Reading, Try Me, Smart Women Finish Rich, Snow Cow, Fledgling and Saltation
- Try Me by Parker Blue. LibraryThing Early Reviewers. YA urban supernatural paranormal romance fantasy. Val is one eighth incubus; super fast, super strong, has a telepathic part hellhound terrier and refers to her demonic side in the third person (Lola). She works for the Special Crimes Unit who aren’t keen when they find out she’s part demon, rides a funky motorbike and has a cool nurse flatmate who can cook. She’s also called ‘Slayer’ by a fair chunk of the local vampire population due to a bad habit of stabbing them with wooden stakes when they are bad. This is a sequel so maybe if you've read book one you have more sympathy for the characters. There was some dense exposition at the beginning that helped bridge the gap but I never quite got over the writing style. Lots of telling but not showing, and a bit heavy on the dialogue. On the plus, chock full of ideas including some interesting demon mythos. I probably wouldn’t have finished it if it hadn’t been an Early Reviewers book.
- Smart Women Finish Rich: 7 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams by David Bach. Not bad, had to translate form American but sensible and accessible.
- The Snow Cow by Martin Kochanski. LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Ghost stories for skiers - wot it says on the tin. I found some of the stories inaccessible - I was stopping, and paging back to see if I'd missed something when I got to the 'punchline' which I am blaming on the writing because it happened more than once. I enjoyed reading about skier mythology and seeing other, familiar tales recast in ski lodges and would have appreciated better female characters.
- Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Re-reading for love.
- Saltation by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Advance copy because I'm hooked on Theo. Read in a single sitting, will probably re-read and am looking forward to the next book.
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