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Fury's Kiss
Fury's Kiss
Nov 17, 2025 4:27 PM

Author:Karen Chance

Fury's Kiss

Karen Chance continues her terrific urban fantasy series featuring the kick-ass daughter of a vampire in this sequel to Midnight's Daughter and Death's Mistress.

Karen Chance continues her terrific urban fantasy series featuring the kick-ass daughter of a vampire in this sequel to Midnight's Daughter and Death's Mistress.

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir - half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. But so far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing . . .

Dory is used to fighting hard and nasty. So when she wakes up in a strange scientific lab with a strange man standing over her, her first instinct is to take his head off. Luckily, the man is actually the master vampire Louis-Cesare, so he's not an easy kill.

It turns out that Dory had been working with a Vampire Senate task force on the smuggling of magical items and weaponry out of Faerie when she was captured and brought to the lab. But when Louis-Cesare rescues her, she has no memory of what happened to her.

To find out what was done to her - and who is behind it - Dory will have to face off with fallen angels, the maddest of mad scientists, and a new breed of vampires that are far worse than undead . . .

Fury's Kiss continues Karen Chance's fantastic Dory Basarab series - and is not to be missed.

Praise for Karen Chance:

'Karen Chance doesn't disappoint, once again we have an action packed adventure with a strong female character that, while tough as nails, and a dhampir - is also very human' SFRevu

'A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and

sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it' Patricia Briggs

'A really exciting book with great pace and a huge cast of vivid characters. This is one of my favourite reads of the year' Charlaine Harris

Karen Chance is the New York Times bestselling author of two urban fantasy series. Her previous novels Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow, Embrace the Night, Midnight's Daughter, Curse the Dawn, Death's Mistress and Hunt the Moon are all published by Penguin. Karen lives in Central Florida, the home of make-believe, which may explain a lot. Vist her on the web at www.karenchance.com.Fury's Kiss continues Karen Chance's fantastic Dory Basarab series - and is not to be missed.

Praise for Karen Chance:

'Karen Chance doesn't disappoint, once again we have an action packed adventure with a strong female character that, while tough as nails, and a dhampir - is also very human' SFRevu

'A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and

sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it' Patricia Briggs

'A really exciting book with great pace and a huge cast of vivid characters. This is one of my favourite reads of the year' Charlaine Harris

Karen Chance is the New York Times bestselling author of two urban fantasy series. Her previous novels Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow, Embrace the Night, Midnight's Daughter, Curse the Dawn, Death's Mistress and Hunt the Moon are all published by Penguin. Karen lives in Central Florida, the home of make-believe, which may explain a lot. Vist her on the web at www.karenchance.com.

Reviews

Karen Chance doesn't disappoint, once again we have an action packed adventure with a strong female character that, while tough as nails, and a dhampir - is also very human

—— SFRevu

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and
sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it

—— Patricia Briggs

A really exciting book with great pace and a huge cast of vivid characters. This is one of my favourite reads of the year

—— Charlaine Harris

Desolation Island has all the characteristics of a postmodern classic...has all the elements of the classic adventure novel, from The Odyssey to Moby Dick

—— El País

An ambitious and successful novel that confronts the reader with important questions: love, death, identity, evil...

—— El Periodico

Rarely has fiction been so truthful. Rarely has reading been so vital and so absorbing

—— La Vanguardia

A wonderful novel... We are between Odysseus' journey, the kernel of the epic novel, and Melville's Moby Dick... This novel aims to go to the heart of literature, to take up once more the almost extinguished call of ancient and contemporary heroes

—— ABC

A good old-fashioned mariner’s adventure – though bursting with postmodern strangeness

—— Holly Kyte , Sunday Telegraph

Murakami's exquisitely simple prose and deft evocation of the surreal are captivating and sublime

—— Sunday Times

The mysteries are never tainted by explanation, merely beautifully described, delivering a hypnotic read

—— Times Higher Education Supplement

Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility

—— Guardian

Vintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels

—— Los Angeles Times Book Review

[A] treat...Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done

—— Baltimore Sun

Murakami's most famous coming of age novel of love, loss and longing

—— Dazed and Confused

Catches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love... It is also, for all the tragic momentum and the apparently kamikaze consciousness of many of its characters, often funny and quirkily observed.

—— Times Literary Supplement

[A] treat . . . Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done.

—— The Baltimore Sun

One of the most poignant and evocative novels I have ever read

—— Palantinate

Poignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates heartbreak and loss of faith

—— Sunday Times

Quinn brings the period in question vividly to life: his research is exemplary, and his subject absorbing

—— Lucy Scholes , Observer

All the ingredients of an upmarket page-turner

—— Max Davidson , Mail on Sunday

Ambitious, gripping and disturbingly well done

—— Kate Saunders , The Times

Beyond its splendid feel for the era’s chat and patter, the novel pits philanthropy and opportunism, ideals and selfishness, bracingly at odds

—— Boyd Tonkin , Independent

This novel is refreshingly different and contains a cornucopia of wonderful material and evocative descriptions

—— Good Book Guide

The best book I’ve read in ages… You have to read it.

—— Hilary Rose , The Times
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