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Our top books of 2010 was posted early enough to be able to use as a shopping list. That means we’re at the end of the year without a nice wrap-up list. Really, it’s a bit embarrassing. So, what do we have in store? A list we know several of you will feel the need to argue with in the comments. (We actually really love that, by the way.)
TOP 10 SWOON-WORTHY HEROES
In fairness, we’re using... 
This year we fell in love with several new authors, found new series and even decided we could really get into steampunk. We’ve narrowed the list down to these gems. All the books on this list are ones we’ve told friends, family and random people at the bookstore about. These are the books we tell you are musts for your to-read piles. As a matter of fact, print it out and make it a... 
Yesterday a couple blog friends were talking about a book on Twitter. I caught the middle of the conversation focused on how Spaz P threw the damn book across the room. Being a reading masochist, I couldn’t help but ask what book. She and Nat (Wicked Lil Pixie) were chatting about the fantastic agony-inducing Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson, specifically the fourth book City of Souls. Hearing that... 
Update: Thanks for the overwhelming response to the contests. We’ve selected our winners — Jessica and Beleth — and both have claimed their prizes. Keep an eye out. We have many more contests coming up.
Wow! We just hit 500 followers via Google Friend Connect (not that the 1,200+ of you on Twitter aren’t favorites, too) and had to celebrate.
Thank you so much for reading the blog.... 
The Iron Duke (Iron Seas #1)
Meljean Brook
Published: Oct. 5, 2010
Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon
Rating (out of 5): 4.5 stars
If we were to merge the alpha overtones of Gone With the Wind, the swagger of Sherlock Holmes, the post-catastrophic world of Downside and a bunch of microscopic machines, we would get The Iron Duke. (And, yes, it really is that awesome.)
Rhys, known to all those other than...
We knew this day would come. On the release day for Stacia Kane’s City of Ghosts, the third book in her Downside Ghosts series (review), we listed the early symptoms of Terrible Fever.
The condition is a result of overwhelming love for or obsession with Terrible, an enforcer and love interest, in the series. In the weeks following City of Ghosts‘ release there has been a mass outbreak of... 
City of Ghosts
Stacia Kane
Published: July 27, 2010
Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon
Rating (out of 5): 5 stars
(If it wouldn’t ruin the scale, we’d go seven stars on this one.)
After we finished Unholy Magic, the second Downside Ghosts book, we said how it was even better than the series opener Unholy Ghosts (review). Stacia Kane has again taken her dark urban fantasy series to new... 
We gots Terrible Fever, aye? Vampire Book Club true friend. Takes care of readers, dig? We gives you the tells.
We suck at Downspeak. So, let’s just say we’re incredibly excited for today’s release of City of Ghosts, the third installment in Stacia Kane’s Downside Ghosts series. (Read reviews of the first two books here and here, or just read our Q&A with Stacia.)
In reading... 
Ed. note: Unholy Magic is the second in Stacia Kane’s excellent urban fantasy Downside Ghosts series. The first book is Unholy Ghosts (our review). We’re currently giving away copies of both books, you can enter here. Or just read our Q&A with Stacia Kane.
Unholy Magic
Stacia Kane
Published: July 6, 2010
Purchase at: The Book Depository or Amazon
Rating (out of 5): 5 stars
In Unholy Magic,... 
June 2013 New Releases
