Posted in Up and Coming, reading, romance, tagged Eve Silver, Gabriel's Ghost, His Wicked Sins, Linnea Sinclair, Shades of Dark on July 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This week will likely be a little quiet around here, except for a few RetroLurv reviews. No it’s not vacation time *pout*, that’s in November. No, I’ve got to get Shades of Dark finished. I would’ve been through a lot quicker had I not decided to put it down at chapter seven or so and [...]
Posted in Polls, books, reading, romance, tagged authors switching genres, Karen Moning, When Authors Move On on July 18, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Do You Go With Them?
I’ve been discussing on my message board a bit about Karen Moning and where she might be going writing-wise when the Fever series is done. The recent news that has kind of put me in a tailspin of upside-down smile is there will be no more romances.
From her message board, June [...]
Posted in Out of the Dark, romance, tagged clinch cover postcards on July 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
How To Do It
I’ve been thinking of starting a recurring post theme here on ye old blog, that of ways for romance book lovers to come out of the closet (whether it shall actually recur, we shall see). I read all over the net these days about folks that love and love romance books, but [...]
Posted in Regency period, contests, historical romance, romance, tagged Georgette Heyer on July 16, 2008 | 13 Comments »
As I told SB Sarah over at Smart Bitches via email, it’s a magical Smart Bitches time of year for me, I guess because….
I WON AGAIN!
Got an email yesterday afternoon telling me that I’d won copy of a Georgette Heyer historical and I am actually mucho excited about it, cuz dayum there were a lot [...]
Posted in musings, reading, romance, tagged Nightkeepers, woes of DNF on July 16, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I never used to entertain even the thought of DNFs. Did not finish. I would cringe when I saw it mentioned in a review too. How can you form a complete, well-thought-out opinion of a book if you didn’t finish reading the thing? The more I add books to my TBR pile though, and it’s [...]
Posted in romance on July 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Maria V. Snyder
Poison Study (Study #1)
Luna
ISBN-10: 0373802579
ISBN-13: 978-0373802579
Fantasy
September 1, 2006
Note: The book first released in hardback on October 1, 2005. I read it in mass market format and originally reviewed it on Amazon on February 17, 2007. The cover on the right is done by its second publisher, Mira and is gorgeous, but…The cover on [...]
Posted in books, musings, random scoop, romance, tagged pet names on July 9, 2008 | 17 Comments »
I just realized one thing that is a top five or so pet peeve with me and books.
The overindulgence in the pet name usage.
One main character notices a trait, or physical feature, something that reminds them of something and then from there unto The End, their new pet name is sprinkled liberally throughout the book [...]
Posted in romance on July 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Lori Handeland
Any Given Doomsday (Phoenix Chronicles #1)
St. Martin’s Paperbacks
ISBN-10: 0312949197
ISBN-13: 978-0312949198
Urban fantasy
November 4, 2008
Special thanks to Wendy for loaning me her copy. :o)
Beware of some spoilers.
Handeland claims to have been inspired into the paranormal and urban fantasy realms by classics like The Outer Limits and the Twilight Zone, as well as Stephen King and Laurell [...]
Posted in Oh Noes!, The Truly WTF, romance, tagged sex in romance on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Apparently so.
On one hand it’s, “Oh noes! I’m reading a book with sex in it… *snort* big deal.”
And on the other hand, “Oh noes! Sex scenes are a big deal because you want to shoot me down for what I’m reading, which is romance.”
How you wound me. *snort*
BTW, I’m simply a reader of romance, one [...]
Posted in romance on July 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I think I love Ann Aguirre’s writing. Not just heart, but love…and I haven’t even read anything else of hers besides Grimspace yet.
I’m late on everything, so I’m sure some Internet savvy folks already knew about her up and coming, now HERE (well, the site is here anyway), new paranormal romance series written as Ava [...]
