Gemma Halliday has a "High Heels Mysteries" series that is just down right cute. First off, let me dive right in with LOVE THE SHOES!!!! Prada, Gucci, and Manolo’s…Oh MY!
I envision the main character, Maddie Springer, as a mish-mash of Rebecca Bloomwood from "Confessions of a Shopaholic", Stephanie Plum (though I think Stephanie has a few more IQ points) from the Janet Evanovich books, Carrie Bradshaw from Sex in the City, and a short version of my mother-in-love, Patti.
You cannot help but love that the main character is a struggling shoe designer who makes good. It also makes a girl happy when some gorgeous shoes are described though I agree with the character that "real Bond Girls don't wear Choo's" being that she spends most of her time chasing, being chased, or slugging through some pretty sticky situations.
While I normally like my leading ladies to be a bit more cerebral, I have to admit, Maddie makes me laugh as much as she makes me want to shake her. She gets herself into some situations that just make you want to ask…really?
And Ramirez. That is one hot leading man. So he is a bit of an over-protective homicide cop. With Maddie’s track record, he kind of has to be or she would be dead before the end of the first book. I think the relationship tangent with Felix, the secretly rich tabloid reporter, was a bit unnecessary but then again it isn’t my book series so I am sure Gemma had her reasons.
My only complaint with this series is that I like a little more romance in my romance novels. Okay, I will be more blunt. There is some intense kissing in the first 2 books but no sex. By the end of the first book, I was sexually frustrated for the poor girl with all the near misses in the bedroom department. Luckily, this was remedied by the end of the 2nd book but it was literally, the END of the 2nd book. And, even then, it was only the discussion leading up to the clothing removal and then a “The End”. Seriously. What are you trying to do? Kill me?
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
What is it with Jerks?
What is it with women wanting to be with men who are jerks? Just read “Wolverton Blood” by Brenda Williamson and all I can say is thank God for happy endings and character growth & transformation, otherwise I probably would have put this book down and walked away.
Basic synopsis- Timber Wolverton doesn’t know this but she is a lab created half-breed (wolf & cougar). She was put in an orphanage and then passed around to different foster families until she began making a life of her own, alone. What she knows is that she is a shape-shifter that was unwanted, unloved and suddenly she receives an invitation to come back to her birth family ancestral home. Family she has never known and always wanted finally wants her.
Kane Wolverton, alpha male (full wolf) who thinks everyone is out to get his family estate now that the half-breed creator is dead, meets Timber and she turns his world upside-down. His original idea that anything less than a full blooded wolf mate will not do to help him carry on his family blood line goes out the window when he falls head over heels for one of his uncles creations. Now if he can just keep the rest of his family and the other creations from killing her and each other.
I don’t care how good looking you are, I hate jerks. If within the first few minutes of looking at me, you tell me I am an idiot, am not wanted and should leave, call me names and then force me out of the car and try to force sexual acts on me….you are going to get punched or kneed and possibly both. Maybe this is just the older, wiser me talking but I would like to think the younger, more naïve me would have done the same.
So the fact that this Kane character treats Timber this way for almost ½ the book while they are having sex like bunnies and it is being explained that he really does care about her, really ticks me off. I give Timber about a quarter of an inch grace because she is in her first ever heat and hormones are a pain in the ass but still. Really? I would rather leave, find a stranger, scour in bleach, and wear a full body condom than put up with that kind of treatment.
My self-esteem isn’t great or even good but even I know not to tolerate that kind of treatment from anyone even for a few minutes much less as long as Timber did in this book. This is why there are women out there who stay in abusive relationships. This why there are people out there who think they can get away with being bullies. No sir. Not on my watch.
Now, as the book progresses, he does get better. He apologizes, and we find out that he does really love her and all of that but I have to say, I would not have stuck around long enough to get to that point in this relationship. Don’t get me wrong, I love the whole alpha-male thing. Nothing turns me on more than when a strong man makes me feel all girly but a really strong alpha-male man can do that without ever making me feel like less of a person. Actually, he does that while making me feel like I am the center of his universe. Try it girls, you will like it.
Basic synopsis- Timber Wolverton doesn’t know this but she is a lab created half-breed (wolf & cougar). She was put in an orphanage and then passed around to different foster families until she began making a life of her own, alone. What she knows is that she is a shape-shifter that was unwanted, unloved and suddenly she receives an invitation to come back to her birth family ancestral home. Family she has never known and always wanted finally wants her.
Kane Wolverton, alpha male (full wolf) who thinks everyone is out to get his family estate now that the half-breed creator is dead, meets Timber and she turns his world upside-down. His original idea that anything less than a full blooded wolf mate will not do to help him carry on his family blood line goes out the window when he falls head over heels for one of his uncles creations. Now if he can just keep the rest of his family and the other creations from killing her and each other.
I don’t care how good looking you are, I hate jerks. If within the first few minutes of looking at me, you tell me I am an idiot, am not wanted and should leave, call me names and then force me out of the car and try to force sexual acts on me….you are going to get punched or kneed and possibly both. Maybe this is just the older, wiser me talking but I would like to think the younger, more naïve me would have done the same.
So the fact that this Kane character treats Timber this way for almost ½ the book while they are having sex like bunnies and it is being explained that he really does care about her, really ticks me off. I give Timber about a quarter of an inch grace because she is in her first ever heat and hormones are a pain in the ass but still. Really? I would rather leave, find a stranger, scour in bleach, and wear a full body condom than put up with that kind of treatment.
My self-esteem isn’t great or even good but even I know not to tolerate that kind of treatment from anyone even for a few minutes much less as long as Timber did in this book. This is why there are women out there who stay in abusive relationships. This why there are people out there who think they can get away with being bullies. No sir. Not on my watch.
Now, as the book progresses, he does get better. He apologizes, and we find out that he does really love her and all of that but I have to say, I would not have stuck around long enough to get to that point in this relationship. Don’t get me wrong, I love the whole alpha-male thing. Nothing turns me on more than when a strong man makes me feel all girly but a really strong alpha-male man can do that without ever making me feel like less of a person. Actually, he does that while making me feel like I am the center of his universe. Try it girls, you will like it.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Would if I Could
There are very few men that make it to my “Would if I Could” list. Most of them are what I know of them from when they play or actually are Fictional Characters because, let's face it, these are all a fantasy. In no particular order...
Cary Grant
Gene Kelly
Hugh Jackman
Trace Adkins
Dwayne Johnson aka “The Rock”
Vin Diesel (though he is a bit more bad boy than I usually go for)
Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs
Gerard Butler in the movies “Dracula 2000” & “300”
Captain America (the latest movie)
Warwick “War” in the book Icy Heat: A Heat series story by Leigh Wyndfield
Recently, I have added a new fantasy to my list- Hal from Bianca D’Arc’s book “Warrior’s Heart- Gifts from the Ancients, Book 1”.
Bianca, honey, you have written a man that makes my knees weak, my heart beat, and my panties… well, I will keep this PG-rated. MWROWRRRRR. Hal can tear down my fence anytime (read the book, you will understand). I have a feeling if you keep writing the rest of his team the same way, I might have to expand my already debauched fantasies which may or may not be a good thing.
Cary Grant
Gene Kelly
Hugh Jackman
Trace Adkins
Dwayne Johnson aka “The Rock”
Vin Diesel (though he is a bit more bad boy than I usually go for)
Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs
Gerard Butler in the movies “Dracula 2000” & “300”
Captain America (the latest movie)
Warwick “War” in the book Icy Heat: A Heat series story by Leigh Wyndfield
Recently, I have added a new fantasy to my list- Hal from Bianca D’Arc’s book “Warrior’s Heart- Gifts from the Ancients, Book 1”.
Bianca, honey, you have written a man that makes my knees weak, my heart beat, and my panties… well, I will keep this PG-rated. MWROWRRRRR. Hal can tear down my fence anytime (read the book, you will understand). I have a feeling if you keep writing the rest of his team the same way, I might have to expand my already debauched fantasies which may or may not be a good thing.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Wanna Make a Bet?
I have never thought myself one to gamble but after reading Lena Matthews Joker's Wild trilogy, I hear myself saying things like "I bet..." and "I would take that bet..." No one seems surprised by this addition to my vernacular so it must have been there before to some extent which makes me think, I must be bit of a gambler. This surprised me a bit because my day job is in risk & compliance so I would have thought I was a bit risk adverse.
Upon mentioning this to those closest to me, there was long moments of silence and then dams of laughter broke forth. Several people told me not to say things like that while they were trying to take a drink. Others wiped tears from their eyes. So I told them I got the point and asked them to explain how they noticed this apparent penchant I had for risk that I apparently missed in myself.
The general consensus is that I plan my risk. How is that you say? I am a planner. I have a plan A, plan B, plan C, plan D and so on and so on but then am flexible enough to through all the plans out and go with what happens but because of all my planning, I have prepared myself to be safe within the risk taken.
The one example that stood out was kayaking. I want to kayak a lot. So I research the one’s I want to buy for several months, tested out several models of life vests, take the course on kayak safety, and now we are ready to go throw ourselves into the water of the river on the kayak. Who knows what will happen then. But because I planned my risk and prepared, I am okay with all of that.
So I am a bit of a gambler but in these books the game was poker and I don’t think that game is for me. Too much relies on chance and not enough on planning. I might play a few hands to see if I can use some of my “assets” to distract the other players. Or with the right players and the right kind of poker, I might be game to see the strip. Heeheehee.
Upon mentioning this to those closest to me, there was long moments of silence and then dams of laughter broke forth. Several people told me not to say things like that while they were trying to take a drink. Others wiped tears from their eyes. So I told them I got the point and asked them to explain how they noticed this apparent penchant I had for risk that I apparently missed in myself.
The general consensus is that I plan my risk. How is that you say? I am a planner. I have a plan A, plan B, plan C, plan D and so on and so on but then am flexible enough to through all the plans out and go with what happens but because of all my planning, I have prepared myself to be safe within the risk taken.
The one example that stood out was kayaking. I want to kayak a lot. So I research the one’s I want to buy for several months, tested out several models of life vests, take the course on kayak safety, and now we are ready to go throw ourselves into the water of the river on the kayak. Who knows what will happen then. But because I planned my risk and prepared, I am okay with all of that.
So I am a bit of a gambler but in these books the game was poker and I don’t think that game is for me. Too much relies on chance and not enough on planning. I might play a few hands to see if I can use some of my “assets” to distract the other players. Or with the right players and the right kind of poker, I might be game to see the strip. Heeheehee.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Can't We All Just Get Along?
When an author chooses to include all kinds of paranormal entities in their series (vampires, shifters, gods, goddesses, guardians, etc.) it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. There are more things under heaven and all that... I mean really. Hence why I like R.G. Alexander's "Children of the Goddess" series.
Each of the groups have lived within their communities for a long time, not mixing together a lot and even having some prejudices within their own (Truebloods vs. Unborn). Now a big shake up and The Mother starts creating mated pairs and such between the groups.
Trueblood & Unborn (and a Reader- super strong outlawed psychic- YIKES),
Tureblood & Were guy & Were girl (interesting fur tale or should that be tail..heeeheehee) Guardian and 1/2 human,
1/2 God (Oy the children from this pairing!)
Were & Unborn (who turns into Were once they are mated? I am little unclear on how this works. Switching from Vampire to Were but I digress.)
Anyway, you get the picture. The bad group in this whole thing are called the Shadow and they are led by the...you guessed it Shadow Wolf. They have a big battle in book 4- "Midnight Falls" but here is another reason why I like R.G. Alexander...The battle with the Shadow is really just sub-plot to the relationships and allows for character building. There is a ton of other stuff going on in the world and the characters lives do not stop once battle ends. Love that. Happily ever after is just the beginning....Who would have thunk it, right?
Each of the groups have lived within their communities for a long time, not mixing together a lot and even having some prejudices within their own (Truebloods vs. Unborn). Now a big shake up and The Mother starts creating mated pairs and such between the groups.
Trueblood & Unborn (and a Reader- super strong outlawed psychic- YIKES),
Tureblood & Were guy & Were girl (interesting fur tale or should that be tail..heeeheehee) Guardian and 1/2 human,
1/2 God (Oy the children from this pairing!)
Were & Unborn (who turns into Were once they are mated? I am little unclear on how this works. Switching from Vampire to Were but I digress.)
Anyway, you get the picture. The bad group in this whole thing are called the Shadow and they are led by the...you guessed it Shadow Wolf. They have a big battle in book 4- "Midnight Falls" but here is another reason why I like R.G. Alexander...The battle with the Shadow is really just sub-plot to the relationships and allows for character building. There is a ton of other stuff going on in the world and the characters lives do not stop once battle ends. Love that. Happily ever after is just the beginning....Who would have thunk it, right?
Monday, October 3, 2011
Be Careful What You Wish For
After reading “Wishful Thinking: The Swann Sisters” by Evangeline Andrews, I have come to the conclusion that being given wishes isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. You have to be very careful with wording and intention because misinterpretation, loop holes, and caveats abound. For example, “I wish I had the winning lottery ticket.” Seems simple enough but is it really?
Do you need to specify how you come to get the winning lottery ticket? Let’s face it, if you take the ticket off the person you just hit with your car or stabbed, you aren’t going to be enjoying the ticket for long.
You should probably clarify when you want this lottery ticket to win. Having the winning lottery ticket from 1955 isn’t going to help you because there is a limit on timeframe for claiming prizes. This week’s winning lottery ticket or even next week’s winning lottery ticket isn’t going to cut it. You could even go so far as Friday, September 30 2011 Mega Millions Lottery drawing and that might be specific enough.
Do you need to add in that you live long enough to enjoy cashing in and spending the money? The moment you realize you won, you could step off the curb and get hit by a bus. Might be an important point of clarification to make with the wish granter.
Do you need to clarify that you want the funds to bring you happiness and not to be an eternal source of pain as money sometimes can be? Will you know who your friends really are once you get the money? At this point, I am think you need an attorney and an accountant to help draw up the perfect wish documentation just to make sure you cover all your bases and even then, there is probably something that someone is going to forget that will mess up the whole wish.
So I guess my point is, be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
Do you need to specify how you come to get the winning lottery ticket? Let’s face it, if you take the ticket off the person you just hit with your car or stabbed, you aren’t going to be enjoying the ticket for long.
You should probably clarify when you want this lottery ticket to win. Having the winning lottery ticket from 1955 isn’t going to help you because there is a limit on timeframe for claiming prizes. This week’s winning lottery ticket or even next week’s winning lottery ticket isn’t going to cut it. You could even go so far as Friday, September 30 2011 Mega Millions Lottery drawing and that might be specific enough.
Do you need to add in that you live long enough to enjoy cashing in and spending the money? The moment you realize you won, you could step off the curb and get hit by a bus. Might be an important point of clarification to make with the wish granter.
Do you need to clarify that you want the funds to bring you happiness and not to be an eternal source of pain as money sometimes can be? Will you know who your friends really are once you get the money? At this point, I am think you need an attorney and an accountant to help draw up the perfect wish documentation just to make sure you cover all your bases and even then, there is probably something that someone is going to forget that will mess up the whole wish.
So I guess my point is, be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
A Whole Lot of Midnight
So I finished reading the Lara Adrian "The Midnight Breed" series of books to date (new one expected out in early 2012).
Kiss of Midnight (1), Kiss of Crimson (2), Midnight Awakening (3), Midnight Rising (4), Veil of Midnight (5), Ashes of Midnight (6), Shades of Midnight (7), Taken by Midnight (8), and Deeper than Midnight (9). Do you get all the Midnight in them and hence the title of this post?
This is a mythology I can understand. I have always liked the idea of a one perfect mate with a bond but also know the frailty of emotions and think that a lot happens especially over particularly protracted lifetimes to screw up a perfectly good relationship. And to leave that person mate-less if something happens just seems cruel.
Lets face it, it only takes seconds to screw up a relationship and here we are giving these vampire characters hundreds of years. And they are warriors. You can't tell me a few years of killing people doesn't knock a few screws lose in the emotion department. So wrap that up with finding a woman who has a special birthmark, may or may not know what means, your a starving vamp looking for your next meal and if you drink her blood, she is mated to you forever, yippee skippy. No chance for a misunderstanding there. We are talking cargo loads of prime baggage here. It may not be Louis Vuitton but beat up American Tourister is just as heavy.
So now in this series, the characters can have these bonds and still screw them up. They can attach themselves to the wrong person and well, with no divorce, you just have to hope that person dies or if you are a bad person, take matters into your own hands. This, I understand. My psyche isn't stretched to believe betrayal, deceit, lies....wait....how sad is that. Even my fantasies can't be fantasies. I am going to go read something with a lot of sex in it now to try to hide my shame.
Kiss of Midnight (1), Kiss of Crimson (2), Midnight Awakening (3), Midnight Rising (4), Veil of Midnight (5), Ashes of Midnight (6), Shades of Midnight (7), Taken by Midnight (8), and Deeper than Midnight (9). Do you get all the Midnight in them and hence the title of this post?
This is a mythology I can understand. I have always liked the idea of a one perfect mate with a bond but also know the frailty of emotions and think that a lot happens especially over particularly protracted lifetimes to screw up a perfectly good relationship. And to leave that person mate-less if something happens just seems cruel.
Lets face it, it only takes seconds to screw up a relationship and here we are giving these vampire characters hundreds of years. And they are warriors. You can't tell me a few years of killing people doesn't knock a few screws lose in the emotion department. So wrap that up with finding a woman who has a special birthmark, may or may not know what means, your a starving vamp looking for your next meal and if you drink her blood, she is mated to you forever, yippee skippy. No chance for a misunderstanding there. We are talking cargo loads of prime baggage here. It may not be Louis Vuitton but beat up American Tourister is just as heavy.
So now in this series, the characters can have these bonds and still screw them up. They can attach themselves to the wrong person and well, with no divorce, you just have to hope that person dies or if you are a bad person, take matters into your own hands. This, I understand. My psyche isn't stretched to believe betrayal, deceit, lies....wait....how sad is that. Even my fantasies can't be fantasies. I am going to go read something with a lot of sex in it now to try to hide my shame.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Poly-what?
Poly-amorous relationships. That's right I said it. And who would have thought that this topic would bring up a very passionate discussion at the last book club meeting. Can I just tell you, little did I know that little old me would be one of the more "wild-n-crazy" girls in the bunch. Well, I knew...but we wont go into that now.
Anywho.... we had a great call with author Lauren Dane during book club who has 2 good series that I have read, Chase Brothers and Cascadia Wolves. And she had told us about a new witch series she has coming out which, of course, I will be reading.
After the call, we started talking about what everyone is reading and of course, me being the controversial one, I was reading Bianca D'Arc's Dragon Knight Series. Much to my surprise, none of my very smart and well read friends at the table seemed aware of this interesting series. Being the paranormal dragon lovers that some of them are, I was shocked.
Well, in this series the mythology contains quite a bit of poly-amorous mating. For those of you who haven't figured this out yet, we are talking about 2 guys and a girl- menage marriages.
In the Dragon Knight's series, a dragon selects his partner knight and they bond and communicate telepathically for life. The dragon's are forbidden to mate until the knight has a wife because the dragon bond flows into the marriage bond. So dragon/knight meets dragon/knight they decide that the 2 dragons decide they are mates. Well now, they have to find a mate for the knights. There are very few women who have the power to communicate/bond with the dragons much less live with the dragons/knight lifestyle so they find one and end up sharing. If anything happens to one of the knights or dragons, it is the other half of the partnership that is responsible for taking care of the family. I get the arrangement. Not saying it would work for me but I understand the mythology.
So as I am giving them a bit of the mythology, suddenly off we go into conversations about
a) Is brothers being in a poly-amorous relationship a little too incestuous? We were a divided group on this topic.
b) In a mythology with no divorce, what happens if you bond with the wrong knight or girl? These people live for hundreds of years, that could be a long time to be stuck with the wrong partner, especially if along the way, you find the right one.
c) In this mythology, the knights are psychically linked to their dragon who becomes psychically linked to their dragon mate who is linked to the other knight. What about the girl in all this? She can talk to the dragons in this mythology which makes her an eligible mate because not all females can but what if she is not included in the psychic link. A girl could feel left out.
d) Suppose one 1/3 of the menage dies in battle. Is the rest of the family supposed to stay a couple now or are they supposed to go find a new 1/3 because that is the culture? Is it okay to stay just a couple?
Needless to say, what a fun conversation. Too bad we didn't have more time and more wine. We could have really let our minds go and it is all fantasy...right.
Anywho.... we had a great call with author Lauren Dane during book club who has 2 good series that I have read, Chase Brothers and Cascadia Wolves. And she had told us about a new witch series she has coming out which, of course, I will be reading.
After the call, we started talking about what everyone is reading and of course, me being the controversial one, I was reading Bianca D'Arc's Dragon Knight Series. Much to my surprise, none of my very smart and well read friends at the table seemed aware of this interesting series. Being the paranormal dragon lovers that some of them are, I was shocked.
Well, in this series the mythology contains quite a bit of poly-amorous mating. For those of you who haven't figured this out yet, we are talking about 2 guys and a girl- menage marriages.
In the Dragon Knight's series, a dragon selects his partner knight and they bond and communicate telepathically for life. The dragon's are forbidden to mate until the knight has a wife because the dragon bond flows into the marriage bond. So dragon/knight meets dragon/knight they decide that the 2 dragons decide they are mates. Well now, they have to find a mate for the knights. There are very few women who have the power to communicate/bond with the dragons much less live with the dragons/knight lifestyle so they find one and end up sharing. If anything happens to one of the knights or dragons, it is the other half of the partnership that is responsible for taking care of the family. I get the arrangement. Not saying it would work for me but I understand the mythology.
So as I am giving them a bit of the mythology, suddenly off we go into conversations about
a) Is brothers being in a poly-amorous relationship a little too incestuous? We were a divided group on this topic.
b) In a mythology with no divorce, what happens if you bond with the wrong knight or girl? These people live for hundreds of years, that could be a long time to be stuck with the wrong partner, especially if along the way, you find the right one.
c) In this mythology, the knights are psychically linked to their dragon who becomes psychically linked to their dragon mate who is linked to the other knight. What about the girl in all this? She can talk to the dragons in this mythology which makes her an eligible mate because not all females can but what if she is not included in the psychic link. A girl could feel left out.
d) Suppose one 1/3 of the menage dies in battle. Is the rest of the family supposed to stay a couple now or are they supposed to go find a new 1/3 because that is the culture? Is it okay to stay just a couple?
Needless to say, what a fun conversation. Too bad we didn't have more time and more wine. We could have really let our minds go and it is all fantasy...right.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Fresh Fiction Reviewer!
That's right world. Step back. You are reading a blog post for a new reviewer for Fresh Fiction! Very excited! That news has been the cherry to my pretty great day. Hubby made cookies to make up and because he loves me. I get to make my picks for Fantasy Football team draft. Bought the best sexy shoes and spider web top I have ever seen to go with these great thigh high hose I have. (Isn't there something about finding some great sexy shoes that just makes the day seem brighter?) My GM is coming in back in town along with my brother, his wife and my spectacular nephews. Facebook with my sis and friends this afternoon. We are getting ready for vacation in a week or so and hubby is taking me dancing this week. My cloud is definitely nine and that is before I even start reading my next Lara Adrian book "Ashes of Midnight" tonight.
I am raising my glass of unsweetened iced tea hoping that my real job doesn't squash my good mood tomorrow and make me regret not having something stronger than iced tea. Cheers.
I am raising my glass of unsweetened iced tea hoping that my real job doesn't squash my good mood tomorrow and make me regret not having something stronger than iced tea. Cheers.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Author Heaven
Sometimes you find an author that makes you just want to shout "Hallelujah"! Well, Katie MacAlister is one of those authors. Thank you DFW Tea Readers for the recommendation. The first book I read was "The Corset Diaries" and my only recommendation is do not read it in the middle of the night next to a sleeping husband. I woke him up with my bursts of laughter 3 times. I didn't mean to, I just couldn't help it.
Then I read the Noble Series- "Noble Intentions", "Noble Destiny" and "The Trouble with Harry". Love, Liked a lot, and Love.
I couldn't get enough so I read "Suffragette in the City", then I read it, "Noble Intentions" and "The Trouble with Harry" again. But, I wanted more of Katie's wicked sense of humor, great sex scenes, and wonderful characters.
So I read "Blow Me Down"- Loved It, "Hard Day's Knight"- Loved It, the 2 Novella book "Ain't Myth Behaving"- Absolutely freaking loved it!!!! Then I read "Noble Intentions" and "The Trouble with Harry" again.
At the last Book Club meeting, I was told that I needed to read her Dragon and Vampire series. There seemed to be some debate as to which I should read first because both are passionately defended. Since I am a huge Vampire lover, I chose the Vampires and in one week read the whole series. While my favorite is the novella "Bring Out Your Dead" with the William head being kept as a pet, I digress. WOW! What a wickedly funny, bizarrely twisted, wonderfully creative, "I want to party with you" woman Katie MacAlister is.
While I have some other books I need to read right now, I will be revisiting the Dragon series soon and I am quite sure I will be reading several of her books again and again because they make me laugh every time.
Then I read the Noble Series- "Noble Intentions", "Noble Destiny" and "The Trouble with Harry". Love, Liked a lot, and Love.
I couldn't get enough so I read "Suffragette in the City", then I read it, "Noble Intentions" and "The Trouble with Harry" again. But, I wanted more of Katie's wicked sense of humor, great sex scenes, and wonderful characters.
So I read "Blow Me Down"- Loved It, "Hard Day's Knight"- Loved It, the 2 Novella book "Ain't Myth Behaving"- Absolutely freaking loved it!!!! Then I read "Noble Intentions" and "The Trouble with Harry" again.
At the last Book Club meeting, I was told that I needed to read her Dragon and Vampire series. There seemed to be some debate as to which I should read first because both are passionately defended. Since I am a huge Vampire lover, I chose the Vampires and in one week read the whole series. While my favorite is the novella "Bring Out Your Dead" with the William head being kept as a pet, I digress. WOW! What a wickedly funny, bizarrely twisted, wonderfully creative, "I want to party with you" woman Katie MacAlister is.
While I have some other books I need to read right now, I will be revisiting the Dragon series soon and I am quite sure I will be reading several of her books again and again because they make me laugh every time.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Bodacious Bookworm is back!
After attending a fabulous Fresh Fiction/DFW Tea Readers Boa's & Tiara's event today, I realized the error of my way in stopping my blog. I would like to thank author and motivational speaker, Nikki Duncan, for inspiring me to take up typing again.
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