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Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood Series #5)
I am almost finished with this one and so far V's story is my favorite. So revealing and heart-retching. I'm sure each book gets better.
I just finished Butch's story and I remember saying I didn't look foward to reading it, but I loved it.
Up next:
Lover Enshrined (Black Dagger Brotherhood Series #6
I'm looking foward to Phury's story!
Sweet Venom I also recently finished this--though I am still reading it out loud to Missy (I sort of read ahead, 
) I have to say, this is my favorite of TLC's books...
~Suzi
I consumed
Blood Bound, (463 pages), in one and one-half days. All Things Urban Fantasy gave the book their highest (5 bat) rating, and they were absolutely right! The book spins an intriguing crime/adventure tale with a wonderfully complicated romance.
The plot is twisting, wicked and lightning paced. The world-building, accomplished through character dialogue and interaction, is comprehensive. The two protagonists, named Liv (Olivia) Warren and Cam (Cameron) Caballero, are vivid and engaging. The dialogue is screen-worthy. The POV switches between Liv and Cam throughout the story. Personally, I was drawn more toward her character than his, probably because I'm a woman. But both their voices were emotionally engaging. I loved this story!
The book starts with Liv skulking gritty streets and tracking a blood scent to the energy 'smell' of a man located w/in an apartment building. Liv's a blood 'Tracker' who can trace the energy signature from a wet blood sample to its living source within 800 miles. Because the blood sample is dry, Liv is only 99% sure that the man she's tracked is the same person who provided the sample. When a bail-bondsman she formerly worked for shows and explains that it's a sample from the man who shot his daughter, she marches up to the suspect's front door, knocks and punches him in the face. With the gush of blood from his nose, Liv makes a positive identification. She walks away as the bail-bondsman and his muscle start laying into the man knowing that a retaliatory murder will be committed that night.
Black-marketed 'Skills' have created huge criminal empires. Liv's city is spit between two crime bosses, Ruben Cavazos and Jake Tower. The 'Skills' enumerated w/in the story include: Trackers, divided between Liv's blood Tracking and name Tracking which is the speciality of her former lover, Cam Caballero: Binders who can seal a promise with the certainty of death; Travelers who can walk from one shadow to another in three steps; Readers who immediately know a lie; Blinders who can suck out all light, (and with it all sight); and, Seers of varying intensity/accuracy.
LIv is compromised. She's made a deal with Cavazos and bears his mark tattooed on her inner thigh. She basically has to jump when he says so and take abuse from him. More importantly, the reader later learns that Liv will loose her free will w/in six months unless she completes the job for Cavazos.
Cam Caballero shows up at her car. He's the best name Tracker in the city and knows her full name. Six years prior they were an item, but she suddenly walked away from him during a New Year's Eve party attended by her three childhood friends. When the narrative switches to his POV, the reader learns that Cam was about to propose when Liv dumped him and left him stranded at the party. He's determined to somehow break through her defenses because he still loves her.
This is the backdrop as one of Liv's childhood friends shows up at her office, with Cam outside the door, and evokes a childhood binding exchanged among Liv and her three childhood friends. Her childhood friend binds Liv to track and kill the man, (presumably a Traveler), who invaded her home and killed her husband. And, she makes Liv work with Cam. Liv tries to resist, but pain convinces her otherwise. So, Liv now has to work with the man she walked out on and never wanted to see again.
The book's synopsis explains that eventually the friend's daughter is abducted. In a wicked twist, Cam is bound to the syndicate of the crime boss upon who's order the girl is abducted. He can't actively work against that syndicate, and Liv can't trust him. Plus, neither of them is honest with the other. Each has dark secrets that only become revealed when circumstances force the matter.
This story is extraordinarily intense, surprising and fast-paced. I loved it and recommend the book to all fans of urban fantasy or crime fiction and anyone who likes/loves paranormal romance. I'll definitely be reading the second book in this trilogy entitled 'Shadow Bound'.
Blood Rights I am currently reading this new series. OMG it is awesome, definately different in the sense that it isn't the same old vampire book to me. I recommend it to anyone that loves dark, passionate, stories.
I finally finished up the reread of the Lords of the Underworld books then read the newest one.
The Darkest Surrender (Lords of the Underworld Series #10)
I really liked Kaia and Strider's interactions and outragous comments. I would read some of it out loud to my friend so she would understand why I was sitting on her couch laughing to myself.
Paris's book is up next, but Showalter left Kane and William hanging at the end. Can we skip a few books and get to them?
Then I plowed through the new Kerrelyn Sparks book.
Sexiest Vampire Alive (Love at Stake Series #11)
I really like this series and was looking forward to this one after the big reveal happened in the last one. I have to say, I was a little disappointed. Gregori was selected to represent the Vamps and meet with the President to try and get the governments help with the crisis. While at the meeting he meets the President's elusive oldest daughter who needs his help finding plants that could help her sick mother. We get to see the real Gegori in this book, and I liked that. I can't pinpoint exactly what, but I felt there was a lot missing. It just seemed too quick and ended a little appruptly for my taste.
I'm hoping I can make make it through the newest Katie MacAlister book today so I can start Aloha From Hell tomorrow.
Much Ado about Vampires (Dark Ones Series #9)
I accidentally ordered book 3 from the library..called The Heart of Evil....
now I am # 16 on the waiting list for this book 
Everdark (Dark Ink Chronicles Series #2) Here's what I just finished, what I'm currently reading and what I'm going to read next:
kimba88 wrote:
Just received an ARC of this today..wahoo!
I am looking forward to this.
Steampunk
Zombies??
2195 New Victoria??
Romance
Did I mention zombies!
I'm waiting for my copy of Dearly, Departed and my copy of
Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim Series #3).
I look forward to your impression of Dearly, Departed.
I started a hoot of a book entitled
Virgin. Note, it's the guy who is the virgin of the story, and he's 32 years old! But, don't assume he's a loser. Instead, he's a different species--some kind of a cat humanoid from a planet that's been destroyed. (Apparently, his penis is also special in some way.) I looking forward to and dreading the description of his penis which will undoubtably be provided in the first sex scene.
The book trades off between his perspective and the female protagonist who is a sexually experienced woman trying to leave a loser planet and escape her loser boyfriend.
So far this book is a fun and funny melding of Sci-Fi, paranormal romance and fantasy adventure.
P.S. The male protagonist, a space ship captain, has a lecherous, bug eyed frog-like navigator who samples the sexual essence of potential partners through his sucker fingers. The male protagonist, named Dax, warns the female protagonist not to let his navigator touch her and states that his tongue is getting visibly hard. The navigator confirms that his species has sex with their tongue and says something like don't knock it till you've tried it.
