Top 5 Sundays {#39} – Favorite 1st Books in a Series!

 

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Hey there dear readers! =) My favorite time of the week has arrived, Top 5 time!

This was such a fun one to think about and much harder than I thought it would be LOL, I Hope you enjoy it as well!

Let’s get right to it, shall we?

This week’s results:

Funniest "One Liners"! = 16 (44%)

Favorite 1st Books in a Series! = 20 (55%)

 

The theme for today is:

Favorite 1st Books in a Series!

 

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Every Sunday I will post a TOP 5 list on the blog. It can be about anything and every week I'll have a new theme {You can vote on next week’s theme on my left sidebar!} and I will ad the Mr.Linky bellow the post so you can do a list with the theme and add you link to it.

Rules:

1. Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
2. Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
3. Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it bellow)
4. After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.
5. If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)

 

This week’s theme is Favorite 1st Books in a Series!

Wow this was much harder than I thought it would be!

There are a lot of series I love that the first book wasn’t my favorite at all hehe… well, I finally did come up with five =) 

  *in no particular order

 

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs {Jane Jameson #1}

by Molly Harper

All books is this hilarious series are fantastic, but the first one and how Jane becomes a Vamp is simply amazing!

 

Touched by an Alien {Katherine "Kitty" Katt #1}

by Gini Koch

Seeing Martini and Kitty meeting for the first time is unforgettable and awesome!

 

The Hunger Games {The Hunger Games #1}

by Suzanne Collins

I love the complete trilogy, but the impact of reading this book can never be topped!

 

Soulless {The Parasol Protectorate #1}

by Gail Carriger

This one was one it took me a while to get into and get used to the writing, but after I did, it was brilliant!

 

Pleasure Unbound {Demonica #1}

by Larissa Ione

Doc E and Tayla made quite an impact and getting to know the Demonica world was incredible!

 

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Series Review: Jane Jameson/Nice Girls Series {Books #1-3} by Molly Harper

 

Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children's librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed twenty-five dollars in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that's sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she's mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. And thanks to the mysterious stranger she met while chugging neon-colored cocktails, she wakes up with a decidedly unladylike thirst for blood.

Jane is now the latest recipient of a gift basket from the Newly Undead Welcoming Committee, and her life-after-lifestyle is taking some getting used to. Her recently deceased favorite aunt is now her ghostly roommate. She has to fake breathing and endure daytime hours to avoid coming out of the coffin to her family. She's forced to forgo her favorite down-home Southern cooking for bags of O negative. Her relationship with her sexy, mercurial vampire sire keeps running hot and cold. And if all that wasn't enough, it looks like someone in Half Moon Hollow is trying to frame her for a series of vampire murders. What's a nice undead girl to do?

From Goodreads {Blurb from the first book in the series: “Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs”}

• Publisher: Pocket Star
• Release Date of Book #1: March 31st, 2009
• Release Date of Book #3: December 29th, 2009  
• My Copy: eBooks/Print | Bought.
• Series: Jane Jameson/Nice Girls Series 
• Genre: Romantic/Comedic Paranormal 
• Author's Website
• Buy The Series:

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (Jane Jameson, Book 1)

Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men (Jane Jameson, Book 2)

Nice Girls Don't Live Forever (Jane Jameson, Book 3)

*SPOILER FREE

The Series in ONE Sentence: Fun and Hilarious from beginning to end!

I love a nice funny book, specially one with paranormal elements and Molly Harper’s Jena Jameson series definitely gives us that and more. The Jane Jameson series is one of my favorite series ever and finding out that there will be a fourth book made my year!

Jane Jameson’s story is reminiscent of Mary Janice Davidson’s Queen Betsy, where a comedic series of errors results in a Jane turned into a vampire and trying to deal with her new situation. Add her HOT sire, Gabriel, her best friend and the ghost of her grandmother and you have a laugh out loud series that you will not want to put down.

Molly Harper’s genius is in the characters, she has build them and their relationships so well that you can’t help but give yourself over to Jane’s small town world. Let’s not forget the wit, this series has “Gilmore Girls-style” fast and witty talk that had me laughing my a** off in almost every single page.I felt for Jane’s plea and I wanted to bash her head against the wall innumerous times. She is hardheaded, paranoid and flat out annoying most of the time, but she is also fun, hilarious, loyal and extremely lovable. 

Let’s not forget the secondary characters. Jane is great, but without her friends, family and her new paranormal acquaintances where would her funny quips bounce off of and who would they all make fun of? 

If you are a fan of the Queen Betsy series, you absolutely have to read this one, and dare I even to say that I prefer this series over Betsy’s? There is something so fresh and comforting about reading this series, that I can’t recommend it enough! 

 

Next in The Jane Jameson/Nice Girls Series:

According to Molly’s website, there will be a book 4!

Here’s hoping! =D

 

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