Finished Meljean Brook's Demon Forged over the weekend as well.

MB has established an amazingly detailed world within her Guardians series.  And, unlike certain other paranormal romance authors *coughJRWardcough*, she has managed to write five books and several novellas without imploding the constructs of that world or completely undermining her ( Read more... )

For today's SBD: another author beloved by readers but whom I just don't get.

Kresley Cole.

I've read so many awesome things about her Immortals After Dark series, and about her books generally. Cracktastic seems to be the adjective used often.

I picked up a copy of Cole's Pleasure of a Dark Prince. It was sort of different, in that it wasn ( Read more... )

Warning: there will be slight spoilers in this review for the last book. I will try not to spoil anything in this new book, though ( Read more... )

As I mentioned yesterday, I downloaded several ebooks based on people I met or chatted with at RWA.  I read one of them today, a Silhouette Nocturne Bite, Savage Dragon by Anna Hackett.


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I've missed the last couple of TBR Challenges, but was inspired by Beth's SBD about Twilight to pick it up for the challenge this month.  First I had to find my copy of the book -- I bought it back in 2005 when the book was originally published, but never got around to reading it.  So it had only been sitting on a shelf for ~4 years.  Which isn't ( Read more... )

Ah, the first SBD of the year. And today’s post is rather bitchy and full of WTF.

CR passed on her copy of Christine Warren’s One Bite With A Stranger. She enjoyed it . . . she loves vampire novels, even as she labels genre romance as tacky and trashy. WTF? She's not being ironic when she calls romance trashy, and she doesn't "get" that what she's ( Read more... )

Now that the end of the year is in sight, I’m feeling a bit desperate about the volume of average and bad books I’ve read lately. Other than The Wedding Officer, there have been no great new books for me for the month. (Y: the last man doesn't count because I started the series last month.)

( I keep reading, though, in the hope of finding the next great book. )

 I liked Blood Brothers even though it felt unfinished.  The romance came to a good stopping place but the larger story is still going on.  This kind of thing really bothered me in C.L. Wilson's Lord of the Fading Lands -- why's it okay here?  Two reasons:  first, the break in LotFL was unfinished in terms of larger plot and the romance, which ( Read more... )

I have been less than thrilled with the last several books I read or attempted to read.  Either DNF or C/D grades.

To Love A Stranger by Adrianne Byrd.

I wanted to like this book.  A lot.  It was a sort of marriage in trouble plot.  I like Byrd's voice and style.  But the characters?  Eh, I felt indifferent about the hero as hero, although I thought ( Read more... )

Based on the recommendation of my Non-Romance Reading colleague, I picked up Lara Adrian's two books at the library on Sunday. (I must roll my eyes, because even though she derides genre romance, she's reading it and giving me recommendations. I think the absence of the Fabio cover has confused her. No man titty --> not romance.)

I really liked ( Read more... )