Posts Tagged ‘Gail Carriger’

Weekly Most Popular 30 Aug- 5 Sep

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Most popular books, across Fangtastic Fiction sites, for the week 30 August – 5 September

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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
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Darklight    Lesley Livingston

Darklight In this sequel to Wondrous Strange, Kelley Winslow finds her NYC acting career blossoming as she takes the lead in Romeo and Juliet. But she also finds herself desperately missing Sonny Flannery—who was forced back to the F … 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
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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

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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

6. Demon from the Dark   Kresley Cole
7. No Mercy   Sherrilyn Kenyon
8. Unholy Ghosts   Stacia Kane
9. Shadow Chase   Seressia Glass
10. Burnt Snow   Van Badham

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
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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

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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

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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

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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
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

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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
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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

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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
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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

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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
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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
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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
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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

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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.
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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. Where to go from there?
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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.

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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 26 July – 1 August

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Most popular books, across Fangtastic Fiction sites, for the week 26 July – 1 August

1.   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.
2.   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.

3.   Red Demon Deidre Knight
  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…
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.
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.
6.   Would-Be Witch Kimberly Frost
  Would-Be Witch In the small town of Duvall, Texas, the only thing more troublesome than gossip—is magic.
7.   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.
8.   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 Morgan’s flesh with a gorgeous rogue from the Demon Realm.
9.   Bonds of Justice Nalini Singh
  Bonds of JusticeMax 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.
10.   Soulless Gail Carriger
  SoullessAlexia 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?
11. Changeless Gail Carriger
12. Moonshine Alaya Johnson
13. Lover Mine J.R. Ward
14. Power and Majesty Rayner Roberts, Tansy
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

Weekly Most Popular 19 July – 25 July

Monday, July 26th, 2010

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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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…
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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

Review: Soulless by Gail Carriger

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Book Title: Soulless

The Parasol Protectorate # 1

Author: Gail Carriger

Such an incredibly delightful book from a debut author!

Our heroine Alexia Tarabotti is a witty and capable young spinster of the aristocracy. A touch of caricature of a stubborn and rebellious young lady of the ton, so used to being disregarded by her family because of her unusual looks and ‘forthright’ manner. But you just can’t help but smirk your way through her antics.

Regardless, their presence forced her to pretend that she, too, had just discovered the dead vampire. With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint.

Our hero Lord Maccon, is a rather domineering werewolf who has more than met his match. Again, we have a touch of the typical werewolf alpha character. But despite some of the predictably of the characters, there isn’t nothing predictable about the story. What we end up with is very comfortable characters that we can instantly relate to (and like), in a situation with lots of nice (and not so nice) surprises.

The two werewolves exited the duke’s town house into the black London night, one bearing the body of a dead vampire, the other, a puzzled expression.

In the side lines we have those ever efficient gentlemen, the butler Floote and the Professor Lyall, both of whom are able to manipulate these most stubborn of creatures into a wonderful story.

There are a few bits of slow down, where the jokes just don’t quite get pulled off, and the action has slowed down, so what we’re left with is filler conversation while we segue to the next neat bit of writing.

Our virginal Miss Tarabotti doesn’t get too much opportunity for tantalising innuendo, but somehow she manages to turn a prim and proper attitude into a devious undertone. However, I still fear that my mind is still filthier.

The Earl of Woolsey was indeed completely nude. He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact, but Miss Tarabotti felt the sudden need to close her eyes tight and thing about asparagus or something equally mundane.

Sadly, in the presence of a naked Earl of Woosley, that most handsome of rugged Earls, I do not think that thinking of asparagus would assist in cooling the blood and inspiring a clear head.

Overall, this is just so much fun to read. The story really does wonderful things for your laugh line development, and the characters are all just ‘quirky’. It’s light, easy to read, and we even get a few ‘warm’ moments. It’s a perfect quick read when you just want to shut the rest of the world out and enjoy yourself.

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