Witches, Weres, and Vamps, Oh MY! discussion

I have reached the end of all recommendations from friends and am unsure of where to start next, below is a list of series that I have enjoyed. Any new ideas will be great.

Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Dark Carpathians,Ghostwalkers and Leopard series by Christine Feehan (did not like the Drake sisters)
Midnight Breed.
Keri Arthur (nikki and michael)
Riley Jenson.
Kim Harrison's Hollows
all the Sookie books
and of course Twilight (who hasn't?)

Hi Sharon,
Based on what you have already read I would recommend the following:
Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost
Women of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong
Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews
Edge series by Ilona Andrews
Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs

Thanks Susan, apart from Kelley Armstrong haven't heard of any of the others so looking forward to trying something new x

I second the Mercy Thompson series :)

My favorite Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance series (in no particular order):
Nora Robert’s The Circle Trilogy
Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson series
Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock series
Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series
Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty Norville series
Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series
Carole Nelson Douglas’s Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator series
Justin Gustainis’s Quincy Morris Supernatural Investigation series
C. E. Murphy’s The Negotiator Trilogy and The Walker Papers series
Christine Warren’s The Others series
Yasmine Galenorn’s Sisters of the Moon/Otherworld series
Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan series
Mercedes Lackey’s Diana Tregarde Investigation series
Laura Anne Gilman's Paranormal Scenes Investigations series
Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series
Seanan McGuire's October Daye series
Jane Lindskold's Breaking the Wall series

FAVS...READ MULTIPLE TIMES:
Mercy Thompson series and Alpha & Omega series by Patricia Briggs (Don't miss the anthology in On the Prowl,which is a prequel to Cry Wolf)
Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews
Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole
Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost
Tairen Soul series by CL Wilson

KEEPERS (GREAT ENOUGH TO RE-READ):
Guild Hunters series and Psy-Changelings series by Nalini Singh
Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Chicagoland Vampires series by Chloe Neill
Cassandra Palmer series and Dorina Basarab Dhampir series by Karen Chance (Don't miss the anthology in On the Prowl, which should be read between Midnight's Daughter and Death's Mistress)...I liked Dory better than Cassie, but Cassie comes first from a timeline perspective
Little Goddess series by Amy Lane
Pride Stories and Magnus Pack by Shelly Laurenston
Demonica books by Larissa Ione
World of Lupi series by Eileen Wilks
Fever and Highlander books by Karen Moning
Argeneau vampire series by Lynsay Sands
Vegas vampire series by Erin McCarthy

ENTERTAINING (ENJOYED THESE BUT PROBABLY WILL NOT RE-READ):
Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian
Dragon Kin series by G.A. Aiken
Guardians of Eternity series by Alexandra Ivy
Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
A Taste of Crimson and the Dirk & Steele series by Marjorie Liu
Black Jewels trilogy and The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop
Jane True series by Nicole Peeler
Meredith Gentry books by Laurell Hamilton
Kara Gillian series by Diana Rowland
Darkyn/Kyndred series by Lynn Viehl
Love at Stake books by Kerrelyn Sparks

If you like vampire stories, why not read Anne Rice? Her vampire books are what kickstarted the trend again back in the day.

Michelle wrote: "If you like vampire stories, why not read Anne Rice? Her vampire books are what kickstarted the trend again back in the day."

I've tried several times to read her books, and just can't get into them at all. I don't know what it is, her writing style I guess.

New here, but have you tried nextreads? It's one of those tools I use when I'm working on readers advisory. It should be available within the options of the online catalog at your local public/university library. Also librarians generally like this part of our jobs as it's a break from helping people print or use the computers :P

That is if these suggestions aren't your cup of tea.

oooo, what is that? Is it an online tool? I"m working on my MLS and that sounds like something that I definitely need in my tool box!

usually NextReads is available as a tool within the OPAC, Tammy. Generally it allows local librarians to make a 'suggestion list' and then email the list to people who are interested in a particular genre.

EbscoHost owns it. So great to see another librarian here! :D Where are you working on your MLS?

NovelList Plus is usually part of the package as well and I confused some of the aspects of that program with NextReads. NovelList lets patrons and librarians to do author read-alikes. It's available as a online database in the OPAC. Or you can find suggestions within the catalog entry for a particular book.

For example... here's a link that everyone should be able to read (to get more info you'd need a HPL Card)

http://catalog.houstonlibrary.org/sea...

I'm working on my degree at Appalachian State University. We don't use OPAC at my school any longer. We switched to Destiny, which is a catalog from Follett.

Would you be able to access something like that through the EbscoHost index?

You know, we've been talking in some of my technology classes about how libraries are woefully behind the times in terms of catalog 2.0! We think someone should write a catalog program that works like Amazon or GoodReads!

You could probably access it within the list of EbscoHost databases, Tammy.

It would be great to have a catalog at work that honestly works like amazon or goodreads as that is what patrons are familiar with. Also ours is so bad about spelling ... it won't make suggestions on titles or authors names if it's misspelled. Lots of times, I wind up searching books on amazon because their search is user-friendly.

Then again, we the recent cutbacks on everything, I'm just happy to have a job at this point and the catalog is the smallest of my issues right now as we are woefully short of reference peeps and there is never enough time to do everything that has to be done. ;)

I'll friend you if you want and we can take this privately as I don't want to go further offtopic here ;)

Hopefully I haven't pissed off everyone.

Michelle wrote: "If you like vampire stories, why not read Anne Rice? Her vampire books are what kickstarted the trend again back in the day."

I have read Anne Rice thanks Michelle forgot to add her as like you say it was 'back in the day'

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, they will keep me going for a while, it is hard to find some of the authors here in the UK so I rely on places like this to suggest books and then i go and track them down on Ebay!

Sharon, since you liked Keri Arthur's "Nikki & Michael" series, which I think was her first, you would probably also enjoy her "Riley Jensen" series. Riley is a twin and 1/2 vamp, 1/2 were. Very cool! The series starts with: Full Moon Rising and ended this year with: Moon Sworn. 9 books total. I was sad to see it end, but she's working on a spin-off. :)

Thanks Steph, I am most of the way through that series, didn't realise that book was the last though, will be sad to lose a good series but sometimes it's nice to know there will bbe some closure, can't wait to get to that one now.

I read it without knowing it was the last one and was sad when I found out. Makes sense though b/c everything did tie up nicely in the end. I'm really looking forward to her spin-off series. She said it's an "offshoot series, set in the same world and featuring Risa, Dia’s little girl. It'll focus more on the Aedh and demons rather than vamps and werewolves." :D

Haven't read the Mercy Thompson series; I'll have to check it out--thanks for the heads up.

I finished Circle of Fire by Keri Arthur. I love her Riley Jensen series and her style of writing, but I didn't care for Circle of Fire. I still want to try out her other series. Destiny Kills was really good.

Right now, I'm reading the Better Part of Darknewss by Kelly Gay. I'm on the second chapter and already I love it! Great set up and first person POV is my fave. It's what I write in.

Mary Abshire
Claiming the Evil Dead

I'm on book 17 Of the Anita Blake Series, having to think what to move on too sents I'm all most done with this series. I'm thinking maybe Immortals after Dark or the Mercy Thompson series not sure yeat.

Angela, I really like Immortals and Mercy! Great news is that both have new books coming out in the next couple of months. Immortals is heavier on the romance and the main character's stories are wrapped up fairly neatly in each book. Mercy's story continues through out the entire series. Let me know if you have any particular questions about either.

Thanks Amanda , I'm looking in to both can't make up my mind. I'm on the last Blake book, taking my time.

The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead is a really good series to check out and the last book of the series came out in December so you don't have to wait for the next book to come out to find out what happens next. Another series that I have loved is Rachel Caine's Morganville series. Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs is also a great series to check out.

I'm reading Mercy Thompson almost done with them, Thinking about the Monganville series next heard a bit about them.

I recommend the following series: (could prob recommend more, but these are the first that come to mind)

Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)
Moon Called (Mercedes Thompson, #1)
Crux (Southern Arcana, #1)
The Willow (The Magical Sword, #1)
Over The Line (Special Investigations Agency, #1)
Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty Norville, #1)
Gentlemen Prefer Succubi (Succubus Diaries, #1)
Blood Price (Victoria Nelson, #1)

I could do the cheesy author thing and recommend my own book, but instead, I'll just let you know you could check it out should you want to. it's up on my Goodreads page. We're talking gypsy legend of the undead, past lives and family secrets.

Hope you find more books to feed your paranormal passion!