Looking for Paranormal Romance Recommendations

I don't know if you have read any of JR Wards books but if not I STRONGLY recommend that you do.  She just put out the 6th book in her Black Dagger Brotherhood series!!

What about Keri Arthur (A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel)?

Or Lara Adrian? 

How about Karen Chance?

Colleen Gleason (The Gardella Vampire Chronicles)

Patricia Briggs (A Mercy Thompson Novel)

Lynsay Sands (An Argeneau Novel)

Definitely JRW - she got me hooked on paranormal.  I also like Lynn Viehl and her Darkyn series.  However, they are much more intense and darker than the BDB.

I also like Jennifer Armintrout's Blood Ties series.  Book 4 just came out this month.  They are little different as they are told in the first person POV.  I'm not fussy on that POV but I really enjoyed them.

Lara Adrian is good too. I've read a few Christine Feehan and enjoyed them.  The Drake sisters series is really good.  I haven't seen new releases lately but Dara Joy had some really good books out - and very hot too.

These may not be to your taste as neither write like NB or AK but Kay Hooper's Bishop Trilogies are the best.  Not a lot of sex in them but excellent series.  The stories revolve around Noah Bishop and his Special Crimes Unit in the FBI - they are all psychic.  Except for one book (Bishop's story) he usually has a minor role and his group takes center stage.  KathyD is hooked and actually just recently blogged Book 3, Noah's story.

Another author who cannot write quickly enough for me is TJ MacGregor - she's usually in the fiction section rather than romance.  She has a wonderful series starring Mira Morales who is psychic and her boyfriend Shep. an FBI agent.  She wrote about 5 books for them and last year started a new series about time travel.  Excellent.  I can hardly wait until the fall when the next one is released!

Have you tried Lora Leigh's Breed series?  Excellent and very hot.  The first ones released by Ellora's Cave are definitely erotica.  The last few released by a mainstream publisher are still very hot but not quite as explicit.  There are a number of Challengers hooked on that series.

Hope this helps!  Good luck!

If you like Angela Knight then you'd probably like J.R. Ward, Lora Leigh, Keri Arthur, Rachel Vincent only two books & they're MIRA , Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews also two books. I love all these writers. Then if you want eH line try the Nocturnes The Dark Gate, Dark Deceiver by Pamela Palmer are both great, Lori Devoti Pat White just to name a few. I'm sorry I listed so many but if you go to our blog you'll see we read a lot of para. Deb

I'm going to chime in here about the J.R. Ward books. I've not read books by NB and AK so I can not tell you how J.R. Ward compares. I will just tell you that Kathy D kept raving about Dark Lover and how she wanted me to read it as we also have some similar taste in reading. Finally, I checked my library and they had the first two books so I ordered Dark Lover.

I was so hooked and just loved it and had to follow up with Lover Eternal. Oh boy! Yum! I loved the intense desire between the main characters. The battle between the Brothers and the Lessers is also very intense. I was on pins and needles waiting for book 3 which is Z's story because I wanted him so badly to have a HEA and it did not disappoint me. I loved it. There are aspects of the book that are very dark and sometimes I am not so thrilled with what is happening with them but Ward writes these guys in a way that you are just rooting for them to overcome the bad stuff and find love.

Right now, I actually have the latest book right here in front of me to read. I have not read it yet and have been hesitating. . . why? Because the last book was more intense and didn't satisfy me as much as the others. That was the first one that did not satisfy like the others but all books in a series can satisfy all the time. Still, it is a must read and I really want to know what is going on with these guys. I also must read Phury's story after book 3. I must! So, here I am tonight going to start it.

These books do have a lot of violence and some of the rituals are, oh dear god what are they doing, kind of moments. . . and there are dark things that have happened and are still happening to the characters. . . but you just really fall for these guys and want the HEA so bad for them because of these things. . . I hope with this new book that I will not be disappointed. . . I will let you know . . . but either way. . . I really love the other books and I also agree that these are books that must be read in order.

Another series that I recommend and I just LOVE is the Psy/Changeling series by Nalini Singh. OH I love the series so much. You must read it. Yum Yum. I think you might enjoy this one. These are not as intense as the Ward series. I don't think many books that I have read are. However, I love the world that Nalini Singh has created. I love the Pack and how they are such touchers. Yum. If you do read it, I think they should be in order to. After you read book one, yum, you might want to find, but do not have to, the anthology which is called An Enchanted Season, is about Nate and Tamsin. They are a couple already married in book one and this story is about how they come together. I love these books and can't wait for September when the next one is out.

I have also just started Lara Adrian's Breed series. I am really enjoying these. I have only read up to book two which I recently blogged. I am going to be getting the next one soon.

I think you are reading the Nocturne series by Rhyannon Byrd right? Love those. I also love the Nocturne series by Vivi Anna. So far only two books. I loved book two even more than book one and I'm looking forward to the next one. Also, I loved The Dark Gate by Pamela Palmer. I have the second book to read and have heard good things about it too.

Margie :)

Deb named most of the authors I was going to recommend, but no surprise since we have such similar tastes.  JR Ward is VERY intense, very sensual and passionate, and the heroes are very tortured heroes.  Nalini Singh is another one that I think is comparable to Angela Knight.  I just read one you would probably enjoy, IN HER WILDEST DREAMS by Kimberly Dean~ very passionate, paranormal with a great mythology.  It's the second in a series but I haven't read the first so can't tell you how that one is but this one did stand alone. Karen Chance, Ilona Andrews, and Patricia Briggs are excellent but more urban fantasy so not sure how those would work for you. Alyssa Day is another author I enjoy.  I'll stop here but I'm going to try to think of who are some authors more along the Nina Bangs line since mainly I'm naming ones more like Angela Knight....

Yeah, those JR Ward books are good, also Sherrilyn Kenyons Dark Hunter series, Laurel K Hamkilton's Anita Blake Series, and her Merry Gentry series....Karen Marie Monig's Highlander, and Fever books....lets see, who else.....Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire series (a little comedy to go with your drama). And oh.....Tanya Huff's Blood Books (on which the Bloodties TV series is based).  I think thats it.

So many awesome authors that immediately come to mind have already been listed here for you.  But there's one really HOT one i'd like to second for you: Lora Leigh's Breed series (lots of heat in these awesome stories). With LL's stories, while i love them, i skim most of the sex scenes cause they are way much for me...but right up your alley sounds like.  

If you occasionally like your paranormal humorous...there are several awesome stories of those we could all recommend you as well.  Just say the word.

Lora Leigh- The Breed Series

Christine Feehan- The Dark Series

Sherrilyn Kenyon - I liked her first ten books Particullary the Hunters.

Cathy Clamp &  C T Adams The Moon Series

Nalini Singh

These are a few of my favourites. Please read and tell me what you think. 

Janet, Your correct in that LL's Breed series is written for Elora's Cave. The Breed ones of LL's i've read so far have been very well written stories imho, though all but one did have a fair bit of sex in them. You mention wanting emotion with your sex, there is that in spades in these. I wouldn't be able to read these if they were cold and all about the sex act. ick poo.

And when these couple's fall in love, they fall head over heals(mate's for life) for each other, it's awesome.

My first read by her was recommended as the one with the least amount of sex of all her books, "Elizabeth's Wolf." This story was sooo good, i ordered several more to this Breed series, regardless of the amount of sex in them(which i always skim if it goes on to long in books anyways).

I think you'd be more than safe to try "Elizabeth's Wolf" first as well, and then decide if you want to continue with more of this series after that. I don't think you'll be able to resist. lol

As to other Elora's Cave novels, by other authors. I have no interest to read anyone else. I would be wary of getting the same reads you've mentioned not liking.  Now if someone were to recommend a new EC author to me, someone with similar reading tastes as i have, then i'd for sure try one.  

You've sure created a massive conversation here!

One author I don't think was mentioned is Emma Holly.  Now that's hot!  Her Demon series is good. 

If you want to "test" drive a few of these authors try the antholoy "Hot Spell".  You'll see Emma Holly, Lora Leigh (Breed story but not related to the others) Shiloh Walker and Meljean Brook.  I enjoyed them all

Good luck!.

I see you've already got several recommendations to read J. R. Ward's books, and I'm going to add mine as well.  I'm completely addicted to this series!

 Also, I'm not really into Sherrilyn Kenyon's books, but a LOT of people are, so I'm going to recommend them to you to try.

Jude Deveraux has done a few Paranormal romances, but her best are The Summerhouse, Wishes, Remembrance (a time-travel) and Forever.

Mary Janice Davidson has a vampire series out and all of the titles start with "Undead and . . . "  The first is Undead and Unwed.  I'm not particularly into this series, as they're funny but not particularly dramatic enough for me, but again, these seem to be well-loved by the masses, so I'm going to recommend that you give them a try.  Best of luck!