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Nov 10, 2013 03:48PM
I have to say Sherrilyn Kenyon's new book, "Styxx" is the one I keep rereading. At six times now and counting. ;)
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Dark Lover by J.R. Ward--I loved the whole series, but the first book was such an awesome intro to the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood!
For me, it definitely had to be 'The Secret Swan' by Shana Abé. I had more in common with the heroine because of various unrequited love interests. She's also rather painfully shy and gets walked all over, and is very tolerant until a certain point. (I'm very tolerant as well as I absolutely hate conflict, but push too many buttons and this tolerance is nonexistent), I love how she had her own form of revenge against the hero who 'forgot' about her and how she becomes stronger from her experience. This book isn't fast-paced not too intense and I've seen a lot of reviewers stating that it's a boring book, but that's because halfway through the book is where it's premise lies.
Oh, so many of my YA books from when I was growing up!Tamora Pierce's Immortals quartet (and the Alanna quartet), Howl's moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones, ALL the Harry Potter books, everything by Dennis Jurgesen, Twilight... many, many more that I can't recall right now. When I fall in love with a book, I fall hard and for life lol.
Vampire Academy, Night Huntress, Charley Davidson series and Beautiful disaster at the top of my head. But that's just a couple :)
So I know its not PNR buuuut I started reading these books when I was in middle school and grew up with them... and I have most likely read the first books in the series at least 5 times... I have them on audio and when the mood hits me I will marathon them all when I am on my commute:
Katie aka Moogles wrote: "So I know its not PNR buuuut I started reading these books when I was in middle school and grew up with them... and I have most likely read the first books in the series at least 5 times... I have ..."I read this as well and loved it. :-) My reread list would include Night Huntress, a few of Feehan's Dark series and some of Immortals After Dark series.
For me, vampire academy and bdb. I love to reread books. Many times the second (or more) time you read it, it's even better.
The Highlander series, the Edge trilogy, what I have of Patricia Briggs, and about anything by Sherrylin Kenyon
I absolutely love these series and I can read and listen to these all the time. Charley Davidson
Psy-Changeling
Guild Hunter
Dark Hunter
Black Dagger Brotherhood
Night Huntress
The only problem is that I the audiobook really makes a difference with me. I work a lot, commute, and cook. I am always listening to something so I have to have great audiobooks. I read Night Huntress the first time, then listened to it. The narrator ruined Bones for me so I'm not as drawn to that series anymore. I wish they'd reconsidered that narrator.
Oh wow, there are so many series as well as individual books I have read numerous times. Some of my favourites are:Series:
The Guardians by Meljean Brook (Amazing. Basically, just gets better and better until the last book which blew my mind)
Lords of the Underworld by Gena Showalter
Angels of the Dark by Gena Showalter
Immortals after Dark by Kresley Cole
Children of the Moon by Lucy Monroe
Cassandra Palmer Series by Karen Chance (Funny, action-packed, with twists and turns and connections so unexpected but perfect and which come together throughout the series)
Dorina Basarab Series by Karen Chance (same world as Cassie Palmer series and the same feel but with different characters which are wonderful in their own right)
ANYTHING by Nalini Singh (and I mean anything - Guild Hunter, Psy/Changeling, novels, novellas, non-series books, you name it)
New Species by Laurann Dohner (for when I'm in the mood for a little fluff)
Fantasyland Series by Kristen Ashley (IMO, not as good as her non-fantasy work but still engaging and the heroes are great)
Amanda Quick's novels (some have psychic heroes/heroines)
Chronicles of the Warlands by Elizabeth Vaughan
Books:
- Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Born of Ice by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Dance with the Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Unleash the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Dream Man by Linda Howard
- Tales of an Extraordinary Girl duology by Gena Showalter
- Sword of Darkness by Kinley MacGregor
The book I have re-read most frequently is
Slave To Love by Nikita Black. It is a great erotic-romance-suspense-thriller.
I am not a huge rereader but I seem to enjoy re-reading:The Guild Hunter series
Kate Daniels
Kitty
Others are
at least three times and back to back twice
at least twice each
at least four times and back to back as well
Anything kerrylyn sparks. Lynsay Sands. Sherrylyn Kenyon,her books are the best all around. Plus J.R.Ward.All very good..A new author i started is Rebecca Zanetti.like her too..
Ive just started the last book in the Fifty Shades Trilogy and I plan on reading them again! I got the Fifty Shades Obsession. I plan on re-reading them! I also plan on re-reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood series and also the Blue Bloods series. :)
I tried to reread the Fifty Shades trilogy and it was just... not good. I think because I was so engaged in them the first time I read the series, I missed a lot of (bad writing) stuff. For me, it was a one and done. Now the Fever series on the other hand... I have to force myself not to read it again--3 times and counting. There's so many books on my TBR shelf but I keep wanting to go back to Fever. It's an ongoing struggle. Here's the first:
I go back to Kresley Cole. Her books are just plain fun-and pretty damn sexy. The other side of this - I love the Hunger Games trilogy. I've recently reread them, but I still can't watch the first DVD. What if it spoils the magic?.
Sherrilyn Kenyon I love her books. I've read most of them twice, and I've read Acheron three of four times
Baine wrote: "Sherrilyn Kenyon I love her books. I've read most of them twice, and I've read Acheron three of four times"Hi Baine I love Kenyon too. Like you, my first book cam out in the summer, and my second comes out in January.
I still can't believe I got that lucky.
I am new to forum - because I am looking for series - I read and LOVED... Midnight Breed (Adrian)
Guardians (Ivy)
Chicagoland (Neil)
Psy-Changeling (Singh)
Vampires in America (Reynolds)
Night Huntress (Frost)
BDB (Ward)
Fever (Moning)
I would have never figured myself for a vampire romance series junkie - and, - yet? Here I am!
Please help me find some new series that will satisfy my addiction? *Smiles*
And - nice to meet everybody!
Beth
If you like a little humour with your PN, try Lynsay Sands, G. A. Aikens (or her other name, Shelly Laurenston), Katie MacAlister (she has lots and lots--vampires, dragons, demons, oh my.)
On a less "fun" we have Jennifer Ashley with her Shifter's Unbound series. Dana Marie Bell has shifters, Norse Gods, and even a vegetarian vampire (and yes, he really IS a vegetarian, as a result of a curse.) Christine Warren has a series about "The Others" that is good--vampires, shape shifters, magic users, demons, fae. . .
Plus of course, there are PNMysteries. There are more and more of those coming out lately. Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse (altho, frankly, I'd skip the last couple books, they weren't really all that great--and the last book was a RIP OFF.) Yasmine Galenorn, who has mostly been writing PNR lately actually started as a PNM writer. Her Chintz and China series was really good. In fact, I actually prefer that series (which she has ended) to her PNR stuff. Tanya Huff has several series that are either PNR, UF, or PNM. Well, and a few straight fantasy too.
And, of course there is the ever popular Patricia Briggs. You will probably LOVE her. She has her Mercy Thompson series and it's spin off series, Alpha and Omega. Altho I will tell you--you should definitely ask us what order to read them in, since there is some cross-over in the two, and you need to know the correct order to read them.
Do you like time travel and Vikings? If so, try Lynsay Sands (altho she actually has 2 different Viking series--you want Vikings 2) the first book in this series is The Last Viking. She has some humour in these, but there is a nice story in as well.
Oh, and you should also try Jim Butcher and his Dresden Files series (altho, word of warning, the first book in the series, book:Storm Front|47212] was also his very first sale, so it is the weakest book in the series.
D. D. Barant has a series called The Bloodhound Files which is also very good. The MC in it is an FBI agent from our world who gets pulled into a parallel world of vampires, werewolves and humans to help deal with the previously unknown in that world problem of suddenly having serial killers. . . Excellent book.
Oh, and if you like historical parallel world books, try the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. It's set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, but in this world "There Be Dragons." But the dragons are considered part of the Navy, and provide air support for the various nations military. GOOD series.
I think that will keep you busy for a day or two with your reading. :o)
On a less "fun" we have Jennifer Ashley with her Shifter's Unbound series. Dana Marie Bell has shifters, Norse Gods, and even a vegetarian vampire (and yes, he really IS a vegetarian, as a result of a curse.) Christine Warren has a series about "The Others" that is good--vampires, shape shifters, magic users, demons, fae. . .
Plus of course, there are PNMysteries. There are more and more of those coming out lately. Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse (altho, frankly, I'd skip the last couple books, they weren't really all that great--and the last book was a RIP OFF.) Yasmine Galenorn, who has mostly been writing PNR lately actually started as a PNM writer. Her Chintz and China series was really good. In fact, I actually prefer that series (which she has ended) to her PNR stuff. Tanya Huff has several series that are either PNR, UF, or PNM. Well, and a few straight fantasy too.
And, of course there is the ever popular Patricia Briggs. You will probably LOVE her. She has her Mercy Thompson series and it's spin off series, Alpha and Omega. Altho I will tell you--you should definitely ask us what order to read them in, since there is some cross-over in the two, and you need to know the correct order to read them.
Do you like time travel and Vikings? If so, try Lynsay Sands (altho she actually has 2 different Viking series--you want Vikings 2) the first book in this series is The Last Viking. She has some humour in these, but there is a nice story in as well.
Oh, and you should also try Jim Butcher and his Dresden Files series (altho, word of warning, the first book in the series, book:Storm Front|47212] was also his very first sale, so it is the weakest book in the series.
D. D. Barant has a series called The Bloodhound Files which is also very good. The MC in it is an FBI agent from our world who gets pulled into a parallel world of vampires, werewolves and humans to help deal with the previously unknown in that world problem of suddenly having serial killers. . . Excellent book.
Oh, and if you like historical parallel world books, try the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. It's set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, but in this world "There Be Dragons." But the dragons are considered part of the Navy, and provide air support for the various nations military. GOOD series.
I think that will keep you busy for a day or two with your reading. :o)
For me Immortals After Dark is the best series out there and I can reread them over and over. I have also reread The Midnight Breed series, Rough Riders series, Six Pack Ranch, Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Magnus Pack and the Dark Hunter series
I think I'll break this down into moods. For when I want a Laugh:
For when I want something dark:
When I want something that's historical yet has supernatural elements in it:
For when I want to get in touch with my inner child:
And finally for when I want something EPIC:
I have re-read Mercy Thompson, Immortals After Dark, Twilight, Vampire Academy, the first few Sookie Stackhouse books, and the Fever series to name a few.
Anything by Shelly Laurenston, the humour, the great h/H match-ups. Always come back to her books when I'm in need of something familiar that will provide me with a feel good - romance - factor
These are my favorites that I still reread from time to time...The Poison Study
Irin Chronicles
Elemental Mysteries
Graceling Realm
The Infernal Devices
His Fair Assassin
Immortal Guardians
I also love Radiance (Wraith Kings), though only the first one is out.
Kritika wrote: "These are my favorites that I still reread from time to time...The Poison Study

Irin Chronicles

Elemental Mysteries
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Yay for Elizabeth Hunter!! I thought the Irin Chronicles were wonderful
Vampire Academy series Immortals After Dark series
Black Dagger Brotherhood series
Night Huntress series
Kim Harrison's Hollow's Series. Dead Witch WalkingThe Night Huntress Series Halfway to the Grave
Darkfever
I have read all of these several times, they are all fantastic!
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