November Reading: 193-204/200
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Book of Nod by Sam Chupp & Andrew Greenberg
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Against His Will by Nancy Kelley
SECRET Shared by L. Marie Adeline
The Wyndham Legacy, The Valentine Legacy, and The Nightingale Legacy by Catherine Coulter
Deeper Than the Dead and Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag
After Dead by Charlaine Harris
Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing? by Michael Smith
So everyone has heard of the question "Living or dead, whom would you most like to invite to dinner?". Well now Captain Crozier has made it to my dinner table. Annnnd I'm making tentative plans to tour the Northwest Passge. Yep. Dan Simmons book was genius. Yes, I will agree that parts at the beginning were overly long but I DON'T CARE. The book was incredibly researched--cause I had to know after reading it who was real and who was made up and almost everybody mentioned is real--and the plot decisions he made were flawless. I had only heard of the lost Franklin expedition before picking this book up, thinking it would be a different kind of horror than what I was used to, (and it is), and right away had to wonder why the protagonist was a Captain I had never heard of before (and it seems like few have which is why I had to read Smith's excellent biography). It was easy to figure out the supernatural nemesis but the way Simmons weaves it in at the end was utterly beautiful and terrifying. I can't say enough good things about this book and only stop here because I want you to read it and freeze like I did. You will be in the Arctic.
SECRET Shared by L. Marie Adeline is a continuation of S.E.C.R.E.T and I enjoyed it just as much as the first one. There are no neat packages; there is no stereotypical happy-ever-after--something that the romance genre revolves around. These are women with real issues having real sex and feeling great about it. There aren't any rape scenarios or women "saying no but really meaning yes"; there isn't any humiliation masked as "trying something new"; the men are fun and good looking but have their own lives and issues as well. And Adeline's article about writing sex is hilarious.
I've discovered Tami Hoag again--before these two novels I'd only know her as the person who wrote the first erotica I'd ever read (Lucky's Lady)--and these two were really good, though I know it's because of character Anne Navarre. Hoag's other mysteries just don't sound as interesting.
Book of Nod by Sam Chupp & Andrew Greenberg
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Against His Will by Nancy Kelley
SECRET Shared by L. Marie Adeline
The Wyndham Legacy, The Valentine Legacy, and The Nightingale Legacy by Catherine Coulter
Deeper Than the Dead and Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag
After Dead by Charlaine Harris
Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing? by Michael Smith
So everyone has heard of the question "Living or dead, whom would you most like to invite to dinner?". Well now Captain Crozier has made it to my dinner table. Annnnd I'm making tentative plans to tour the Northwest Passge. Yep. Dan Simmons book was genius. Yes, I will agree that parts at the beginning were overly long but I DON'T CARE. The book was incredibly researched--cause I had to know after reading it who was real and who was made up and almost everybody mentioned is real--and the plot decisions he made were flawless. I had only heard of the lost Franklin expedition before picking this book up, thinking it would be a different kind of horror than what I was used to, (and it is), and right away had to wonder why the protagonist was a Captain I had never heard of before (and it seems like few have which is why I had to read Smith's excellent biography). It was easy to figure out the supernatural nemesis but the way Simmons weaves it in at the end was utterly beautiful and terrifying. I can't say enough good things about this book and only stop here because I want you to read it and freeze like I did. You will be in the Arctic.
SECRET Shared by L. Marie Adeline is a continuation of S.E.C.R.E.T and I enjoyed it just as much as the first one. There are no neat packages; there is no stereotypical happy-ever-after--something that the romance genre revolves around. These are women with real issues having real sex and feeling great about it. There aren't any rape scenarios or women "saying no but really meaning yes"; there isn't any humiliation masked as "trying something new"; the men are fun and good looking but have their own lives and issues as well. And Adeline's article about writing sex is hilarious.
I've discovered Tami Hoag again--before these two novels I'd only know her as the person who wrote the first erotica I'd ever read (Lucky's Lady)--and these two were really good, though I know it's because of character Anne Navarre. Hoag's other mysteries just don't sound as interesting.