March 2007
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The Society - Lilith Saintcrow
The Society - Lilith Saintcrow A young woman is more than a bit different. In fact, she has psionic abilities. This makes her of interest to two groups, the government Sigma agency, and a group of underground psionicists called The Society, that want to prevent such people being used as government tools for spook operations, etc.
Of course, the society is set up like a covert agency themselves,...
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Shadow Game - Christine Feehan
Shadow Game - Christine Feehan While this is considerably better than that Dark rubbish, a large part of it is still eye-rolling cornball with not a lot happening except for the two main characters having the telepathic horn for each other and shagging a lot.
A professor disappears, and his daughter is brought into the picture of his psionic research project. He had been making psychic soldiers,...
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If Angels Burn - Lynn Viehl
If Angels Burn - Lynn Viehl Yes, it seems vampires get sloppy with their spelling over the centuries to come up with a silly name for themselves.
A plastic surgeon is tapped by one of them to help out in the way plastic surgeons do, for someone that is in a bad way.
Female doctor, male head vampire, biting, bleeding, eventual shagging, you get the picture.
Doctor thinks the whole condition,...
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Fantasy Lover - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fantasy Lover - Sherrilyn Kenyon A Macedonian warrior apparently ran afoul of the usual nogoodnik Greek godlings. As such, his curse is basically to hang out in limbo until the next airhead woman that wants a sex toy learns how to summon him.
This one, a bit more shy and retiring than the ones that just want to be shagged immediately, wants to find out what his story is, first. As he says, it...
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Beyond the Pale - Savannah Russe
Beyond the Pale - Savannah Russe A covert government agency makes a vampire woman an offer she can’t refuse. Work for them, or don’t do anything ever again.
They have some terrorists to stop, and her superhuman abilities will be needed.
She also has a problem in that after causing a serious problem for Byron, she has been celibate for a century or so. So, of course the first guy...
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Dark Prince - Christine Feehan
Dark Prince - Christine Feehan This book is terrible. For the first quarter, absolutely nothing happens except the head top Carpathian vampire guy sets his sights on a woman and finally shags her. That is it, for that much.
Boring as hell. Completely overwritten, turgid and melodramatic, and a complete and utter waste of time. Plenty of others of this sort of thing that are way more...
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Working For the Devil - Lilith Saintcrow
Working For the Devil - Lilith Saintcrow For a book that looks like it is supposed to be a romance type novel, it is actually pretty light on the mushy stuff, so much so that is is almost absent. More towards the early Hamilton or Harrison books, and fairly straight urban fantasy.
The main character is a Necromance. This does mean what it suggests. She is a very low rent necromancer. She...
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Crazy Hot - Tara Janzen
Crazy Hot - Tara Janzen The guy in this in an ex-war hero and an excellent car thief, as well as being a crime busting secret agent. A fair bit of the Gone in Sixty Seconds thing going in here, except there is a lot of sex after the career of selling cars.
Lots of ok done shagging here, and when that happens, like most of these sort of books the plot gets pretty light. Here, there is one...
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The Legend of Banzai Maguire - Susan Grant
The Legend of Banzai Maguire - Susan Grant This is a definite Buck Rogers riff, except that in this case Buck is Bree, or Banzai, if you prefer.
A military pilot of the USA variety gets into trouble with the rest of a patrol, and a few happenings later ends up in suspended animation and wakes up in 2176.
Then you have the Han empire and the UCE - e.g. the yanks or Buck’s side, if you...
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The Turning - Jennifer Armintrout
The Turning - Jennifer Armintrout A doctor, working in a hospital is attacked by a man who should be dead, given the injuries. It seems he was a vampire that came out on the wrong end of a fight. The attack changes her, as she slowly becomes a vampire.
She meets a man who tells her he is part of a movement of vampires dedicated to eradicating all those that don’t follow their strict rules...
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Awaken Me Darkly - Gena Showalter
Awaken Me Darkly - Gena Showalter Mia Snow is a top cop with the Alien Investigation and Removal unit. She runs around dealing with illegal immigrants from a long way away, and extreme violence is good when it is necessary.
A partner is critically injured and she ends up in a relationship of sorts with an alien that reveals something about who she actually is, and why she can do what she can do...
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Passionate Thirst - Cameron Dean
Passionate Thirst - Cameron Dean Candace Steele has multiple things to do. Serve cocktails, assist with the security of a pop star, and kill the odd vampire in her part time.
An encounter with a man in her past that she fell for was more than she thought, when it turned out he was a vampire. His little love bites give her vampire detection powers and appear to have enhanced her just a little...
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You Slay Me - Katie MacAlister
You Slay Me - Katie MacAlister This is pretty lightweight stuff, meant to be so, I believe. Sort of somewhere between Men In Black and Midsomer Murders.
A clueless girl finds out she is a Guardian, basically supposed to keep watch over a portal to make sure not too many demons and monsters come through. She has a few super powers to help with that she starts to learn, including demon summoning,...
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The Hunt - Susan Sizemore
The Hunt - Susan Sizemore This is a bit on the dull side. The main character is a vampire enforcer, trying to make sure all the fanged ones follow the rules. They get to go and drink blood every so often under strict rules, and he is the man they send after rulebreakers.
Not a whole lot of action, and a whole lot of talking, and a bit of a subplot with the use of a kid in an incantation as a...
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Hunters : Declan and Tori - Shiloh Walker
Hunters : Declan and Tori - Shiloh Walker Ok, this is porn. Or, erotic romance as the publisher seems to call it. When you look them up, you will see that all becomes clear.
A cop and a guy are dancing around each other, but the bloke is a werewolf. The girl gets vampirised before he can stop it, and the circumstances surrounding her first feeding (him) and other things means she becomes...
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Dark Lover - J. R. Ward
Dark Lover - J. R. Ward This book is one of those that you could say is a bit lacking in plot, or it is stretched a little thin to get more books out of it, which will probably be just fine by the fans.
The twist here is that a group of vampire warriors protect the civilian vampires. Civilians. Fairly amusing from the depredations of the human hunters. The vampires here are rabidly hetero,...
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Dr. Yes - Lisa Cach
Dr. Yes - Lisa Cach A fairly tame sort of adventure, in most respects. A woman is recruited to work for B.L.I.S.S. to stop a doctor that has invented the ultimate Rohypnol type sexual slavery drug.
It turns out she knew him in the past, and she ends up on a jungle adventure, while dancing around doing the tangential tent thrusting tango with a veteran agent.
2.5 out of 5
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