Hey bookworm friends. I hope you’re all having a good week so far. Today’s post is a mash-up of a couple of ideas. Last week’s TTTopic was ‘Book Covers Featuring Autumnal Colors’ which I wanted to do but was away so sadly didn’t manage it. But then I noticed that #SpooktasticReads has now officially started (and goes until Halloween)! October 20th’s prompt, ‘Paranormal palette‘, is also colour based and can be interpreted in a myriad of ways. So I decided to take a look through my TBR at the books tagged ‘paranormal’ and pick 10 with a cover featuring autumnal colours. These are all paranormal series I want to try at some point but some of the books selected are not the firsts in a series but rather whichever ones better matched my palette 🍂🩸.
Link-ups
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl
#SpooktasticReads is hosted by Annemieke (A Dance With Books), Jorie (Jorie Loves A Story) and Ariane (Book Nook Reviews), Lisa (Dear Geek Place) and Imyril (There’s Always Room for One More)
But First, The Paranormal Palette
Then, The Books
1. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
2. Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson #2) by Patricia Briggs
3. Dark Desire (Dark #2) by Christine Feehan
4. On The Edge (The Edge #1) by Ilona Andrews
5. Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega #1) by Patricia Briggs
6. Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood #1) by J. R. Ward
7. Darkfever (Fever #1) by Karen Marie Moning
8. Blameless (Parasol Protectorate #3) by Gail Carriger
9. Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows #1) by Kim Harrison
10. Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Let’s chat in the comments!
Have you read any of these books ? If you participated in TTT or #SpooktasticReads this week feel free to share your link with me 🖤
These do look like interesting titles for sure!
Thank you, I think so too even though I don’t reach for these types of reads as often as I’d like!
Ahhh, Sunshine! I loved that book sooo much. It’s been a long time, but I’d reread it.
Oh yay, I’ve heard such great things about Sunshine (that’s how it ended up on my tbr) and so I’m happy to hear you love it as well!
I love the Mercy Thompson and Parasol Protectorate books. 🙂
Ahh, awesome that bodes well for me and these series then! 🙂
love how you’ve mashed these two ideas together like this 🥰 but OMG not Dark Lover…that series haunts me. Ive had the second book (because I didn’t realise it was a sequel) sat on my shelf judging me for around two decades now 🙈 seeing Cheri review some later installments recently has made me eager to get to it. Its just so long and daunting 😂 Actually The Hollows and Mercy Thompson also fall under the label of series I partially own and am desperate to read but simultaneously daunted by the number of books to catch up on.
I have the first Parasol Protectorate books on my shelf too and Fever is on my TBR but I don’t own any of those ones.
Anita Blake is a series I’ve started though 🎉 Ive read and really enjoyed the first half a dozen or so. But its been so long now that I kind of need to go back and reread them before carrying on with the series.
I also need to look up Christine Feehan as the name definitely rings a bell 🤔
I feel very called out by this list 😂 although its lovely that we have so many TBR picks in common.
Thanks, Charlotte! 🥰 And OMG hahah sorry didn’t mean to team up with Dark Lover and terrorize you and I kind of understand where you’re coming from because that first book is THICK and I have the ebook which in my eyes only makes it worse 😂. I do really want to get to it though. We might need to encourage each other to pick it up lol.
Yes, the # of books in the series also feels like so much work but I also don’t want to miss out they look great! lol I hope you can get to them sometime!
I’m not surprised a ton of these are on your tbr as well!
Ohh I’m glad you’ve enjoyed Anita Blake. I feel like with these types of series you do need to read them back to back and not while reading another long series. haha When I worked at the library I used to see Christine Feehna’s name pop up all the time.
haha well if I’m calling you out, I’m also calling myself out, we’re in good company 😜
I honestly didn’t even know ot was thick 🙈 I was just planning to order it into the library sometime. I think. I’m now doubting myself and wondering if I also didn’t start as they didn’t stock it 🤔 Yes we’ll have to push each other on. Or buddy read it or something.
I think my problem is that I quite often binge read series but I don’t think doing so would be wise in these cases 😂 I am excited for them all though, its just that whole ‘too many books, too little time’ thing.
I think you’d actually be okay spacing that one out more as it tends to revolve around individual cases but as its been a fair few years I want a refresher for the character connections as those develop across books.
I’m not surprised to hear that as one of her series is 40 books long 🤯 Its awesome you used to work in a library.
Very true, this just means we’ll have to motivate each other 😂
oh oops sorry, I hope that doesn’t deter you! And haha yeah I would honestly be down for a buddy read. On that note did we want to continue our Wicked Lovely buddy read?
Ah yes it would be just reading one series for a long time! It would have to be broken up by chunks somehow to make it less intense. Yeah, extremely fair.
Oh okay good to know & yeah refreshers are always helpful.
40 books, holy moly! & I loved that job so much. 🥲
Indeed!!
No I like chunky books, the only ones that tend to make me wary are classics with huge page counts, anything fantasy I just consider more book to fall for 😂 Oh yes we definitely should sometime. Was it Faery Tales And Nightmares next?
I think its best that way too to try and avoid it becoming a bit repetitive.
I know and that was just one series 🤯 aww I’m not surprised, working around books is pretty much a dream I imagine.
I love how you have a color palette in the beginning! I adored Sunshine and that cover really pops😁
Thanks, Tammy! I’m so glad to hear more love for Sunshine it seems to have a lot of fans! & I adore that orange that cover calls to me every time.
I love how you had the specific palette and then the perfect book covers to match! Such a great idea!
Thanks 🥰. I did have the general autumnal colours in mind but I picked the covers first and then made the more precise palette afterwards. I feel like the other way around would have been nearly impossible. lol.
I love the color palette! I have a few saved that I’ve seen elsewhere, including one that I plan to use for re-designing my spice/tea cabinet into a more old apothecary look (if I ever get to it lol).
I added Sunshine to my list, though it may be darker than most vampire stories I read (I’m a wimp haha). It sounds good though! I enjoy Gail Carriger and likely didn’t get much further than you with Laurell Hamilton. I loved how that series started, but I wanted more Jean-Claude in the last books I read. He was my favorite 🙂 I’ve had Dead Witch Walking on my list for a long time. I should really get to it.
Looking forward to seeing what else you read during #SpooktasticReads! Hope you enjoy them all.
Thanks, Cheryl 🙂 !! Ohh a re-design of a tea cabinet with a colour palette sounds lovely, what colours are on there?
Ohh nice, I hope you enjoy Sunshine if you do give it a chance. I’m glad to hear you enjoyed Gail Carriger’s series and it’s too bad the character you wanted more of wasn’t there enough in Laurell Hamilton’s books. I haven’t gotten to them yet but when I do I’ll pay close attention to Jean-Claude then!
Thanks, I’m currently reading Dracula and Gideon the Ninth and I think both work nicely for #Spooktastic reads though I don’t think I’ll manage more than that for the time being haha! 🙂
That Paranormal pallette is gorgeous and the covers fit perfectly!
Thanks, Louise! I kind of orchestrated it backwards but I do think the palette looks gorgeous, especially with the tiny inclusion of the teal details within the oranges. (My fav colour combo).
Ooo I don’t normally think of green/blue (Pine Teal) as part of a paranormal pallet, but it definitely works!! I may need to rethink my colors
Yeah I wouldn’t have thought of it had I not seen accent colours on a couple covers but now I’m convinced it works because I also find it a cozy colour. And Autumn is a mix of scary and cozy. lol.
OOh nice! Love a rogue topic! Great picks too! I’ve read a handful of these. I love Kim Harrison’s books and this was one of the first adult series I’ve ever read and still enjoy! I kind of fell out Patricia Briggs’ books, but I loved Carriger’s series and still need to read her one spinoff. I am SOOO behind! Also very behind on Moning’s books too!
Thanks for visiting my TTT!
hahah yes Rogue topics can be quite fun! & Oh nice, these do look like the types of books you might enjoy so I’m glad to hear that! 🙂 Wow that’s kind of cool, I’m glad you still enjoy that series. Did you fall out of Patricia Brigg’s books for a specific reason that turned you off or more like life reasons and you focused on other things?
I hope you can catch up with any of the series that you want to! Thanks for visiting my TTT 🥰.
Fun list! I hope you enjoy these when you get to them.
Thank you, Nicole 🥰.
That color palette is so fun! And I love Kim Harrison!
Thank you and, awesome I’m so glad you love Kim Harrison, that’s exciting!
I read Sunshine so long ago. I don’t remember much about it, but at the time I was picking up several authors known for their fantasy novels. Love this color palette that you chose.
Oh nice, well that sounds like a fun reading journey! 🙂 Thanks, Alicia!
The covers you picked are so perfect for Fall colours!! *_*
And the books you pick are soo good too! For once, I read all the books you mentioned, and some of them are my favourites too! I love everything Ilona Andrews wrote (okay, some of the most recent works I enjoyed but didn’t love, but that’s just a small detail). And the Parasol Protectorate is amazingly good *_* But truly, I think that the one by Christine Feehan is the one I enjoyed the least (I am not saying it’s bad, but I read a lot of these ages ago, and this is one of the oldest I read here, my recollection of it is not good, but I remember that I enjoyed it but not loved it), but all of your picks are good! I am excited to know what you will think of them once you’ll get to them!
Thanks so much, Susy! I think these colours are perfect for fall too! 🙂
Oh wow that’s amazing, I love that you’ve read all of these! Hahha still, even just enjoying everything an author writes is already great and I definitely need to read way more Ilona Andrews! 🙂
Glad to hear you also loved the Parasol Protectorate because it sounds incredible and I keep hearing good things about it!
Ah okay, noted. The Feehan one isn’t the topmost one that I want to read from this list so I probably won’t reach for it first. Thank you 🥰. Sorry for the super late reply!
I haven’t read any of these yet, but most of the list has been on my TBR for way too long already, so it’s about time I give them a try!
It’s the same for me, they’ve been on my list for far too long!! haha I hope you can give any of these a try soon then! 😀