Top 5 Sundays #60 – Favorite Gun-Totting Heroines!

 

 

Hey everyone!

After all the sword action a couple weeks ago, it’s Gun time! Choosing my faves was so much fun!

Hope you’ll join me!

 

   This week’s results:

Favorite Gun-Totting Heroines! = 8 (72%)

Movies That Should be Books! = 3 (27%)

 

The theme for today is:

Favorite Gun-Totting Heroines!

 

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.

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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.

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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 Gun-Totting Heroines!

*in no particular order

 

Lily Yu

World of Lupi Series by Eileen Wilks 

Lily is a cop, so the gun is a given… But she is also one of my fave heroines ever, so there! LOL

 

Shiarra 

H&W Investigations Series by Jess Haines 

Shiarra is all out Kick-ass!

 

Rachel Morgan 

Hollows Series by Kim Harrison

Rachel is a great witch, but she is just as skillful with a gun =D

 

Sabina Kane 

Sabina Kane Series by Jaye Wells

Sabina rocks! Can’t wait for the next book! 

 

Kitty Katt

Katherine “Kitty” Katt Series by Gini Koch

 

Kitty always forgets to turn the safety on, on her guns… but she’s still awesome! 

 

   

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Bookish Escape {#9}: Sabina Kane Series Discussion

 

If everyone is telling you to go out and read Jaye Well’s Sabina Kane series, I would listen to them because it definitely stands up to the talk.  The story starts with the fabulous Red-Headed Stepchild and the stunning conclusion of Green-Eyed Demon has probably left many with questions as to what is next. Is Sabina the next Lilith?  Is there a prophecy involving Adam?  Do you love that fun loving mischievous Giguhl? Jackie (from Literary Escapism) and I want to discuss this fabulous series and we’re hoping you’ll join us.  Please join us at Talk Shoe on June 19th at 9pm EST and let’s talk about it.

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Red-Headed Stepchild

In a world where being of mixed-blood is a major liability, Sabina doesn’t really fit in. And being an assassin – the only profession fit for an outcast – doesn’t help matters. But she’s never brought her work home. Until now.

Her latest mission is uncomfortably complex, and threatens the fragile peace between the vampire and mage races. As Sabina scrambles to figure out which side she’s on, she uncovers a tangled political web, some nasty facts about her family and some unexpected new talents. Any of these things could be worryingly life-changing, but together, they could be fatal …

Warning: We will be focusing on the series, so spoilers are going to happen. We’ll try to keep the hardcore spoilers to a minimum, but there are no guarantees.

Haven’t read the series yet? What are you waiting for?! Here are the books, in order:

 

The Mage in Black

Sabina Kane doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to family. After all, her own grandmother, the leader of the vampire race, just tried to kill her. When she arrives in New York to meet the mage side of her family, the reunion takes the fun out of dysfunctional.

On top of that, the Hekate Council wants to use her as a pawn in the brewing war against the vampires. Her mission will take her into the bowels of New York’s Black Light district, entangles her in mage politics, and challenges her beliefs about the race she was raised to distrust. And Sabina thought vampires were bloodthirsty.

 

 

Violet Tendencies

Former assassin Sabina Kane heads to Los Angeles to find her kidnapped sister. Helping her on the mission are her hot mage partner, her Mischief demon minion, and a Vanity demon named Valva. The problem? She’s got to figure out how to find her sister without letting her enemies know she’s back in town. But when Sabina seeks out an old ally — a vampire strip club owner named Fang — for help, Sabina learns the hard way that Vanity demons don’t know the meaning of the phrase “low profile.”

 

 

Green-Eyed Demon

The clock is ticking for Sabina Kane. She has to save her sister from her mysterious captors. And in order to do that, she has to broker a deal between the mages and the vampires before all hell breaks loose.

But as much as Sabina is focused on surviving the present, the past won’t be ignored. Before she can save those she cares about, she’s got to save herself from the ghosts of her past. Because the past is haunting her. Literally.

 

 

Silver-Tongued Devil (January 1, 2012)

Life is looking up for Sabina Kane. Now that her scheming grandmother is dead, the threat of war has passed and the rulers of the dark races are about to sign a treaty to ensure ongoing peace. Her relationship with sexy mage Adam Lazarus is strong and all her friends are around her. Even her magic training is progressing further than she ever expected. The only two dark spots in her otherwise settled life are her guilt over her sister Maisie’s fragile mental state and Sabina’s own sinking sense that she’s got unfinished business with Cain, the mysterious cult leader she let get away months earlier. When a string of murders rock the New York dark races community and threatens to stall the peace negotiations, Sabina finds herself helping to find the killer. Her investigation leads her down troubling paths that have her questioning everything – and everyone – she knows. And the closer she gets to the murderer, the more Sabina realises this is one foe she may not able to kill.

 

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ARC Review: Green-Eyed Demon {Sabina Kane, #3} by Jaye Wells

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The clock is ticking for Sabina Kane. She has to save her sister from her mysterious captors. And in order to do that, she has to broker a deal between the mages and the vampires before all hell breaks loose.
But as much as Sabina is focused on surviving the present, the past won’t be ignored. Before she can save those she cares about, she’s got to save herself from the ghosts of her past. Because the past is haunting her. Literally.

From Goodreads

• Publisher: Orbit 
• Release Date: March 1st, 2011      
• My Copy: NetGalley | For Review.
• Pages: 352
• Series: Sabina Kane Series 
• Genre: Urban Fantasy 
• Author's Website
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Green-Eyed Demon (Sabina Kane)

*Contains Spoilers if you haven’t read the first two books in the series.

I read the first book in Jaye Wells’ Sabina Kane series, Red-headed Stepchild, before I started reviewing books in 2009. By the time the second book in the series, The Mage in Black, came out I ended up postponing reading it. Last week, I got Green-Eyed Demon from NetGalley and I finally buckled down and read Mage in Black. I could hit myself for taking so long to catch up on this series. I had forgotten how awesome these books are!

Gree-Eyed Demon starts off not very long after the events of Mage in Black. Sabina, Adam and Giguhl are trying to find out where Sabina’s sister, Maisie, is after she was kidnapped at the end of Mage in Black.

From page one, Sabina Kane’s newest adventure is a wild ride and I didn’t want to get off for one second! Between trying to find her sister, dealing with her feelings for Adam, planning to kill her grandmother, being attacked by magic weaving vamps and feeling her world spin on its axis, Sabina has her work cut out for her and all I had to do was sit back and enjoy the ride.

One of my favorite thing about this series is that the hero is actually a nice guy. It sounds crazy when I put it like that, but in a genre where most heroes are of the anti, problematic and the not-so-clearly-a-hero kind, I find that a breath of fresh air!

As for the heroine, Jaye Wells has done a spectacular job in creating Sabina. She is the ultimate damage heroine that I love to get to know and see grow with each book and each adventure. Sabina’s growth from the selfish, temperamental lone-wolf to someone who has learned to admit that she can care for the people in her life was amazing. However, that change will definitely not be the easiest one and I can’t wait to read all about it.

All in all, Green-Eyed Demon was the perfect addition to this awesome Urban Fantasy series that I sincerely hope will be around for a long time!

 

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