This year, I’m doing two very different challenges.
One of them is the Soul Screamers Reading Challenge, hosted by Rachel at Fiktshun. It’s got a fixed time frame and there are over 150 people participating so far.
The other challenge is one of my own creation, a sort of personal throwdown: I’m tackling Paul Goat Allen’s list of the best paranormal novels of 2011. I’ve read a few but here’s the full list, including the ones I’ve already read.
- Pale Demon by Kim Harrison (The Hollows #9)
- Downpour by Kat Richardson (Greywalker #5)
- No Hero by Jonathan Wood
- The Breaking by Marcus Pelegrimas (Skinners #5)
- Aloha From Hell by Richard Kadrey (Sandman Slim #3)
- Etched in Bone by Adrian Phoenix (Maker’s Song #4)
- Green-Eyed Demon by Jaye Wells (Sabina Kane #3)
- Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire (October Daye #5)
- Tempest’s Legacy by Nicole Peeler (Jane True #3)
- Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris (Southern Vampire/Sookie Stackhouse #11) — read but not reviewed
- Kindling the Moon by Jenn Bennett (Arcadia Bell #1)
- Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake #20)
- Hounded by Kevin Hearne (Iron Druid Chronicles #1)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- Bloodshot by Cherie Priest (Cheshire Red #1)
- Ghost Story by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files #13)
- Black Heart Loa by Adrian Phoenix (Hoodoo #2)
- Devil’s Business by Caitlin Kittredge (Black London #4)
- Another Kind of Dead by Kelly Meding (Dreg City #3)
- Blood Work by Kim Harrison
- River Marked by Patricia Briggs
- Spider’s Revenge by Jennifer Estep
- Crossed by J.F. Lewis (Void City #3)
- Magic on the Hunt by Devon Monk (Allie Beckstrom #6)
- The Shadow Reader by Sandy Williams (McKenzie Lewis #1)
- Blackout by Rob Thurman (Cal and Niko #6)
- Shadow Walker by Allyson James (Stormwalker #3)
