Obsidian Flame: First-Rate Vampire Romance!
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Obsidian Flame by Caris Roane (Guardians of Ascension Series)
If you’re a fan of J.R. Ward and Lara Adrian, and you’re in the market for a good vampire romance book series, then Caris Roane’s Guardians of Ascension series could be what you’re looking for. The Guardians of Ascension vampires are a group of winged vampires who fight to keep mankind from being overcome by Death Vampires, In Obsidian Flame, the fifth in what will be a seven vampire romance book series, we get to learn Marguerite’s story. Marguerite is a powerful seer who’s been imprisoned in a convent on Second Earth for a century. Only nightly visits from her vampire lover Thorne, Leader of the Guardians, keeps her from going mad from her captivity. When Marguerite is finally freed, she leaves Thorne behind to return to mortal Earth, desperate to embrace her long-awaited freedom. But both Thorne and Marguerite still ache for each other, and Thorne goes to mortal Earth in search of her. But Marguerite’s powerful psychic abilities make her a target for the Guardians’ enemies, and it’s up to Thorn to protect his soul-mate for the sake of humanity – and his own sanity.
Counting Down to True Blood Season 5: A Quick Update!
By · CommentsAll right True Blood fans! With True Blood Season 5 set to premiere in just one month, the excitement is mounting. Everyone is dying to know what’s going to happen with their favorite Bon Temps denizens. Will Sookie hook up with Alcide, go back to Bill, or carry on with Eric? What’s going to happen with Jessica and Jason? (And gee, what about poor sweet Hoyt?) Oh and there’s that whole question about what will happen with Terry and Arlene now that the ghost’s gone… And what’s up with Terry’s long-lost army buddy, Patrick Devins (played by Scott Foley of The Unit and Grey’s Anatomy)?
Well the one thing I can tell you this week is that in True Blood Season 5, Terry won’t be spending a lot of time in Bon Temps. It’s not that he’s going to be abandoning Arlene or anything, but according to EW, Terry will be spending a lot of time on the road with Patrick. Foley reveals, “Most of the time we are out in the greater 50 states tracking down other members of our platoon trying to get some closure to this event that happened over in Iraq.” Foley didn’t give anything else away, apart from saying the duo would do “a lot of running and fighting and jumping. There’s a lot of physicality.” Despite all those action sequences, one thing we won’t be seeing in True Blood Season 5 is Foley without a shirt. Foley joked in an interview with TV Line, “It’s so disappointing because I went on a diet, I got into great shape, I lost weight … and nothing.”
Foley’s not the only big-name new cast member on True Blood Season 5. Reports of Law and Order: SVU’s Chris Meloni’s star turn as a big bad vampire on the show have been rife for ages, although Meloni’s been very circumspect about his role. He did reveal at the Kids Choice Awards last month that he’ll be “bringing a lot of fangs and a lot of staking” to the show. He also said that his character would be trying to unite the vampires so that they wouldn’t “go around killing humans willy-nilly.” We get our first glimpse of Meloni’s character in this video that was released a few days ago by HBO. It doesn’t give us much more information apart from the fact that he will indeed be bringing fangs to the show, but it’s still a great first glimpse and teaser for when True Blood Season 5 comes back to our screens on June 10. As for whether Meloni (like Foley) will be keeping his shirt on in True Blood Season 5, Meloni says (perhaps a bit regretfully), “Yeah, unfortunately.”
Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
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Title: Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Mysteries)
Author: Charlaine Harris
Pages: 310
Genre: Paranormal Mystery
It looks like Sookie Stackhouse author Charlaine Harris is set to have yet another supernatural TV series based on her books. Her Harper Connelly mystery series has been picked up by Syfy. The first book in the series, Grave Sight, is well worth a look. It introduces heroine Harper Connelly. Just like Sookie, Harper’s a bit odd. After surviving a lightning strike, Harper has an uncanny ability to find dead people. In this novel, she is invited to a small town in Arkansas to find the body of a teenage girl. Her stepbrother, Tolliver, accompanies her in his role as her manager and general dogsbody. Finding the body proves to be no problem at all, but then Harper’s life is threatened, Tolliver is thrown into jail. Someone is willing to go to any length to hide a secret, and Harper and Tolliver have a big fight on their hands to get away from the town.
Sookie and Bill Have a Baby!
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Mea culpa. That’s a very misleading title for the article, but I couldn’t resist when I saw the news that True Blood’s real-life couple Anna Paquin (who plays Sookie Stackhouse) and Stephen Moyer (who vamps it up as Bill Compton) are expecting their first child together.
The fairy-tale romance between Paquin and Moyer began in 2007, not long after the series pilot was filmed. Moyer proposed in 2009, and the co-stars finally tied the knot in a private Malibu ceremony in August 2010.
The is 29-year-old Paquin’s first pregnancy. Moyer, considerably older at 42, has a son (Billy born in 2000) and daughter (Lilac, born in 2002) from earlier relationships. The happy couple has announced that the baby is due sometime in the fall.
Meanwhile, filming for True Blood Season 5 continues apace, with HBO releasing various bits and bobs to entice viewers to catch the show. It’s going to be interesting to see how Paquin manages to hide her baby bump as filming progresses – because despite this article’s title, Sookie and Bill don’t have a baby, and I don’t believe they do in any of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse books either. Since filming began way back in November 2011, it’s likely that we’ll only see a glimpse of a more rounded Paquin in the later episodes, if at all.
True Blood will return to our screens on June 10.
