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message 1: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments K.....girlz, heres where we can throw out idea's or have just general chat on how things are going!


message 2: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments btw......rjsmommy, great idea about the new releases!

this will be your folder to keep updated monthly and share with the others! way to go!

Also i will be sending out a letter with intros and such shortly!

Welcome Angela and rjsmommy! Glad to have you


message 3: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
Welcome guys!!!!!!!! One thing I wanted to do was a review corner. Fangs only!!! Lol. 1 review a month, watcha think. Rating being 1 - 5 Fangs. ;-)


message 4: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy Tiffany wrote: "Welcome guys!!!!!!!! One thing I wanted to do was a review corner. Fangs only!!! Lol. 1 review a month, watcha think. Rating being 1 - 5 Fangs. ;-)"

I think that's a great idea. I love that you've introduced the idea of European vs. American authors take on vampires. Can't wait to start on them.


message 5: by Rjsmommy (last edited Jan 10, 2012 07:14PM) (new)

Rjsmommy Rayna wrote: "btw......rjsmommy, great idea about the new releases!

this will be your folder to keep updated monthly and share with the others! way to go!

Also i will be sending out a letter with intros a..."


Thanks...I just know that I'm one of those people with so many favorite series and authors that I sometimes lose track. Thought this might be helpful.

And a shout out hello to Angela :)


message 6: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
Can't take all the credit on the European vs American idea. One of the memebers suggested it and I LOVED the idea too.


message 7: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments Tiffany wrote: "Welcome guys!!!!!!!! One thing I wanted to do was a review corner. Fangs only!!! Lol. 1 review a month, watcha think. Rating being 1 - 5 Fangs. ;-)"

Im okay with it......are we just picking our own or is it a collaborative amoungst us all?

Did i miss the american versus european bit?


message 8: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
U sure didn't!

Hmmm......good question! For now, let's just pick one of our own. Maybe next month a collaborative?


message 9: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy Tiffany wrote: "U sure didn't!

Hmmm......good question! For now, let's just pick one of our own. Maybe next month a collaborative?"


OK... I could do a review. When and where?


message 10: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments we will start a new folder called MOD reviews and then each of us will have a folder. At the beginning tell people which one your reviewing and then post your review in a later feed after your finished! I set up the folder and then sky's the limit! well for this month anyway, then in Feb we will make the book a group decision.....maybe a new vamp release in the month its released.....we will go off of rjsmommy's release folder! How does that sound?


message 11: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments okay just so you know i did a clean up of folders.....did some moving around of feeds.....put anything that was older than sept 2011 in deleted topics......you may want to start new feeds on some of our ongoing series as they come out for release....i was tired of seeing discussions that havent been touched since 2010!

We will start fresh and see if we cant spark new feedback from others! I also put our 2011 read shelves in archives.....so if you need to check back into your reads you can!


message 12: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments For Reviews....i was thinking maybe these could be some for Jan...

Lothaire (Immortals After Dark, #12) by Kresley Cole Darker After Midnight (Midnight Breed, #10) by Lara Adrian Last Breath (The Morganville Vampires, #11) by Rachel Caine (i cant do this one, but someone else can ;))


message 13: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy Rayna wrote: "For Reviews....i was thinking maybe these could be some for Jan...

Lothaire (Immortals After Dark, #12) by Kresley ColeDarker After Midnight (Midnight Breed, #10) by Lara AdrianLast Breath (The Morganville Vampires, #11) by Rachel Caine(i cant do this one, but..."


The only series of those I read is Darker after Midnight. I'm still on number 7 in Morganville Vampires...and I hate to admit, I haven't read any Immortals after Dark.

I am just finishing "Uprising" which Tiff recommended and am loving it. Uprising (Vampire Federation, #1) by Scott G. Mariani

I also plan on reading Midnight Reckoning Midnight Reckoning (Dark Dynasties #2) by Kendra Leigh Castle which is the second in the Dark Dynasties series


message 14: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments Do any one of them, i tink Tiff will probably Take Last Breath cause she wants to review it....pick what ever you want darlin i was leaving suggestions! i havent even picked mine yet! lol


message 15: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy Rayna wrote: "Do any one of them, i tink Tiff will probably Take Last Breath cause she wants to review it....pick what ever you want darlin i was leaving suggestions! i havent even picked mine yet! lol"

Hey Rayna..I just tried to message you but its not accepting. Thanks for setting up the Reviews folder...they look great. Now I hope I don't offend you but my English teacher instincts are tingling and I have to ask if you could make one correction..."recommendations" is spelled wrong; its one c and two m's. Please, please , please, don't be offended by my OCD. If I could I would have just edited it myself and never said anything.


message 16: by Rayna (last edited Jan 14, 2012 02:37PM) (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments LMAO.....was just waiting for my correction post! took you long enough!!! Just go and change it, im not offended! i just type really fast and rarely look over my work! Correct and edit away (ps...i wont hold it against you *wink*)


message 17: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments ill change it if you cant you just have to tell me where?


message 18: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments oh well crap......nevermind i found them! wow i did it in every folder! Obviously cant spell that word! lol

all fixed and you can rest at last!!!


message 19: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy Rayna wrote: "ill change it if you cant you just have to tell me where?"

Thanks...I went back to check the line and you already changed it...unless I'm going crazy and it was never incorrect...hmmmmm?!


message 20: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments no it was! i changed them....lol


message 21: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments k RJ's i posted my V discussion in BDB thread....go take a look...lol


message 22: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
LMFAO!!! And yes I am taking Last Breath!!!!!!!!!!!


message 23: by Angela (new)

Angela McPherson | 180 comments Okay so I'm not up and ready just yet since my internet will not be on until this weekend, hopefully. So I need a quick 411 on what all i need to do. Sorry Tiff, i know it's taken me awhile:( love ya girl ~A And Hi Rjsmommy. Nice to meet you and as always hey ray~A


message 24: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
Love ya babe!! And hurry the hell up and catch up!!! LOL


message 25: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments hey...dont push her....lol She's REALLY busy right now! *wink*


message 26: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
Yea yea. Lol


message 27: by Angela (new)

Angela McPherson | 180 comments LMAO!!! I have my internet back on!!! I'm so flippin' excited. Whew, now I have a lot of catching up to do, ahem Tiff;)
Thanks for havin' my back Rayna. OMG, I just finished some steamy love makin' in Distraction;)


message 28: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
hee hee hee. LOL.


message 29: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments ive just read the scene.....when the kids go to bed ill hop on line!


message 30: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy OK...Last baby shower guest left an hour ago...place is clean...and just took my last antibiotic for my bronchitis. I think I might have just gotten my life back. So now all I need to do is catch up with what's going on here; finish reading the book I started a week ago; read the latest Midnight Breed that I've been sitting on...oh yeah, and still grade those 130 miserable 6th grade essays! But at least the majority of that list is actually enjoyable :)


message 31: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
Lmfao!!! K, we need to decide on a book for all of us to review. ;-)


message 32: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy Well, do we want to do a continuing series new release like Darker after Midnight (Midnight Breed) or a stand-alone or a new series or even an older, less known (established) first book in a series? I'm up for anything. I did just start Darker After Midnight (but that's already one of books listed as a site "Books to Read"?


message 33: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments im okay with which ever you guys pick.....i do have quite a few on my plate right now so let me know soon so i can read it!

FOr nest month i thing we should do Amanda J Greene's book its comming out end of Feb....its the second in a series and the first was Fab......my thoughts anyway!


message 34: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
Darker After Midnight yay!!!!!!!!! LOL. That works for me! ;-)


message 35: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments Darker after midnight it is then!!!


message 36: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy OK...just finished Darker After Midnight and I'll keep my comments to myself for now...don't want to influence anyone yet.. Do we want to set a common posting date for our reviews or jusy post as we finish?


message 37: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments holy crap.....that was fast! I havent even bought it yet! laugh

I would say post your review now, i promise i wont peek :)


message 38: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy Yeah..if I really want to read something I just go right through. I had put it off for the week when I was sick and planning the shower but as soon as that was done and I finished the other book...i was speeding through. I thought this was going to be the last but Lara added a note at the end stating there will be continuing adventures so I'm happy :)


message 39: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments Okay.....i havent read hunters book yet (i know im so behind its not even funny)....do i need to read it first or will i be okay to skip and go back?


message 40: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy So much of Chase's book is set-up in HUnter's book. You could probably get through and understand what happened but it would be so much more emotionally charged by reading in proper order. And Hunter's book was sooo good. I never cared for him at all but after reading it...he's one of my favorites.


message 41: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments well i guess im going to have to bite the bullet and read both! Man where do i find the time! Off to the bookstore tom to get them both!


message 42: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
LOL!! Lets post a date. And guys, we have a new mod.......DAN!!!!!!! ;-)


message 43: by Dan, Deadly, dangerous and out for blood..... (last edited Feb 07, 2012 01:19PM) (new)

Dan (dan2345) | 649 comments Mod
I would first like to say thank you to Tiff for making me a mod. I'm new to this so not exactly sure as to how it works, but I will try my best. As far as book reviews go, besides 13 Bullets and Uprising, I will be reading some of the classic vampire novels soon. For Instance; Carmilla, The Vampyre, and I am Legend. I suppose I will review those as well.
As far as topics go here are my ideas.
1.)Vampire Movies-since Vampire TV shows was so much fun, I thought it would be a good idea for us to talk about vampire movies. After all, there are hundreds of them.
2.) Vampire Mythology- A discussion of vampire folklore and where all the myths about vamps in our favorite stories come from. this of course would require the members to pick up certain books and do some research
3.) Who's your favoirite Vampire and why?
...those are just a few of my ideas. Anyway, thanks again for making me a mod.


message 44: by Tiffany, *nIGHT mISTRESS* on a MisSiOn! (new)

Tiffany (vampoholic) | 3255 comments Mod
U r welcome!!! Now start setting up those topics, they all sound great!!! ;-)

Also, don't forget to set up ur 100 books for 2012 fangs required. U might like the group-mod book we're reviewing now. While it does have romance and some very erotic scenes, it also has a great story, plot, violence, good vampires, malcontent vampires trying to take over the world, another great take on vamps. The first book in the series is this........

Kiss of Midnight (Midnight Breed, #1) by Lara Adrian ..........He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell’s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night—or this man—is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed—a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.

Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind—and the unwitting humans existing alongside them—from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.

Here, in the arms of the Breed’s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .

We're reading the latest now.......
Darker After Midnight (Midnight Breed, #10) by Lara Adrian .....In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order—a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike—to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can explode into catastrophe.

At the center of the Order’s quest is Sterling Chase, once a morally rigid enforcer of Breed law, now a warrior fallen from grace, whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature. With addiction beckoning him toward eternal darkness, Chase’s path to redemption has never seemed more out of reach. But when his eyes meet those of Tavia Fairchild, a beautiful witness who identifies him at the scene of a mission gone terribly wrong, Chase finds himself drawn to the woman—and convinced she is something much more than she seems.

Pulled into a vortex of intrigue and danger she can neither resist nor understand, Tavia is uncertain whom to trust. And while everything sane and logical warns her against getting close to Chase, she cannot deny that the handsome, deeply haunted male stirs something primal and ravenous within her. But even as she surrenders to her cravings, nothing can prepare her for the shattering truth of who—and what—she truly is.

As the Order’s enemy mobilizes for the battle of the ages, Dragos and his Minions unleashing a hell on Earth like nothing ever seen before, Chase and Tavia are thrust into the heart of the violence. With time running out and the streets running red with the blood of innocent lives, both Breed and human, together Chase and Tavia must find a way to defeat Dragos once and for all—or die trying.

And no, its not just from the woman's perspective but from the man's as well.


message 45: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments Welcome Dan....it will be great to get a male perspective around here! will be fun, youll see! i will set up your review page and such and im sure Tiff will be briefing you as to what is required!


message 46: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy Hey Dan...Welcome aboard! I'm also new to moderating but Tiff and Rayna are experts and really helpful. It will be great having a male presence in the group (Not too much pressure there...). Looking forward to your ideas. I like the idea of favorite vamp...I was thinking maybe within series setting up polls with comments if possible or bracket voting.


message 47: by Dan, Deadly, dangerous and out for blood..... (new)

Dan (dan2345) | 649 comments Mod
Thanks, Rj. Yeah, I'll probably need a little bit of help with this. I like your suggestion on the favorite Vamp idea..."Wihthin a series setting up polls if possible and bracket voting". What do you mean by that though?


message 48: by Rjsmommy (new)

Rjsmommy Well there are lots of series that we all follow..Black Dagger, Dark Hunter, Midnight Breed, etc with multiple vamps...so we could make our way through the series ( maybe one per week or month)and then have ultimate showdown in a bracket vote like they do in sports competition (at the end of the year). I'm pretty sure there's a poll app here and I'm trying to explore its use.


message 49: by Rayna (new)

Rayna  | 1785 comments That sounds great.....ask Tiff she knows how to set up the polling. I have no clue on that front!


message 50: by Dan, Deadly, dangerous and out for blood..... (last edited Feb 07, 2012 06:46PM) (new)

Dan (dan2345) | 649 comments Mod
Even though I have never read any of the books that Rj has listed, I think a poll would be a good idea. My original idea was to name just any vampire and why you like them, whether it's Dracula, Lestat, Edward Cullen, Jean-Claude or any of the characters from the books you guys like. I don't know how to set up a poll either, lol.


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