The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 11
Published by NAL
Release Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Available in Hardcover and Kindle editions
In Short: Qhuay – vampire warriors Qhuinn and Blaylock, for the uninitiated – finally get together, and then Get. It. On.
Recommended: Yes!
“You’ve always had me… and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hasn’t taken this long for me to man up.”
– Qhuinn to Blaylock
I was fully prepared to hate this thing. An entire full-length novel about the long-overdue coming out party of two of the most emo ghey night creatures ever …

The 5th Wave, Book 1
Published by Putnam Juvenile
Release Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Available in Hardcover and Kindle editions
In Short: Cassie must question everything she knows about the invading alien force after she and her brother are separated, leaving Cassie to navigate a war-torn America to get him back.
Recommended: Yes. Kind of…
There’s no way to know for sure, but I bet the Others knew about the human aliens we’d imagined. And I bet they thought it was funny as hell. They must have laughed their asses off. If they have a …

Justin Cronin’s despised sequel The Twelve, and a great literary tradition it might well uphold
by Kate Nagy
The Twelve, the sequel to Justin Cronin’s wildly popular 2010 vampire thriller The Passage, was published last fall to reviews that were, alas, rather less than ecstatic. “The Twelve bites,” was the succinct, if somewhat unkind, conclusion drawn by one waggish reviewer. Various critics have cited the book’s overpopulation, tissue-thin characterization, and surplus plot lines as flaws, and I have to concede that they have a point. There are too many characters, not to …

Mercy Thompson, Book 7
Published by Ace
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Available in Hardcover, Kindle and Preloaded Digital Audio Player editions
In Short: An adventure-prone couple made up of a “walker” (shapeshifting coyote) and the Alpha werewolf of the Tri Cities pack are stuck at both ends of a major kidnapping plot by rogue government agents. Add in a bunch of teenagers, a lawyer, and a visiting werewolf with self-control problems, and mercy, we have a mess!
Recommended: Yes.
“I just can’t sit and do nothing when you and the other people who are mine …

Published by Dragonfairy Press
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Available in Paperback and Kindle editions
In Short: A human private investigator is reluctantly drawn into the case when someone starts killing gods.
Recommended: Not really.
Most mortals idolized the Gods and would have killed for the chance to work alongside them. There was a time when even I admired them. That was before I started working with them, before I saw them without their makeup, so to speak. I found out what was behind all the glitz and glamour, and I wasn’t impressed. I’m still …

Published by Orbit Books
Release Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Available in Paperback and Kindle editions
In Short: Nyx Fortuna is the son of the fourth Fate, Lady Fortuna. He has dedicated his immortal life to obtaining justice for her death at the hands of her three well known sisters.
Recommended: Not really
“Everyone deferred to the House of Zeus, except the Fates. Even a sorcerer from the House fo Zeus, the most powerful sorcerer’s family there was, wouldn’t take on a Fate.”
Marlene Perez is known for her young adult paranormal novels and her fantasy …

Published by Entangled Select
Release Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Available in Paperback and Kindle
In Short: Hunter, better known as The Demon Slayer, is hired to find and retrieve a demon spawn. Airie doesn’t know it, but she is half-goddess and half-demon, the very creation that Hunter has spent a lifetime tracking down and killing.
Recommended: Yes, even in spite of the tawdry love scene.
“…[S]he was born of love, not hate No child should ever have to live with such a burden. Not even a monster.”
It is only fair to mention from the …

Published by Harper Voyager
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Available in Paperback and Kindle editions
In Short: A psychiatrist in Paris struggling to overcome a tragedy becomes embroiled in some fantasy crap in a cookie-cutter fantasy world.
Recommended: No – not as a “stand-alone,” anyway.
“Forgive me,” Reynard said, his voice low and gentle. “I’ve looked into your background. The internet is very helpful.”
- The villain of the book’s first third giving readers of this ‘standalone’ some good advice
There’s no such thing as a stand-alone entry in a series. Oh, sure, there are television series …

2012
Published by: Aderton Prime, LLC
Available in: Kindle edition
In Short: When Lucifer challenges the throne of God, it ignites a decades-long war that devastates the serenity of the Heavens. With an arsenal of demonic fallen angels at his side, Lucifer’s march to satanic glory seems imminent. Archangel Sariel believes otherwise.
Recommended: Kind of.
“You speak as if she’s gone forever. She is a soul, created in the image of God. Since when can a soul die?”
Heaven’s Night is about the fall of Lucifer and his war in Heaven through the eyes of the …

2010
Published by Doubleday
Available in Hardcover, Paperback, Audio and Kindle editions
In the Stacks: Demons
In Short: A scientist sells his soul to the Devil, regrets it, then makes a wager to get it back. What could go wrong?!
Recommended: Yes!
“I was cast down from the presence of God himself into this dark, sulphurous pit and condemned to spend eternity here–”
“Have you tried saying sorry?” interrupted Cabal.
“No, I haven’t! I was sent down for a sin of pride. It rather undermines my position if I say ‘sorry’!”
– Cabal and Satan have a …