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Your votes were clear this time. With a significant majority in our poll, the February group read is Touch the Dark by Karen Chance. The book is the first in the Cassandra Palmer series. The vampires here are good and bad, the heroine is mortal and you can expect vampire politics aplenty. Are you in to read this urban fantasy series opener with us? Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer #1) Karen Chance... 
From VBC: Welcome to Character Love Letters. We often have our book boyfriends, and as it’s the month of love we’re telling those guys just how we feel. Today Jen tells Zane how she loves him in spite of his cockiness and maybe wants to touch his wings. To my beloved Zane: I wanted to take a few moments to tell you how much I love you. You caught my eye from day one, when I met you in Gentlemen Prefer... 
Guess what starts tomorrow, readers? Character love letters. And it’s going to be epic. We’ve lined up some stellar authors to share their heroes getting all mushy over the heroines, and we have bloggers stopping by throughout the month to profess their often hilarious, sometimes dirty love for their book boyfriends. Expect a letter to show up first thing tomorrow morning. Once Burned Cover Reveal I’ll... 
Thank you Chelsea for having us at the Vampire Book Club and thank your readers for joining us as we talk about our Dark Breed Novels. We thought we’d take the opportunity to explain why you might see writers wandering around, their hair sticking up, talking to themselves…. It’s because stuff like this is usually going on in our heads at any given moment…. When we first started Ascension, book one in the... 
As you may have gathered from my early review of Karina Cooper’s All Things Wicked (which hits stores today), I’m a bit enamored with her Dark Mission series. She has the attributes I look for in all my favorite authors: precise writing, remarkable character development worth getting invested in and both creative and gritty world-building. So, of course, I had to pick her brain on just how New Seattle was... 
Lothaire (Immortals After Dark #12) Kresley Cole Published: Jan. 10, 2012 (Gallery) Purchase at: Book Depository, B&N or Amazon Reviewed by: Candace Rating (out of 5): 5 stars “You know I can do anything. Trust me?” “Can I?” “You alone can trust me.” I’ve read so many books in my life, it would be impossible to get anywhere near an accurate count. Every once in a while, I’ve been lucky enough to read a... 
Married with Zombies (Living with the Dead #1) Jesse Petersen Published: 2010 (Orbit) Purchase at: Book Depository, B&N or Amazon Rating (out of 5): 4 stars I never thought I would describe any portion of a zombie book as cute, but well Married with Zombies is just that. As the tale progresses it takes on a heavier tone, but always juxtaposes the darkness accompanying a zombie infestation with heavy doses... 
All Things Wicked (Dark Mission #3) Karina Cooper Published: Jan. 31, 2012 (Avon) Purchase at: Book Depository, B&N or Amazon Rating (out of 5): 5 stars Note: While this review is free of spoilers for All Things Wicked it makes references to people and places from the prior two novels. If you’re new to the series, please read our review of Blood of the Wicked. The more I read the Dark Mission series, the... 
We’re gearing up for two fun things right now, readers: group read goodness and Character Love Letters. The former is rather straightforward. Next week we’re talking Street Magic and I need you to vote in the Feb. group read poll soon. The latter is made up of awesomeness, full details are coming, but you can get some insight into just what this Character Love Letters thing is right now. Cover reveal:... 
I was born and raised in Alaska, and have been an avid vampire fiction reader since around age nine. I always wondered why vampire stories were set in Europe or New Orleans or Las Vegas. Why would these creatures limit themselves to places where the sun was out ten or twelve hours a day? This thought was most persistent in the winter, when I woke in the dark, went to school/work in the dark, and came home... 
