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First off, is anyone else as psyched for IRIS 2 as I am? EEEE!
In romance novel news, the latest batch included:
Addicted, Charlotte Featherstone - get a proofreader! Please! If this book did have a proofreader, he or she should not be allowed near any writing again. Whole sentences make no sense and the way the text scrimps on commas, you'd think there was a giant comma shortage about to befall us. I could probably be gentler about this, except that I loathed both the hero and heroine and never was convinced they felt anything but lust for each other. Yeah, about the plot - he is an opium addict, she is his one true love, together they irritate the hell out of me. It's quite a pity, because the other Featherstone title I read a few months ago, Sinful, I adored.
Mine Till Midnight, Lisa Kleypas - this is the first in the Hathaways series, the same series that gave me Love in the Afternoon, which I was so obsessed about recently. I wasn't obsessed about MTM, but it was a fun read. This book involves Amelia Hathaway, the oldest sister who holds her eccentric family together and Cam Rohan, the half-Gypsy manager of an infamous gambling club. This is a story where nothing much happens plot-wise but it involves lovely people so I didn't mind one bit. Though I confess much as I liked Amelia and Cam, I was all about Winifred and Merripen - she is the fragile upper-class beauty and he is the gypsy the family took in as a kid. It hit every single one of my kinks - childhood loves, hero who adores the ground the heroine walks on, the class difference where he is lower class than she is and they both think it can't be, h/c, everything. I pretty much wished the book was about them. Luckily for me, there is a book about them, and I will get to it pronto.
Unclaimed, Courtney Milan - This is the second Milan book I read and the second to feature a virgin hero. Methinks Ms. Milan has a kink :) Joking aside, I adored this book to bits - the hero is someone who wrote a tract on male chastity and is viewed as something of a paragon by the Victorian society. Heroine is a courtesan fallen on hard times who has been hired to seduce him and ruin his reputation. That's highly unusual as a set-up but it really really works. I adored both Mark and Jessica to bits - somehow Milan manages to make him incredibly moral and upstanding and lovely and battling the demons of his childhood without a bit of saintliness or sanctimony, and Jessica is convincingly scarred, strong, and despite everything I loved her because you can sense her desperation and her hurt. It's one of those really rare romances where the woman falls for the man because he is a genuinely good person and this was so wonderful to read. I really must read more of Milan.
In romance novel news, the latest batch included:
Addicted, Charlotte Featherstone - get a proofreader! Please! If this book did have a proofreader, he or she should not be allowed near any writing again. Whole sentences make no sense and the way the text scrimps on commas, you'd think there was a giant comma shortage about to befall us. I could probably be gentler about this, except that I loathed both the hero and heroine and never was convinced they felt anything but lust for each other. Yeah, about the plot - he is an opium addict, she is his one true love, together they irritate the hell out of me. It's quite a pity, because the other Featherstone title I read a few months ago, Sinful, I adored.
Mine Till Midnight, Lisa Kleypas - this is the first in the Hathaways series, the same series that gave me Love in the Afternoon, which I was so obsessed about recently. I wasn't obsessed about MTM, but it was a fun read. This book involves Amelia Hathaway, the oldest sister who holds her eccentric family together and Cam Rohan, the half-Gypsy manager of an infamous gambling club. This is a story where nothing much happens plot-wise but it involves lovely people so I didn't mind one bit. Though I confess much as I liked Amelia and Cam, I was all about Winifred and Merripen - she is the fragile upper-class beauty and he is the gypsy the family took in as a kid. It hit every single one of my kinks - childhood loves, hero who adores the ground the heroine walks on, the class difference where he is lower class than she is and they both think it can't be, h/c, everything. I pretty much wished the book was about them. Luckily for me, there is a book about them, and I will get to it pronto.
Unclaimed, Courtney Milan - This is the second Milan book I read and the second to feature a virgin hero. Methinks Ms. Milan has a kink :) Joking aside, I adored this book to bits - the hero is someone who wrote a tract on male chastity and is viewed as something of a paragon by the Victorian society. Heroine is a courtesan fallen on hard times who has been hired to seduce him and ruin his reputation. That's highly unusual as a set-up but it really really works. I adored both Mark and Jessica to bits - somehow Milan manages to make him incredibly moral and upstanding and lovely and battling the demons of his childhood without a bit of saintliness or sanctimony, and Jessica is convincingly scarred, strong, and despite everything I loved her because you can sense her desperation and her hurt. It's one of those really rare romances where the woman falls for the man because he is a genuinely good person and this was so wonderful to read. I really must read more of Milan.