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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
A quickie... for your pleasure
Not reviews, per se, but a review of my vacation books, a roller coaster ride of reading fun. I won't go into detail, just my basic reactions.
I think you may be surprised by what I devoured in one short week. Ready? This'll go fast. You sure you're set? K, hang on tight, here we go!
Ebooks
By Bonnie Dee
The Warrior's Gift Meh.
Moon Over Bourbon Street Fun. Gabriel Knight in book form. Recommend.
Home Bound Crazy-hot. And kinda wrong. But hot. Recommend.
Blackberry Pie Holy crap, was this hot. Too short. Wanted a whole damn book. So hot I got a sunburn. And so beautifully written it brought tears to my eyes. BUY THIS.
By Charlene Teglia
The Gripping Beast Good writing. Fun way to kill a few hours. Plus...VIKINGS. Minus points for weird title that made me think it had hentai in it.
By Lauren Dane
Giving Chase Fresh baked bread, wholesome. Great heroine. Minus points for making me fall in love with one brother, and then turning him into a dick. Kinda suffered from dual hero syndrome. But worth reading.
Taking Chase Great! But it wasn't a keeper because Shane was such an ass in book 1 that I couldn't forgive him too readily. If you read these back to back as I did you may have the same problem. Cassie's issues were written beautifully. Warm chocolate chip cookies feeling from reading it and a happy sigh at the end. Even if I was still kinda mad at Shane.
Chased Not as powerful as book 2. Worth reading, though.
By Pepper Espinoza
Mad World Crap on a cracker, this is the shit. But dark, terrible, ugly, and dysfunctional. Hero is a corrupt cop just this side of insane vigilante and the heroine is a sociopathic hooker. KEEPER! Not for the faint of heart.
Rayne of Love Meh. Good idea, shaky execution. Writing was engaging, needed tighter editing.
New Frontier Hello, genuine frontier story. Outlaw, pioneer woman, Old West, hot sex? What could be better? I liked.
By Dee Tenorio
Betting Hearts Rocked me. SEP, look out. Fuckin' loved this. Buy this one!
Paperbacks
Still Waters
Tami Hoag
Tired, dated. Everybody smoked. The only interesting character, well, I won't spoil you. But meh. Yawn.
Moonshine
Rob Thurman
Better than the first one. Didn't make me sing out in awed delight like Patricia Briggs, but readable.
The Scent of Shadows
Vicki Pettersson
Gack.
Private Arrangements
Sherry Thomas
A very pretty, artfully written historical romance. Clever. It was a sugar cookie, a Quinn, not a Kinsale. PS -- haha! I have it and you don't.
You Belong to Me
Patricia Sargeant
Good writing. Great hero. Romantic suspense, and I'm not prone to love those. But I enjoyed it.
Forever Odd
Dean Koontz
Love the characters, love his writing and sense of humor. Hated the plot/story. I won't give up on Odd Thomas, but the first book was the best to date.
Got questions? You can ask in comments or email me.
Feel free to disagree. As always, this is only my opinion, which doesn't matter for shit.
I think you may be surprised by what I devoured in one short week. Ready? This'll go fast. You sure you're set? K, hang on tight, here we go!
Ebooks
By Bonnie Dee
The Warrior's Gift Meh.
Moon Over Bourbon Street Fun. Gabriel Knight in book form. Recommend.
Home Bound Crazy-hot. And kinda wrong. But hot. Recommend.
Blackberry Pie Holy crap, was this hot. Too short. Wanted a whole damn book. So hot I got a sunburn. And so beautifully written it brought tears to my eyes. BUY THIS.
By Charlene Teglia
The Gripping Beast Good writing. Fun way to kill a few hours. Plus...VIKINGS. Minus points for weird title that made me think it had hentai in it.
By Lauren Dane
Giving Chase Fresh baked bread, wholesome. Great heroine. Minus points for making me fall in love with one brother, and then turning him into a dick. Kinda suffered from dual hero syndrome. But worth reading.
Taking Chase Great! But it wasn't a keeper because Shane was such an ass in book 1 that I couldn't forgive him too readily. If you read these back to back as I did you may have the same problem. Cassie's issues were written beautifully. Warm chocolate chip cookies feeling from reading it and a happy sigh at the end. Even if I was still kinda mad at Shane.
Chased Not as powerful as book 2. Worth reading, though.
By Pepper Espinoza
Mad World Crap on a cracker, this is the shit. But dark, terrible, ugly, and dysfunctional. Hero is a corrupt cop just this side of insane vigilante and the heroine is a sociopathic hooker. KEEPER! Not for the faint of heart.
Rayne of Love Meh. Good idea, shaky execution. Writing was engaging, needed tighter editing.
New Frontier Hello, genuine frontier story. Outlaw, pioneer woman, Old West, hot sex? What could be better? I liked.
By Dee Tenorio
Betting Hearts Rocked me. SEP, look out. Fuckin' loved this. Buy this one!
Paperbacks
Still Waters
Tami Hoag
Tired, dated. Everybody smoked. The only interesting character, well, I won't spoil you. But meh. Yawn.
Moonshine
Rob Thurman
Better than the first one. Didn't make me sing out in awed delight like Patricia Briggs, but readable.
The Scent of Shadows
Vicki Pettersson
Gack.
Private Arrangements
Sherry Thomas
A very pretty, artfully written historical romance. Clever. It was a sugar cookie, a Quinn, not a Kinsale. PS -- haha! I have it and you don't.
You Belong to Me
Patricia Sargeant
Good writing. Great hero. Romantic suspense, and I'm not prone to love those. But I enjoyed it.
Forever Odd
Dean Koontz
Love the characters, love his writing and sense of humor. Hated the plot/story. I won't give up on Odd Thomas, but the first book was the best to date.
Got questions? You can ask in comments or email me.
Feel free to disagree. As always, this is only my opinion, which doesn't matter for shit.Labels: books, impressions, quickie, reviews
like I said on the TBB blog:
"A day or two before we left, we started receiving scary weather reports. They started boarding up all the beach side rentals in preparation for the storm. We got out before the mad evacuative rush of people trying to escape Hurricane Dean. I know people who were stuck in Cancun during the last hurricane, and they spent four days without power or running water. They lived on cookies and warm soft drinks, and I'm glad we don't have to go through that. I'm concerned about all the people who live there, however. We'll just have to see what we can do in the aftermath."
Cozumel was hit really hit hard during the last hurricane. They still haven't recovered entirely, and the difficulty is compounded by the fact that it isn't as popular as it used to be. Cancun is easier to get to, and more touristy. Cozumel was a hotspot in the 60s and 70s, so they aren't generating the revenue to rebuild. But it's far more peaceful than some of the other seaside destinations.
We got out just in time. And we don't live close. Mexico City is in the central part of the country, up in the mountains. It's built in a valley, although we're building up the mountainsides now. I'd never seen a city that sloped like this one does. Some of the streets are crazy. And the size of DF and the surrounding suburbans just totally blows my mind. You can drive for almost two hours and still be in the city. So yeah, the closest ocean is in Acapulco, and that's three hours away. No hurricanes here. Just rainy season with real whipcrack thunderstorms. We get hail the size of golfballs sometimes and you could almost white water raft in the streets. (We live in the northern suburbs, way up the mountain).
Angela, I wanted to like Nightlife more than I did. It just never gelled for me. I bought both books together on Amazon, for one of their specials, so I figured I'd read the second one. The series did get better in book two but I kind of doubt I'll read book three.
I read Betting Hearts, too and enjoyed it. Very light and funny. Plus I always like stories about people who can't see the person they love is right in front of them.
I'm glad your vacation went well and you weren't swept away by a hurricane.
Sure did, Bonnie. I love your writing. Even when the story doesn't rock my world (which is rare) your writing is always beautiful.
Dionne and I both emailed each other and were all, "OMG we're in an anthology with BONNIE DEE!!" (cue fangirl squee). No, seriously. I'm not kidding. I have it all in Gmail. I'm the dorkiest dork that ever dorked.
Still need to finish Measure of a Man, and Seasons of Love. Mmm, Dee-licious.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have to check some of these out when I go on my reading spree.
Gwyneth
Hm... speaking of edits.... when do I get to see the rest of the llama story? *grin*
Glad you enjoyed Mad World and New Frontier though. And it sounds like you made the most of your vacation!