Top 5 Sundays #135 - Favorite Character Names! {Part III}

hmmm I found two previous post about characters names. One with Female Characters Names and one with Male Character Names. This list will include Male and Female names from books and TV =D

This week’s results:

Favorite Character Names! {Part II} 50%  (13 votes) 

 

Best PNR Book series {Part II} 34.62%  (9 votes) 

 

Most Swoon-Worthy Covers! {Part II} 15.38%  (4 votes) 

 

 

Total Votes: 26

The theme for today is:

Favorite Character Names! {Part III}

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Every Sunday I will post a TOP 5 list on the blog. It can be about anything and every week I'll have a new theme {You can vote on next week’s theme on my left sidebar!} and I will ad the Mr.Linky bellow the post so you can do a list with the theme and add you link to it.

Rules:

1. Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
2. Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
3. Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it bellow)
4. After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.
5. If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)

*in no particular order

Mercy Thompson

Mercedes Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs

I love the nickname Mercy for her. A kick ass heroine with a very powerful name!

Hercule Poirot

by Agatha Christie

LOL I love his name! I LOVE his books and he is just so deliciously pretentious!

Roarke

In Death Series by J.D. Robb

Yum! Roarke's name sounds like a roar hehe

Kitty Norville

Kitty Norville Series by Carrie Vaughn

A werewolf named Kitty? Awesome!

The Doctor

His "lack" of name just make him more intriguing!

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Quickie Series-Catch-Up Reviews: Heartless {PP #4} by Gail Carriger & Kitty’s Big Trouble {KN #9} by Carrie Vaughn

 

 

 

Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble in the air is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past.

Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical invention, and a plague of zombie porcupines - and Alexia barely has time to remember she just happens to be eight months pregnant.

Will Alexia be able to figure out who is trying to kill Queen Victoria before it's too late? Is it the vampires again or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf's clothing? And do they really have to take up residence in Lord Akeldama's second best closet?

From Goodreads.

• Publisher: Orbit 
• Release Date: June 28th/July 1st, 2011              
• My Copy: Kindle Edition | Bought.
• Pages: 384
• Series: Parasol Protectorate Series 
• Genre: Paranormal Steampunk 
• Author's Website
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Heartless (The Parasol Protectorate)

*NO Spoilers for Heartless.

The Good: YES! For all that I wanted more Alexia and Maccon interactions, Heartless was full of it and it was perfect! The Plot was also brilliant and had me guessing until the end.

The Bad: I feel like everyone treated Alexia badly at some point, excluding Maccon, he was amazing! I also wasn’t a fan of the Ghostly interruptions, I didn’t really find them necessary.

The Awesome: Gail Carriger has such a sofisticated and delightful sense of humor. I can think of many instances where she had me laughing out loud. From Alexia talking to the Infant-inconvenience to her giving birth, HILARIOUSLY AMAZING!

 

 

Previously On The Parasol Protectorate Series:

 

Next On The Parasol Protectorate Series:

Coming on March 1st, 2012!

 

 

 

 

Kitty Norville is back and in more trouble than ever.  Her recent run-in with werewolves traumatized by the horrors of war has made her start wondering how long the US government might have been covertly using werewolves in combat. Have any famous names in our own history might have actually been supernatural?  She's got suspicions about William Tecumseh Sherman.  Then an interview with the right vampire puts her on the trail of Wyatt Earp, vampire hunter.

But her investigations lead her to a clue about enigmatic vampire Roman and the mysterious Long Game played by vampires through the millennia.  That, plus a call for help from a powerful vampire ally in San Francisco, suddenly puts Kitty and her friends on the supernatural chessboard, pieces in dangerously active play.  And Kitty Norville is never content to be a pawn. . . .

From Goodreads.

• Publisher: Tor Books 
• Release Date: July 28th, 2011             
• My Copy: Kindle Edition | Bought.  
• Pages: 322
• Series: Kitty Norville Series 
• Genre: Urban Fantasy 
• Author's Website
• Buy The Book:

Kitty's Big Trouble (Kitty Norville, Book 9)

*NO Spoilers.

The Good: YES! After a certain disappointment with “Kitty’s House of Horrors” and the great “Kitty Goes to War”, I feel that Carrie Vaughn has gone back to all I have always loved about this series in Kitty’s Big Trouble. A lot of Ben and Kitty goodness, a lot of Cormac and a lot of great action.

The Bad: No big complaints, but I’m still not a fan of the Cormac storyline =/

The Romance: YAY! Ben and Kitty are so adorable together! One of my fave couples and they get a lot of lovely screen time. Awesome!

 

Previously On The Kitty Norville Series:

Next On The Kitty Norville Series:

Coming on August 16th, 2011!

and “Kitty Steals the Show” on April 1st 2012!

 

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Top 5 Sundays #32 – Books for an UF Newbie!

Hey Everyone!!! Sunday is here and it’s time for another Top 5! YAY!

This week’s results:

Books for an Urban Fantasy 1st Timer! - 12 (50%)

UF or PNR Pet Peeves! - 12 (50%)

Ugh! A tie? Really? LOL

Ok, so I’ll do the UF Newbie one and put the Pet Peeves theme in the hat again! =D

 

The theme for today is:

Books for an Urban Fantasy 1st Timer!

 

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Every Sunday I will post a TOP 5 list on the blog. It can be about anything and every week I'll have a new theme {You can vote on next week’s theme on my left sidebar!} and I will ad the Mr.Linky bellow the post so you can do a list with the theme and add you link to it.

Rules:

1. Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
2. Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
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4. After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.
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This week’s theme is Books for an Urban Fantasy 1st Timer!

Hmmm this was a fun one to think about =)

I went with books that the heroines are totally relatable, but kick-ass and awesome at the same time. Books that I believe would be a good first foray into the Urban Fantasy genre:

*in no particular order

Halfway to The Grave by Jeaniene Frost

Great Heroine, awesome Hero, a lot of action and kick-ass romance!

 

Kitty and The Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn

One of my fave heroines. This is a great werewolf story and not too intricate for a first timer =)

 

The Scent of Shadows by Vicki Pettersson

Different kind of UF. No Vamps or Weres, but it had a Comic Book element that will definitely be appealing!

 

The Becoming by Jeanne C. Stein

Great straight on Vampire tale. Very likable and relatable heroine and awesome world building!

 

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

With True Blood’s popularity, this is a great choice for an UF Newbie! =)

 

 

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Top 5 Sundays #31 – Favorite UF Books X PNR Books!

Hey Everyone!!! Sunday is here and it’s time for another Top 5! YAY!

This week’s results:

Favorite UF Books X PNR Books! = 19 (54%)

Favorite Paranormal YA series! = 16 (45%)

 

The theme for today is:

Favorite UF Books X PNR Books!

 

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Every Sunday I will post a TOP 5 list on the blog. It can be about anything and every week I'll have a new theme {You can vote on next week’s theme on my left sidebar!} and I will ad the Mr.Linky bellow the post so you can do a list with the theme and add you link to it.

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1. Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
2. Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
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This week’s theme is Favorite UF Books X PNR Books!

Ok, so this was a pretty hard one. Since I read mostly series I decided to choose series instead of books and I also separated them into categories =D

*in no particular order

 

Shifters:

PNR – Pride Series by Shelly Laurenston

UF – Kitty Norville Series by Carrie Vaughn

 X 

 

Magic Users:

PNR – The Edge Series by Ilona Andrews

UF – Allie Beckstrom Series by Devon Monk

X

 

 

Vampires:

PNR – Black Dagger Brotherhood Series by JR Ward 

UF – Dark Days Series by Jocelynn Drake

 

X

 

Demons:

PNR – Demonica Series by Larissa Ione

UF – Morgan Kingsley Series by Jenna Black

 

X

 

Fae:

PNR – The Others Series by Christine Warren

UF – October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire

 

X

 

 

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