Tag: book club
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In this first section of Dark Hope by Christine Feehan, we’re introduced to Silke and Benedek, the dark and dangerous world they inhabit, and the stakes that drive the plot. There’s a lot of setup—maybe too much—and while I love a well-built world, I found myself wading through pages of explanation instead of feeling immersed…
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I Love Vampire Novels is excited to bring you this excerpt from My Familiar Stranger, by New York Times Bestselling Author, Victoria Danann. This is BOOK ONE in the five-time, award-winning paranormal romance series, Knights of Black Swan. What are you doing out here, Baka?” Somehow, encountering him “in the wild” made him seem more…
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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our August pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! This month, we’re hopping into Immortal Longings by #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong. And this is her first adult epic fantasy. She’s known for writing Shakespeare retellings full of angst, violence, tension, romance, and gruesome realities. You know,…
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We’re celebrating Leigh Bardugo in February since we’re reading Ninth House for our Facebook live ILVN Book Club event on February 28th. To help guide readers as they enter this world of dark academia, secret societies, murder mysteries, and underhanded conspiracies, we’ve broken down the characters from the Alex Stern series below. (image credit: Jasmin…
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Hello, lovely readers! We’re back with our February pick for ILVN’s 2023 Reading Challenge! And we’ve chosen a book by multi-list best-selling author Leigh Bardugo: Ninth House. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early…
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Announcing our new reading challenge for 2023! This is our first reading challenge, so we’re really excited to share this with our reader friends. We know how easy it is to get obsessed with reading challenges and putting this one together has been next-level fun! We have twelve prompts, all of them vague enough that…