Signs of the Zodiac by Vicki Pettersson
Dark urban fantasy
Recommended by: Plague
When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was brutally assaulted and left to die in the Nevada desert. By rights, she should be dead. Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset - a grim, secret Sin City where Light battles Shadow - seeking answers to whom or what she really is and revenge for the horrors she was forced to endure. But the nightmare is just beginning - for the demons are hunting Joanna, and the powerful Shadows want her for their own.
The Scent of Shadows
The Taste of Night
The Touch of Twilight
City of Souls
Cheat the Grave
The Neon Graveyard (releases 5/31/11)
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
Dark fantasy
Recommended by: Jenna Harris
The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. Growing up in the slums as a guild rat, Azoth has learned the hard way to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to the city's most deadly assassin. But to survive, Azoth must embrace a new identity, learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics, and cultivate a flair for death.
The Way of Shadows
Shadow's Edge
Beyond the Shadows
Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
Epic fantasy
Recommended by: Jenna Harris
In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help... and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. Together they must defeat oppressors who seek to control the world and those who wish to unleash evil upon the world of the living.
Wizard's First Rule
Stone of Tears
Blood of the Fold
Temple of the Winds
Soul of the Fire
Faith of the Fallen
The Pillars of Creation
Naked Empire
Chainfire
Phantom
Confessor
Related books:
Debt of Bones (prequel)
The Law of Nines (urban fantasy)
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton
Dark urban fantasy
Recommended by: Jenna Harris
The life of necromancer for hire, licensed vampire executioner, and St. Louis native Anita Blake became infinitely more complicated once vampires and shapeshifters because legal citizens of America. What's a preternatural expert to do when you can't tell anymore if the monsters are the bad guys or simply misunderstood? [Rated M for mature (graphic sex and violence)]
Guilty Pleasures
The Laughing Corpse
Circus of the Damned
The Lunatic Cafe
Bloody Bones
The Killing Dance
Burnt Offerings
Blue Moon
Obsidian Butterfly
Narcissus in Chains
Cerulean Sins
Incubus Dreams
Micah
Danse Macabre
The Harlequin
Blood Noir
Skin Trade
Flirt
Bullet (hardcover available now, paperback releases 5/31/11)
Hit List (hardcover releases 6/7/11)
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