Various Thoughts

Angel’s Blood is the first in a new series by Nalini Singh that focuses on vampires and angels. Vampires are created by angels in exchange for a hundred years of servitude, while the angels bear a slight resemblance to the ones in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage series. The main character is a Hunter, someone who captures and returns vampires who have tried to escape from their hundred-year contracts early, and the storyline follows her as she tracks an archangel-turned-vampire for the archangel Raphael. I liked this book quite a bit, although it’s not without its problems. The main two were that names sometimes get jumbled together, making it difficult to tell who is speaking in some sections of the book, and the attraction between Elena and Raphael seemed a bit unnatural and forced.

The second book in Kelley Armstrong’s The Darkest Powers series, the Awakening, feels notably different than the first. While the first focused more on the characters personalties and less on the supernatural, this one feels a lot like Lilith Saintcrow’s Strange Angels. The characters are still the focus, but it moves along better with clear sense of progress taking place. The first book felt mired in its location while this one expands the scope of the series and the universe in which it inhabits.

City of the Dead, Avenger, & the ReckoningCity of the Dead is the fourth book in the Ed Greenwood presents Waterdeep series, which I had initially skipped over and only learned about via its mention in The God Catcher. It would seem that was meant to be a sign. This is easily the worst book in the...

Archangel’s Kiss, Unknown, & Blood MagicArchangel’s Kiss is the second book in Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter series. The first, Angels’ Blood, was fantastic and unique enough that I ended up reading it somewhere around five times. This one has a distinctly different tone to it, which makes sense as everything was shaken up at the end...

Strange Angels & Eve of DarknessStrange Angels is the latest book from Lilith Saintcrow, though it seems she’s going by Lili St. Crow now. This marks her first foray into the ‘young adult’ genre, a genre which I’m starting to suspect has less to do with the target audience and more to do with the age...

Riley Jenson Guardian SeriesI ended up reading this series, by Keri Arthur, accidentally. I had ordered the seventh book of the series (Deadly Desires) without having realized it was the seventh book, I thought it was the first in a new series. So, once I found out that it wasn’t, I had to go and...

Swallowing Darkness & LegacySwallowing Darkness is the most recent addition to Laurell K. Hamilton‘s Meredith Gentry series, and interestingly enough, sort of feels like the last. While her Anita Blake series had been getting bogged down in its new-found focus on the sex lives of its characters, this series has more or less always been focused on...

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