What I'm Reading

"The Summoning" by Kelley Armstrong.
Exerpt from Back Cover:
Chloe Saunders used to have a relatively normal life. But now she finds herself in some really strange situations because: *she suddenly starts seeing dead people. *she gets locked up in a group home for unstable teens. * the group home isn't what it seems...


I really liked this book, but in a way I felt like it was a cop-out, because the author is making it a trilogy, yet the book just ended on a cliff-hanger, and it felt like the story was only half-told. We were just starting to get to know everyone and figure out what was going on, and root for romance and all that. Still, I will read the sequel. It was fun.
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"Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter, Book 1") by Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita is an "animator," meaning that her job is to raise zombies (like to find out who they wanted in their will, or who killed them, etc.) But she also works with the police to track supernatural killers, and ends up fighting a lot of vampires and gets into a lot of dangerous messes. It wasn't the best book I've ever read, but it was definitely entertaining, and I've already started the sequel: "The Laughing Corpse."

Amazon.com Review
Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don't get too nasty. Now someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees--with a bit of vampiric arm-twisting--to help figure out who and why.

Trust is a luxury Anita can't afford when her allies aren't human. The city's most powerful vampire, Nikolaos, is 1,000 years old and looks like a 10-year-old girl. The second most powerful vampire, Jean-Claude, is interested in more than just Anita's professional talents, but the feisty necromancer isn't playing along--yet. This popular series has a wild energy and humor, and some very appealing characters--both dead and alive.

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Field of Blood by Eric Wilson (Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy)

I picked this one up because it just seemed really interesting, but I haven't started it yet (beyond reading the first chapter at the bookstore). Here is what the back says:

The Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy takes readers on a riveting jopurney, as imaginative fiction mels with biblical and archaeological history.

from Amazon:
The suicide of Judas Iscariot in 30 A.D. left his blood seeping into the soil of the Field of Blood, in Aramaic the Akeldama. When this same field is disturbed by work crews outside Jerusalem in 1989, a clan of supernatural Collectors is released from the ancient burial chambers. Infused with Judas's enmity, they seek to corrupt and destroy.

Gina Lazarescu has always felt like she didn't quite belong. But a bizarre accident with a delivery van leaves her questioning if the differences aren't more significant than she realized. When a man she met as a young girl in Romania reappears with a fantastic tale of immortality, Gina must decide whether to believe or to ignore what she's seeing.

Regardless of what she decides, she's headed for an unavoidable collision with the Akeldama.

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And finally, Corinne reminded me that Untamed: A House of Night Novel comes out tomorrow. Yay!