When I mentioned that I loved Jacqueline Carey's Santa Olivia, two different friends suggested I try out the Kushiel's Legacy series. I'd heard of them before, at a Wiscon kink panel where I remember somebody disliking some aspect of them, which is part of why I'd never read them. But with recommendations from friends, I went to the library and ( Read more... )

I loved Santa Olivia so much that I promptly put in an interlibrary loan request for the sequel, Saints Astray. Again, I don't have a lot to say about it. If you liked Santa Olivia, you'll probably also like Saints Astray. If you didn't read Santa Olivia, Saints Astray might stand alone, but you'll miss the backstory. ( Review/mild spoilers )

I read Santa Olivia without knowing anything about it based on a strong recommendation from allegram, and I'm very glad I listened to her. I don't have much to say about it. It has a semi-dystopian feel with a female superhero of sorts, it has destined for each other type romances (fangirls and others who like werewolf mating stories will probably like it ( Read more... )

I read about M+O 4EVR in a 50books-poc review that made a point not to spoil it. I went and read the summary at Amazon so I would be spoiled, and then put off reading it because I thought it was likely to be the kind of YA novel that would make me cry. ( I didn't cry and other spoilers. )

I had high hopes for Malinda Lo's Adaptation. Ash and Huntress were very good with the potential to be great, and I was hoping Lo would be one of those writers who really learns to write by the third book. I did read Adaptation in one quick sitting, but I was disappointed in it, and more so the more I think about it.

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Last year when I asked for lesbian fiction suggestions, one friend highly recommended Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet. I'd heard of Tipping the Velvet, but it never sounded interesting to me, and inlovewithnight had just read it, and the things she didn't like about it (spoilers in her post) made me think I wouldn't like it either. Then the friend who ( Read more... )

You may have noticed from my last couple of writing goals check-in posts that I haven't done any work on my book for a while. I hit a point where I feel paralyzed. My characters are going on a first date. I've never been on a date, so I have no idea how this should go: What do they talk about? When they leave together, do they take separate cars to ( Read more... )

The Art of Detection is the last of Laurie R. King's Kate Martinelli books, and thank goodness. I really don't think I could have handled another one, but King is a compelling enough writer that her books are hard to put down.

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Night Work is the fourth of the Kate Martinelli mysteries. There is only one more book in the series, so I'll probably finish it off, but if there were more books, I would probably give up now.

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With Child is the third Kate Martinelli mystery. Given my experience with the last two, I saved this one for a Saturday morning when I could sit down and read the whole thing in one go without staying up past my bedtime.

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