Jessica Rules the Dark Side by: Beth Fantaskey

Publication Date: January 2012

Overview: It’s one thing to find out you’re a vampire princess. It’s a whole other thing to actually rule. Newly married Jessica Packwood is having a hard enough time feeling regal with her husband, Lucius, at her side. But when evidence in the murder of a powerful elder points to Lucius, sending him into solitary confinement, Jessica is suddenly on her own. Determined to clear her husband’s name, Jessica launches into a full-scale investigation, but hallucinations and nightmares of betrayal keep getting in her way. Jessica knows that with no blood to drink, Lucius’s time is running out. Can she figure out who the real killer is—and whom she can trust—before it’s too late?

My thoughts: Jessica is married and her husband is wrongly accused, or so we think and thrown in jail with no blood to be given to him, which is fatal to a vampire. He is accused of murdering his uncle. Which if he did was just I think but if he didn't then who did?
his stake was found with blood on it and now there is trial to trying a figure out who did it. While doing this Jessica is ruling the vampires, but someone keeps her poisoned and she is having trouble ruling. She finally gets courage and with her friend's help find that her family is the one against her and her husband.

My rating: 5 stars

Jekel Loves Hyde by:Beth Fantaskey

Publication Date: April 2011

Overview: Jill Jekel has always obeyed her parents’ rules—especially the one about never opening the mysterious, old box in her father’s office. But when her dad is murdered, and her college savings disappear, she’s tempted to peek inside, as the contents might be the key to a lucrative chemistry scholarship.

To improve her odds, Jill enlists the help of gorgeous, brooding Tristen Hyde, who has his own dark secrets locked away. As the team of Jekel and Hyde, they recreate experiments based on the classic novel, hoping not only to win a prize, but to save Tristen’s sanity. Maybe his life. But Jill’s accidental taste of a formula unleashes her darkest nature and compels her to risk everything—even Tristen’s love—just for the thrill of being . . . bad.

My thoughts: Jill's father is gruesomely murdered and she's trying to carry on. her mother is devastated. Her mom really for all my thoughts has given up. she's depressed and crying all the time, but working overtime to bring in money to pay bills. 

Tristen has feelings for Jill and being near her has consequences. Together they find a cure for something his dad is denying he has.

One night they are confronted by a teacher and their parents. The truth of Jill's father's death comes out into the open and it is painful. Someone will die but who will it be? 

My rating: 4 stars
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Succubus Heat by: Richelle Mead

Publication Date: June 2009


Overview: Georgina Kincaid has been a bad, bad succubus. . .

. . .which should be a good thing. But lately, thanks to her foul mood over breaking up with bestselling writer Seth Mortensen, she's been so wicked that Seattle's über-demon Jerome, decides to "outsource " Georgina to a rival—and have her spy for him in the process.

Being exiled to the frozen north—okay, Vancouver—and leaving Seth in the cozy clutches of his new girlfriend is unpleasant enough. Then Jerome is kidnapped, and all immortals under his control mysteriously lose their powers. One bright spot: with her life-sucking ability gone, there's nothing to keep Georgina from getting down and dirty with Seth—nothing apart from his girlfriend that is. Now, as the supernatural population starts turning on itself, a newly mortal Georgina must rescue her boss and figure out who's been playing them—or all hell will break loose. . .

My thoughts: Dealing with Seth's relationship with Seth is awful for Georgina, and luckily for her she gets loaned out to another group to figure out how to ease the fighting. But Georgina's boss get kidnapped and they must figure out how to get through life without their powers, or at least get through the next few days. 

Georgina also gets the crap beat out of her, she must be healed but most have lost there powers. When they find someone to heal her and they figure out who hurt her they realize who could be the one to have kidnapped Jerome. They then rescue Jerome. And things return to normal, but not before Georgina finally hooks up with Seth.

My rating: 3 stars

Up Next: Succubus Shadows

Soul Bound by: Mari Mancusi

Publication Date: March 2012


Overview: Sunny McDonald and her vampire boyfriend, Magnus, are on the run-accused of treason and wanted alive...or undead. And her twin is the slayer sent to track them down.

Rayne would do anything to save her twin sister, Sunny, from the Vampire Consortium dictator who wants her dead. Instead, she's been commissioned by Slayer Inc. to find Sunny and Magnus and deliver them to the Consortium...which Rayne knows means certain death. She also knows that if she and her boyfriend, Jareth, disobey orders, they are signing not only their own death warrants, but also those of every vampire in the Blood Coven.

As a rival slayer with a personal vendetta moves in, Rayne and Jareth must do something to stop her. So they embark on their most dangerous journey yet, deep beneath the streets of New York City and through the Gates of the Underworld. But when a greedy god demands the ultimate sacrifice, will Rayne be forced to choose between her sister...and the vampire she loves?

My thoughts: This one is sad, really sad. Rayne and Jareth set out to find Sunny and Magnus, but things go south quickly. upon finding the duo hidden in the sewers of new York, they find they led the evil peeps to them. They were chipped by Jareth's secretary. Magnus turns himself in to keep the others from getting hurt, but while escaping Sunny gets killed by Bertha. 

Rayne, Jareth and the rock star travel to the underworld to get her out and in the process Jareth gets his past settled. Hopefully they will find peace, but I really don't think so.

My rating: 5 stars

Up Next: Blood Forever

Blood Ties by: Mari Mancusi

Publication Date: August 2011


Overview: Officially back in the arms of her vampire boyfriend Magnus, Sunny finds she still can't forget the gentle mortal Jayden who once saved her life. When darkness threatens to steal his humanity, Sunny must make a choice: stay true to her love, or defy him in a desperate attempt to save Jayden's soul.

Meanwhile, the Blood Coven is gearing up for a showdown with a splinter group of Slayer Inc. It's Vampires vs. Slayers in a showdown that could cost Sunny not only her heart...but also her life.

My thoughts: Sunny is learning the hard way that she is selfish. And that has hurt a lot of people and even caused most of the trouble around her.

Rayne is captures and almost bleed to death, by Riverdale Academy's students and professors. They had stolen the Holy Grail and used for the benefit of turning them into monsters. 

Jayden is a vampire and only craves Sunny's blood.

Magnus loses his job, but Jareth gets the job.

My rating: 5 stars

Up Next: Soul Bound

Night School By: Mari Mancusi

Publication Date: January 2011


Overview: After their parents' shocking revelation about their fae heritage and an attack on their lives, the McDonald twins are forced to hide out deep in the Swiss Alps at Riverdale Academy, a secret vampire slayer training facility. And with no way to contact their vampire boyfriends for rescue, they're going to have to play nice with the locals.

But when Sunny starts acting strange, Rayne realizes that there's more to fear at Riverdale than getting staked by the student body-leading to a showdown in Fairyland that may cost the twins their lives.

My thoughts: Fairies, well it looks like another mythical creature to add to our list!

Rayne and Sunny are sent to Riverdale school. They were sent there to be trained and hidden from the world of fairies.

But the fairies find them and take Sunny, who was meant to be queen. Rayne has to get her back, but she accidentally almost kills a boy from school. Jareth changes him into a vampire.

Sunny is about to marry an evil boy so they have to run back to fairy land to save her. 

Someone dies in the process.

My rating: 5 stars

Up Next: Blood Ties

Bad Blood by: Mari Mancusi

Publication Date: January 2010


Overview: Sunny McDonald is in the ultimate forbidden relationship. Her boyfriend Magnus is a vampire, and the leader of the Blood Coven. And when the Coven decides that Magnus needs a mate to be his co-ruler, Sunny's humanity puts her out of the running. The Coven's chosen candidate is Jane Johnson, a magna cum laude graduate of Oxford University who just happens to look like a vampiric supermodel.

Sunny is suspicious of a Rhodes Scholar who can't answer the most basic poli-sci questions, but Magnus brushes it off as petty jealousy. Still, when the Blood Coven goes to Las Vegas for a vampire convention, Sunny and her twin sister Rayne secretly tag along. And Sunny's not going home before she learns the truth about Jane. Because not everything stays in Vegas-especially bad blood.

My thoughts: Sunny was much in love and thought life would never be bad again....boy was she wrong. 

Sasha, playing the role of her twin Jane, comes in as Magnus' assigned blood mate. 

Sunny knows something isn't right with Jane. But truthfully no one would believe her, so she set out on her own to find out what is really going on.

With the help of stormy, her long undiscovered sister, and Jayden they uncover the real facts and reveal it to Magnus. 

My rating: 5 stars

Up Next: Night School