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Amityville Horrible (Women of the Otherworld #10.5)
Kelley Armstrong (Illustrations by Maurizio Manzleri)
Published: Dec. 10, 2012 (Subterranean Press)
Purchase at: Amazon
Reviewed by: Jo
Rating (out of 5): 4.5 stars
I was more than a little sad when Thirteen, the final installment of Kelley Armstrong’s fantastic Women of the Otherworld series, was released this summer. With the promise at the end that... 
Bitten as a TV show?
Maybe. A Canadian television network has ordered 13 episodes of a new scripted drama Bitten, based on — you guessed it — the Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. Now, you may wonder why this pleases me so much, if I live in the United States. Well, one, it’s always cool to see authors getting their works translated into other platforms, but also there... 
Thirteen (Women of the Otherworld #13)
Kelley Armstrong
Published: July 24, 2012 (Penguin)
Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon
Reviewed by: Jo
Rating (out of 5): 4.5 Stars
One of the things I’ve always thought was great about the Women of the Otherworld series is no matter who was the lead in a particular book, there were always enough cameos and information to know what was going on with... 
In an effort to help you keep that to-read list updated, I’ve compiled the hot urban fantasy and paranormal romance releases for July 2012. All dates are U.S. and tentative.
I’ve included genre classification with each book: UF is urban fantasy, PNR is paranormal romance, F is fantasy and YA is young adult.
JULY 1
Angel Betrayed by Cynthia Eden (The Fallen #2) PNR
Sin’s Dark Caress by Tracy... 
Here’s the deal, readers: I like shifter books, too. I know. Shocking. But while I may be an expert on vampire books, my friend Kelly is the queen bee of shifter novels. Oh, she loves her heroes furry. It made sense to ask her to write up the favorite shifters for part of this week’s ongoing chats about favorite paranormal beasties. Other key things to know about Kelly: she runs the blog... 
Yesterday a reader asked us for suggestions of stand-alone novels. Admittedly, we were at a bit of a loss. It’s more common in urban fantasy and paranormal genres in general to be written in multi-book story arcs.
Some paranormal romance series are written in the same world, but each novel can work as a stand-alone. There are quite a few series that fall in this category, but two of the most popular... 
Update: You have spoken. With 35 percent of the votes, our August group read will be J.A. Saare’s Crimson Moon. Group read details and book review posts coming soon.
August is edging toward us, so we need to select a new book for our group read. For July we talked about Julie Kagawa’s epic fantasy opener The Iron King (review), with discussion points related to A Midsummer Night’s Dream... 
The other night a reader asked us for book recommendations that would be worthy of re-reading. She told us she wanted to limit her budget, so she wanted books that wouldn’t just collect dust. It was all too easy for us to churn out series (and specific novel) suggestions for her. We opened it up to our Twitter followers, too, and many went with the same addictive series we did.
Of course the first words...
