Fun with vampires
I took a break from Anna Karenina to read Wicked Game, the newest novel by Jeri Smith-Ready.
I learned about Jeri Smith-Ready from my personal librarian a couple months ago. She's local, and
thedeepquiet was trying to decide whether to invite her to do a reading at the library. She knows my tolerance for fantasy and the paranormal is greater than hers, so she asked me to read one of JSR's books and tell her whether it was any good.
Wicked Game wasn't available, so she brought me Eyes of Crow, the first in a trilogy. It's one of those alternate reality, in the future we will be primitive again and we will know magic, sort of books. I was immediately sucked in and asked for the sequel, Voice of Crow. Right now I'm impatiently awaiting the conclusion, which I believe is being published in the fall. They're that good. Then right before we went out of town,
thedeepquiet brought me the book she originally wanted me to read, Wicked Game.
Wicked Game is completely different from the other two books . It takes place in the present, in a small town in Maryland. The main character was raised by her parents (both of whom are in prison as the book opens) to be a grifter , but is trying to live honestly. Now she only cons people to get money to pay her student loans, and she is actually looking for a straight job. She gets one, as marketing intern for a radio station where all the DJs are vampires. I know, I know -- but it was a lot of fun. It's quick and silly and it's what I needed after an intense four-day conference that left me with a lot of information to assimilate and three new serious non-fiction books to read. And for a change, the sex scenes are not excessive and some of them are actually hot.
I learned about Jeri Smith-Ready from my personal librarian a couple months ago. She's local, and
thedeepquiet was trying to decide whether to invite her to do a reading at the library. She knows my tolerance for fantasy and the paranormal is greater than hers, so she asked me to read one of JSR's books and tell her whether it was any good.
Wicked Game wasn't available, so she brought me Eyes of Crow, the first in a trilogy. It's one of those alternate reality, in the future we will be primitive again and we will know magic, sort of books. I was immediately sucked in and asked for the sequel, Voice of Crow. Right now I'm impatiently awaiting the conclusion, which I believe is being published in the fall. They're that good. Then right before we went out of town,
thedeepquiet brought me the book she originally wanted me to read, Wicked Game.
Wicked Game is completely different from the other two books . It takes place in the present, in a small town in Maryland. The main character was raised by her parents (both of whom are in prison as the book opens) to be a grifter , but is trying to live honestly. Now she only cons people to get money to pay her student loans, and she is actually looking for a straight job. She gets one, as marketing intern for a radio station where all the DJs are vampires. I know, I know -- but it was a lot of fun. It's quick and silly and it's what I needed after an intense four-day conference that left me with a lot of information to assimilate and three new serious non-fiction books to read. And for a change, the sex scenes are not excessive and some of them are actually hot.