Lily O'Connell is a succubus and hey, a girl's gotta eat, so she has an elite sex salon where she can do so without harming her clientele who are generally Weres and can spare the chi she needs. It's a safe enough business venture until one night as she is getting ready to attend a client, that client is murdered in her room by a vampire and a strip of skin removed. After a second vampire victim is found elsewhere, also with a strip of skin missing, the pattern becomes clear that it's the Souljacker, a vampire who was a tattoo artist before he was turned. He is hunting down his previous clients and removing the tattoos that the drew from their souls and inked on their skin. Lily has one as do several of her friends and they need to find and stop the Souljacker before he comes after them.
I generally love Ms. Galenorn's books and I was intrigued by this one but it just fell flat to me. The characters did not leap off the page, the romance was lacking any real heat (despite the sparks that kept being mentioned), there was too much being crammed in trying to set up a series that it just didn't work for it to all be happening over the course of a couple of days, and Lily herself kept doing stupid ass shit that made no sense just so it would set her up for the next thing. It was just didn't work. This series was not picked up so no more will happen for a while and I can't say that I'm saddened by that.
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Monday, December 19, 2016
New Releases I'm Looking Forward To: 1st Quarter 2017
My usual disclaimer:
Let me state, this is really based on authors or series that I'm already reading since those are the things I follow. I'm not paid to write this blog nor do I have any affiliations with any publishers so I don't receive free books or advance notice of things except what I glean off Facebook from people who do have those contacts or what I research on my own (which again, leads back to authors that I'm already reading). Maybe someday I'll be one of those who has the contacts and gets ARCs but it's not today.
Let me state, this is really based on authors or series that I'm already reading since those are the things I follow. I'm not paid to write this blog nor do I have any affiliations with any publishers so I don't receive free books or advance notice of things except what I glean off Facebook from people who do have those contacts or what I research on my own (which again, leads back to authors that I'm already reading). Maybe someday I'll be one of those who has the contacts and gets ARCs but it's not today.
So I'm trying desperately to find time to read and finish up at least one of my reading goals for the year. I'm really not sure what has happened to all my time this year but apparently it wasn't spent reading and even though this past quarter had less new books in it, and this year seemed down a bit from previous years, I'm pretty sure I've managed to add more books to my to-read pile than I've read. The first quarter of 2017 looks to be pretty typical in terms of quantity and pretty awesome in terms of content.
The kicks off with a new standalone novella, Dusk or Dawn or Dark or Day by Seanan McGuire. Jenna is dead and as a ghost, she must make amends for the time debt so she does this by volunteering at a suicide prevention hotline but now there is something that coming for the ghosts of New York City and now Jenna must make a stand.
Release date: Jan 10
The kicks off with a new standalone novella, Dusk or Dawn or Dark or Day by Seanan McGuire. Jenna is dead and as a ghost, she must make amends for the time debt so she does this by volunteering at a suicide prevention hotline but now there is something that coming for the ghosts of New York City and now Jenna must make a stand.
Release date: Jan 10
The Turn by Kim Harrison takes us into the past of the Hollows series with Rachel Morgan, the kick-ass witch, and shows us how that world came to be. This promises to be fabulous!
Release date: Feb 7
After two months of single releases, March packs three into one day. Magic for Nothing by Seanan McGuire is the 6th book in the Incryptid series and the first time for Antimony to be the lead. Now that Verity has declared war on the Covenant of St. George the Price family needs to know what they are up against and since Annie doesn't carry the family resemblance she is being packed off to London as their spy. Good luck kiddo!
Release date: March 7
We also get the new Mercy Thompson book, Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs. Mercy has been kidnapped (again?!) by the most powerful vampire to serve as a message to Adam and the werewolves. Being able to change into a coyote lets her escape but now she is trapped in Prague and unable to contact Adam or her friends so she must find her own way home.
Release date: March 7
Lastly is the first book in the new Lily Bound series by Yasmine Galenorn, Souljacker. A succubus who runs an elite sex salon, a souljacker who wants his artwork (re: tattoos) back of which she has one, and a chaos-demon PI all come together in this new work. Looks like it could be interesting.
Release date: March 7
Release date: March 7
We also get the new Mercy Thompson book, Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs. Mercy has been kidnapped (again?!) by the most powerful vampire to serve as a message to Adam and the werewolves. Being able to change into a coyote lets her escape but now she is trapped in Prague and unable to contact Adam or her friends so she must find her own way home.
Release date: March 7
Lastly is the first book in the new Lily Bound series by Yasmine Galenorn, Souljacker. A succubus who runs an elite sex salon, a souljacker who wants his artwork (re: tattoos) back of which she has one, and a chaos-demon PI all come together in this new work. Looks like it could be interesting.
Release date: March 7
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