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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

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Weekly Most Popular 23-29 August

Monday, August 30th, 2010

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

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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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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

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Weekly Most Popular 16-22 August

Monday, August 23rd, 2010
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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
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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

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Weekly Most Popular 2 – 8 August

Monday, August 9th, 2010

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

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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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

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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

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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

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July Debut Novels

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Book Title: By Midnight
Ravenwood
# 1

Author: Mia James

April Dunne is not impressed.
She’s had to move from Edinburgh to Highgate, London, with her parents. She’s left her friends – and her entire life – behind. She has to start at a new school and, worst of all, now she’s stuck in a creepy old dump of a house which doesn’t even have proper mobile phone reception.
Ravenwood, her new school, is a prestigious academy for gifted (financially or academically) students – and the only place her parents could find her a place, in the middle of term, in the middle of London, on incredibly short notice. So she’s stuck with the super-rich, and the super-smart . . . and trying to fit in is when the rest of the students seem to be more glamorous, smarter, or more talented than she is, is more than tough. It’s intimidating and isolating, even when she finds a friend in the conspiracy-theorist Caro Jackson – and perhaps finds something more than friendship in the gorgeous, mysterious Gabriel Swift.
But there’s more going on at Ravenwood than meets the eye. Practical jokes on new students are normal, but when Gabriel saves her from . . . something . . . . in the Highgate Cemetery, and then she discovers that a murder took place, just yards away from where she had been standing, April has to wonder if something more sinister is going on.
. . . and whether or not she’s going to live through it . . .

Welcome to Ravenwood, the school with bite – the new YA sensation is here!

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Book Title: Secret Ones
Dream of Asarlai # 1

Author: Nicole Murphy

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 has a habit of annoying the wrong people.

Until Lucas Valeroso meets Maggie, he had no idea what awaited him: super-human powers, a smart and beautiful woman interested in more than unlocking his new abilities and, above all, a sense of belonging.

But dark ambition and dangerous bigotry are emerging in the gadda ranks. Lucas?s new family might cast him out before he?s even truly found his place. And Maggie must work with new allies to find and retrieve a missing artefact before the entire world is changed for all time.

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Book Title: Hunted by the Others

H&W Investigations # 1

Author: Jess Haines

They are the Others—the vampires, mages, and werewolves once thought to exist only in our imaginations. Now they’re stepping out of the shadows, and nothing in our world will ever be the same again…

In A Town Like This, Being A P.I. Can Be Murder

Shiarra Waynest’s detective work was dangerous enough when her client base was strictly mortal. But ailing finances have forced her to accept a lucrative case that could save her firm—if it doesn’t kill her first. Shiarra has signed on to work for a high-level mage to recover an ancient artifact owned by one of New York’s most powerful vampires.

As soon as Shiarra meets sexy, mesmerizing vamp Alec Royce, she knows her assignment is even more complicated than she thought. With a clandestine anti-Other group trying to recruit her, and magi being eliminated, Shiarra needs back-up and enlists her ex-boyfriend—a werewolf whose non-furry form is disarmingly appealing—and a nerdy mage with surprising talents. But it may not be enough. In a city where the undead roam, magic rules, and even the Others aren’t always what they seem, Shiarra has just become the secret weapon in a battle between good and evil—whether she likes it or not…

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Book Title: Claire de Lune

Author: Christine Johnson

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.

As Claire is initiated into the pack of female werewolves, she must deal not only with her changing identity, but also with a rogue werewolf who is putting everyone she knows in danger. Claire’s new life threatens her blossoming romance with Matthew, whose father is leading the werewolf hunt. Now burdened with a dark secret and pushing the boundaries of forbidden love, Claire is struggling to feel comfortable in either skin. With her lupine loyalty at odds with her human heart, she will make a choice that will change her forever?

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Something old and something new

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

It seems like every month we look at the upcoming releases and get REALLY excited, but it’s not our fault! The world of paranormal romance and urban fantasy has come so far in the last few years (heck, most book stores actually have a paranormal romance section these days!) so it’s easy to be excited about the fangtastic books that get released each month.

I’ve got two top picks for July that I just have to share (I got a sneak peak and now I’m like a kid on red jelly crystals).

If you’re an urban fantasy fan you’ve probably been following Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan series. Although, if you’re like me, the last couple have been good, but nowhere near as good as the first, so you’re looking at Black Magic Sanction and umming and ahhing as to whether it needs to be read immediately.

Let me say… yes… this book is a NEED, not a want! Kim Harrison has brought the story back to the same feel as the first book, with the characters a little older, a little wiser and the writing a little smoother (and more intense).

Kim Harrison could get blood out of a stone with a simple turn of phrase, so be warned, there is more of the emotional intensity that is to be found in her writing. More intense in some ways, but not dragged on. Although Black Magic Sanction isn’t quite as dark as some of the previous books; there’s a feeling of hope that things might, one-day, work out.

There is also the normal humour, action and danger, but less focus on analysing Rachel’s relationships.

Black Magic Sanction actually scored a much coveted five star review from me. This is intense, dark and gritty, urban fantasy at it’s most ‘in your face’.

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It’s well known that we at Fangtastic Fiction have a soft-spot for debut authors, but a little known fact is that we actually only rave about the books we have read and enjoyed!  Each month we try and let you know if there are any new authors releasing books, but we don’t tend to go further than that unless we’ve fallen in love with a story (and even WE don’t get a chance to read every book released!).

There is something particularly special when we discover a debut novel that’s good, of course it probably creates a level of anxiety for the author for the same reason… if book ONE is that good… how absolutely mind-blowing will book TWO be!

So let us introduce you to my other top pick for July- the debut novel ‘Secret Ones’ by Australian author Nicole Murphy.

The blurb to Secret Ones doesn’t really convey the beautiful softness of the novel, instead trying to fit it into the dark and gritty world of urban fantasy, which is just isn’t. Secret Ones  blends all that is good in a romance story with the adventure of a fantasy. Don’t misunderstand me, it’s not sugary sweet, but it doesn’t sink into the dark chasm of despair and emotional intensity that you often find in books marked as urban fantasy.

Of course, you don’t just need to take my four star review as the only proof, we’ve got an extract for you to read as well.

It’s the first in a series that promises to be perfect weekend curl up and read material. This is the sort of book that would go perfectly with that mmmmmm coffee moment. Sit back, relax, let Nicole Murphy entertain you.

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