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Club Dead — Charlaine Harris

TITLE: Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3) AUTHOR: Charlaine Harris GENRE: Paranormal Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Things between cocktail waitress Sookie and her vampire boyfriend Bill seem to be going excellently (apart from the small matter of him being undead) until he leaves town for a while. A long while. Bill’s sinister boss Eric has an idea of where to find him, whisking her off to Jackson, Mississippi to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead. When she finally catches up with the errant...

Living Dead in Dallas — Charlaine Harris

TITLE: Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2) AUTHOR: Charlaine Harris GENRE: Paranormal Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn’t enjoy it). The point is: they saved her life. So when one of...

Keeper of the Bees — Meg Kassel

TITLE: Keeper of the Bees AUTHOR: Meg Kassel RELEASES: September 4th, 2018; Entangled Teen GENRE: Paranormal Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA ACQUIRED: finished copy for early review SYNOPSIS: Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he can’t stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. His face is a shifting montage of all the people who have died because of those stings. And he has been this way for centuries—since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people. He follows...

Tithe — Holly Black

TITLE: Tithe AUTHOR: Holly Black SERIES: Modern Faerie Tales, #1 RELEASED: October, 2002; Simon & Schuster GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms – a struggle that could very well...

Ghost Slayer — Majanka Verstraete (ARC Review)

TITLE: Ghost Slayer AUTHOR: Majanka Verstraete RELEASES: April 14th, 2018; Fire Quill Publishing GENRE: Urban/Paranormal Fantasy AGE RANGE: New Adult SYNOPSIS: Twenty-one-year-old Kaelyn has spent half her life hunting ghosts and killing them. But she’s not like the other ghost hunters who have to rely on spells and curses to banish ghosts back to where they came from, hoping that they don’t come back. When Kaelyn kills a ghost, they stay dead. But in Mortimer Hall, a behemoth of a house, Kaelyn is about...