Explanation of Ratings:

E = Exceptional.  The book (or series)  is absolutely wonderful and we highly recommend it.

VG = Very good.  The book (or series) is quite entertaining and we recommend it.

G = Good.  We are entertained by the story, but it doesn’t take over our attention.  We would probably recommend it to the right reader.

O = Okay.  We are not especially impressed by the story, but still some readers might like it.

P = Book (or series) is heavily focused on plot.  The storyline is very rich.

R = Romance is central to the story.

B = The story is well balanced between plot and romance.

L = Light read.  The story is not very serious or in depth.

H = Heavy on humor.  The story is funny throughout.

X = Story is very graphic with either violence or sex.

Other Series Lists

Lara Adrian – MIDNIGHT BREED

1.  A Kiss of Midnight

2.  Kiss of Crimson

3.  Midnight Awakening

4.  Midnight Rising

5.  Veil of Midnight

6.  Ashes of Midnight

7.  Shades of Midnight

8.  Taken by Midnight

Ilona Andrews – KATE DANIELS

1.  Magic Bites

2.  Magic Burns

3.  Magic Strikes

4.  Magic Bleeds (May 2010)

Kelley Armstrong – WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLD

1.  Bitten

2.  Stolen

3.  Dime Store Magic

4.  Industrial Magic

5.  Haunted

6.  Broken

7.  No Humans Involved

8.  Personal Demon

9.  Living with the Dead

10.  Frost Bitten

11.  Waking the Witch

Keri Arthur – RILEY JENSON GUARDIAN (covered on LBP ep. 44 – 11/21/09)

1.  Full Moon Rising

2.  Kissing Sin

3.  Tempting Evil

4.  Dangerous Games

5.  Embraced by Darkness

6.  The Darkest Kiss

7.  Deadly Desire

8.  Bound to Shadows

9.  Moon Sworn (May 2010)

L.A. Banks – VAMPIRE HUNTRESS LEGEND

1.  Minion

2.  The Awakening

3.  The Hunted

4.  The Bitten

5.  The Forbidden

6.  The Damned

7.  The Forsaken

8.  The Wicked

9.  The Cursed

10.  The Darkness

11.  The Shadows

12.  The Thirteenth

0.  Dawn and Darkness (A graphic novel? Aug. 2010)

L.A. Banks – CRIMSON MOON

1.  Bad Blood

2.  Bite The Bullet

3.  Undead on Arrival

4.  Cursed to Death

5.  Never Cry Wolf (March 2010)

Michele Bardsley – BROKEN HEART, OKLAHOMA (Vampire Mom Series)

1.  I’m the Vampire, That’s Why

2.  Don’t Talk Back to Your Vampire

3.  Because Your Vampire Said So

4.  Wait Till Your Vampire Gets Home

5.  Over My Dead Body

6.  Come Hell or High Water

Gerry Bartlett – GLORY ST. CLAIRE (covered on LBP ep. 38  - 8/10/09) Tamara rate this series as VG, R, L, X

1.  Real Vampires Have Curves

2.  Real Vampires Live Large

3.  Real Vampires Get Lucky

4.  Real Vampires Don’t Diet

5.  Real Vampires Hate Their Thighs

Patricia Briggs – MERCY THOMPSON (covered on LBP ep. 32 – 6/22/09) Tamara rates this series as E, P, B

1.  Moon Called

2.  Blood Bound

3.  Iron Kissed

4.  Bone Crossed

5.  Silver Borne (March 2010)

Jim Butcher – DRESDEN FILES

1.  Storm Front

2.  Fool Moon

3.  Grave Peril

4.  Summer Knight

5.  Death Masks

6.  Blood Rites

7.  Dead Beat

8.  Proven Guilty

9.  White Knight

10.  Small Favor

11.  Turn Coat

12.  Changes (April 2010)

Rachel Caine – WEATHER WARDEN

1. Ill Wind

2. Heat Stroke

3. Chill Factor

4. Windfall

5. Firestorm

6. Thin Air

7, Gale Force

8. Cape Storm

9. Total Eclipse (Aug. 2010)

Kresley Cole – IMMORTALS AFTER DARK

1.  The Warlord Wants Forever (in Playing Easy to Get)

2.  A Hunger Like No Other

3.  No Rest for the Wicked

4.  Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night

5.  Dark Needs at Night’s Edge

6.  Dark Desires After Dusk

7.  Kiss of a Demon King

8.  Pleasure of a Dark Prince

9.  Demon From the Dark

MaryJanice Davidson – QUEEN BETSY (covered on LBP ep. 35  – 7/20/09) Tamara rates this series as VG, B, L, H, X

1.  Undead and Unwed

2.  Undead and Unemployed

3.  Undead and Unappreciated

4.  Undead and Unreturnable

5.  Undead and Unpopular

6.  Undead and Uneasy

7.  Undead and Unworthy

8.  Undead and Unwelcome

9.  Undead and Unfinished (July 2010)

P. N. Elrod – VAMPIRE FILES

1. Bloodlist

2. Lifeblood

3.  Blood Circle

4.  Art in the Blood

5.  Fire in the Blood

6.  Blood on the Water

7.  A Chill in the Blood

8.  The Dark Sleep

9.  Lady Crymsyn

10.  Cold Streets

11.  A Song in the Dark

12.  Dark Road Rising

Christine Feehan  – DARK

1.  Dark Prince

2.  Dark Desire

3.  Dark Gold

4.  Dark Magic

5.  Dark Challenge

6.  Dark Fire

7.  Dark Dream (in After Twilight)

8.  Dark Legend

9.  Dark Guardian

10.  Dark Symphony

11.  Dark Descent (in The Only One)

12.  Dark Melody

13.  Dark Destiny

14.  Dark Hunger (in Hot Blooded)

15.  Dark Secret

16.  Dark Demon

17.  Dark Celebration: A Carpathian Reunion

18.  Dark Possession

19.  Dark Curse

20.  Dark Slayer

21.  Dark Peril

Jeaniene Frost – NIGHT HUNTRESS (covered on LBP ep. 34  - 7/13/09) Tamara rates this series as E, P, B, X

1.  Halfway to the Grave

2.  One Foot in the Grave

3.  At Grave’s End

4.  Destined for an Early Grave

Jeaniene Frost – NIGHT HUNTRESS WORLD (covered on LBP ep. 52 – 3/16/10)

1.  First Drop of Crimson (Tamara rates this book as VG, R, B, X)

2.  Eternal Kiss of Darkness (July 27th, 2010)

Diana Gabaldon – OUTLANDER

1.  Cross Stitch

2.  Dragonfly in Amber

3.  Voyager

4.  The Drums of Autumn

5.  The Fiery Cross

6.  A Breath of Snow and Ashes

7.  An Echo in the Bone

Tate Hallaway – GARNET LACEY

1.  Tall, Dark and Dead

2.  Dead Sexy

3.  Romancing the Dead

4.  Dead if I do

5.  Honeymoon of the Dead (May 2010)

Laurell K. Hamilton – ANITE BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER (Tamara rates the first six books as VG, P, X)

1.  Guilty Pleasures

2.  The Laughing Corpse

3.  Circus of the Damned

4.  The Lunatic Café

5.  Bloody Bones

6.  The Killing Dance

7.  Burnt Offerings

8.  Blue Moon

9.  Obsidian Butterfly

10.  Narcissus in Chains

11.  Cerulean Sins

12.  Incubus Dreams

13.  Micah

14.  Danse Macabre

15.  The Harlequin

16.  Blood Noir

17.  Skin Trade

18.  Flirt

19.  Bullet (June 2010)

Laurell K. Hamilton – MEREDITH GENTRY

1.   A Kiss of Shadows

2.  A Caress of Twilight

3.  Seduced By Moonlight

4.  A Stroke of Midnight

5.  Mistral’s Kiss

6.  A Lick of Frost

7.  Swallowing Darkness

8.  Divine Misdemeanors

Kim Harrison – RACHEL MORGAN (covered on LBP ep. 48 - 1/24/10) Tamara rates this series as E, P, B

1.  Dead Witch Walking

2.  The Good, the Bad, and the Undead

3.  Every Which Way But Dead

4.  A Fistful of Charms

5.  For a Few Demons More

6.  The Outlaw Demon Wails

7.  White Witch, Black Curse

8.  Black Magic Sanction

Sherrilyn Kenyon – DARK-HUNTER

1.  Fantasy Lover

2.  The Beginning (in Sins of the Night)

3.  Dragonswan

4.  Night Pleasures

5.  Night Embrace

6.  Phantom Lover (in Midnight Pleasures)

7.  A Dark-Hunter Christmas (in Dance with the Devil)

8.  Kiss of the Night

9.  Night Play

10.  Winter Born (in Stroke of Midnight)

11.  Seize the Night

12.  Sins of the Night

13.  Second Chances

14.  Unleash the Night

15.  The Dark Side of the Moon

16.  A Hard Day’s Night-Searcher (in My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding)

17.  Until Death Do We Part (in Love at First Bite)

18.  The Dream Hunter

19.  Upon the Midnight Clear

20.  Devil May Cry

21.  The Dark-Hunter Companion

22.  Dream Chaser

23.  Acheron

24.  One Silent Night

25.  Dream Warrior

26.  Bad Moon Rising

27.  No Mercy

Katie MacAlister – DARK ONE

1.  A Girl’s Guide to Vampires

2.  Sex and the Single Vampire

3.  Sex, Lies, and Vampires

4.  Even Vampires Get the Blues

5.  Bring Out Your Dead (in Just One Sip)

6.  The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires

7.  Zen and the Art of Vampires

8.  Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang

Richelle Meade – GEORGINA KINCAID

1. Succubus Blues

2. Succubus on Top

3. Succubus Dreams

4. Succubus Heat

5. Succubus Shadows (April 2010)

Richelle Mead – DARK SWAN

1. Storm Born

2. Thorn Queen

Karen Marie Moning – FEVER (covered on LBP ep. 39 -  8/18/09)

1.  Darkfever

2.  Bloodfever

3.  Faefever

4.  Dreamfever

5.  Shadowfever (Dec. 2010)

Karen Marie Moning – HIGHLANDER

1.  Beyond the Highland Mist

2.  To Tame a Highland Warrior

3.  The Highlander’s Touch

4.  Kiss of the Highlander

5.  The Dark Highlander

6.  The Immortal Highlander

7.  Spell of the Highlander

Jill Myles – SUCCUBUS DIARIES (covered on LBP ep. 49 – 2/9/2010)

1.  Gentlemen Prefer Succubi

2.  Succubi Like it Hot

Michelle Rowen – IMMORTALITY BITES (covered on LBP ep. 45 - 12/8/09) Tamara rates the first 3 books as VG, R, B, H, L

1.  Bitten and Smitten

2.  Fanged and Fabulous

3.  Lady and the Vamp

4.  Stakes and Stilettos

5.  Tall, Dark, and Fangsome

Lynsay Sands – ARGENEAU FAMILY

1. A Quick Bite (Tamara rates this book as VG, R, L, H)

2.  Love Bites

3.  Single White Vampire

4.  Tall, Dark and Hungry

5.  A Bite to Remember

6.  Bite Me If You Can

7.  The Accidental Vampire

8.  Vampires Are Forever

9.  Vampire, Interrupted

10.  The Rogue Hunter

11.  The Immortal Hunter

12.  The Renegade Hunter

Kerrelyn Sparks – LOVE AT STAKE

1.   How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire

2.  Vamps and the City

3.  Be Still My Vampire Heart

4.  The Undead Next Door

5.  All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire

6.  Secret Life of a Vampire

7.  Forbidden Nights with a Vampire

8.  The Vampire and the Virgin

9.  Eat Prey Love

Carrie Vaughn – KITTY NORVILLE

1.  Kitty and the Midnight Hour

2.  Kitty Goes to Washington

3.  Kitty Takes a Holiday

4.  Kitty and the Silver Bullet

5.  Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand

6.  Kitty Raises Hell

7.  Kitty’s House of Horrors

8.  Kitty Goes to War

J. R. Ward – BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD

1.  Dark Lover

2.  Lover Eternal

3.  Lover Awakened

4.  Lover Revealed

5.  Lover Unbound

6.  Lover Enshrined

7.  Lover Avenged

8.  Lover Mine (April 2010)

Young Adult

Rachel Caine- MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES (YA) (covered on LBP ep. 49 – 2/9/2010) Tamara rates this series as E, P, B, H

1.  Glass Houses

2.  Dead Girl’s Dance

3.  Midnight Alley

4.  Feast of Fools

5.  Lord of Misrule

6.  Carpe Corpus

7.  Fade Out

8.  Kiss of Death (May 4 2010)

9.  Ghost Town (Nov. 2010)

P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast – HOUSE OF NIGHT (YA) (covered on LBP ep. 41 - 8/31/09)

1.  Marked

2.  Betrayed

3.  Chosen

4.  Untamed

5.  Hunted

6.  Tempted

7.  Burned (2010)

Lauren Kate – FALLEN

1. Fallen

2. Torment (Oct. 2010)

Richelle Mead – VAMPIRE ACADEMY (YA)

1.  Vampire Academy

2.  Frostbite

3.  Shadow Kiss

4.  Blood Promise

5.  Spirit Bound

Stephenie Meyer – TWILIGHT SERIES (YA) (covered on LBP ep. 37 – 8/3/09) Tamara rates this series as E, R

1.  Twilight

2.  New Moon

3.  Eclipse

4.  Breaking Dawn

Chloe Neill – CHICAGOLAND VAMPIRES (YA)

1.  Some Girls Bite

2.  Friday Night Bites

3.  Twice Bitten (July 2010)

Chloe Neill – DARK ELITE (YA)

1.  Firespell

2. Hexbound (Jan. 2011)

L. J. Smith – VAMPIRE DIARIES (YA) (covered on LBP ep. 40  – 8/24/09) Tamara rate this series as VG, B

1.  The Awakening

2.  The Struggle

3.  The Fury

4.  Dark Reunion

5.  The Return: Nightfall

6.  The Return: Shadow Souls