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[Note from VBC: We're very lucky to have Kelly from Reading the Paranormal on the blog again today. This time she's reviewing some steampunk goodness for VBC.]
The Doomsday Vault (Clockwork Empire #1)
Steven Harper
Published: Nov. 2011 (Roc)
Purchase at: Book Depository, B&N or Amazon
Rating (out of 5): 4.5 stars
Review by: Kelly from Reading the Paranormal
There are a couple of things you need to... 
I write supernatural crime fiction, commonly put on the shelves as urban fantasy. Most of you who read the blog here are quite familiar with the genre. Frequently, the themes run toward the heroines and the heroes, who the favorites are, why they kick ass, and who the preferred choice would be to hop into bed with. Chelsea mentioned that villains do not get much air time here, so I figured that would make... 
Hi, Everyone!
Thanks for letting me drop by Vampire Book Club today to talk about our upcoming release, The Isis Collar. This is book 4 in our Blood Singer series, which features Celia Graves, a former vanilla human bodyguard who was attacked and turned into an Abomination. She’s part vampire—which in Celia’s world is NOT a good thing. Vampires become feral at death, like rabid animals. They lose... 
From VBC: The new V.C. Andrews* novel Into the Darkness boasts some serious sexual tension and dives into the balance between desire and obsession. It also focuses on what is and isn’t real. Today, in our final Character Love Letter, we have the hero of Into the Darkness, Brayden, tacking the painful separation from heroine Amber. And we’re giving away a copy of the book. Read on to swoon.... 
From VBC: Character Love Letters is beginning to wind down, and I knew you would be ready for more love for the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Today we have a love letter to one of the most beloved Brothers, Tohrment. His book, Lover Reborn, comes out next month and to say it’s anxiously awaited would be an understand.
Dear Tohrment,
I was always afraid to speak my love for you because, well, you have... 
From VBC: Our reviewer Candace loved Laura Wright’s third Mark of the Vampire book Eternal Captive. Hero Lucian stole her heart. Well, if her review wasn’t enough to convince you to pick up the book, this post will. Today Laura Wright has provided VBC with Lucian’s love letter to the book’s heroine Bronwyn.
My Princess,
I was asked to write this letter.
A LOVE letter it’s... 
From VBC: It’s hard not like a ruthless and devoted Viking vampire. Just ask Fiktshun, who wrote the Character Love Letter to him. Like me she can’t help but want Sookie to always pick Eric over Bill in Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series. Plus, he’s a hottie to the point the closest they could get to play him on TV was the jaw-droppingly delicious Alexander Skarsgard. Read... 
Delilah S. Dawson’s forthcoming novel Wicked as They Come (pre-order for March 27 release) brings the sexy while merging steampunk and paranormal romance. We’ve got a heroine, Tish Everett, transported to a surreal world where a charming (and fanged!) proprietor of a magical traveling circus has been waiting for her. As part of our month-long Character Love Letters series, we have his letter to... 
From VBC: It’s Valentine’s Day, and since my favorite book boyfriend is Zsadist, we’re talking about him today. I like ‘em broody and conflicted. Out of the kindness of my heart (and my woefully full schedule), I agreed to let Louise borrow Zsadist for the day in the name of Character Love Letters. In her love letter to the scarred Black Dagger Brotherhood member, she’ll... 
From VBC: Like we could have a Character Love Letters feature and not write to the champion of our Alpha Showdown? Pssh! Bells says what we all think to Barrons in the letter below. She tells him he’s an arrogant jerk, but we love him for it. Remember why you wanted to say his name by reading her letter to Jericho Z. Barrons.
Dear Barrons,
Let me start this letter off by saying… you rock my... 
