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Early Review: One for the Wicked by Karina Cooper (Dark Mission #5)

One for the Wicked (Dark Mission #5) Karina Cooper Published: April 30, 2013 (Avon) Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon Reviewed by: Chelsea Rating (out of 5): 4 stars Note: This review does not contain spoilers. (Yay!) However, it does make reference to events from earlier books. While I’ve tried to minimize spoilers for those titles, I do suggest you begin with the first Dark Mission novel. Read...

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Excerpt from Karina Cooper’s Wicked Lies (& an Epic Giveaway)

Karina Cooper’s Dark Mission series is one of my favorites. You’ll find it on the VBC paranormal romance recommendations page for a reason. All her couples spark with sexual tension. It doesn’t matter if they’re running from the bad guys, trying to decide which side they’re on, saving lives or, you know, making soup. The chemistry is there. When I finished Sacrifice the...

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Karina Cooper Guest Post: Simon’s love letter to Parker

I adore Karina Cooper’s Dark Mission books. They’re dark paranormal romance. There’s magic and witches and government shenanigans. Oh, and lots of tension-fueled romance. The final book, One for the Wicked, comes out in April, but there will be a sexy, all-money-goes-to-charity novella called Wicked Lies releasing on March 5. It features Jonas (you’ll see him below) and gets him an...

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Top 10 Swoon-Worthy Heroes (2012)

Every year, I compile the standard year-end best books list—read 2012′s best reads list—and it’s a hard task narrowing things down. What’s harder though is picking the ten heroes from novels published this year to make my annual swoon-worthy list. Last year Eve Silver’s Lokan took top honors and the year before Stacia Kane’s Terrible was causing fevers all over the...

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Review: Sacrifice the Wicked by Karina Cooper (Dark Mission #4)

Sacrifice the Wicked (Dark Mission #4) Karina Cooper Published: Sept. 25, 2012 (Avon) Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon Reviewed by: Chelsea Rating (out of 5): 4.5 stars Note: This review, as always, is spoiler free for the current title. However, it assumes you’ve read the earlier books in the Dark Mission series. If you haven’t, please check out my review of Blood of the Wicked...

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Karina Cooper on Enemies to Lovers: Parker and Simon

Note from Chelsea/VBC: I adore Karina Cooper’s novels. Her Dark Mission series offers excellent world building with a huge wallop of sexy. I strongly suggest starting with the first book in the series Blood of the Wicked (VBC review), and continuing from there. Today Karina agreed to stop by and talk about the volatile nature of the couple in Sacrifice the Wicked (Dark Mission #4): Parker and Simon....

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5 Heroes who make us see fireworks

It’s Independence Day in the United States. Typically, this is celebrated by eating foods cooked on a grill and enjoying fireworks. (And probably also complaining about how hot and/or sticky it is outside and trying to find the bug spray in your purse.) But this is Vampire Book Club. I can’t show you pretty explosions in the sky. I can however, recommend five heroes from books released in 2012...

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Auction: Signed set of Dark Mission novels from Karina Cooper and Character Name [Books Fighting Cancer]

If category romance and urban fantasy had a baby, Karina Cooper would be its proud mama. I fell head-over-heels for her Dark Mission novels, and now you have the chance to not only get signed copies of the first three books, but the highest bidder will also get a character named after them in the fifth Dark Mission novel. The highest bidder will take home: Signed copy of Blood of the Wicked (VBC...

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Karina Cooper Q&A & Giveaway: Magic, Seattle and happily-ever-afters

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...

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Early Review: All Things Wicked by Karina Cooper (Dark Mission #3)

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...