The Underbelly Chronicles, Book 2
Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca
Release Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Available in Paperback and Kindle editions
In Short: Second in a series about paranormal beings stranded on Earth and trying to make the best of it (by having lots of randy sex).
Recommended: Kinda. If you like werewolf/vampire/faerie/Valkyrie/etc romance action adventure novels.
“Her breath caught, but not with anger or fear. No, fear would be preferable. This was lust – sheet-rolling, wall-banging, bone-incinerating lust. Who knew that Gabe could be so…alpha?”
Centuries ago a spaceship carrying a cornucopia of paranormal beings …

Published by: Crossroads Press
US Release Date: Barnes & Noble Nook exclusive: Monday, July 9, 2012; Trade Paperback: Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Available in Trade Paperback and Nook editions
In Short: In 1929, the crew of a small aviation company becomes involved in a supernatural mystery that will take them from the glamour of Hollywood to an Italian excavation with the goal of saving the world from an ancient evil.
Recommended: Yes!
“We know a tiny little fraction of everything there is to understand about the universe. And a lot of the things we don’t …

Published by Centrinian Publishing
US Release Date: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Available in Hardcover
In Short: Another YA book with angels. I guess angels are the new vampires?
Recommended: If you think the average Fantasy novel just doesn’t have enough deus ex machina.
“It’s just . . . What are the odds?”
– Alex Dench
What are the odds, indeed. That’s the same question I found myself asking through much of my reading of Alecia Stone’s Talisman of El. It is refreshing to know that the book is wondering it, too. I have to say, the premise …

Published by Night Shade Books
US Release Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Available in Paperback and Kindle editions
In Short: An librettist is recruited by Prince Ferdinand to write an opera. If he fails, a secret society known as the Black Opera will make Mount Vesuvius erupt.
Recommended: Yes – for casual reading.
“…If I’m understanding you, sir-you want me to attempt to cause another ‘opera miracle’?”
Ferdinand of the House of Bourbon-Sicily shook his head.
“Not exactly. No, I want you to stop one.”
In an alternate history of 19th-century Naples, where ghosts are put to rest, …

Book 1 in the Blood of Eden series
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Available in Hardcover and Kindle editions
In Short: A very dark, broody and reasonably well-written YA vampire dystopia novel
Recommended: Meh. It’s got sword fights but it’s a downer.
“I might be a daemon and a coward, and I might deserve to burn, but in the end I didn’t want to die. Even if it dammed me to hell, I would always choose to live.”
– Allie
Allison Sekemoto is a teenage street rat growing up in a vampire …

Publisher: Carina Press
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Available in Kindle edition
In Short: A better than averagely written romance novel about a super-race destined to save mankind.
Recommended: Yes! Only if you like romance novels
After the Purge, three victorious Empowered Warriors shall rise from the ashes to form Neringa’s Trident. The three shall become six, and together with The Lost they shall battle the Black Lord for the fate of mankind.
Just to get us all on the same page – I have very low standards for romance novels. 1) Do they cost …

Paladin’s Legacy, Book 3
Published by Del Rey
Released February 21, 2012
Available in: Hardcover, Kindle and Audio editions
In Short: A scattered and flawed, yet still enjoyable continuation to the follow-up series of a personal favorite (Yes, I’m reusing that exact line from a year ago)
Recommended: Not really… for now.
“You must learn and master your powers, for though I am no foreteller, yet I do foretell this: What the paladin wakened in you has wakened more than you know and will bring either good or ill depending on you yourself.”
– Elf, to Dorrin
It …

Darkest London, Book 1
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Published by Forever
Available in Paperback and Kindle editions
In Short: Victorian paranormal retelling of Beauty and the Beast, now with steamy sex and bonus demon action. Great fun to be had here.
Recommended: Yes!
To create fire by mere thought. It was the stuff of myth. She had discovered the talent quite by accident. And had burned through her share of disasters…[t]he question always remained: Was she a monster? Both beauty and beast rolled into one unstable force? Despite her desire to know, there was …

Unearthly, Book 2
Published by Harper Teen
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Available in Hardcover and Kindle editions
In Short: A well-written continuation, but which does have a bit of a sophomore slump situation.
Recommended: Yes… despite concerns, I suppose that I would.
“She has a nice reading voice, I’ll give her that, even though I suspect that underneath her polished exterior beats a heart of pure evil.”
– Clara
<Chronicles of a Reluctant Reviewer: The Return>
In the paranormal romance world, one reader encounters two separate yet equally important factors: The paranormal , which potentially could be interesting, …

The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 10
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Published by NAL Hardcover
Available in Hardcover, Kindle and Audio editions
In Short: Tohrment’s story. Need we say more?
Recommended: Yes. — Well…yes.
“My name’s Lassiter, and I’ll tell you all you need to know about me. I’m an angel first and a sinner second, and I’m not here for long. I’ll never hurt you, but I’m prepared to make you pretty goddamn uncomfortable if I have to, to get my job done. I like sunsets and long walks on the beach, but my perfect …