My recommendations for those looking for love after “Twilight”…

I haven’t read the host, but I’m waiting for it to come in the mail… biting my fingers and waiting. I did see on Meyer’s website that they will be doing a movie. The book does sound really interesting so I can’t wait to read it. Yes! the books could get me in trouble with both my job and school work 🙂 I try to be good though, because sometimes it’s hard to put a book down. I recently checked out some cd books at the library and was very impressed. I didn’t know if I wanted to hear someone reading to me. I have to say that I enjoyed it and got a lot of work done!

Wow youre a girl after my own heart ive already read some of these but now that i know where to look ill definately be coming back to see what else you reccomend. And sherrilyn kenyon is abso freaking wonderful even when she wrote highland romance under her old name.

You are doing what I always thought would be cool to do!! I love your site. I was raised with my mom reading books all the time. I never wanted to read. my daughter got nominated for student of the month at her jr high school, so she was able to rent a movie as one of the perks for doing so good.Well she rented Twilight. YEP Twilight… well i watched it the fist time and it was ok I dont know why but i ended up watching it again and got completely hooked like everyone else. I had to know what was going to happen next which was not the norm for me, so my husband went out and got me all the books for my anniversary which just happen to fall a couple of days later thankfully for me!! I read all the books in a week.I hated that it had to come to a end. But really all it did was open this wonderful world of awesome vampire men to me. I also found out that while I was growing up and my mom was reading she was reading vampire books and anything that had to do with the super natural .I just go and raid her library when i want to start a new series.She has everything, she has been reading them for 30 some years so i am really lucky.She also started me on the sookie series when i finally told her i was able to move past Edward.I also read Mary Janice Davidson (Betsy & Sinclair)Christine Feehan which she is a phenomenal author all her series are good.Christine Warren, Susan Sizemore,Jeanine Frost( i named my dog after Bones one of the most sexiest vamps.)Katie Macalister,so many I have now read and i love them, my mom keeps trying to get me to read other kinds of books but right now I love reading Vampire book.I get all my friends hooked on them and I love it when they borrow books and read the series.Anyway I always thought it would be cool to have a sight where you could put what you thought about the books and find out what other people thought.you have done that. I like it, so congrats on your web page.

Hi everybody! I’m a little late to the party but I am giving a huge yes to everything mentioned. I have put a big bite in almost every author mentioned, although I did pick up a few new ones OR I have completely blown through everything they have written. I can 100% back Kim Harrison, MaryJanice Davidson, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K Hamilton, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and give a strong thumbs up to mmost of the others. I was SOOO HAPPY to see that someone else mentioned JD Robb, she is not supernatural but a truly great read. Also want to throw out Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie PLum series, it is laugh out loud funny, similar to Queen Betsy but no supernatural. Right down to two hunky men, crazy side kicks, and a lead with an interesting view point. If you run out of sup reads and need to fill some time, try out one of these, you may find a way to gently pull away from sexy vamps. Thanks for all of the suggestions!! Keep em coming!1

Just want to put in my vote for Karin Marie Moning’s Highlander/Fever series. I am a voracious reader with no patience for trite or lazy writing. Many of the paranormal series I have tested don’t pass my threshold (but Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight definitely did). Then I started reading the Fever series, which left me panting for the next. Later I read Moning’s Highlander books and realized they are foreplay for Fever. Recommend reading the Highlander from beginning to end, and then jump [with pleasure] into Darkfever. The Highlanders really are a progression that helps set the table for Fever. Last book in series (Shadowfever) will be out in January 2011. Fever’s Jericho Barrons is one of the sexiest and most mysterious characters I have found. Better yet, Darkfever is a movie and trailer is available on Youtube. Can’t wait.

I just started the Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning & absolutely love them!! I am also reading Kim Harrison’s (The Hollow Series).. Dead Witch Walking is the first one… these are absolutely wonderful too.. very similar to the Fever series in some aspects! Great recommendations Meeh! You ought to try Cassandra Clare w/the Mortal Instruments series.. these are awesome!

Hi I just have to say that I am very shocked at all the books out there in the world. See I am 22yr old mom of two and a wife to a soldier. So as you can imagine I am never alone or never have free time to sit and read. Except at night. Well I used to read books when I was little and then I stopped but when I heard about twilight saga, I wasn’t very interested… My younger cousin was wanting the books and yeah.. Not I. The movie came out and we seen it and I wasn’t into it really, until the newmoon movie came out and I bought it and watched it, then bought twilight movie and watched them both in order. well in new moon it leaves you hanging alot, so I wentout and bought eclipse the book and read it then breaking dawn then twilight then new moon and then I read the first 12 chptrs of midnight sun. I wish so much that I had read the books first (in order) then the movies. But I keep finding my self watching the 3 movies of twilight I have and then reading breaking dawn, all this at least twice a month.. I guess you can say I am addicted. I can be on the computer (back to the tv) and say every line word for word to the movies. I realized I was getting nowhere with twilight saga except being mad that there was no more books to read in the saga. So I was looking for the vampire love adventure novels, and I came across “the night world”. I bought the first book about a month ago, but just now started to read it and I am very hooked on it.. I was afraid that wasn’t going to be anything like twilight at all, but it is very close to the saga. So now I am so addicted to the immortal world with the love triangles and the secrets and law breaking adventures, That i seem to have to have these things in my life. I feel like a teenage boy who is so obsessed with the video games. But I am glad that there are other books out there that has something close to the twilight, it has eased my impatience. But for my My first and only love will be The Twilight Saga, I wish she would write more. I would love to know the future of the cullens and the werewolf packs. and Especially Renesmee and jacob. But I am So Hooked on Edward. And this is weird to say, But once i started reading the books of twilight saga I realized that my husband is basically my Edward and I am Bella. He has very pale skin (because his mom is a Redhead)even though he is always in the sunlight and should have a tan, but it never darkens him, and he has light brown hair when long, but when it is cut for military it is red Like edwards, And his eyes are Orange, sometimes light brown But even random ppl have argued that his eyes are orange/red. and Of course I am a natural brown Haired girl with highlights and I am very very stubborn.. So My love for twilight is oh so true, But it is just disappointing that There is no more to read after breaking dawn. So I will take the recommendations above and try to Suffice. =(.

I love J.R.Ward the Black Dagger Brotherhood most of all, Sherrylon Kenyon really enjoyed her books. Karen Marie Moning’s series are also great!! I love your site and will definitely be reading many of your recommendations 🙂
P.S. Also loved the Hunger Games series.. highly recommended by Stephanie Meyer.

Once I read Twilight I was hooked!!!! I cant get enough, I have bought several seies. House of Night, Mortal Instraments, Morganville Vampires,I just finished Love at Stake series and thought they were awsome!

Just began Ilona Andrews series “starring” Kate Daniels. Seems Kate is as badass as Riley Jensen or Anita Blake but without all the “work & mom unsafe” sex. This doesn’t make the stories tamer at all. So far the two I’ve read are fun, fast-paced and just the ticket after a long tiring day at work.

hey so… i`m loving this suggestion site, a couple along the same lines as stormie that are my favorites and have not been mentioned i cannot believe it! these 2 are definitly in my top 5 no vamps but really good adult paranormal romance!
kelley armstrongs other world series
shifters by rachel vincent

Love all the suggestions… other books to read are Hex Hall Series by Rachel Dawkins, Georgia Kincaid Series by Richelle Mead, Dark Swan Series by Richelle Mead, Strange Angels Series by Lili St. Crow, Darkest Power Series by Kelley Armstrong– she is also starting a new series called the Darkest Rising Series, Den of Shadows Series by Amelia Atwater Rhodes, Intertwined by Gena Showalter, Touch Series by Laurie Faria Stolarz, Wolves of Merct Fall Series by Maggie Steifvater, Evernight Series by Claudia Gray, The Immortals Series by Alyson Noel, and House of Night Series by PC and Kristen Cast

thanks everyone soooo much i just now got a nook for my b-day and i am almost done with the morganville vampire series and it is fabulous. i think i am about to start the black dagger brotherhood. but i would love to be able to read a vampire book that is more adult based that is a series. if anyone has any suggestions plz let me know!!!!!!! thanks

The best series ever to get over twilight is defiantly the immortal instruments series by Cassandra clare. Like everyone else I went into mourning after twilight but quickly replaced it with the immortal instruments “city if bones” got me hooked. A must read for anyone that loved twilight and I can’t stress it enough!!!!!!

I am in love with “Vampire Kisses” by Ellen Scheiber. There are 8 books so far. The other series I am in love with is “The Immortals” By Allison Noel. It has got me hooked there are only 6 books sadly. It is not about vampires but I think its a good break from vampires, I will warn you though THEY ARE ADDICTING!!!! I had butterflies after the last one. I read it in 1 day and a half.

Hey Maryse, i just wanted to say thank you for this site. I love that you and your readers are here to give suggestions on new seriers to be read. I am new to your site but this is were I will go from now on to find a new series to be read.
I have read all of Christine Feehan, Laurrell Hamilton, J.R. Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon & Kresley Cole’s books and loved them dearly. My Favorite characters are by far Z from BDB and Acheron from the Dark Hunters series which both made me cry. I loved the fact that Kresley Cole in the Immortals After Dark series had a mix of all kinds of different beings with all kinds of quirky personallities like “Nucking Futs Nix” Who just cracks me up.
I also wanted to add Christina Dodd’s Chosen Ones & Darkness Chosen series and for YA The Sweep series by Cate Tiernan.
I just finish The Dark-Hunter Series & Im about to start The Chronicles of Nick but after that Im lost. Do you any sugestions on where I may go next?

i fell in love with reading again and started with the Sookie series then went to BDB and your site is bookmarked on my laptop and my iphone.. i always come to see what your reading and your recomendations!
thank you!!!!

great site and your lists are terrific and a great help when looking for new reads. my absolute faves are night huntress (& world) jeaniene frost & chicagoland vamps chloe neill and many of my faves are already listed above, so i won’t restate them

….. however for a few others that i would love to recommend that i haven’t seen promoted so far. (mostly very adult themes – not suitable for YA)

try these series
dante valentine – Lilith Saintcrow
morgan kingsley – Jenna Black
paladins – Alexis Morgan
allie beckstrom – Devon Monk
guild hunter – Nalini Singh
psy-changelings – Nalini Singh
jane yellowrock – Faith Hunter
kitty norville – Carrie Vaughn
sin craven – Jenna Maclaine
dragon’s heat – Tessa Adams
crimson moon – LA Banks
cassie palmer – Karen Chance
dory basarab – Karen Chance
maker’s song – Adrian Phoenix
order of the sicari – Monica Burns
dark days – Jocelynn Drake
night watch – Cynthia Eden
moonlight – Nancy Gideon

have fun reading
brotherhood of blood – Kathryn Smith
the others – Christine Warren
world of the lupi – Eileen Wilks
guardians of eternity – Alexandra Ivy
primal instinct – Rhyannon Byrd
the breeds – Lora Leigh
the magnus pack – Shelley Laurenston
the pride – Shelley Laurenston
brethren – Shayla Black
nightwalkers – Jacquelyn Frank

OMG when i first looked at the twilight series, i was not into reading anything. i would just skim through it to make sure my kids werent reading smut, you know what i mean, a page here and there randomly selected. they had enuff garbage in their lives was the way i saw it and that was it. never gained any real interested in it because thats what i was doing. so one day at work my friend tells me that she is reading twilight and i said oh the kiddie vampire book. she looked at me like i had grown 3 heads! she said to me, “This is the 3rd time i have read this book so i am giving it to you to read it. ” I told her what i had done in the past and she insisted that i read it. so long story short, i was reprimanded at work 3 times for just reading that book. Almost lost my job and husband that could not understand how a book could take over his wife. I have read each book so many times that i know parts by heart. my kids get mad when i correct them during conversations about twilight because they get their stories mixed up. my husband has realized any love is good love so long as i am happy, let me read! otherwise i had never been into reading as much until i read twilight. now i want it all. Thanks to my one good coworker who i drive insane everytime i find a good book or new series. i just emailed the link to this page to by the way. oh god im babbling again. its just so great to find a page where i can set these emotions free. maryse, does this ever get better???? Aye Dios mio!!!!

The reading list gets longer and I am now running out of time, guess i am going to have to get in shape and exercise so that I can live long enough to read all these books, work, have a husband and some kind of life while eternally reading. Fountain of youth anyone? if your holding out, we are gonna each need a glass to read all this! LOLOL

I too am an avid fan of the paranormal and have read all of Twilight, Charlaine Harris and also Patricia Briggs. There is also a series of hers that is a spin off called Indigo Court and it is very good. I have recently gotten into reading Yasmine Galenorn and her series including Witchling, Changeling, etc. This series has intrigued me and I recommend the read.

I just finished reading the Blood Royal Chronicles and really enjoyed them. I’m looking to see if there will be a book 8. Having issues getting on to the Authors website. I have also read the Charlenne Harris Books of Sookie Stackhouse love the series and the Show. Just started the series Morganville Vampires I hope that they are just as good or better.
Thanks,
Sharla

Just finished Dark-Hunters. Can you name a few just-as-long series.
Thanks

I am new to your website, but not to paranormal books. There are several comments and recommendations about the Twilight series. I have never read any of the books. Maybe I’m looking at it wrong, but I perceived the characters to be teenagers. I left my teen years long, long ago. I’m not saying that young people are incapable of having intense and true emotions; I’m just saying for me I need the romance characters to be adults. Hard core descriptive sex is not what I’m talking about. The characters need to be old enough to know themselves, before they can learn to blend with another person. I look for characters that find the one person who can help them lead fulfilling happy lives….or in some cases deaths. I do not mean to down grade young readers or writers. Just that for me this type of book is not what I would consider as a “paranormal romance” possibility.

I have read all those series with the exception of Bourbon Street Trilogy.They all are great reads. Christine Feehan has a wonderful series that is worth a read. Carpathians , with only one person in time that can “save” them. It is a great series with many books in it!

i have read most of the series up there i am very very hooked to a series by melissa marr called the wicked lovely series i love it and i also love the mercy thompson series by Patrica briggs i actually stumbled on the mercy thompson one because we had the same last name but i love it lol and also alpha and omega series by patrica also

Hi there!
I stumbled across this website trying to determine whether or not there would be a Merry Gentry book 9. (Still clueless..) However there are a few authors that I think are memorable mentions.
Yasmine Galenorn (paranormal romance) She writes the Otherworld series.
First book is Witchling.
Richelle Mead also writes an adult series called the Dark Swan series (or something to that effect.)
I would also recommend the house of night series by PC and Kristin Cast.
James Patterson writes a wonderful series for young adults called the Maximum ride series.

So have you read the *Night world* series By L.J Smith who wrote Vampire diaries? If not, then they are also amazing. There’s 3 books, which have 3 stories in each, and I have read them after reading the Twilight and Sookie Stackhouse ones (which I also love) I am definaitly going to read some of these suggestions Thankks 🙂 x

Hello, if you are a fan of True Blood, Vampire Diaries, Twilight, A touch of Crimson series ETC, then you must read Afterlife by Stephanie Hudson, its amazing and will have you hooked from the start. Dont want to spoil but hope you trust my judgment! ENJOY. jusx

Rebecca, Stephanie Meyer actually just went ahead and put the PDF on her own website after it was leaked. You might check stephaniemeyer.com.

I am reading the 12th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. LOVE THE SERIES, All of the Books are great, Z and V being probably my favourites. But a series I also love is the Bitten Series by Kelly Armstrong. I love the characters as Kelly makes you feel you know them as well as a best friend. Both Series I would highly recommend to any adult.

Wow! Your blog is truly amazing. Was at the university for the last few years and did not get much time to indulge in light reading. Now I am back to reading with a vengeance. I have just finished the twilight saga and was sort of stuck . Couldn’t shake myself out of the twilight zone and was worrying about how to move on when i came across your blog. It has been an eye opener for me. Can’t believe there are so many books to be read. I have started the “The Mortal Instruments” series. Thank You so much. What would you recommend after the Mortal Instruments Series? Good Wishes from India 🙂

You might like the Leandros Brothers series by Rob Thurman. Your heart breaks for Cal and you have to love Nik. A little of everything; vampires, demons, fallen angels. More violence than romance but compelling, well-written series.

I enjoyed the list and recommendations and some of which I have already read thanks but I was surprised that Maggie Shayne’s books are not listed. Years ago stating out in the then new harlequin intrigue series Maggie Shayne began a series Wings In the Night, Some of the newer novels are better for the whole adventure thing, but it is great to have read them from the start as the some of the original characters will show up in the books. What I like best is that most books can be read as a one book read, yes there may be a reference to previous characters but if you don’t want to read all 18 books in the series I would recommend that you do read from the point of of Edge of Twilight since that story arc is connected to the latest books including the 19th due out soon I Hope.

I just finished the Tigers Curse series and Ren has now replaced my Edward fantasy crush. I never thought it could be possible. I was very irritated with many of the writers styles and choices but in the end LOVED the books. Book 4 made me cry a few times and had a lot of adventure. Also, I was team Edward all the way in Twilight but I could’ve found peace with either Team Ren or Team zKishan in this series. I had a preference for Ren but wasn’t as adverse to the possibility of Kishan as I would’ve been with Jacob. If you can power through the writing issues in book one and let yourself get pulled into book two on, you will finish book four feeling glad you kept reading.

PA Lassiter finished midnight sun and wrote the whole twilight series through the eyes of Edward. That was my first reading fan fic and I thought she did a good job.

Another book I liked after twilight is beautiful demons by Sarra Cannon, it was pretty good

I actually came to your site for J.D. Robb, thank you very much for the list, I am a big fan

These books r not about vampires or other supernatural creatures, but it is a crazy good love story!! And a series (3 books, which I read in less than 3 days!)….check out Delirium by Lauren Oliver (then Pandemonium, then Requiem). It takes place in a future world where they believed love is an actual disease! I don’t want to give away too much, but trust me….soooooooooo good!! Plus, it has 4 short stories about some of the other main characters (titled Annabel, Hana, Raven, & Alex).