Dear Author(s),
The colored part of the eye is called the IRIS, not the pupil.
This is more offensive to me than mistaking naval for navel.
Kthanx,
Me
- Location:Cubeville
- Mood:
drained
1. The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
2. Mercedes Thompson by Patricia Briggs
3. Women of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong
4. Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward
5. Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris
6. Harper Connolly by Charlaine Harris
7. The Hollows by Kim Harrison
8. ...in Death by JD Robb
9. Dark-Hunters by Sherrylin Kenyon (wasn't sure whether to count this for me or not, since I'm essentially over this series, but will read Ash's book...in paperback)
10. Kusheline series by Jacqueline Carey
11. Kitty series by Carrie Vaughn
12. World of the Lupi by Eileen Wilks
13. The Others by Christine Warren
14. Arthurian Magi by Angela Knight
15. Dirk & Steele by Marjorie M. Liu
16. Cassandra Palmer by Karen Chance
17. Fever series, Karen Marie Moning
18. Wilde family by Janelle Denison
19. School for Heiresses by Sabrina Jeffries
20. Into the Wilderness series by Sara Donati
21. Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
22. Immortally Sexy series by Stephanie Rowe
23. Immortals After Dark by Kresley Cole
24. D'Artigo Sisters by Yasmine Galenorn
25. Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian
26. Darkwing Chronicles by Savannah Russe (this one's skating on thin ice)
27. Henry Fitzroy series by Tanya Huff
And these are only the series I'm CURRENTLY reading that I could remember! I left off the ones I gave up on or ones that I have the first book or two, but haven't read it yet.
How about you guys? How many series do you have on your shelves?
- Location:Cubeville
- Mood:
full - Music:Chemical Brothers
Another Harry Potter Thought
- Mood:
curious
My First Thoughts on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (THERE ARE SPOILERS)
Massive SPOILAGE behind the cut, so if you don't want to know, DON'T CLICK!!!
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- Mood:
indescribable
I found it in the grocery store yesterday at 25% off, which is way better than I'd do in a bookstore, so I picked it up. When I got home, I took it out to the sunroom and started it. I'm liking it, though I did find myself skipping ahead for the hawt secks -- if those names were going to annoy the snot out of me, I wanted to make sure there was payoff in hawt secks, LOL. The brand-name dropping, the faux hip-hop culture dwelling right alongside the faux Regency aristocracy, and the names, oh dear gods, the stupid, stupid, stupid, asinine, ridiculous, head-bangingly annoying names are driving me up the wall, but I still like the damned thing so far. It's like mental crack (phrase credit goes to my friend Grrrly over at Robin's Retreat) -- these books are simultanously so completely awful yet so completely riveting.
I do think when I write my review I'm going to have to use lots of brand-name mentions and drop in a lot of extraneous h's.
Now I'm off to get my stuff ready for tomorrow and watch Twhenty-Fhour.
- Mood: confuzzled but pleased
I love Crusie, but she spoils me for everyone else. Well, almost. I am also reading Liu's Eye of Heaven, and fortunately, Liu has the sucking-me-in ability too.
- Mood: still sleepy
Oh me of little faith. I loved it. Andersen took a plot I've hated by many other authors and made it realistic. I loved Rocket's honesty -- that he didn't try to deny anything, and that he openly admitted that he wasn't sure what to do with the knowledge that he had a kid. I especially loved that she had Victoria realize that yes, she could have tracked Rocket down if she really wanted to -- sure, it would have been awkward as hell and probably just as unwelcome, and I have doubts that anything permanent could have worked out between the two of them at that time, but it was there. Both parties yielded something, and gained so much more by bending.
So here comes the karma: I got Andersen's newsletter this morning, and her next book, Coming Undone, is going to be Jared and PJ's story. Not that I didn't like how she had left things between the two teens in Hot & Bothered, because PJ really was far, far too young for anything more than friendship and it was fantastic that Jared recognized this as well, but I'm really looking forward to seeing what Andersen will do with these two now that they're all growed up.
- Mood: amused
Random Thought on Blue Smoke
Reena's first boyfriend dies in a fire, apparently started by falling asleep with a lit cigarette -- and he didn't smoke. Her next serious relationship, years later, is murdered via gunshot to the face, then put in his truck and torched. Her next truly serious relationship -- the guy's Mercedes gets torched the night they break up.
Now, even without the painfully obvious suspect of the kid who tried to rape her when she was 11, whose father she was instrumental in putting in jail for torching her family's restaurant, doesn't THREE crimes ALL INVOLVING FIRE say something to an ARSON INVESTIGATOR other than "Fate's a bitch?!?!"
Is it that Fate's a bitch or that Reena is THE dumbest arson investigator on the face of the planet?!
I'm enjoying the prose and the family background and such, but sheesh. Seriously.
- Mood: thoughtful
Lover Eternal, J.R. Ward
Penguin, paranormal romance, March 2006
Connections to: second novel in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series
If someone had bet me that I would love a new vampire series which boasts characters with utterly ridiculous names like Wrath, Rhage, Tohrment, Phury, and Zsadist (man, my spell-checker is having a field day right now!) and had garnered favorable comparisons to Christine Feehan's Carpathian books, I would have laughed, taken the bet...and lost.
After an adjustment period, mainly to cope with the names (oh gods, the names!), Dark Lover grabbed me by the throat and didn't let go. Lover Eternal sucked me right in, stupid names and all. I will caution interested readers: you must read Dark Lover first, or you will be helplessly lost.
Lover Eternal is Rhage's story. Hollywood handsome on the outside, Rhage has a beast within—literally. He was cursed with it for centuries, as a punishment from the Scribe Virgin, the vampire race's creator. Since great emotions and dangerous situations tend to bring out the beast, he tries to keep it sated with a constant stream of sex and hunting lesser, the creatures bent on destroying the vampire race.
Mary is brought to the Brotherhood's headquarters as an interpreter for a mute pre-transitional vampire youth who seems destined to join the warrior class (and get his own book, I suspect). A post-beast-release Rhage encounters Mary in a hallway and is enthralled by her voice. Rhage knows he can't get involved with a human beyond one-night stands. For one thing, it’s generally forbidden in his culture, and for another, he's terrified that his beast will harm anyone who gets too close.
But he can't stay away from her, and once a cadre of lesser comes after her for being seen with him, he takes her under his protection, amidst the protests of the other Brothers. Mary's only saving grace in the eyes of the other Brothers is that she's terminally ill, so she's not going to be around long enough to do their people any harm. And by the time Rhage appeals to the Scribe Virgin for Mary's life, the Brothers have accepted her and her loyalty.
****SPOILER WARNING****
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Despite the names, this is still my favorite new series. I love the set-up, the pacing, the characters, the steam and chemistry, and the interaction between the Brothers. I can't wait for the release of Lover Awakened later this year.
Review ©2006 by Riley Merrick
- Mood: satisfied
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