#nalini singh

[dabiconcordia]

“You young people. Where do you think you come from, huh?" "I arrived by stork," Raj said seriously. "My brother and sister by magic.” ― Nalini Singh

[dmitrigivesgoodblood]

Aodhan: *banging a pen on the table in frustration*

Illium: Stop that! How would YOU feel if I banged you on the table?

Aodhan: I-

Aodhan: I don't know the correct answer to that question.

[bright-side20]

I don’t know how many times I will reread Archangel's Storm because they are literally Elain and Azriel

It's really refreshing to read about an FMC with a different kind of strength. I love Mahiya and can't wait for Elain 🥰

[fated-mates]

We’re talking shifter romance! We go back to the beginning and touch on all the shifter/Lycae business that we dealt with in Season 1, and then we talk about all the ways werewolves have evolved into were-other things and then into DNA-splicing experiments. The recs get wild, the plots get weird, and there’s a lot happening!

[darkangelofmists]

“our memories are what make us.” ― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Lineage

[fearthefluff]

Fantasy Romance Recommendations Pt.2

This is list number 2 and it will be focusing on Urban Fantasy and Contemporary romance with fantasy elements. For more traditional Fantasy recs, check list 1!  Maybe it will help someone somewhere. XD ***Some of the books listed here are not Romance novels officially but all have romance and have HFN or HEA endings Urban Fantasy Romance (Paranormal Romance) 

Hidden Legacy Series by Ilona Andrews 2 Trilogies Nevada Baylor is a Truthseeker; she is able to tell when people lie. When her family's detective agency is tasked with apprehending a powerful fire wielding psychopath, it puts them on the path of collision with the powerful magical elite who rules Houston. Guildcodex Series by Annette Marie 4 Series. Spellbound, Demonized, Unveiled and Wraped. When feisty redhead Tori landed a job at a sketchy pub, she had no idea she'd just joined a magic guild. And the three guys she drenched with a margarita during her first shift? Yeah, they were mages. She's about to get a crash course in the world of magic and mythics. Mercernary Librarians Trilogy by Kit Rocha Meet the Mercenary Librarians: a trio of information brokers who join forces with a squad of elite super-soldiers to use their knowledge to help the hopeless in a dystopian post-apocalyptic United States ruled by a corporate autocracy. Psy-Changeling Series by Nalini Singh A world shared by Changeling, a race of animal shifters , the Psy, a race of powerful psychic who live without emotions and Humans. Tension between the 3 races are rising. The Firebrand Series by Helen Harper Emma, an aspiring detective, is placed with the Supernatural Squad in London. Soon she is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant,  wakes up twelve hours later in the morgue – and is very much alive. Contemporary Romance with Fantasy Elements The Dead Romantic by Ashley Poston Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem... she no longer believes in love. Then her new editor shows up at her front door as a ghost. Romance is most certainly dead... but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s ever known about love stories. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life. A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong Thorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt’s house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier.

[azrielsbxtch]

Ajshdhsjjs Nalini Singh blessing me with an excerpt of Archangels Lineage is the blessing I need in this stage of depression I’m in😭😭😭

Like the Guild Hunter series is ittttt omgggg I need to find more people who have read these books I swear you guys are missing out and you don’t even realize it ughhhh

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Fic Master List

All the cool kids have these, so I figured I'd make one as well. Splitting them up by fandom since I have a bajillion fandoms and fics. List updated as of 2/24/2024. Some of the links go straight to my works on AO3 and some go to a post I've made here on tumblr. It's a work in progress.

Drabbles | 3 Sentence Ficathon

Teen Wolf: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale/Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent/Derek Hale, Derek Hale/Peter Hale, Derek Hale/Laura Hale

Men’s Hockey RPF: all archive locked, click the link to see pairings etc.

Black Jewels - Anne Bishop: Daemon Sadi/Lucivar Yaslana

Original Work: various m/m and m/m/m pairings

The Hollows - Kim Harrison: Trent Kalamack/Rachel Morgan, Jenks/Matalina

Spider-Man/Deadpool

The Witcher: Emhyr var Emreis/Geralt of Rivia, Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion

Psy-Changeling - Nalini Singh: Aden Kai/Vasic Zen, Kaleb Krychek/Judd Lauren, Lucas Hunter/Hawke Snow, Judd Lauren/Walker Lauren

Stargate Atlantis: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard

The Authority: Apollo/Midnighter, Apollo/Midnighter & Jenny Quantum

Perilous Courts - Tavia Lark: Julien Sandry/Whisper, Bellamy Sandry/Rakos Tem, Daromir Azri/Vana Dire, Vana Dire & Bellamy Sandry, Corin Marcel/Audric Sandry

Radiance Series - Tavia Lark: Evain Marha/Leth ka Tariel, Karis Cooper/Ronan Vizia, Arthur Davorn/Shaesarenna Nightven

Demonic Disasters and Afterlife Adventures - Shannon Mae: Adam/Minos

Chosen One Universe - Macy Blake: Victor Eastaughffe/Orsen Riggs, Victor Eastaughffe/Orsen Riggs & Gus, Bentley "Bebe" Baxter & Eduard Eastaughffe, Jedrek/Nick Smith

The Epic of Gilgamesh: Enkidu/Gilgamesh

Last Binding Series - Freya Marske: Robin Blyth/Edwin Courcey

Marvel Cinematic Universe: Loki/Thor

[mashithamel]

Visions of Heat review:

Picking up your partner’s erotic thoughts, and only those, is both funny and kinda hot. I’d forgotten Vaughn was an artist/sculpter, and his lair is pretty awesome, although I don’t know how comfortable I’d be coming home everyday and having to navigate a literal minefield correctly to get inside. Vaughn’s sob story is, for me, the most heartbreaking in a series full of terribly sad stories. I do like a romance that has to go slow, involve seduction, and I like how he both respects and *expects* her strength, but much as I like them both individually this isn’t the hottest couple. Also, two showers together and no hanky panky there either time? Lack of imagination, Vaughn!

Number of showers:

Vaughn: 3

Faith: 4

Rating: one long cold shower

[bookfirstlinetourney]

Round 1

Change can kill. Devastate. Destroy. But it can also save.

-Branded by Fire, Nalini Singh

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

-The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

The first I knew about the civil war was when my sister Aurien poisoned me.

-The King’s Name, Jo Walton

[soulisticreads]

Currently Reading:

1. Angels’ Blood 2. Archangel’s Kiss 3. Archangel’s Consort 4. Archangel’s Blade 5. Archangel’s Storm

6. Archangel’s Legion 7. Archangel’s Shadows 8. Archangel’s Enigma 9. Archangel’s Heart 10. Archangel’s Viper 11. Archangel’s Prophecy 12. Archangel’s War 13. Archangel’s Sun 14. Archangel’s Light 15. Archangel’s Resurrection 16. Archangel’s Lineage

All the novellas were written to to stand alone, so you can pick them up at any stage. However, if you’d like to read the series in strict chronological order, check out the list on this page.

Collected Novellas All four Guild Hunter novellas to date now available in a single volume, Angels’ Flight.

Individual Novellas

1. Angels’ Pawn (this is available as an e-book on its own, and as part of Angels’ Flight) 2. “Angels’ Judgment” in Angels’ Flight (this was originally part of the Must Love Hellhounds anthology) 3. “Angel’s Wolf” in Angels’ Flight (this was originally part of the Angels of Darkness anthology) 4. “Angels’ Dance” in Angels’ Flight

[dabiconcordia]

“You young people. Where do you think you come from, huh?" "I arrived by stork," Raj said seriously. "My brother and sister by magic.” ― Nalini Singh

[dmitrigivesgoodblood]

Dmitri, lovingly: How is the most beautiful person in the world doing?

Honor, just as lovingly: I don't know. How are you doing?

Illium, in the back of the room: I'm doing great!

Thanks, @justanotherghostling

[books-in-a-storm]

My Library📚

Archangel's Light, Nalini Singh

[kamreadsandrecs]

Title: Archangel's Lineage (Guild Hunter #16

Author: Nalini Singh

Genre/s: romance, urban fantasy

Content/Trigger Warning/s: depictions of earthquakes and other natural disasters, grief

Summary (from author's website): Raphael and Elena are experiencing their first ever year of true peace. No war. No horrors of archangelic power. No nightmares given flesh. Until…the earth beneath the Refuge begins to tremble, endangering not only angelkind’s precious and fragile young, but the very place that has held their most innocent safe for eons.

Amid the chaos, Elena’s father suffers a violent heart attack that threatens to extinguish their last chance to heal the bonds between them and make sense of the ruins of their agonizing shared history.

Even as Elena battles grief, Raphael is torn from her side by the sudden disappearance of an archangel. But worse yet is to come. An Ancestor, an angel unlike any other, stirs from his Sleep to warn the Cadre of a darkness so terrible that it causes empires to fall and civilizations to vanish.

This time, even the Cadre itself may not be able to stop a ticking clock that is counting down at frightening speed…

Buy Here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/archangel-s-lineage-nalini-singh/20292261

Spoiler-Free Review: Well, that was something! Sadly, I have to say that this isn’t in my top five books in this series. The plot is pretty straightforward even with the MacGuffin at the heart of said plot, and it just hasn’t got the same amount of depth or interest as the plots of previous books.

But what really makes this book is what’s going on with the characters, especially Elena and her having to confront the mortality of those nearest and dearest to her. Given the ten-year time-skip a lot of characters who used to be children are now grownups, and it was great getting to check in with them again to see how they were getting on with their lives. It was those moments with Elena, where she was coming to grips with their mortality, that were the best parts of this book.

Also interesting were the bits involving Vivek, the hunter who was made into a vampire at some point in the previous books in the hopes that it would cure his disabilities. This book links him with a brand-new character in the series, and I am looking forward to seeing their connection develop and progress in upcoming books.

Speaking of new characters, another one is introduced in this novel that adds a whole new spin to the history of angelkind, and answers some lingering questions about the Legion as well. I’m not sure where Singh is going to take this series after this book, but at the very least I know it’ll be somewhere interesting, all things considered.

Overall, this was a pretty fun read, though not for its main plot. Instead, the best parts were in the side plots involving Elena, whose reckoning with mortality and family is always a fascinating thread and gets really explored in this novel. Vivek also gets some time to shine, and it’ll be really interesting to see where his story goes. That being said, this book introduces a whole new angle to the long distant past of angelkind, and sets the stage for some very interesting happenings in the future, which I am definitely looking forward to.

Rating: four angel feathers

[darkangelofmists]

“Some wounds didn’t ever vanish; they just faded with time, until you could look at them without bleeding and breaking.” ― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Lineage