
8.

Soulless 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?
9.

Shadow Chase Seressia Glass

Shadow Chase In a job like this, one mistake can cost you everything.

As a Shadowchaser, Kira Solomon has been trained to serve the Light, dispatch the Fallen, and prevent the spread of chaos. It’s a deadly job, and Kira knows the horror of spilling innocent blood. But now she has a new role, as the Hand of Ma’at, the Egyptian Goddess of Truth and Order, and an assignment that might just redeem her.

10.

Nights Cold Kiss Tracey O’Hara

Nights Cold Kiss Since witnessing the murder of her mother, Antoinette Petrescu has burned with fiery hatred for the vampire race—even for Christian Laroque, the noble, dangerously handsome Aeternus who rescued her. Now an elite Venator, Antoinette must reluctantly accept Christian’s help to achieve her vengeance—even as he plots to use the beautiful, unsuspecting warrior as bait to draw out the bloodthirsty dreniacs.
11. Secret Ones Nicole Murphy
12. Darkest Edge of Dawn Kelly Gay
13. The Red Thread Dawn Farnham
14. Moon Sworn Keri Arthur
15. As Shadows Fade Colleen Gleason
16. Red Demon Deidre Knight
17. Bonds of Justice Nalini Singh
18. Claire de Lune Christine Johnson
19. Guardian of the Dead Karen Healey
20. My Soul to Keep Sharie Kohler

Weekly Most Popular 2 – 8 August

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Most popular books, across Fangtastic Fiction sites, for the week 2 August – 8 August

1.

Unholy Ghosts Stacia Kane

Unholy Ghosts The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen and constantly attack the living….Enter Chess Putnam, a fully-tattooed witch and freewheeling Debunker and ghost hunter. She’s got a real talent for nailing the human liars or banishing the wicked dead. But she’s keeping a dark secret from the Church: a little drug problem that’s landed her in hot and dangerous water. Chess owes a murderous drug lord named Bump a lot of money. And Bump wants immediate payback. All Chess has to do is dispatch a very nasty species of undead from an old airport. But the job involves black magic, human sacrifice, a nefarious demonic creature, and crossing swords with enough wicked energy to wipe out a city of souls. Toss in lust with a rival gang leader and a dangerous attraction to Bump?s ruthless enforcer, and Chess begins to wonder if the rush is really worth it. Hell, yeah.
2.

Lover Mine J.R. Ward

Lover Mine John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown to himself and to those around him. After he was taken in by the Brotherhood, no one could guess what his true history was- or his true identity. Indeed, the fallen Brother Darius has returned, but with a different face and a very different destiny. As a vicious personal vendetta takes John into the heart of the war, he will need to call up on both who he is now and who he once was in order to face off against evil incarnate.
3.

Secret Ones Nicole Murphy

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.
4.

Black Magic Sanction Kim Harrison

Black Magic Sanction Having barely escaped being skewered by the criminal vampire overlord of Cinncinati, Rachel now has even bigger problems to contend with.
5.

Moon Sworn Keri Arthur

Moon Sworn A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson works for Melbourne’s Directorate of Other Races, an organisation created to police the supernatural races – and protect humans from their depredations.
6.

As Shadows Fade 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.
7.

Bonds of Justice 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.
8.

No Mercy Sherrilyn Kenyon

No Mercy Shapeshifter Dev Peltier thought he knew it all. But one night when a Dark-Hunter, who is also an official member of the Dogs of War, sashays into his bar, he realises that he might have met his match. Samia, aka Sam, was one the fiercest Amazon warriors in her tribe. But an act of brutal betrayal made her a Dark-Hunter and she’s been angry ever since.
9.

Halo Alexandra Adornetto

Halo Nothing much happens in the sleepy town of Venus Cove. But everything changes when three angels, Ivy, Bethany and Gabriel are sent from heaven to protect the town against the gathering forces of darkness…But the mission is threatened when the youngest angel, Bethany, is sent to high school and falls for the handsome school captain, Xavier Woods…Things come to a head when the angels realize they are not the only supernatural power in Venus Cove. There’s a new kid in town and he’s charming, seductive and deadly. Worst of all, he’s after Beth.
10.

Claire de Lune Christine Johnson

Claire de Lune Torn between two destinies?

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.

11. Changeless Gail Carriger
12. Moonshine Alaya Johnson
13. Lover Mine J.R. Ward
14. Power and Majesty Tansy Rayner Roberts
15. Lion’s Heat Leigh Lora
16. An Original Sin Nina Bangs
17. No Mercy Sherrilyn Kenyon
18. Spirit Bound Richelle Mead
19. The Demon in Me Rowen Michelle
20. Silver Borne Patricia Briggs

Chat Night! Sex and the SF Writer with Kim Falconer

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

We are so incrediably excited – Tuesday 10th August is our first ever chat in our brand new shiny chat room!

AND it’s with the incredably lovely Kim Falconer!!

The intention of our Fangtastic chat room is to create a place where visiting authors can answer your questions, discuss their books and generally have fun with topics about writing.

Our first ‘themed’ topic is “Blood Honey Sex Magic: Sex and the SF Fantasy writer”. If you’re visiting Fangbooks, we’re pretty sure you’ve got an opinion – so come along and share your thoughts, ideas and opinions (and you get to ask Kim all sorts of interesting questions too!)

Kim Falconer: Blood Sugar Sex Magic


Tuesday, August 10
8pm – 9pm (Sydney Time)

Feel free to leave questions in the comments section and we’ll make sure that Kim has a chance to answer them on the night.

Our chat room is open 24hours if you just want to pop in and see how it all works – but is only ‘manned’ when a chat is on.