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We don't have a recommendations folder ...wonder if maybe we should...ANYWAY typically people post a recommendation request just like you did and we respond!Let me think funny PNR I would suggest
Molly Harper (Jane Jameson) Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
Christine Warren (The Others Series) One Bite With A Stranger
Kerrelyn Sparks (Love at Stake) How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
Lynsay Sands (Argeneu) A Quick Bite
Michele Bardsley (Broken Hearts) I'm the Vampire, That's Why
Maybe others will have more suggestions but off the top of my head this is all I could think of.
I don't know Shelly Laurenston, but my absolute favorites for PNR are Chloe Neill's Chicagoland Vampire series, HP Mallory's anything but Jolie Wilkins is my favorite of hers, Faith Hunter's Jane Yellowrock even though you can get dragged down by the details at times, Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson and Alpha and Omega series, the second is a spin off of the first. I also love Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series but after they are not for everyone.
@Angie I know what you mean about Laurell K Hamilton. My shelves are riddled with them. Naturally my friends think I have a sure winner. Then they cringe several chapters in.
LastBreath wrote: "@Angie I know what you mean about Laurell K Hamilton. My shelves are riddled with them. Naturally my friends think I have a sure winner. Then they cringe several chapters in."Ok I will have to try them!
So far everyone I've told about the series has liked them. But I pick and choose who I say "you gotta read these!" @Bailey, lemme warn you, even though Anita Baker doesn't hook up with any guys until like the third or fourth book, she makes up for it throughout the rest of the series. She becomes polyamorus to the extreme. And that doesn't even begin to go into what happens to her, since most poly people are in it for love and affection, not just sex. And it can get kind of gory at times. There are a few books in the middle that are super long reads, even if the page count isn't any higher than the other books, but if you do like them and persevere, the last two or three have been pretty dang good.
Angie wrote: "So far everyone I've told about the series has liked them. But I pick and choose who I say "you gotta read these!" @Bailey, lemme warn you, even though Anita Baker doesn't hook up with any guys u..."
Ok thank you!
Bailey wrote: "Hi EveryoneI am new to this group and couldn't seem to find the recommendations folder.
I was hoping to find some recommendations on similar authors and series for Shelly Laurenston and the pride..."
Have you tried Shelly's Magnus Pack series, too. The Pride series is a spin-off from Magnus Pack. Also, you may want to try her Dragon Kin series written under G.A.Aiken/Shelly Laurenston. Dragon Kin is just as funny as the Pride series.
Well y'all convinced me to try the first book in the Magnus Pack series, and I already have the first in the Pride series waiting for me.
Angie wrote: "Well y'all convinced me to try the first book in the Magnus Pack series, and I already have the first in the Pride series waiting for me."Are you set strictly set on shifter books? If not, Katie MacAlister has a funny vamp series called the Dark Ones.
Might catch your interest? Katie has a sense of humor like Shelly Laurenston and Lynsay Sands(Argeneau Vampires).
Oh, Bailey if you like vamp books, the Argeneau are also awesome! (So yeah Nettie, I like vamps too! I'll check MacAlister out! Thanks!)
Angie wrote: "Oh, Bailey if you like vamp books, the Argeneau are also awesome! (So yeah Nettie, I like vamps too! I'll check MacAlister out! Thanks!)"You're Welcome, Angie! I absolutely love the Argeneau series by Lynsay Sands. I stumbled on to The Gift that's a novella while reading one of Jeaniene Frost(Night Huntress series) novella in A Bite Before Christmas, I believe. Both authors have a humor I love.
OMG!! How did I forget Cat and Bones in my list of favorites from earlier??? Bailey, if you do like vamps, the Night Huntress Books by Jeaniene Frost are amazing! There's the main series of 7 books I believe, and two spin offs, all 11 books make Frost in my top two fave PNR/UF writers!! Def check them out. Nette, that's how I found the Argeneau series too!! That was a good book! I love that her books don't absolutely have to be read as a series, though they do make a bit more sense to read them that way. If someone grabbed a book in the middle of the series, they would still be fine to read and not be lost. And even with that short story in The Bite Before Christmas, she managed to get all the needed info in without leaving the story short or stunted. Sometimes authors leave short stories without everything to make them a success in my opinion. At least if you haven't read anything else in the series that is. And I've found tons of new authors through anthologies, which means that it would be better for them to do a great job on those stories. IMO anyway.
Angie wrote: "OMG!! How did I forget Cat and Bones in my list of favorites from earlier??? Bailey, if you do like vamps, the Night Huntress Books by Jeaniene Frost are amazing! There's the main series of 7 books..."I agree! Bones and Cat are in my top 10 book series. The Gift totally sucked me into the Argeneau series...lol It didn't come across lacking in any way.
Guardians of Eternity - Alexandra Ivy
Cascadia Wolves - Lauren Dane
World of the Lupi - Eileen Wilks
Were Chronicles - Crissy Smith
ACRO - Sydney Croft
Red Rock Pass - Moira Rogers
Scanguard Vampires - Tina Folsom
The Darkyn - Lynn Viehl
Kindred - Lynn Viehl(spin-off of Darkyn)
Darkness Chosen - Christina Dodd
Midnight Breed - Laura Adrian
Nightwalkers - Jacquelyn Frank
Shadowdwellers - Jacquelyn Frank (spin-off of Nightwalkers)
I've only read one of the Scanguard Vampires books, I think I liked it but not enough to spend the amount on the later ones. I've read some of Christina Dodd's books, but just historicals I think, and I liked them well enough. And I have at least Laura Adrian's first book in the Midnight Breed series. I will have to check out all the others on your list though. I have so many books that I've bought and not read yet, but when I look through them on my kindle, nothing will catch my attention. I do have 3 at least that are continuations of 3 different series, but I also just found out how much I LOVE Molly Harper so I might read everything she's written before I read the others. I also have Ilona Andrews on my TBR soon list. I read a short story of hers a couple years ago and I really loved it. I've just never gotten around to reading anything of hers yet.
Have you tried Shifter series by Rachel vincent? Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels series is brilliant, def has a diff spin on vampires and the shifters? Not cute and fluffy...
Keri Arthur's Riley Jenson guardian series is about vampires and werewolves too.. I was hooked on that series..
Also I found this new book called Fire and Fangs by Josephine Mc Nabb.. Its got vampires and shifters in it.. I read it and thought it was brilliant too..
No problem.. I've been told I read too much. Haha.
Suzie wrote: "No problem.. I've been told I read too much. Haha."So have I....
Bailey, do you at least have a few picked out from the tons we've all listed? I know I've found some new one to look into too!!
I've read most of what has been listed but I'm going to check out Molly Harper.. Don't think I've heard of her books...
Suzie, I'm just finishing the last Jane Jameson book by Molly Harper and I really like them! I read the Naked Werewolf books first, which kinda irks me to figure out they're kinda supposed to go the other way. There's all of ONE couple that is in both books but it was just enough to make my OCD self twitch. But they're both excellent series, though I think I liked the Naked Werewolf series best. I still have to jump into the Half-Moon Hollow books after Jane is done, and I can't quite decide about the Bluegrass ones.
Bailey you found a sure winner with this folder! I've trolled through all the suggestions and made myself a nice lil list.Now, I must control the urge to hit that 1-click icon.
Must...be...strong!
LastBreath, I know your pain!! That one-click button is evil! Especially if I've accidentally shopped while extremely tired and buy crap I don't mean to!! I've spent quite a bit of money that way, and had to return a couple things even.
Who's Your Author?
Books mentioned in this topic
Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (other topics)One Bite With A Stranger (other topics)
How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire (other topics)
A Quick Bite (other topics)
I'm the Vampire, That's Why (other topics)
I am new to this group and couldn't seem to find the recommendations folder.
I was hoping to find some recommendations on similar authors and series for Shelly Laurenston and the pride mate series! I loved all the books and now I don't know what to read. Any suggestions would be super appreciated!!! Thanks everyone!