Reading “Magic Bleeds” by Ilona Andrews.
loooove the Kate Daniels series set in Atlanta. Bad ass female character who is strong and fallible.
ps, I haven’t found out who the necromancer vampire is so Don’t Spoil It!
favorite part of the book so far; Miss Nash is a bad ass cop who’s having a romantic hot tub with her boyfriend in a hotel. A floozy tries to get between her and her boyfriend. “It seems that the young woman made some indelicate suggestion of a threesome. Nobody is quite sure what happened next, but everybody agrees it was damn fast. When (the cops) got there, Miss Nash was standing by the hot tub in a small bikini, pointing the business end of a SIG-Sauer P-226 at her fella and concerned members of the hotel staff, while dunking the scantily clad female’s head under the water and asking, ‘Who’s diving for clams now, bitch?’ ” — excerpt from “Magic Bleeds” by Ilona Andrews
Okay, just spent $540 shipping 229 books to Calgary. (They’re printed in Canada, so in theory they’ll be okay crossing the border?) PLEASE come buy them from me at
OMG I have a lot of reading to catch up on! Thanks for all the great author suggestions! hmmmm who to start with first………
HAH! I love this series too! I just saw this and it’s awesome. I loved that scene too. There are so many good scenes. “Who’s diving for clams now, bitch?” ROFLMAO. You know there is a book for just Andrea, right? It comes out next year. I can’t wait!!!
You r going to so love the rest of the books. They’re the BOMB!
Soooo… going to find this book now. Very intrigued.
And now I have a nice long list of new authors (to me) to check out. Looooove LKH, Patricia Briggs, and Kelley Armstrong. If you like strong female characters, check out the Queen of the Orcs trilogy by Morgan Howell. Not a lot of smut, but the lead character Dar is so awesome.
Since this is rapidly turning into a book recommendation thread, figure I’ll throw in my $0.02: Robin Owens, especially her Lladrana series. More romance, less smut, but good solid stories none the less.
Love, love, love this series!!! I can read it over and over again and never get bored
Meh. I’m probably the only person in the world who didn’t find that scene funny. The girl… sorry – the “scantily clad female” who flirts with Andrea’s boyfriend is a silly airhead, but she doesn’t do anything that would warrant more than a crushing remark. And yet, Andrea, the trained shapeshifter warrior, goes all MAXIMUM FIREPOWER on a silly girl who’s clearly no match for her, just because she can. In my eyes, it doesn’t make her look badass, it makes her look like a bully.
If you read the series you would know that the context of the scene is that andrea and her fella are in the shapeshifter mating jealousy….I would do the same if some barely dressed bimbo was all over my guy and then suggested a 3some ..
I know the scene is understandable in the context, but it’s still not funny. Bimbo or no bimbo – if she doesn’t get violent with me, I don’t get violent with her, that’s the rule. Maybe I insult her six ways from Sunday, maybe I threaten to tear out her ribcage and wear it as a hat if she doesn’t stop right now, but I don’t get physical (believe it or not, that’s standard procedure for people who have actual combat training and can be accused of misusing their abilities). I like fictional heroines to show their badassery by fighting strong opponents – and, luckily, the Kate Daniels books have a lot of that. Taking on people who are so weak that they’re practically helpless, even the rude ones, is just… bad form.
I disagree. It plainly states that he turned the harlot down, and she persisted in trying to pick him up. If some bimbo hit on my husband after both knowing he was taken AND being rejected, I’d pull her fingernails off and cut out her tongue. It doesn’t have anything to do with who is better trained. If you’re rude to me, I don’t want to trade insults like some whiny high-school kid. Don’t trade jabs, just give one good shove and be done with it.
I suppose we’d have to agree to disagree then
But to me, the problem has *everything* to do with who’s better trained. Our combat instructor had been drilling that into our heads for years. The best kind of fight is the fight that doesn’t happen, so it’s always good trying to talk things through, and if it does happen, it better be in self-defence and the measures better be appropriate to the threat (or we’re likely to be in a whole world of hurt legal-wise, and rightly so). So one good shove probably wouldn’t be out of bounds, but repeatedly drowning the girl in a pool, not to mention pointing the weapon at people? Um… not good.
One of my favorite series! Also one of my favorite parts! Hilarious!
Try the Gini Koch Alien series. Starts with Touched By An Alien. My daughter and I both laughed so hard we cried.
I love the fact that I am also in the middle of the books mentioned. I have a bad habit of reading multiple series at once lol.
You might also want to look into Ms. Pierce’s “Wild Magic” for your niece. It’s also in the world of Tortall but is centered around a young girl that talks with animals. So it could be a great tie-in too.
(I’m afraid to say anything else lest the drooling over amazing authors create a floor hazard.)
If you like paranormal romance try Karen Marie Moning or Katie McAlister. KMM writes awesome time travel romance and urban fantasy! Time travel, magic, Highlanders, fairies, Immortals, hot sex, kilts…… Her urban fantsy series “Fever Series” may have the carnage + smut you’s like.
Katie McAlister writes normal romances and paranormal romances and are HILARIOUS!
And thanks all for the new author recommends! ::wanders off to B&N Nook store and Amazon::
That actually sounds like a great book, sorta Vampire CSI by the excerpt. Another one to add to the massive pile of books I’m starting 2012 with.
I love the Kate Daniels series. I got into them when waiting for a new LKH book and am so glad that I did! Going to have to look into the other series these comments recommend too!
Try The Black Jewel Trilogy by Anne Bishop. Long running favorite, plenty of sex and carnage.
Love the comic and the books! So excited to be able to find new books in the comments.
I was totally having Laurell K. Hamilton flashbacks when I read this comic! Now, I have a new book series to read! Thanks!!
Carnage + Smut + Paranormal = Awesome.
Had to read through all the comments and add to my growing list of authors to try.
The excerpt in LKH’s Flirt is actually what started me reading this comic.
Flirt is what led me here too.
I think I know who you’re reading!
I like change in my smut too! 
Seeing so many women on this I have to say that, as a man, I also love the series. Here kitty, kitty… lol. I love in interaction and the variation of the vampire theme. And who wouldn’t go for a woman who is destined to kill her own father, step back Jason of the Argonauts!
Ok this surprised me alot when I read it. I’ve started to notice this trend where you’re reading a book series I like. Normally I have no idea what books webcomic artists rave about but this serious is amazing!!! I can’t wait till the sixth book comes out.
Oooo! Toatally right about Gini Koch! I have all her books and I’m usually bonding with my inner hyena while I’m reading them!
I like yaoi. Does that make me a “normal” person?
I have read your comic for years and this one made me giggle for hours. Best way to say why I read and write Urban Fantasy/Paranormal romance. In writing my blog this week, I thought of this strip and I quoted you in my blog. Hope you don’t mind. I linked the strip to for others to enjoy. http://perchingonabarstool.blogspot.com/2012/01/peregrine-falcon.html
This is the first comic I ever read, I started from the beginning and returned to whence I came Go me!!!!!!
4 days of nothing but devils panties. >.>