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If you read them in series order, it should be"

Cat & Bones 1-4
First Drop of Crimson
Eternal Kiss of Darkness
Cat & Bones 5 and 6
Once Burned

There are things that happen in FDOC and EKOD that pertain to the later Cat and Bones books. :-)

Well crap, I was just going to read up to chapter 14 and hell now i think im around chapter 28 sorry, just got VERY interesting. I think I will go on a finish it tonight.

I think my new favorite person for the time being is Juan love that guys character lol.

And Justina and ROdney I didnt see that coming, but Bones did say that all Justina needed was a good "shaggin" and I suppose Rodney was up for knocking off the cobwebs lol.

And a famous vampire graced the pages I enjoyed his time with Cat he's a deep persona, but well all know that already.

EDIT: Just finished the book, I'm a bit let down with the ending I expected a HUGE showdown but meh I guess you can only hope for so much body shredding and decapitation, but I was Happy to see Mencheres cut loose a little bit.

Tracy, I have those moments sometimes.

Shahbaz wrote: "Well crap, I was just going to read up to chapter 14 and hell now i think im around chapter 28 sorry, just got VERY interesting. I think I will go on a finish it tonight.

I think my new favorite ..."

The cobwebs were definitely cleaned out and amazingly her attitude improved. Who knew all it took was a ghoul shaggin her. LOL

I loved Vlad! He is one of my favorite characters. You got to love Juan. Making him a vampire just gave him more ammunition.

Leigh wrote: "Laura, what are your thoughts?"

Without spoiling anything, I enjoyed the action and Cat's spunk, although there is one scene in particular that I don't even think Cat is capable of, but she does it anyway (not in a good way, I mean). However, I did give the book 4 stars :D

I would like to know what scene that is. Do you know how to hide spoilers?

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Leigh wrote: "Shahbaz wrote: "Well crap, I was just going to read up to chapter 14 and hell now i think im around chapter 28 sorry, just got VERY interesting. I think I will go on a finish it tonight.

I think ..."

Yea she even dressed better and combed her hair I guess a good dusting brings out the sexy in ya huh? When she showed up at Cat's place I was like damn Rodney is putting it down lol

I think they should have given Rodney a medal :D

Yay for Vlad! I was wondering when he was going to show up. Now I need to see some of the action that made him warrant his own series! I'm jealous I haven't finished yet. Read to chapter 22 so I'm not far behind. I'm surprised Bones didn't kill Tate after the limo scene.

Has anyone seen Clare?????

I believe the only reason he didn't was because it would upset Cat too much. Yea she isn't romantically interested in Tate, but they have been friends for the past 5 years. Working with someone on the jobs they did for 5 years isn't something to take lightly, so yea Bones didn't kill him outright, although I probably would have.

You didn't lose me:) I'm just really behind so I'm trying not to read your thoughts yet. Sheri I still haven't received that book to read & review for the ya thread? I can't remember the title but its tinker bell meets Laura Croft? Could you let me know what's going on with that, & is the authors name Brandy?-thanks Clare

Yay Clare :) I'll check on that other book for you.

I am glad we didn't lose you Clare!!!

Rodney does deserve a medal. He rocked her world.

Tate can be a complete jerk but he is loyal and good in a fight. In a war you need people like that.

Hi Sheri, hi Leigh :) it's been so sad not to get to talk about Bonaliscious:( but I think this series is so fun , I already downloaded the next one. Are we going to read the books mentioned above? By the same author but w/ different main character 's I think? If so I'm cool with that. Has anyone heard from Lys?

We plan on reading the ones Sheri listed with maybe a break inbetween for a BOM. I haven't heard from Lys.

She's been around.

The books above are actually part of the same series...The first one is about Cat's best friend Denise. It's kind of a spin off series but with the same characters. Here is the complete list of the order they were written in - and are supposed to be read in:
http://www.goodreads.com/series/44283...

Are we going in that order? What book do we need to read next?

I was going to read them all even if you guys just wanted to read the regular Night Huntress books together. It's up to you guys.

Destined for an Early Grave would be next (Night Huntress #4) and then First Drop of Crimson (Night Huntress World #1)

All of the series are connected somehow.

Monday?

I want to read all of them.

Me too. Monday's good.

I will start the thread.

Here is the thread.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Thanks :)

I can't wait until we get to First Drop of Crimson. Ah, Spade...*sighs*

I love him so much.

Spade is quite likable. Despite some of his disturbing behavior I still like Ian.

Leigh wrote: "Spade is quite likable. Despite some of his disturbing behavior I still like Ian."

Me too! I keep hoping we'll get an Ian book someday.

I would like to see the woman that could tame Ian.

Oh my God...the second World book is about Mencheres! That should be interesting. She's gotta write one about Ian!

Hey, if one can tame Vlad, Ian should be no problem. ;-)

Anyone can be tamed, it just takes the right woman.

Leigh wrote: "Anyone can be tamed, it just takes the right woman."

That's a dangerous philosophy.

And yeah, I'm around. I just lost track of where we all are and I wanted to talk the endings.
Where are we?

Finished I think. Most are I believe, or will be shortly

I'm finsihed :) I'll write out thoughts tomorrow.

I really didn't like a lot of what happened with this one. I still like Cat and Bones, BUT...

1)All the spells nonsense got a bit much for me. I don't mind spells, by the way, it just seemed like there was a need to amp up the scary on the villain, and some of it seemed really poorly executed with flimsy FLIMSY reasoning. Motivations were pretty shallow, and historical context was lacking. Sorry, but if you want to bring in an Egyptian "goddess" then you should probably establish that a bit more.

2) Randy's death. So stupid and pointless and bullshit. And very clearly setup for a later Denise romance. I hate it when authors use their characters as plot movers rather than move the plot around the characters. There was no reason for what happened, and it was pointless drama. The people who died outside: yes, makes sense. Randy's death was clearly about looking ahead to later books.

This isn't articulated very well. But, what are the other thoughts? This was my least favorite so far. I really hope the next one improves.

Also: the pacing felt way off. And the constant need to make the situation *more* terrifying, *more* sickening, *more* violent ... I don't know.

I actually liked the magic, though I wish it would have been better explained - maybe some background info on why Patra and Mencheres know it and just an overall better explanation for it.

I agree with you on the lacking historical content. When I first read that Patra was Cleopatra's daughter I thought there would be something to that story and was looking forward to it. It was a bit dissapointing just having it thrown out there and then forgotten - kind of like a name drop.

I didn't think much of Randy's death one way or another, but you did make a good point. If she was going to kill him off she should have at least made it mean something, rather than just having him there one second and gone the next. He could have gone down in a blaze of glory or saving Denice's life or something heroic to make him look good at the very least.

Randy's death didn't matter to me. I did think it was aburpt but I was more upset about Bones' death.

It would have been nice to have more information of Patra.

Leigh wrote: "I would like to know what scene that is. Do you know how to hide spoilers?"


Here it is. (view spoiler)[ The scene where Cat is tortured by her father. It seemed so unrealistic to me that it kicked me right out of the story. (hide spoiler)]

I think because she has been drinking a lot of Bones's blood it made her able to endure more torture than normal. She is also half vampire.