Friday Book Club time! What reads are you loving this week?
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I had mixed results with Inés Saint's Spinning Hills trilogy. I started out hating the hero's behavior and attitude in Flipped! and annoyed with the heroine as well. I was about to DNF but glad I didn't because it was the rare case where the author really turned things around (the good grovel by the hero helped!). There were too many subplots to really do them justice, but I enjoyed the book overall. My favorite was the middle book, Needs a Little TLC. Sadly I had major issues with the final book, Fixer-Upper.
I quite enjoyed Jayne Castle's Double Dealing. It is dated by the mid-eighties fashion, the computer aspects, and the gender politics. But it reminded me of so many of her 90's books as JAK with the humor, family dynamics, and quasi-mystery. It's the type of story that originally made her an autobuy author for me. It was 384 pages of teeny tiny font my eyes are still recovering from, but worth it.
Well I just read Rock Addiction on my kobo - sooo good. And read a bunch of Kris Longknife short stories by Mike Shepherd so now I need to manage an e-book addiction!
Just finished Grace Burrows newest "My Heart's True Delight" She's an automatic read from me (thank goodness for e-books from libraries.) I enjoy her writing and the overall world that she creates. I'm listening to Dick Francis' "To the Hilt" one of my favorites.
I'd also like to suggest a blog that has an incredibly wide range of book (mostly) recommendations "Smart Bitches, Trashy Books" They review everything from romance, non-fiction, straight, LGBTQ+, white, non-white, gothic, paranormal and other worlds. They have introduced me to several authors that I'd never heard of but now enjoy. Their cover reveal blogs/snarks are worth reading even if you don't enjoy their recommendations.
Finally got a hold of Patricia Brigg's Smoke Bitten! Of course, fell in love with it immediately! Love how she starts it off with Mercy interacting with Tad and Zee in the shop, and then goes on to interactions at home with the pack! Great way to make something new feel so familiar, and yet fresh!!
Also got into Code Name: Sentinel by Sawyer Bennet. liked the free preview so much, I bought the first four in the series from Kindle, since they're on sale. I'll decide on the last two once I get that far.
Devoured Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie, the final book of Guild Codex: Demonized (Robin and Zylas's series). Love the ending. Was honestly not expecting what the bad guy's ultimate plan was, though I should have, it was sort of obvious in retrospect. Did, however, expect what the the good guys accomplished.
Also started Jeffe Kennedy's Twelve Kingdoms series. I had tried to start on the Uncharted Realms series but realized in the first few pages of the first book that there was a whole lot of backstory I didn't know and figured out the books for the three sisters were heavily interlinked. I had originally skipped them because the first of the second series got my attention more. I've been wanting to read her Forgotten Empires series but my library doesn't have it and I'm not sure I want to buy it.
Going through Christine Feehan’s GhostWalker series; rereading Mind Game right now, one of my favorites. I’m strongly identifying with Dahlia’s need for isolation & how being around a lot of emotional energy brings her down. We all have those introverted times when dealing with crowds is so stressful it seems to make us sick (beyond any corona reference). The way Feehan makes the effects of energy & emotions so literal and immediate, and then the brings the reader on a journey of hope... The struggle to make peace with self- both strengths & weaknesses- is so well illustrated.
Three semi horror reads this week. Hex Life by various authors. A collection of witch short stories. Out of the Dark by David Weber. Has a character who introduces himself as Mircea Basarab. Fans of Karen Chance will recognize the name. So will some researchers of Romanian history. Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump. Enough said.
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I had mixed results with Inés Saint's Spinning Hills trilogy. I started out hating the hero's behavior and attitude in Flipped! and annoyed with the heroine as well. I was about to DNF but glad I didn't because it was the rare case where the author really turned things around (the good grovel by the hero helped!). There were too many subplots to really do them justice, but I enjoyed the book overall. My favorite was the middle book, Needs a Little TLC. Sadly I had major issues with the final book, Fixer-Upper.
I quite enjoyed Jayne Castle's Double Dealing. It is dated by the mid-eighties fashion, the computer aspects, and the gender politics. But it reminded me of so many of her 90's books as JAK with the humor, family dynamics, and quasi-mystery. It's the type of story that originally made her an autobuy author for me. It was 384 pages of teeny tiny font my eyes are still recovering from, but worth it.
Jennifer Ashley and her shifters.Wild Things.
Well I just read Rock Addiction on my kobo - sooo good. And read a bunch of Kris Longknife short stories by Mike Shepherd so now I need to manage an e-book addiction!
I did a read of pretty much of all Grace Draven's books that I have on my Book. Now I'm reading Archangel's Blade. 😁
Just finished Grace Burrows newest "My Heart's True Delight" She's an automatic read from me (thank goodness for e-books from libraries.) I enjoy her writing and the overall world that she creates. I'm listening to Dick Francis' "To the Hilt" one of my favorites.
I'd also like to suggest a blog that has an incredibly wide range of book (mostly) recommendations "Smart Bitches, Trashy Books" They review everything from romance, non-fiction, straight, LGBTQ+, white, non-white, gothic, paranormal and other worlds. They have introduced me to several authors that I'd never heard of but now enjoy. Their cover reveal blogs/snarks are worth reading even if you don't enjoy their recommendations.
Finally got a hold of Patricia Brigg's Smoke Bitten! Of course, fell in love with it immediately! Love how she starts it off with Mercy interacting with Tad and Zee in the shop, and then goes on to interactions at home with the pack! Great way to make something new feel so familiar, and yet fresh!!
Also got into Code Name: Sentinel by Sawyer Bennet. liked the free preview so much, I bought the first four in the series from Kindle, since they're on sale. I'll decide on the last two once I get that far.
Devoured Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie, the final book of Guild Codex: Demonized (Robin and Zylas's series). Love the ending. Was honestly not expecting what the bad guy's ultimate plan was, though I should have, it was sort of obvious in retrospect. Did, however, expect what the the good guys accomplished.
Also started Jeffe Kennedy's Twelve Kingdoms series. I had tried to start on the Uncharted Realms series but realized in the first few pages of the first book that there was a whole lot of backstory I didn't know and figured out the books for the three sisters were heavily interlinked. I had originally skipped them because the first of the second series got my attention more. I've been wanting to read her Forgotten Empires series but my library doesn't have it and I'm not sure I want to buy it.
Going through Christine Feehan’s GhostWalker series; rereading Mind Game right now, one of my favorites. I’m strongly identifying with Dahlia’s need for isolation & how being around a lot of emotional energy brings her down. We all have those introverted times when dealing with crowds is so stressful it seems to make us sick (beyond any corona reference). The way Feehan makes the effects of energy & emotions so literal and immediate, and then the brings the reader on a journey of hope... The struggle to make peace with self- both strengths & weaknesses- is so well illustrated.
Three semi horror reads this week.
Hex Life by various authors. A collection of witch short stories.
Out of the Dark by David Weber. Has a character who introduces himself as Mircea Basarab. Fans of Karen Chance will recognize the name. So will some researchers of Romanian history.
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump. Enough said.
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