I read Tate Hallaway's Tall Dark and Dead because Hallaway is really Lyda Morehouse, who wrote the Archangel Protocol series, which is an amazing religious cyberpunk novel.
It was probably the first book I've read that way officially labelled as paranormal romance - unless you count Laurell Hamilton's books, the first of which kind of predate the growth of the genre, or half a dozen other books that have both paranoraml urban fantasy elements and romance elements.
I enjoyed it a lot, but that's probably because I enjoy Morehouse's work a lot. I know there are other paranormal romance writers out there that I will like, becasue for years and years there have been people who have been writing books that I've liked that would now be marketed under that label. Tanya Huff's Victory Nelson books (and to a lesser extent, her Keeper Chronicles, too). Mercedes Lackey's Diana Tregarde books. And so on.
And on another note, I'm looking forward to reading Sandra McDonald's book, too. I read her Tiptree Award-winning short story "The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill" earlier this year and was highly impressed. I think I put the anthology you mention here on my wishlist based on one of your reviews - is this the one edited by Paula Guran?
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Date: 2007-07-17 07:52 pm (UTC)It was probably the first book I've read that way officially labelled as paranormal romance - unless you count Laurell Hamilton's books, the first of which kind of predate the growth of the genre, or half a dozen other books that have both paranoraml urban fantasy elements and romance elements.
I enjoyed it a lot, but that's probably because I enjoy Morehouse's work a lot. I know there are other paranormal romance writers out there that I will like, becasue for years and years there have been people who have been writing books that I've liked that would now be marketed under that label. Tanya Huff's Victory Nelson books (and to a lesser extent, her Keeper Chronicles, too). Mercedes Lackey's Diana Tregarde books. And so on.
And on another note, I'm looking forward to reading Sandra McDonald's book, too. I read her Tiptree Award-winning short story "The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill" earlier this year and was highly impressed. I think I put the anthology you mention here on my wishlist based on one of your reviews - is this the one edited by Paula Guran?