Fantasy, Urban Fantasy + Paranormal Romance Recommendations
“Because, you need to know I’ll kill anyone who hurts you little monster.”
-Kate King, Lords of the Hunt
Once he drove back the darkness.
Once he loved with such passion his name was legend.
The Tairen Soul series is magically lovely in every way. The romance, the characters, the story, and the world building are unlike anything I’ve read before or since. This is one of my most consistent re-reads.
I’m so excited that the series is getting a second life with glow-up covers and rereleases!!
“Ver reisa ku’chae. Kem surah, shei’tani. (Your soul calls out. Mine answers, beloved.)”
― C.L. Wilson, Lord of the Fading Lands
Chicagoland Vampires is snarky, fun, awesomely written, and at its heart – has amazing characters.
I LOVE this series. Complete series with a spin-off.
They killed me. They healed me. They changed me.
Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but it was Merit’s. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsucker–and this one decided the best way to save her life was to make her the walking undead.
Turns out her savior was the master vampire of Cadogan House. Now she’s traded sweating over her thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of vamps loyal to Ethan Sullivan. Of course, as a tall, green-eyed, four-hundred-year-old vampire, he has centuries’ worth of charm, but unfortunately, he expects her gratitude–and servitude.
But an inconvenient sunlight allergy and Ethan’s attitude are the least of her concerns. Someone’s still out to get her. Her initiation into Chicago’s nightlife may be the first skirmish in a war–and there will be blood.
Radiance is so romantasy, it couldn’t get more romantasy than this. Wonderfully written and plotted. Can be read as a standalone or you can continue with the series, which has three novels and some novellas.
The Prince of no value
Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined.
The noblewoman of no importance
Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn’t just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she’s known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light.
Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart.
Chronic Ever After 