Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year!! And hopefully everyone has recovered from the holidays :)

Just wanted to touch base with you regarding the date for the January pick discussion! I will be posting the discussion the last weekend of this month, January 29th. I hope everyone has a chance to read the book before then and I look forward to the discussion ahead! :)

Also, for February our pick is Dracula and this will wrap up the picks we made last year. Wow, time has flown by it seems!! So it is time to make some new choices for our bookclub!!

Please either post your list of books you would like to read in a comment to this message or feel free to email me the list! I am looking to plan for the next 3 months and I hope to have the choices posted by mid-January so that everyone will have time to acquire the books!

Thanks so much!!! And if you have any questions, please feel free to email me! :)

Lindsay

It is a little more of a "mature" Young Adult novel since P.C. Cast mainly wrote adult paranormal. But I agree, it's a good mix of Harry Potter's world meets Vampires.

Another series, which I love thanks to my students, is the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead (her Succubus series is awesome as well!). I will say these are like my guilty pleasure books because they tend to border on Gossip Girl meets Vampires- but the main male character Dimitri- he's yummy!! And I can say this because he's in his 20's in the book..hahaha.

If you're looking for a good Stephen King meets Pixies/Shape-Shifters in a wood-ish setting (think Twilight) then I would recommend the Need series by Carrie Jones. I've read all three books and while I enjoyed some more than others (isn't that true for every series??), I think they are really worth reading!