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Where the Wild Things Bite (Half-Moon Hollow #5) Molly Harper Published: July 26, 2016 (Pocket Books) Purchase: Book Depository or Amazon Review source: purchased Reviewed by: Jannelle Rating (out of 5): 4 stars Note: While review will be spoiler free, it does make reference to previous books. If you haven’t started this series yet, check out VBC’s review of book 1, Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs. Anna... 
Guardian’s Mate (Shifters Unbound #9) Jennifer Ashley Published: Sept. 6, 2016 (Berkley) Purchase: Book Depository or Amazon Review source: copy provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review Reviewed by: Jannelle Rating (out of 5): 4 stars Note: While review will be spoiler free, it does make reference to previous books. If you haven’t started this series yet, check out VBC’s review of book 1,... 
The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth #2) N.K. Jemisin Published: Aug. 18, 2016 (Orbit) Purchase: Book Depository or Amazon Review source: copy provided by publisher in exchange for and honest review Reviewed by: Jannelle Rating (out of 5): 4.5 stars Note: While review will be spoiler free, it does make reference to previous books. If you haven’t started this series yet, check out VBC’s review of book 1, The... 
Shadow and Bone (The Grisha #1) Leigh Bardugo Published: June 5, 2012 (Henry Holt and Co.) Purchase: Book Depository or Amazon Review source: purchased Reviewed by: Jannelle Rating (out of 5): 4.5 stars After growing up in an orphanage in Ravka, Alina Starkov and her best friend Mal have become soldiers in service for their country. After The Grisha, the magical ruling government in Ravka, fail to find... 
Angels’ Blood (Guild Hunter #1) Nailini Singh Published: March 3, 2009 (Berkley Sensation) Purchase: Book Depository or Amazon Review source: purchased Reviewed by: Jannelle Rating (out of 5): 4.5 stars Elena Deveraux is a vampire hunter in an alternate version of modern day New York City. Her job is to track and capture vampires that have attempted escape from their Archangel makers. In Singh’s world,... 
Book of Shadows (Sweep #1) Cate Tiernan Published: Jan. 29, 2001 (Penguin Putnam) Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon Source: purchased Reviewer: Jannelle Rating: 4.5 stars Morgan Rowland has loving parents, a cute younger sister, a stereotypical gorgeous best friend at the top of the popular group, and a nerdy boy best friend who is on the opposite side of the popular spectrum. What seems to be a... 
The Sight (Devil’s Isle #2) Chloe Neill Published: August 16, 2016 (NAL Trade) Purchase: Book Depository or Amazon Review source: copy provided by publisher in exchange for and honest review Reviewed by: Jannelle Rating (out of 5): 4.5 stars Note: While review will be spoiler free, it does make reference to previous books in the series. If you haven’t started yet, check out VBC’s review of The Veil. The...
Pretty much every member of the Vampire Book Club team adores Chloe Neill’s novels. We glom every title she releases. Last year when she launched the Devil’s Isle series, we fell in love with yet another world. We loved the post-apocalyptic New Orleans she crafted in The Veil (read Jannelle’s review), and could not wait for more. Today the sequel The Sight has hit stores (you really should order a copy... 
Firespell (The Dark Elite #1) Chloe Neill Published: Jan. 5, 2010 (Signet) Purchase: Book Depository or Amazon Review source: purchased Reviewed by: Jannelle Rating (out of 5): 4 stars Lily Parker’s parents have gone on sabbatical and shipped her to St. Sophia’s, a boarding school in Chicago, while they work on research in Germany. As she has never been away from her parents and is used to her life in New... 
Fangs for the Memories (Half-Moon Hollow #0.5) Molly Harper Published: November 2, 2015 (Pocket Star) Purchase: Amazon Review source: purchased Reviewed by: Jannelle Rating (out of 5): 3.5 stars Note: While this review will be spoiler free, it does make reference to previous books. If you haven’t started this series yet, check out VBC’s review of Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs (Jane Jameson #1). Fangs for... 
