From "RT Book Reviews": Reviewers' Choice Nominees for Best Paranormal-Related Books of 2015

     During 2015, RT Book Reviews reviewed more than 3,100 books in a variety of categories. The editors have nominated a handful of them as best of the best for this year. The single winner in each category will be announced on April 15, 2016, at the RT Booklovers Convention, and the complete list of winners will be published in the May issue of RT Book Reviews. (I will post the list on my blog at that time.) Click HERE to go to the complete list of nominees, which includes links to each book's RT review. 

     Listed below are RT's "Best Book" nominees in categories related to paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and classic fantasy. If the book title is a pink-link, you can click on it to go to my review, which will include an overview of the world-building, an analysis of the plot, and a critique of the quality of the writing, as well as a link to an excerpt, a link to the author's web site, and a link to the book's Amazon.com page. If the book is part of a series, my review will also include a list of all of the other books in reading order and reviews of previous books in the series.

     In one or two instances, I completely disagree with the RT editors on the quality of the novel, so your pink-link click will take you to a review of the series and a publisher's blurb for that specific book. 

Paanormal-Related Nominees for Book of the Year
Rachel Vincent: Menagerie (fantasy)
Jenn Bennett: Grave Phantoms (urban fantasy)
(Note: Two more books will be added to this category in the next few months.)

Steampunk Novel
Pip Ballantine: The Diamond Conspiracy
Anna Butler: The Gilded Scarab
Beth Cato: The Clockwork Crown
Delilah S. Dawson: Wicked Ever After
Bec McMaster: Of Silk and Steam

Paranormal Romance Novel
A. C. Arthur: Primal Heat  

Jenn Bennett: Grave Phantoms  

Jeaniene Frost: Bound By Flames  

Sara Humphreys: Vampires Never Cry Wolf  

Lindsey Piper: Hunted Warrior  

Nalini Singh: Archangel's Enigma  

Paranormal World-Building

G. A. Aiken: Feel the Burn  

Christine Feehan: Viper Game  

Thea Harrison: Shadow's End (review still to come)

Alexandra Ivy: When Darkness Ends  

Indie Press/Self-Published Urban Fantasy Novel

Rachel Aaron: One Good Dragon Deserves Another  

J. C. Daniels: Edged Blade (I'm way behind on this series, but plan to catch up ASAP.)

Diana Pharaoh Francis: Edge of Dreams  

Elizabeth Hunter: The Secret  

Colleen Vanderlinden: Nether  

Urban Fantasy Novel
Ilona Andrews: Magic Shifts  

Patricia Briggs: Dead Heat  

Gini Koch: Alien in Chief  

Devon Monk: Crucible Zero  

Nicole Peeler: Jinn and Juice  

Lisa Shearin: The Dragon Conspiracy  

Urban Fantasy World-Building
Ben Aaronovitch: Foxglove Summer  

Anne Bishop: Vision in Silver  

Darynda Jones: Eighth Grave After Dark  

Diana Rowland: Vengeance of the Demon  

Carrie Vaughn: Kitty Saves the World  

Parranormal Romantic Suspense Novel
Cherry Adair: Gideon  
Sylvain Reynard: The Raven  
Karen Robards: The Last Time I Saw Her  
Rebecca Zanetti: Total Surrender  

Fantasy Novel 

Lila Bowen: Wake of Vultures  

Zen Cho: Sorcerer to the Crown  

N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season  

Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Signal to Noise  

Naomi Novik: Uprooted  

Rachel Vincent: Menagerie  

Fantasy Adventure Novel

Elizabeth Bear: Karen Memory  

Jim Butcher: The Aeronaut's Windlass  

Clay & Susan Griffith: The Conquering Dark 

Michelle Sagara: Cast in Honor