(13) Night World #3
5/05/12 – Review Coming (today is update the booklist day — will add reviews as I finish them)
February 22, 2012
January 4, 2012
November 27, 2011
November 18, 2011
River Marked by Patricia Briggs
(85) Mercy Thompson #6
SO GOOD. Stayed up way past my bedtime to finish this in one 24-hour period. Love this series and happy to report than unlike TV shows, a well-written series doesn’t lose it’s zing when the hero and heroine are finally allowed to marry.
Mostly, it was nice for me as a reader to get more info on Mercy’s heritage — and nifty that we learned about it as the character did. It was chock full o’ interesting revelations without feeling forced — super example of show, don’t tell!
September 10, 2011
April 6, 2011
A Taste of Magic by Tracy Madison
(31)
Not too bad for a Kindle freebie 🙂 It has a couple of moments of explicit sex, but not enough, IMO, to qualify as erotica. It’s mostly a story about personal discovery and surviving emotional upset with a little bit of sex, romance, and magic thrown in. Great beach book.
March 11, 2011
Over My Dead Body by Michelle Bardsley
(24) Broken Heart, OK – book 5
Oy. One of those I finished and wondered why I bothered. As cotton-candy useless as the rest of the series, but this is the one that gave me the toothache — no more Broken Heart for this vampire affcionado.
2/5
January 22, 2011
Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
(10) Fever series, book 5
I waited SO long for this to come out! I read the first book in the series as a Kindle freebie and grabbed the rest from the library. I had to know how it ended though, and bought this one for my Kindle (yay for publisher’s who release the digital and hard copy the same day!).
It was good, and I’m glad I read it, but forgettable. I’m typing this review a few weeks after I finished it (the post date is the date I completed the book, not necessarily the day I wrote the post, lol) and find I can’t remember much of it. Sad but true, after all that anticipation. I remember thinking the ending a bit of a cop-out. All that trauma and terror of the first four and three quarters books and it’s resolved via Deus ex Machina. Still, I remember enjoying it while I read it, and that counts for something.
4/5
July 12, 2010
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig
(39) Pink Carnation, book 6
Definitely my favorite so far. Penelope is the most honest, gritty of the heroines in this series to-date. She’s also on her own most of the book, making her much less dependent on series regulars.
Rumors abound that the next novel in the series will star Turnip Fitzhugh since all the first and 2nd string characters have had their happily ever after, save one.
WHEN is the book about Jane? Or are we operating on the outdated notion that she cannot be an action star and romantically involved? C’mon Ms. Willig, we wanna know!
June 14, 2010
June 3, 2010
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
( 31 ) Sookie Stackhouse, book 10
The plot on this one was so thin that 4 months later (when I’m writing this review) I can scarcely remember it. What I remember most is that it was short. It read like a short story fluffed to be a novella. A good, meaty Sookie book it was not (True Blood gone to the head, maybe?). It would have been a great long story, but it was an irritatingly short novel.
Oh, yea, and the utter lack of moving forward on ANY of the character fronts was annoying. What is the point of a series novel if it does not advance the characters on their path?
I love CH, I’ve read her other series (lurve Lily Bard & wish she’d write more of them) but was disappointed in what felt to me, as a fan who knew Sookie from the first book and used to wait impatiently for the next one, like a story that was phoned in. Sorry, CH.
Like Anita Blake, Sookie has been reduced to something I’ll get on the waitlist for from the library, but I’m not invested enough to spend money on her anymore.
April 23, 2010
March 27, 2010
March 18, 2010
The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
(18) Pink Carnation, book 2
Fluffy but fun. GREAT reader.
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