Started the KING

Carol and I have just started The King, long awaited and so far does not disappoint!! I have found this images pertaining to it online. Check them out. I see Trez as Terrance Howard, Beth always as Meghan Fox and Layla def could be the blond below. How are they in your mind???

Finished Time Untime

I really liked Ren, aka Renagde, aka some other strange tribal name I can not pronounce and won't even try to spell cause I know I will mess it up royally. I really got into the beginning of this book. I love anything having to do with Native Americans including anything related to Mayan and/or Aztec, so I enjoyed the history lesson, shall we say...I also liked Kateri, Ren's love interest and her part in the story. It was another really creative story that only this author can twist and put together so perfectly. I also liked seeing Nick in action in his new role as the Dark Hunter leader which was a surprise to me since I skipped a couple of books. I really liked Ren, the strong, silent type, loved the studder thought it was sexy as hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, I always get a little caught up in the middle of these books just before the author ties it all together but I forged through to a happy ending.
On to Styxx!

Fang Rating VVVV
-Mon

Finished Ash

Wow, Achreon! Finally! I finished Ash's story, entitled Achreon - how do you really say that anyway? Well, I think this was like the 12th book or so and mostly in a row so I had to take a little break after this one. The writer is starting to get on my nerves with all of her weird names that all sound the same but different, still the steaming scenes and her creativity keep me coming back. Besides, I invested so much not to hear Ash's story, which by the way, I was a little disappointed with the description of his gal, Tory. I liked who she was and what she did but really could of used more physical description. One positive note about this series is that the author always does make the perfect soul mate for her dark hunters, the fact that Tory was Greek and Ash's history and who he was, was basically what she dedicated her life to studying and teaching really made them a great pair. So what I am trying to say is that the couples always end up being perfect for each other. Ash's story was very grim, the whole first half of the book was dedicated to his sad abused childhood and most importantly how he met Artemis and became a God in his own right. The second half took off with the love story. This is probably one of my favorite books of this series maybe just because I felt so close to Ash but I also really enjoyed getting the back story on him in which a LOT of other pieces to the Dark Hunter series came together as well.

Fang Rating VVVV

- Mon

Dani is 19 yrs in BURNED!

To find out more click on link below. Think this book will def be worth the wait!


http://karenmariemoning.blogspot.com/2014/02/kmm-talks-about-iced-burned_20.html

Finished the 4th Angels, Possession!

I just got finished reading Possession which was a really nice break from the Greek mythology I have been trying to stay awake for! lol! I love you Dark Hunters but the shift in gears has been nice especially since J.R. Ward did not disappoint this time and Carol pointed out! We were not too happy with the way the last book ended, even throughout the whole book, I remember it dragging, etc but this book really got things going in the right direction! Sissy got out and is distracting Jim big time! I don't think J.R.Ward will finish this series out without Jim hooking up/falling desperately in love as only Ms. Ward can tell it, with someone and my bet is on Sissy!! In this book, they are living in the scary old masion which towards the end was almost getting reversed in time, getting more and more nice looking, Adrian is still morning Eddie whose body is still in the basement (weird) and who he apparently really loved. Nigel killed himself and so there are only two guards guarding Heaven which is also weakening...I loved Cait and Duke's love story, lots of steam sessions with a great ending but I feel like the book was cut of. I was expecting the next chapter to wrap up or at least give us a glimpse into where Jim was at but nadda. So the ending felt very cut short, I know she was trying to give us a cliff hanger but thought it could have been done better....oh well, guess we have to wait a year! This was a great book that definetly got us all back in the angels game!

Fang Rating VVVV
 - Mon

Finished Possession The Fallen Angel Series!!!!!!!!

Possessions was a very good book, I zipped right thru it.  I was glad to be reading a book by one of my favorite authors JR Ward.  She does not disappoint, to be honest I was a little apprehensive about reading it because I did not like the fact that Adrian had all of Mathias handicaps as a result of the last book.  But Jim finally gets Sissy from Devina and he does so by trading the win.  That was actually the cliffhanger from the last book.  It picks up right were the last one left off.  I love the characters of Duke and Cailyn.  The scenes are steamy in that great JR Ward way.  She keeps you on your toes the whole time because   you still don't know where the book is headed as you read.  The story is interesting and captivating keeps you there but you don't see what it has to do with the soul or who the soul is.  Niel commits suicide which is a curb ball because he was the Archangel in charge so we shall see were this ends up.   And Jim had a face to face with the "Maker"  that seemed to freak him out.  Adrian is still holding on to Eddies body which also seems weird to me.   Time is explained a little more it has only been 3 weeks since the War started and I thought  it had been more like years.  Look forward to the next book.  Til then keep on reading.
Carol-

Burned Release Date pushed back :(

Karen Marie Moning, fav author of the Fever Series has delayed the release date to Dani's #2 book, BURNED until January 2015!!! Sucks but apparently the book is really picking up steam. Below find article and its link which also shows what KMM says Roydan looks like!

http://karenmariemoning.blogspot.com/2014/01/burned-release-date-book-launch-party.html

Release Date, Book Launch Party & Ryodan’s Face

There’ve been rumblings lately—I’m beginning to think you guys are psychic, or perhaps like Dani, you’re sleuthing for clues such as my not announcing the date/place for the launch party—about whether BURNED is really coming out July 22nd, 2014.

I’ve got good news and bad news.

The good news: I’m having a blast writing BURNED, similar to how I felt when I was writing SHADOWFEVER, in a semi-fugue state. The characters are alive and on fire, the story is coming out exactly as I’d planned, and with even more intensity than I’d expected. There’s no doubt in my mind you’re going to love it.

The bad news: BURNED’s release date has been pushed back one final time. The new date is January 2015. The precise day is still being decided (right now it’s the 20th but that may change by a week either way) and as soon as we can, we’ll announce the dates and location for the big bash.

More good news: if BURNED had been released July 22, I was not going to be able to do a book launch party. Now I am.

As I’m sure you’ve realized by my not announcing the book launch date, I was concerned it might get moved again. And I’m sure you want to know why.

I took time off.

Why? I needed it. I won’t go into details of my personal life but I will say while I could have kept pushing, short-term gratification doesn’t yield the kind of long term goals I‘m after and sometimes pushing costs more than it yields, so I did what I needed to do: walked away, rested and got recharged.

It wasn’t an easy decision to make. I love to write. I miss the interaction with you guys when I don’t. I get paid when I write. But I will always put the quality of my writing, and of my life over my bank account. I won’t put out a book that doesn’t meet my standards

I’m back and beyond excited to take you deeper into the Fever world in all the ways you want. BURNED is sexier, has more points of view, including one of the Nine (and not just a few snippets) and is all around hotter in every way, as you’d expect from the title.

A final bit of good news: I’ve never given you a good verbal ‘look’ at Ryodan. Many of you have written to tell me that Stuart Reardon (beautiful man and terrific athlete!) is your vision of Ryodan and I’ve promoted him for you, although I’ve always considered him one of my other immortal badasses.

But I’ve never shared my personal vision of the mysterious, sexy owner of Chester's nightclub (where the privileged few get to visit level 4!) because I didn’t feel I could adequately convey what I see when I close my eyes and begin to structure one of his scenes.

Then I stumbled across Anthony James Hill and was stunned to find the match to the face I’ve been seeing in my head for years. Those eyes, that mouth…

This is my Ryodan, photographed by the fabulous Michael Stokes Photography and Gilles Crofta.

Drop by Anthony James Hill's page and welcome him to the Fever World!

As for BURNED, I’m truly sorry I couldn’t bring it to you faster. If I could have, I would. I can only tell you I think you’re going to find it absolutely worth the wait.

Stay to the lights,
Karen

Have You Seen Dracula the Series.......

Well fellow fangers if you have not had the distinct pleasure of feasting your eyes on some serious eye candy then I suggest you get to it.  I have not been this excited about an impending TV show since the development of BIG E.  This is a new show I caught by accident and I simply love it.  It mixes mystery with love with lust with danger with drama with fangs and voila it marvelous.
I love Jonathan Reys Myers in this role as Vlad the impaler.  If you love the fang as much as I do then you will surely love this.

Carol-

Finished Dark Hunter 10!

This book was about the Dark Hunter, Ravyn who was also a Arcadian, or human who could shift into an animal. The same as our old fren Vane was from an earlier book. This was an interesting twist. It kind of merged the Dark-hunter and Were-hunter worlds. This book also had a lot of important information in it about Styker and Ash. I am not sure how it will all play out at this point but I know the background stories in this book will lead up to something. All of Styker's action sort of came to a head and this book really sets up for what is to come with the way it ended. I am soo glad Ravyn was finally accepted by his family and eventually mated with Susan!! I actually liked Susan somewhat...I also liked Cael and that little side story as well!! A dark hunter married to an appolite who turned him in into a daimon in order to save his life, interesting. I think we will see them again!! And last but not least, what made this book a winner was the return of Nick G. and his converting to Stryker's minion to the dark side!!!!! Did not see it coming!!!

Fang Rating VVVv

- Mon

Finished Dark Hunter 9!

This was Wren, the were-tiger's story and his love interest was Maggie, a senator's daughter. I liked Wren and the dreads definitely had me going!! I liked getting into the were-hunter's lives and felt sorry for poor Wren. This book had time travel and Savitar!! We don't know who exactly Savitar is, kinda like the Ash of the were-hunters? Any who, he is a bad ass who likes to surf! This book gave more background into were-hunter politics and the "safe" houses or sanctuary rules which was good to know also because I can apply the info to future books. That is something the author is very good about. I liked this book a lot especially the ending. A lot of twists I didn't see coming and a good read!

Getting better

Fang Rating VVVv

- Mon

Finished Dark Hunter 8

Dark Hunter 8, Sins of the Night, was the story of Danger, a woman dark hunter from the times of the French Revolution and Alexicon. I am getting his name wrong and don't want to go back and look it up but he is Ash's right hand man and was the first Dark Hunter to become a Shade but Ash felt for him and brought him back to life in his realm. He was the reason why the Artemis created the rule about a Dark Hunter being able to win their soul back if a true lover passed her test. Although this gave more insight into Ash's world and Simi's, this was my least favorite couple. The books seemed jumbled and the lack of descriptions on the two main characters had me reaching. A lot of these books tend to send me in this direction but a good sex scene tends to bring me back. It was interesting to see a woman dark hunter and get introduced to some more but I was happy when I finished.

Fang Rating VVV

- Mon

Finished Dark Hunter 6!

Just a quick note so as not to be forgotten! The 6th book in the Dark Hunter series as we are reading them is Vane!! Vane is a were-hunter who helped out Talon and Sunshine in their book and it ended up killing his sister in the end. This book was very interesting in the fact that it gave us a lot of insight into the weres. How there are two kinds, one that are animals primarily, who can shape shift into humans and then ones that are humans primarily, who can shape shift into animals and that they two species are kind of at war because of it and that both are some how related to Apollities...maybe I will learn more in the upcoming were books to sum it all up. I liked Vane, I liked Bride and her seize 18 big booty, it got a little cheesy at the end for me but hey? What ya gonna do!! Overall I liked this first glimpse into the were world!!

- Mon

Fang Rating VVV

Finished Dark Hunter 7, Seize the Night

Sins of the Night is Valerious and Tabitha's love story and one of my favorites in the whole series! I think I liked this one the best!!! I really like Valerious! I think I am drawn to the Roman look, tall dark and handsome as opposed to the blond Celts, etc. I loved Zarek and I think I liked his bro, Val's story, even more because I could relate to Tabitha and her goth misfit ways more so than Zarek's love interest, Astrid. I really like how you get deeper and deeper into the Dark Hunter saga with each book! Spoiler ***Alerts to follow*** A lot happens in this book which is another reason why it kept me going! Nick dies and becomes a dark hunter? We learn that Ash is a God and that he is Apollymi's son, correct? Still not totally clear on that one...Simi does the deed! I am still confused on the growing different species of Diamons there seems to be, I believe another one was introduced, not Spathis but ones who can't die who serve Apollymi?? There are a lot of Greek names thrown about and a lot of different types of Gods, Apollites, Dark Hunters, Were-Hunters, Diamons and they live in the worlds that begin with a K that I cannot even begin to try and spell so it does get a little confusing. I wish she would just explain them a little better when they are introduced instead of throwing random sentences here and there in battle so you are not sure if you got the correct info and a lot of the names sound alike so that makes it worse! Okay, I used the work a lot a lot of times in this post so I am going to bring it to a close. Short and sweet, absolutely loved the book! loved the lovebirds this go around and LOVED how Zarek gave him his immortality...which I guess Ash set up from the get go...gotta love how this author always brings it full circle in the end. Onward to the weres!

- Mon

Fang Rating VVVV

Finished Dark Hunter 5, Kiss of the Night!

Wulf, Wulf, Wulf. This was the story about Talon's best friend Wulf and it was a very interesting one because it gave sooo much more information on Apollites, Damions, the Destroyer aka Apollymi (surely I am misspelling her name) and Ash's place in the Dark Hunter world, then we have read so far. We are really getting deep into this saga with this book. Wulf falls in love with the last living heiress of Apollo, Cassandra, one who must live because if she dies, so does Apollo and so does the sun, which translates into the end of the world! Wulf is a Viking and anyone who is not immortal will not remember him after they see or speak to him which adds to the depth of his story, his loneliness and his need for an heir since anyone from his bloodline can remember him as well. Cassandra gets pregnant early on and the plot thickens. This book started out good, had some great background information on the Dark Hunter saga but I feel like the author went on some long winded tangents I could have done without. She jumped around a bit at the end and lost me when it came to Wulf and the trickery of his soul versus Morgannie's, who I always picture as Sunshine's grandma by the way, so that is weird. She lost me a bit there and the ending seemed a little far fetched at times although I really like the fangs coming out at the end. Could have used a better description of Wulf too! It was still a sweet and necessary story but I am ready to move on and learn more about the were-hunters! Bring it on Vane and that big booty hoe! Holla!

Fang Rating VVV
- Monica

Finished Dark Hunter 4, Dance with the Devil

This was our black sheep of the group's story, Zarek, the ex-slave with a real bad attitude! He is my favorite so far. To recap very quickly, Zarek's love interest was one of the Fates, Astrid, who was sent to judge Zarek and decide if he was a heartless animal who deserved to die as Artemis proposes. Astrid is blind and can only see if she is touching her wolf/dog Sasha. I really liked this book. It started off with a very interesting plot. I liked how it took place in Alaska in a snow storm and all of the background information we got on Ash and Artemis relationship and learned more about Apollites, and got introduced to more Dark Hunters, including Jess. I was so happy to see the truth come out about Zarek and that he did not really kill the village he was people he was banished to Fairbanks, Alaska for but that Artemis's pet did. This book was one of my favorites, it was a great ride with a lot of twists and Zarek is one sexy motha!!!

Fang Rating VVVV

Finished Dark Hunter 3, Night Embrace!

This was the third book in the Dark Hunter series, Talon's story. I must give it to the author, she is very creative and I never see a lot of the plots coming! Talon's love interest is Sunshine, Spoiler Alert! his reincarnated wife from his Celt days. This, like her other books, Carol and I decided, starts out with a bang and then kind of slows in the middle. It was a bit of a bumpy ride for me and hard to finish and easy to put down at times. It seems like a lot of banging around. I liked all the new info on Archeon aka Ash, Zarek, my fav so far and all of the other Gods. Artemis is Calamus's sister, whose Dad is who? Then Sytxx is Ash's twin brother and the big hitter, Sunshine's grandma is Morrigan! Never saw that coming. I liked all of the connections and getting a history on this tormented hot family of the Gods. I like the new take on fangs and paranormal romance. Makes me want to watch Thor but like I said some of the stories get a little stale at times. Maybe I just wasn't a big fan of Talon, not enough of an asshole for me! lol! Plus, a girl wants a little build up before we go into the never ending hot and steamy scenes. Onward, next up Zarek and it better be good or I may need to take a rest! All and all, the book was still a nice, fast read and big on character development which is a plus in my book.

- Mon

Fang Rating VVV

Burned Teaser!

http://karenmariemoning.blogspot.com/2013/09/burned-teaser-first-burned-teaser.html

Next Season True Blood Dies!

It is official!! Season 7 will be True Blood's last! Thank Godric! I don't think it can be desecrated any more and who wants to watch without Big E??  For details click on link below!

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/official-true-blood-end-date-set-season-7-180200657.html

The End of: True Blood Season 6....

Well fellow Fangers!  The end of TB season 6 provided us with what was probably the best 3 seconds of the entire season.  Because words can not adequately describe why I'll have to show you.  Enjoy!!

 Carol-

The 411: 5 More Fever Books In The Making!!!

I have great news for all those Karen Marie Moning Fans.  There will be 6 more fever books.  Two of which will complete the Dani trilogy, Iced.  The next Dani book will be Burned and it comes out in March.  Then the other four which will be about Mac, Barron's, Cruce, VLane, Unseelie King and the Concubine, Resuming the Fever Series.   So we have lots to look forward to.

Carol-