Various Thoughts

The eighth Morganville Vampires installment, Kiss of Death, moves the story out of Morganville for a change as the main characters take a roadtrip to Dallas so that Michael can do some live recording for a record label. The trip ends up filled with hazardous situations and they all end up back in Morganville short Morley’s group of vampires. So, now, I think that wraps up all loose ends except for the memory-erasing barrier around the town having been destroyed.

Deathwish and Roadkill are books four and five of Rob Thurman‘s Cal Leandros series. The former deals with the eradication of the last twenty or so surviving Auphe; tying up their storyline and revealing a bit of Promise’s backstory. The latter serves to reintroduce Rafferty and has most of the main characters going on a roadtrip to catch a deadly gypsy plague-bearer who threatens the end of the world; it concludes Rafferty’s story, advances the Cal/Delilah and Robin/Ishiah romances, and puts a cap on Cal’s gating ability.

Nightlife, Moonshine, & MadhouseThe first three books in Rob Thurman‘s Cal Leandros series are somewhat similar to Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series. Mainly in the way they start off so-so with questionably likable characters and grow on you over time. The best part of the first book is Darkling. By far. Niko is a health nut,...

Lord of Misrule and UndoneLord of Misrule is the fifth book in Rachel Caine‘s Morganville Vampire series. This series is notable for one major reason; it plays out like a TV series with an overarching storyline. Like 24 or Lost, each book begins in the middle of things, and ends in the middle of...

Twilight, New Moon, & EclipseThe Twilight series, by Stephenie Meyer, took me somewhat by surprise. I had expected something similar to the Cast’s House of Night series based off of Amazon‘s description… but it turned out to be like a more serious version of Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampire series. The books are told from...

Red-Headed Stepchild, Unholy, and Allie BeckstromRed-Headed Stepchild, by Jaye Wells, is about a half-vampire half-mage assassin who was brought up as a vampire and told that the mage side of her family disowned her. Only to find out down the line that her grandmother has been lying to her her whole life and actually hates...

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...

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