The second thrilling installment in Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy spinoff series.

Tough, brainy alchemist Sydney Sage and doe-eyed Moroi princess Jill Dragomir are in hiding at a human boarding school in the sunny, glamorous world of Palm Springs, California. The students—children of the wealthy and powerful—carry on with their lives in blissful ignorance, while Sydney, Jill, Eddie, and Adrian must do everything in their power to keep their secret safe. But with forbidden romances, unexpected spirit bonds, and the threat of Strigoi moving ever closer, hiding the truth is harder than anyone thought.

Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Richelle Mead’s breathtaking Bloodlines series explores all the friendship, romance, battles, and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive. In this second book, the drama is hotter, the romances are steamier, and the stakes are even higher.

This electrifying new trilogy blends the best of paranormal and dystopian storytelling in a world where the war is over. And the vampires won.

Humans huddle in their walled cities, supplying blood in exchange for safety. But not even that is guaranteed. Dawn has lost her entire family and now reluctantly serves as the delegate to Lord Valentine, the most powerful vampire for miles. It isn’t until she meets Victor, Valentine’s son, that she realizes not all vampires are monsters….

Darkness Before Dawn is a fresh new story with captivating characters, unexpected plot twists, a fascinating setting, and a compelling voice. Written under the name J. A. London by a talented mother-son team, the trilogy is perfect for fans of True Blood and the House of Night and Morganville Vampires series.

Athena “Stormy” Sterling is coming to Dullsville, and Raven is both excited and panicked in anticipation of Alexander’s little sister’s visit. Alexander tells Raven that she and his sister have a lot in common, but can the mini-Raven be everything she hopes for? Alexander calls her Stormy for a reason.

Stormy’s visit stirs up the perfect immortal whirlwind. Raven is forced to take a good look at what it would really mean to be a vampire in the Sterling family, aside from some of the things she already loves, like shunning the sun and sleeping in a coffin with Alexander. When Raven compares her life with Stormy’s, she can see that it’s not all starry skies and black roses. But Raven knows she’s always wanted to be a vampire.

Alexander is as romantic and dreamy as ever, and though he keeps showing Raven how much he loves her, will she ultimately be able to convince him that it’s the right thing to turn her?

This final chapter of Vampire Kisses’ nocturnal romance will keep all mortal and immortal hearts racing.

The hotly-anticipated twelfth instalment in the Morganville Vampires series

In Last Breath, the rain brought a new and dire threat to Morganville and its vampires… their ancient enemies, the draug. Now, the vampires are fighting a losing war, and it will fall to the residents of the Glass House: Michael, Eve, Shane and Claire, to take the fight to an enemy who threatens to destroy the town, forever.

Lovers of Morganville, rejoice: Black Dawn takes the intrigue, romance and nail-biting suspense of the series to its highest level yet!

Rating: Good Read

Timeless wraps up Gail Carriger’s Soulless series with a bang and some great mystery. It may not have the perfect bow-tied ending that you would like, but she brought her story to a close well, and set herself up to keep exploring this world more with future books to come.

Picking up a few years after Heartless ends, Timeless tells the continuing tales of Alexia, Connall, and Lord Akeldama as they struggle to raise the precocious and unusual Prudence. As we learned at the end of Heartless, when Prudence touches a supernatural creatures she steals their supernaturalness, leaving them human and becoming herself whatever they were. She touches Lord Akeldama: she becomes a mini vampire and he a human man again. She touches her father: she becomes a wolf club, who is often still wearing a very stylish little dress. At the same time the mystery of Alexia’s father and the God-Breaker curse unravels even more, leading Alexia and Connall to Egypt to follow in her father’s footsteps.

A twist Gail offers in this final book is a second narrator: Biffy. I won’t say much of his story, only that we get to see an awful lot of him; his perspective is very well written, intriguing, and exciting; and he carries the story as it continues in London after Alexia leaves for Egypt.

All the other characters you love appear as well: Madame LeFoux and the Countess Nadasday; Beta werewolf Lyall and the ever-charming, ever-annoying gama Channing; Ivy and her husband and children; and of course the ever-reliable, ever-mysterious Floote.

Pushing the boundaries of her world and story farther than before, Gail pushes her characters to reveal more and grow more, until by the end she has almost turned her world on its end—but in a good way. There is good fun and laughs as usual, but Timeless also offers some intense scenes and even some tears from the reader. Not everyone is left unscathed as they have been in the past four books, and the coming future for all Gail’s characters is irrevocably changed by the end events of this book.

A thrilling and laugh-worthy addition to Gail’s world and series, Timeless is the perfect end to Alexia’s adventures, and the best beginning for Prudence and all the others.