The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't. Anyhow, here he is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh. When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, "But I thought he was a boy?" "So did I," said Christopher Robin. "Then you can't call him Winnie?" "I don't." "But you said-----" "He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what ' ther ' means?" "Ah, yes, now I do," I said quickly; and I hope you do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get. ~ The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, illustrated by E.H. Shepard

It defies reason, really. Book series are supposed to slow down, get stale as they go on, particularly when installments reach double digits. But with the Chicagoland Vampires Series , the opposite has happened. These books were wonderful from the start, but they have continued to get better and better with each successive book. Midnight Marked is no exception. I'm not even going to pretend that I didn't love it, or tease what I thought and tell you to come through the jump to find out. No, I can't do that because this book was so spectacular that I cannot, even for a second pretend that it wasn't. So come with me through the jump and I'll gush in the most embarrassing fashion about this fantastic book, and probably about the author who gave us Methan and the gang and who can pretty much do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. Spoiler free, of course!

Fangirl Fridays - Chicagoland Vampires You know, as long as we've been around, I am shocked me and Barb haven't gotten around to writing a Fangirl Friday post on this series. I mean, yes, we've talked about this series a lot. And I mean a lot . We've done FF posts on both Merit and Ethan, on Merit's love of food here , Barb's talked about how awesome Chloe Neill is here . I went a little insane and wrote an entire post about ONE event in the series (A PILE OF ASH ON THE FLOOR!! *SOBBING*) and how it destroyed my life here . I've painstakingly gone through a billion people to get the dream fancasting just right for the series here . In fact, one click on our Chicagoland tag  here will show you we quote it on a regular basis and talk about the series a whole lot more than we do about other stuff.  We get pretty intense about CLV. Our love for this series and the author could not be more apparent. It's obvious in every nook and cranny of this ...

Besides, Mac would be fine, even without the spear. She had the cuff and she had Barrons at her side. When something like Barrons walked at a woman's side, he walked there forever, and not even death would come between them. He would never permit it. There was no place Mac could go that Barrons wouldn't follow. Not even that Hall of All Days. Feverborn ~~Karen Marie Moning

I wonder, pushed to the wall, stripped of all defenses, tested beyond endurance, just who might MacKayla Lane become? Burned by Karen Marie Moning Source

Feverborn : A Very Spoilery Discussion So, here we are again. Another year, another great book, and another chance for me and Barb to get down and dirty with the Fever world and really sink in hip deep to talk to you guys about it. It will get messy. And crazy. And inappropriate. And you might not hear it, but loud squeeing. I mean, by now you probably know that  KMM causes a lot of Wench squealing/screeching/shouting/cackling/sobbing etc. Most importantly, it WILL get spoilery!!!  Here there be SPOILERS! For those of you unwilling to wade through spoilers from Feverborn right now, stay safe with our NON spoilery Feverborn review here . For a Burned recap check out our review here and our spoilery discussion here .  The rest of you, follow us!