You read that headline right. It’s time to start playing favorites here at VBC. The annual Alpha Showdown will be back in May, and we need to know who you want to see in the event.
If you haven’t experienced Alpha Showdown before, it gets a little crazy. Here’s the gist: VBC readers nominate their favorite characters who exemplify alpha status—male or female, leaders, warriors, general badasses—and we place the top 16 vote-getters into an NCAA-style bracket. We’ll have bloggers champion for the different characters and matches will be posted on this site where readers will get to vote on which character advances.
Previous Alpha Showdown champions have included Karen Marie Moning’s Ryodan, Ilona Andrews’ Curran and Moning’s Jericho Z. Barrons. So, you know, mega alphas.
We’re changing a couple things up this year. While previously we limited nominations to characters in books published the 12 months prior to the showdown, it’s hard to determine who counts as a lead character in long-running series. So, this year it’s your favorite regardless of publishing date. That means you’re welcome to nominate anyone provided they’re from a novel with paranormal or supernatural elements (a.k.a paranormal romance and urban fantasy, mostly).
The other is we’re going to make everything a giveaway. Who doesn’t like that part? We’ll be utilizing Rafflecopter widgets to handle nominations (below!) and the actual voting when the Showdown happens. As a matter of fact, we’ll be picking three people who nominate characters for the Alpha Showdown 2014 to receive their choice of any book VBC has reviewed—hundreds of choices! Not too shabby, right? (And, yes, it’s open internationally provided the Book Depository can ship to your location.)
THE DETAILS
Ooooh OK! I nominate:
1. Malkom Slain from Demon from the Dark (Kresley Cole)
2. Zacharel from Wicked Nights (Gena Showalter)
3. Ares from Eternal Rider (Larissa Ione)
GOOD LUCK ALPHAS! 🙂
Kaleb Krychek – Psy-changling series – Nalini Singh
Gabriel from The Chocolate Rose – Laura Florand
Aryal/Quentin from Kinked – Thea Harrison
Gin Blanco – Elemental Assassin, Jennider Estep
Dorina Basarab – Dorina Basarab, Karen Chance
Kate Daniels – Kate Daniels, Ilona Andrews
#1 alpha nomination: Carter from SILENT HEART
#2 alpha nomination: Benjamin from SILENT MADNESS
#3 alpha nomination: Carlisle from TWILIGHT
1) Acheron Parthenopaeus from STYXX & ACHERON
2) Wrath from THE KING
3) Lucian from DARK GUARDIAN
Cameron MacCabe from Down London Road by Samantha Young
Reyes Farrow from the Charlie Davidson Series by Darynda Jones.
Reyes – Charlie Davidson series (Darynda Jones)
Zsadist – Black Dagger Brotherhood series (JR Ward)
Trent – The Hollows series (Kim Harrison)
Barrons-The fever series
Reyes-The Charley Davidson series
Curran-Kate Daniels series
Curran – Kate Daniels
Clayton Danvers – Women of the Otherworld
Eric – Southern Vampire Mysteries
Curran- Kate Daniels series
Judd Lauren- Psy-changeling series
Charles Cornick- Alpha&omega series
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(My 4th would be Venom in the Guild hunter series,then Bran, Barrons, Zsadist, Hawke, Ryodan, Bones, Clay Danvers etc etc………….)
Reyes – Charley Davidson series (Darynda Jones)
Bradwell – Pure series ( Julianna Baggott)
Four – Divergent series (Veronica Roth)
If there’d been a 4th person I’d have added Four too. I LOVE him!!!
Tynan, The Vengelys Series by Aedan Byrnes
Ryodan, Fever series by Karen Marie Moning
Styxx by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Barrons-The fever series
Reyes – Charley Davidson series (Darynda Jones)
Ryodan, Fever series by Karen Marie Moning
1. Tynan Vengelys from the Vengelys Series by Aedan Byrnes
2. Rigor Vengelys from the Vengelys Series by Aedan Byrnes
3. Kane “Tack” Allen from the Dream Man series, Kristen Ashley
Barrons-The fever series
Reyes-The Charley Davidson series
Ryodan-The fever series
Tynan – Vengelys Series by Aedan Byrnes
Rigor – Vengelys Series by Aedan Byrnes
Kane “Tack” Allen – Dream Man Series by Kristen Ashley
Reyes – Darynda Jones First Grave series
Zsadist- JR Ward Black Dagger Brotherhood series
Brock or Teegan – Lara Adrian’s Midnight Breed series
1. Reyes Farrow. Serie CHarley DDavidson by DArynda JOnes
2. Remy trilogia REal. By Katy Evans
1. Reyes Farrow-Charley Davidson Series
2. Four-Divergent Series
3. Katniss-The Hunger Games
Reyes Farrow – Charley Davidson series
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1. Kate Daniels – Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels series
2. Curran – Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels series
3. Myfanwy Thomas – Daniel O’Malley The Rook
reyes farrow- the charley davison series- darynda jones
reyes farrow- the charley davison series- darynda jones
1. Reyes Farrow – Charley Davidson
2. Jude Lauren – Psy/Changeling Series
3. Kaleb Krychek – Psy/Changeling Series
Curran- Kate Daniels
Rhage- Black Dagger Brotherhood
Jude Lauren- Psy/Changeling
1. Ryodan – well, unkillable monster thingy with unparallelled strategic ang talking skills
2. Lothaire (Immortals After Dark) – 3 millenia old vampire who looks like sin reincarnated, and with a mind so complicated only a half deity can truly understand him
3. Cal Leandros – one of the last remained auphe, because he killed all the original born to kill monsters, on the top of saving the world as we know it, he is funny, too
Three of the most brutal and cunning of the fantasy worlds. Who could rule over them?
My entry went wrong somehow. Anyways, I would have wanted to nominate:
October Daye from Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series.
1. BONES!!!! Bones is yummy!!! (night huntress series – Jeaniene Frost)
2. Vlad! Also very yum!!! (Night Prince series – Jeaniene Frost)
3. Reyes (Charley Davidson series – Darynda Jones)
Zsadist. J.R.Ward, Black Dagger Brotherhood #3, Lover Awakened
…And my reason for this nomination is :
“I… What are you saying, Zsadist?” she stammered, even though she’d heard every word.He glanced back down at the pencil in his hand and then turned to the table. Flipping the spiral notebook to a new page, he bent way over and labored on top of the paper for quite a while. Then he ripped the sheet free.His hand was shaking as he held it out. “It’s messy.”Bella took the paper. In a child’s uneven block letters there were three words: I LOVE YOUHer lips flattened tight as her eyes stung. The handwriting got wavy and then disappeared. “Maybe you can’t read it,” he said in a small voice. “I can do it over.” She shook her head. “I can read it just fine. It’s… beautiful.””I don’t expect anything back. I mean… I know that you don’t… feel that for me anymore. But I wanted you to know. It’s important that you knew.” ― J.R. Ward, Lover Awakened