Infinite Days - Rebecca Maizel ... and a House of Night Series Rant

Uggh!!! Look at this Gorgeous book! It is even more stunning in person, the whole cover glitters, and wow. This cover is amazing artwork. I love how it is so classic looking yet the F in infinite is slightly leaking blood. UGHHH!

Why am I uggghinngg?? I back of the book is amazing too! It reads this .....


"Throughout all my histories, I found no one I loved more than you...no one."

Those were some of Rhode's last words to me. The last time he would pronounce his love. The last time I would see his face.It was the first time in 592 years I could take a breath. Lay in the sun. Taste.
Rhode sacrificed himself so I, Lenah Beaudonte, could be human again. So I could stop the blood lust. I never expected to fall in love with someone else that wasn't Rhode.But Justin was...daring. Exciting. More beautiful than I could dream.
I never expected to be sixteen again...then again, I never expected my past to come back and haunt me...


Also the book says in parentheses online (Vampire Queen). Uber coolness. This book was horrible! I couldn't make myself read it and I really really wanted to. I still want. Has anyone else read it and had a different opinion? Please tell me if so. If you have a copy and you loved the book so much you really want me to read it, if someone donates it I will promise to read it. I had to return my copy to the library because I was tired of the frustration.

It seemed so utterly ... trying too hard. Yes I get it, she hasn't been awake in 100 years. Thats no reason to spend the rest of the book (or as far as I read), explaining why she woke up when her alarm clock went off (because she read the directions on that silly machine) or how she is learning to talk like normal teenagers.

I haven't cringed so hard since the house of night series novel 'Hunted' or 'Tempted'. They are all blurring together. Whichever book it was that finally got to the point where Zoey had so many boys that it no longer became nightbiting and like you actually cared who she ended up with but just pathetic. Horrible writing and I am ashamed at that family churning out books every 5 days. (estimate). Seriously, in the book I gave up reading that series on, she had 4 guys that I can remember. Including the evil but hot whatever his name is that she was bound to or whatever. Then Erick, then her human bf, then the guy with the crossbow that saved her that I think was a dead fledgling. At some point it stops being romantic. Oh and the 'twins', the one white girl and one black. Yeah, your really hip and in with whats going on. Oh, and the gay guy. What is she missing in these novels besides a plot?

Vamps - Nancy Collins

Now this was a fun read. Cliquey, rich schoolgirl vampires, with cat fights. It’s really obvious where they are going with this story, but hey, all books can’t be cliffhangers I guess. All in all a fun read.

Here is Amazons product description

" When the sun goes down, New York's true elite all head to one place: Bathory Academy, where the young ladies of the finest vampire families are trained in shapeshifting and luring their prey.

Bathory's reigning queen, Lilith Todd, is the daughter of a powerful vampire businessman, and she knows exactly what she wants from life. She wants to look beautiful for eternity and party till the sun comes up with her gorgeous boyfriend, Jules. And she doesn't want any New Blood upstarts standing in her way.

Enter Cally Monture, an unexpected threat from a trash zip code. When their first meeting leads to tragic results, Lilith is hungry for revenge."

Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson, Book 5) - Patricia Briggs

If I haven't said it before, I'll say it now. The Mercy Thompson series starts out slow in the first book or two, but it really gets engaging after that. The fourth and fifth book have especially kept my attention, and since I haven't reviewed all of the books, I don't want to give anything away in this one except to say that while Mercy has made her choice between Samuel and Adam, Brigg's still manages to keep things interesting and she is managing to get wittier with every book.

In this series is constant drama between the vampires, werewolves and fae, and Mercy somehow gets on everyone's bad side, which is unfortunate for her since she's a mainly harmless shifter (coyote).

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side - Beth Fantaskey

This novel which I read awhile awhile ago still has me periodically searching the web for a follow up novel or other new books from Beth Fantaskey. This is one of my favorites, it is beautifully written and is a great escape from reality. Since I am a little rusty on the details I'll post Publishers Weekly summary instead of my own. This is a MUST READ!

From Publishers Weekly:
A romance involving a high school girl and a handsome vampire may sound a little too familiar, yet this first novel quickly bursts ahead of the pack of Twilight-wannabes. Down-to-earth mathlete Jessica Packwood is completely horrified when, a few months shy of her 18th birthday, a Romanian named Lucius Vladescu shows up on her doorstep, claiming that he and she are vampire royalty betrothed to each other since infancy—what's worse, her adoptive parents verify the betrothal story and explain that her birth parents identified themselves as vampires, too. Fantaskey makes this premise work by playing up its absurdities without laughing at them, endowing Jessica with a coolly ironic sensibility and Lucius with old-world snobberies that Jessica's girlfriends find irresistible. Jessica's laidback parents serve as foils for imperious Lucius (Can I ever again be happy in our soaring Gothic castle after walking the halls of Woodrow Wilson High School, a literal ode to linoleum? he asks sarcastically); a scene at a steakhouse where the vegan Packwoods meet the carnivorous Vladescus is first-rate comedy. The romance sizzles, the plot develops ingeniously and suspensefully, and the satire sings.