Vol 118

So, Tia, you suggested (more like forcetolddemanded) I read SEP's novels in order starting with Glitter Baby.
And I have.
Finished it today.
And I have to say I hated them all.
The adults were completely unlikable and irresponsible.
Belinda was a pain in everyone's ass.
I don't like dependent women.
It's not dependent women even, it's her complete lack of individuality.
She feeds out of the success of others instead of working hard herself.

Lets not even start with Alexi.
He could have been such a likable character.
I even understood why he made her give Fleur away.
But to treat everyone with such contempt, to ruin that girl over a fecking car...TRYING TO CONVINCE HER TO HAVE HIS CHILD. His own fecking stepdaughter.
He's nucking futs.
And I just knew Belinda would do that when he had the second stroke.

It was funny how no one seemed to care about Michel until halfway through the book.
He just disappeared as a teen and they couldn't give less of a feck.
At least he and Fleur worked out their bitterness.
It was so hilarious when he tried to protect her from Jake, when Jake would rip him six ways to Sunday.

I don't even want to beginning with Fleur and Jake.
Some of her plight I can understand.
She doesn't think she's as good looking as people say she is.
Hell, I don't think I'm as good looking as people say I am.
I seriously stare in the mirror and wonder what they see, like Fleur.
And I hate taking pictures even if people say I'm photogenic, like Fleur.
So that much of her personality I could understand and sympathize with.

I'll just say that she over reacted back then.
I mean, it's understandable to leave but not for 6 years.
And not run into the man who has hated you all your life and suddenly is so sweet to you.
She was so naive.
Just as naive as Jake.
I was like, "aww" when he cried.
Why?
Guys crying...hot guys crying...such a beautiful sight.
Unnerves me like nothing else, but can be so refreshing.
Does that sound sadistic of me?

Anyway, I'll just say that Jake is freaking hilarious.
Sundance Kid, really? REALLY?
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

Vol 110

So I've been reading the Tairen Soul series on and off this month.
This series would probably gain a large audience if it wasn't classified as Romance.
When I first looked for it at Barnes and Nobles, I didn't look in that section, and was surprised when I found it there.
It's more Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
I finally got around to reading book 2, and I liked it.
Go figure.
I almost like everything.
But there was one scene that made me vomit in mouth.
Purple Prose in its Prime.
This scene was when Rowan asked Rain what did it feel like for the first bond with his truemate to take place.
You see, while the Fey can fuck around and screw whoever they want, or even take a mate, a truemate is rare, something all Fey want, but most will never find.
Anyway, I think I vomited again just now typing this quote.

"What does it feel like?" Rowan asked...
"Peace," he said at last. "Like waking in a field of soft grass on a warm spring day and knowing for the first time exactly who you are and what your purpose is in the world. and humbleness, as if you were standing before the Bright Lord with all the dark ugliness of your soul laid out before you, and despite everything, he showers you with light until every last stain fades away." A smile spread slowly across his face. "Flame, too--especially under the effects of her weave--but I'll say no more about that. Some things should remain private between a Fey and his mate.

-C.L Wilson The Lady of Light and Shadows

Vol 108

More so than Shadowfever, this doesn't seem complete.
This -I liked, but that's a given. I a fae addict- leaves off when Ash and Puck (surprise surprise) going on another adventure.
Meghan is off taking on her new role as ruler for now.
But Ash's journey seems to open up something else entirely.
I can't seem to remember what promise he made that he has to fill.
Or why that would involve finding Grimalkin.
I almost cried with that cats farewell.
I loved that snarky feline.

I know this was the end of the Iron Fey series, but I think Julie should write another novella, give us more closure.
Or maybe that's just me being greedy for more.
This is one of the only series why I liked all the characters.
Usually female teenage heroines annoy me to all end, but not Meghan.
I adored her the entire journey.



Edit:
Imagine the scream I had to suppress at 3am when I learned that this actually isn't the last book of the series like it was first stated, and that another book will be out called, The Iron Knight, and that book is told through Ash's POV. *scream*

It's a whole book right? It's not simply a novella right? It's listed as The Iron Fey 4. That means it's a complete novel right? The other novella, Winter Passage, was listed as 1.5. Since this isn't 3.5 but 4, that means it's a full length novel right? Oh please, oh please, oh please let it be. I would kill to know Ashallyn's thoughts. Especially where Puck is concerned. Those two will never be the enemies they speak they are. Their old friendship is still there.

Vol 107

Topaz! I liked this.
(Will edit this entry tomorrow night after work. Or tomorrow before work since the bastard children like to be little hell-raisers and wake me up at insanely early hours of the morning. Besides, it's 3:30am. I should be sleep.)

Edit:

Beverly Jenkins is an historical romance author.
It's not the romance that I like.
All that crap is the same.
And I'm seriously sick of females melting like candy bars (I'll come back to this later), and guys being oh-so perfect (I'll come back to this as well.)

Beverly's leads are black, at least the ones I read and assume all her leads might be black.
While I read Topaz, a story about a newspaperwoman who ends up being given away to a black Seminole to pay off her fathers debt (crazy ol man), I had to stop and google a lot.
And I mean a lot.
Beverly litters her stories with so many names, events, locations, and dates I wanted to know if they were facts or just fictional facts created for the story.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered what she wrote was real.

Now I'm of African and Native American decent, but I know pretty much nothing of Native American history, and the African American history I was force to suffer through during grade schooling was always about the same people: Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Fredrick Douglas, etc, and so on and said forth.
To tell the truth, but time I got in 12th grade I absolutely hated African American history.
I was sick of learning about the same people over and over.
There's so much more that could have been taught, but it never was.

I learned more while reading Topaz than I did in school.
And I actually enjoyed reading it.
Now, I have a little knowledge about Black Indians and Indian Wars.
Even if it's just a little knowledge, it's more than what I learned before.
And they way Jenkin incorporates it, how she ties her characters to it -excellent.

After reading Topaz I read Always and Forever.
That was Blake's and Grace's story, two characters from Topaz.
Beverly gives a little pirate and ship-slave history in this book, as well as the worries and concerns that someone who isn't able to trace their roots would feel.

The heroines of the stories are always something that during the, 1884, would be considered absurd.
Katherine (Topaz) was a newspaperwoman. Back then it was still frowned upon for females to have jobs. No one wanted to hire a newspaperWOMAN, especially a black one. But Kate was intelligent and highly literate, familiar with more text than anyone else.
Grace (Always and Forever) was a banker. Yep, that's right. Good in math and had very strong backbone to take on any male.
She definitely was more than Blake expected her to be.
And Loreli, I have yet to read her story but she is in both Topaz and Always and Forever, was a gambler. A female gambler. Talk about no-no. She was so out of the norm that even some women turned their noses up at her.
And one thing about the women in this story, no matter the race, they pretty much always stuck together.
In their eyes, women as a whole were still belittled, not just woman of one race.

Anyway, as you can see, there is a lot to gain from these stories.
It's not your typical romance.
Not even your typical historical romance.
I read a few others but this author is the only author I've read who used real facts.
Hats off to you Madam.





Oh, I didn't forget about the candy bars and oh-so perfects. I'm saving that for a completely different post.

Vol 106

This book will be released January 18th 2011, which is in 5 minutes.
I preordered it on the kindle back in July.
But I still won't get it into the wee hours of the morning.
I'm so impatient for it.
What made MacKayla scream.
I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight until I get this and find out.
Doesn't matter much to me.
I'm usually up until 3am any.
Lets just hope I don't have to wait that long before amazon decides it wants to send it to me.
Tia, be on the lookout for an email.


Edit: As expected. The book was released west coast time, so I got it at 3am.
Yes, I was up for it. And but of course I started to read it.
Wonder what magic trick will be pulled out the hat this time.
All I know is that it better come soon.

Edit2: Somebody has some 'splaining to do.


****SPOILER ALERT****



Edit3: So I finished the book 6am this morning.
This book was the same length as Millie's Fling, yet it took me twice as long.
Weird, since I wanted this one so badly, I expected to devour it in a matter of hours.

Man, there is so much I want to say about this book.
First I'll say, FINALLY! Answers to all question.
This novel is like a whirlwind. It just keeps spinning and spinning.
Because it's the last novel of the series, you know that you'll get answers for all the questions you have.
What you don't realize when you first open the book is how many more questions you'll ask.
Moening saved every answer for the end. Which drove me insane.
When you finally think, "Ah! An answer," you soon realize it's not an answer at all.

So much is discovered. We finally learn about all that is Barrons and his men. Why Barrons would never answer any question about himself was because of a code he and his men have. But damn, they are truly the baddest and most cursed MFer's of the land. To never die??? Ever?? Of course they can be killed, Barrons died a number of times in this book, but he will always come back. Unless he's V'Krucked!

And I like V'Kruck.
He and the other hunters were a nice breath of fresh air...in a way.
All they wanted was to be free and fly.
Fuck a war.

What motivates the Fae.

But the biggest question of it all was, "Who and what is MacKayla?"
Another bigger question, "Where is the Unseelie King?"
I'll just say, you'd never would have question who the Unseelie King is based on previous books. But I had a feeling I knew who it was.
I just never suspected MacKayla was a distance extension of him.
Like a grand daughter.

And Cruce, Cruce, Cruce.
I knew it was you.
I knew it for a while now, I just refused to believe it.
I think I knew back in book 3 it was you, but refused to believe it.
You dirty little bastard.
Even after all you've done, you're still on second best...or maybe 3rd.
MacKayla is a factor bigger than you believe, being the Unseelie King's long lost not-really grand daughter and all.

But you have to wonder, just have fecking strong is the Unseelie King.
Even after what Cruce did, he still was no match.

Well I'm glad that little old bitch is dead.
She should have been killed a long time ago, especially after what she made Dani do.
Poor Dani.
Hopefully Mac want kick her ass too much.
We'll never know.
At least there's a good ending.
The world isn't back to normal yet, nor is the threat completely neutralized. As long as no one opens that tomb or MacKayla doesn't go off the deep end, they should be safe from the destruction of the world.
It's a start.
Rome wasn't built in a day, you know.


Edit4: Some random thing I just noticed.
This is the first Fae series whose courts leaders as the Unseelie King and the Seelie Queen,
It has always been the Unseelie Queen and the Seelie King.
I like this Unseelie King. He's not rotten like most Unseelie leadership (Queens) are portrayed.

Vol 103

When 23 year old orphaned, virgin, Royal meets I-have-no-clue-how-old-either-29-or-39-but-lets-go-with-39 year old Dmitry, all her prayers are answered.
What Dmitry offers the black, beautiful, recent college graduated is too good to be true...Well, because it is.
He offers her a job to complete run and manage his new clothing store with a 60K salary, an apartment, tons of expensive gifts and even a chauffeur.
Sounds unbelievable right?
It is.
Because what Royal doesn't know about Dmitry is that he's actually a Russian Mafia boss.
Oh snap!
But Dmitry and Royals love-love relationship sails while, with the occasional interruption, until a vindictive brother comes along with the plot to kill Dmitry.

I haven't finished the book yet. I'm about a third of the way through.
I stumbled across it last night while doing my nightly book search on Amazon for kindle books.
This is a little different from my normal read.
I tend to stay away from crime novels.
My conscience is to open for this type of book.
It makes it hard to sleep at night because I over think things.
But I actually look forward to reading this series.
I know Dmitry's book is first, not sure who is second, but Anatoly's novel comes on later this month.
He's a quiet one, but his silence is LOUD!
And I just love the silent yet deadly types.
When they're not silent and deadly with me.


Edit: Oh god!
I'm at the first kill scene.
I wonder who the leak is.
Will find out in 2 sentences.
*shudders*

(10 seconds later) Edit 2:
COLD. BLOOD.ED
Anatoly is scary.
tsk tsk tsk

(2 minutes after that) Edit 3:
Nuh uh Dmitry.
You're slipping.
And your boys noticed.
Better check yourself at the door next time.

(1 minute later) Edit 4:
Cory and Renee, for your own safety, SHUT UP!

(4 minutes later) Edit 5:
Ivan is such an ass!
Damn, I want to punch him in the face.

(23 seconds later) Edit 6:
I've never been so happy to see Anatoly in my life.
I can almost cry.

(2 more minutes later) Edit 7:
I'm still only a third into the book, and this is getting tense.

(Side note comment) Edit 8:
Someone, please, get Cory out of the middle of this gun/stare off.

(5 minutes later) Edit 9:
Wow! Never stand between a Russian Mafia boss and his little, young, black, girlfriend.
People die.
*shaking my head*

(shortly afterward) Edit 10:
Royal, if you truly love the man and want to stay with him despite it all, you can.
No one is blaming you.
But please honey, stop being fucking naive.
You know he's Mafia.
Renee and Cory even voiced their opinion that he's Mafia.
Cory is too...adamant.
Yet you still deny it.
*smh* Don't let all the money and fancy lifestyle blind you.
It could be gone in a flash.

(15 minutes later) Edit 11:
NO!
I'm afraid.
I don't want to read anymore.
I have a really bad feeling about this next part.
Nooooo!
Please. Please. Please.
I'm going to cry if something happens to him.

(One second later) Edit 12:
WHAT! I knew it!
I knew it. I knew it. I knew it.
I said he was a little to brave for...well, him.
tsk tsk tsk
Still like him though.
Even if he's a sneaky.

(meanwhile) Edit 13:
Anatoly.
He's a very intimidating kid.
I'll call him a kid, because despite his cold demeanor and scary approach, he's only 20. Maybe 21 by now.
Point is, he's someone I would hesitate to approach, but never back down from.
That's the only way you'd get his respect.
...But probably the fastest way to have him shoot you.

(About an hour later) Edit 14:
Wait! WHAT?
Dmitry...Cory...
Now this I did not expect.
I was panting with worry just now.
But really Cory, make a choice.
You can't have the best of both worlds.

(Even later) Edit 15:
Freaking out is completely understandable, Royal.
I agree with you.
Screaming and fighting is what any sane person would have done.
Stabbing...yep.
Still agree.
Easily forgiving...not so much.

(Finally finished:) Edit 16:
No matter what you say Royal, I would have like to see Ivan suffer tremendously.
He got off way too easily.
ENTIRELY TOO EASY!
Poor Royal.
At least she still has Dmitry.

Glad that's over with.
*I'm getting ansty over Anatoly's book.
Can't wait.
Hopefully his book will be properly edited.
I mean seriously, there were a hell of a lot of SPaG issues in this story.
I understand Dmitry's and Anatoly's habit of skipping over words.
English isn't their first language.
But even Royal would do it or you'll find missing words in the narration.
Rather annoying really.
And the kindle format had a tendency to smashwordstogetherlikethis.
That's just hard to read.
But I can only fault the grammar so much.
My own stories are terrible.
You should see the hard edit I've been working on for one.
The entire paper is red marked.

Even with all that, I still loved this.
I mean, I've read tons and tons of IR romance novels.
But this one is definitely one of my favorites.
Top 3 after Tammy William's Choices and Blindsided.
The thing I liked most was Royal.
I'm so sick and tired of reading stories with black female characters and not relating to them at all.
Granted, I'm not an orphan or have shot a man before, but Royal and I are a year apart, and some of the things that she feels I understand.
She has an innocence to her that I relate to.
I grew up in the hood, but I have morals and goals.
Her self respect was off the hook.
You go Royal.
You don't find many female leads like that.

NEXT!
Lets go Anatoly.
I pray his fight with his cousin is better than the fight between Ivan and Dmitry.
God I wish I could torture Ivan.
*Yes Yes. I'm a little protective over Royal. So what*

Tía, you know I'm sending this to you, don't you?
Lets enjoy the Russian's together.


Side note:
I know a bit of Russian.
But that's no surprise.
I know a bit of over 8 languages.
I wonder if Latrivia speaks Russian or if she had to research it for this novel....?

Vol 102

I have been up for over 24 hours, and I have never been more energetic.
That is all thinks to Jill Mansell and Millie's Fling.

Now, I'm a girl of humor.
If you can't make me laugh, you suck at life.
If you can make me laugh...rock on!
And man oh man, did Jill having me laughing from 12:30am to 11am.
(Yes, I'm that slow a reader, but this novel was freakishly long.)

A lot of reviews, although score this with extremely high marks, don't do justice to this book.
Me, I like when the characters in the beginning are also in the end.
I don't like when you introduce me to Billy and Mandy and by the end of the story it'll be Mandy and Dave, or Billy and Susan.
It's annoying.
I usually fall for the characters I first meet, and I'd like the see those same characters at the end.

Well, Mansell did a fantastic job with characterization in this novel.
Besides Hester, who was annoying flawed in a realistic way, almost all the characters were lovable.
Except that cheating snake Gile...Gail...whatever his name was, and his mistress.

Anyway, the story starts off with Millie's at-the-time boyfriend proposing that they move in together.
But she wasn't listening to him at all, her intention focused on the would-be suicidal victim contemplating jumping of a cliff.
She ends up taking the lady out of it, Orla, a famous romance novel.
As a consequence, that boyfriend left her stranded on the cliff.

I'm going to say that the story has two starts.
Start one is when Millie and Hester find a wallet.
They search the wallet to find out who it belonged to.
Finding a cell number in the wallet, Millie calls it and plays a joke that goes horrible wrong and leaves her with an enormous amount of guilt.
She apologizes, but still feels guilty.

A few days later, guilt even stronger than before, Millie's house phone bill arrives.
Relief, the number she had forgot, she now can get from the bill and call.
But she starts off with another joke, this one landing her with a not-a-date-just-to-be-clear.

The second start of the story is when Orla decides she's going to write her next novel with a different approach.
It'll be realistic, about real people. real life situations, and Millie is her start, with Hester, Lucas, and a few others as subplots.
Millie warns Orla that her life is rather boring, but no fear...Orla has a well of innocently manipulating everything.

As much as I want to, I won't tell the story.
I'll just say, LUCAS IS THE GREATEST EVER!
What little scenes he has, he leaves you with an impression.
A serious impression.
What he did to Hester...there isn't a character alive who can ravel that move.
I screamed with laughter for 10 whole minutes.
And this was at 6:30am.
I adored him.
Seriously.
Really.
Best character alive.
Con as well.
But mainly Lucas.
And of course Hugh, who was an absolutely doll, even with that jackass of a move he pulled.
Millie was such an easy-going normal girl...with cheap shoes.
But her father and Judy as fantastic.
Her mom...not so much.
Her mother was really the most annoying character around.

There are some clapping moment in this story.
Orla's scorned wife scene was great.
I had to clap for her.
Her shocked-utterly attracted to the enemy scene as well.
She was such a lovely person.
She didn't deserve any of the stuff her husband put her through.

Lucas also has a few scenes.
His reputation as a playboy is widely known, but when he actually shows morals and give sound advice...*claps*
He's so full of himself.
What he does TO Hester FOR Hester...as hilarious as it was...*claps*

And despite Hugh's total asshole scene, he makes you squirm in a good way.
Never once did I feel bad for his situation.
He's not the type of character who would accept pity.
He was so light, airy, and found humor in everything.
Which was great because he turned all of Millie's embarrassing scenes into humor for her.
Especially the second phone conversation.

Anyway, being up for 27 hours now is starting to kick in.
I can't remember what I was going to type next besides, GO READ IT!
Yes, YOU!
You're know I'm taking specifically to you.

Vol 100

Me and the robot man in Uptown New York.


Anyway, I added a new wedget.
It's so I can TRY to keep a total of how much I spent on books already.
It's only day two of the new year and I've spent $41.
HA!

Vol 97

I'm too lazy to sit up, so I'm typing this from my phone.




Right now, I'm reading Patricia Briggs' Masques.
This book is old. First came out when I was 5, back in '93, but has been reworked and released again.

It won't match up to the Mercy Thompson series, more than likely, I can tell even if I'm only on chapter 3.
But it's going to capture me because of Wolf.
Wolf reminds me of Barrons from the Fever series.
So much power and skill, but a complete mystery.
Only Wolf is easier to figure out.
Again, I'm only on chapter three, but I've been all too sure that Wolf is really Cain, the Archmage's son, since the Archmage and Myr mentioned that he has/once had a son.
Aralon is starting to suspect that as well, but she's trying to reason it out. Yet the more she reason's the more i'm convinced.


Edit: Oh yeah, I'm positive I'm correct about Wolf.
No need to even doubt myself.

Vol 91

I've waited a very, very, very long time for this book.
It comes out today.
I finished it yesterday.
Oh, the wonders of preordering.

Now that I've read it, I can say with certainty that I think I am more Mercy than Indigo.
Which is strange in and of itself in a way, but that's what I truly think.

I would have liked more of a plot to this book, more psy-action, more of the war.
The Indigo/Drew action was wonderful.
He is such a sneaker charmer.
The Hawke coming to a realization....or more like Hawke knowing what he needs to do with a certain no-longer-redhead was GREAT.
Especially when she shut him down by saying she didn't come back for him.
-le sigh- Go Sienna.

But with the last scene, I have a feeling book 10 will have more psy-war-action.
I can't wait.
Especially since this is the book I've been waiting for since I first picked up the series.
Lucky for me I got into it very late.

Now I need to sleep because I need to wake up in 5 hours for class.

Vol 50

BOOK LIST UPDATE COMING SOON: Once I can remember all the book titles and authors.
Just know that I'm somewhere around 45.



Anyway, I'm in love with the Westmoreland brothers. Just their names are so freaking weird but seductive in a way. Dare, Thorn, Stone, Storm and Chase. WTF kind of names are these??? It's funny how Storm and Chase (twins) got their names.

Well, I've been avoiding Brenda Jackson novels for a while now. Read her story Irresistible Forces and was completed turned off by the plotless smut filled book. So I hesitated to read this novella, A little Dare, but so happy I did.

I LOVED Shelly and Dare's romance. Yeah they had a bad break up 10 years ago but their love was still true. Everyone jumped on Dare's back then for breaking up with Shelly, who they all thought he would end up marrying, but he had his reasons. Stupid reason, but he had a reason. And that very reason gave Shelly a reason to not tell Dare she was pregnant with his son. Now their son is 10, Shelly just moved back to College Park, Georgia, and Dare finds out that he has a son. A son who just so happens to hate him...bad start they had.

But no matter how bad people jump on Dare, I wanted someone to jump on Shelly. Dare's reason for breaking up all those years ago was really stupid and selfish, but there is no reason big enough to hide the fact that she was pregnant and allows her to just move away. No matter how big the heart break was, she was wrong for that. But their love was so cute and true. And you can tell even now that Dare was just as hurt as Shelly when he broke up with her. He probably hurt even more. But he thought he was doing the right thing. That is why guys shouldn't make decisions that THEY THINK is best for a girl.

My friend has the rest of the Westmoreland series: Thorn, Stone, Storm, Chase, their sister Dulaney, and about...5-6 cousins. She's going to give them to me on Saturday. Definitely want to read about Thorn and Tara.

Vol 47

*SPOILERS*


Just finished Mercy 5. Patricia Briggs really is a great writer, but now I think I know what the future books will be about. I think it was mentioned before that Mercy would dig into her heritage, see if her father had more children, exactly what kind of magic they had. After reading 5, I wondered what the future books would have been about.

First I must say, I miss Stephan. I was upset that he didn't make one single appearance. Not even the mystery machine made an appearance.

I was surprised that Mercy was still having the anxiety attacks but that was also a good thing. It meant that she didn't just overcome what Tim did to her. That chicken shit. She was still suffering, even just a little.

Mercy was really quick with the trigger in this book. First the bounty hunter thing, that felt so out of place and random, but it made since after it was explained. (Again with the scooby doo reference. Daphne?) Then she shot Henry, which I LOVEDDDD! I went back and reread that part twice. She stepped into the role of "Alpha's mate' with that little stunt. And then she killed the Dairy Queen, three shots to the chest. I expected a little chase or something. It was very melodramatic. I wonder how long Yo-yo girl was there?

Darrel and Auriel are the cutest couple. I loved when Auriel slammed Mary Jo into the wall. That was really unexpected, especially because at the end of the last book Auriel expressed her displeasure in having a Coyote, Mercy, in the pack. But now she rounded on Mary-jo for betraying Mercy. I guess that's better than Mary-Jo who resulted in being a back stabbing bitch. Yeah, yeah, she redeemed herself, but I would never trust her again.

Then there was Samuel. Samuel. Samuel. Samuel. Really? I knew something was up when he said "You be happy in life," or something along those lines. What I didn't expect was for him to try and drive off a bridge. Thanks to the officer for being there. And also thanks to Sam, his inner wolf. Sam took control. Sam didn't want to die. The wolf wanted to live, that big pony, but the Human felt unless.

That was until Ari came. Now that was a surprise. Very unexpected, but very welcomed. I could actually imagine her well, with her scars and all, and Samuel being attracted to that kind of person. I wonder if Ari will be able to give birth to Samuel's child. She's not werewolf, so she doesn't have to worry about shifting and losing a child, and she's not human, who miscarry a lot. She's fae. Maybe she has some fae magic to help her through pregnancy. After all, Phin is her grandson, which means that she CAN give birth.

I think I'll stop here now.


This is book 35 our of 52.
I actually started book 36 before I read book 35, but since I finished this one first, I'll call it 35.
36 is book 3 of the Crimson Moon series.

Vol 44

As for the picture below...this is a childrens book.
a lot of children who come to my job have this book. or one of the books.
i was just saying the other day that i knew they would turn this into a movie.
Lowandbehold, when i got home today, i saw a preview for it.
Just great, another crappy kids movie.





As far as my resolution goes....i'm getting pretty close.

I won't post little descriptions about them all, this time around, but maybe a brief sentence or two.

But here is a list...If I remember correctly:

Practice Makes Perfect - Julie James (Like it. The silent feud. hehehe)

Just the Sexist Man Alive - Julie James (What's the most popular actor to do when he's outwitted by the sexy lawyer helping him with a role?)

Bad Blood: Crimson Moon series - L.A Banks (Damn Werewolves and Vampires)

Bite the Bullet: Crimson Moon series - L.A Banks *sigh*

Black Jack - Lora Leigh (She's not that great. Good story, but not how I would have liked it.)

Man of Fame - Rochelle Alers (-le sigh-)

Man of Fantasy - Rochelle Alers (-le sigh-

Man of Fortune - Rochelle Alers (-le sigh-)

Stranger in My Arms -Rochelle Alers (I liked the whole family thing. Reminded me of my family before my grand dad died)

Love Lessons (Novella) - Rochelle Alers (Lots of Rachelle Alers.)


I'm sure there are more, but I can't remember right now.
Need to check my kindle.


On Spring Break right now.
Not much of a break.
I have to work damn near everyday.

Vol 37

I'm a true-blue scout.
I bring to you book number eleven, Archangel's Kiss, by that ever so mean author who I adore, Nalini Singh.
I think I mentioned the first book before in a previous post.
I honestly can't remember the name of it right now, but I read it when we were first hit with that snow storm in December.
(Unlucky me. There's another snow storm happening as I type this.)

Well in this book, Ellie has awaken, and she posses angel wings now, having been turned into by Raphael.
There were two many points to this story.
One: To train, Ellie, and make her strong enough, and to teach her how to fly, before she attends Lijuan's ball.
Lijuan is an Archangel who has evolved so much she's neither apart of this world or not apart of it.
She has the ability to raise the death, and she builds an army.
At the ball, she brings out one of the dead she resurrected.
It happened to be the vampire who killed Ellie's two older sisters, and caused her mother to commit suicide.
Ellie cuts his head off immediately.
Although Lijuan was suppose to be the villian in this story, she wasn't.
Not really.
She never gave me the bad guy feeling in the first book, so I couldn't dislike her.
Now Micheala.
Someone needs to kill her.


Two: To stop whoever it is that's going around killing (supposedly) immortals as an act of becoming the next Archangel, with the threat of making Ellie the final kill.
The highlights for this story would be Illium, (a.k.a Bluebell), Jason, and Galen.
Illium might be signing his death slips, if he keeps up his flirtatious behavior with Ellie.
But you gotta love him.
Jason doesn't have a big part much, but I really want to know what's the story behind the guy with the brown skin and half tattooed face.
Galen started to train, Ellie after Demitri went back to New York.
He made his dislike for her very known.
He had no problem working her to the bone, or feather.
I wish there was more Sara in this story.
And Deacon.




BOOK TWELVE
I read this book last night.
It only cost 99cent to download the kindle version.

Andi (Andrea) and Devin met at a party one night.
They couldn't be further apart from each other.
Andi being a self-conscious, 35 year old virgin, English Professor, who was currently writing a textbook, and just called off her engagement about a year ago.
And Devin, being an escort whom all the professors at the school use.

Andi and Devin made an arrangement.
He would teach her how to please a guy.
She would teach him how to write.
Devin had no interest in writing, but I don't think it would have taken much for Andi to convince him to go along with this idea.
His first rule was, "Do NOT fall in love with me."

Of course she did.
That was no big surprise.
But the surprise was more that he was the one who kept inviting her on dates. despite the "no socializing outside of our teaching sessions" rule he instated.
His teaching was very good.
Andi became confident.
Confident enough to start dating Sam.

She had a long distance relationship with Sam for months.
When she finally told Devin about it, after all their sorta-kinda-dating-but-not-really-dating period.
She told him a month before she was to move out of New York to Mass. where she would become the Director of an English department at some university.
(Sam also lived in Mass. But that didn't matter, because even if she didn't get the job, Sam was ready to give up everything and move to New York for her. He was charming)
Andi and Devin got into an argument the day she was moving, and he confessed his love.
He asked her not to go, but she left anyway.

But no matter how charming Sam was, Devin was so much better.
This story was very realistic.
It wasn't that cheesy happily ever after I'm use to reading.
Devin and Andi did NOT end up together.
Andi loved Devin, but she also loved Sam, and she choose Sam.
Devin and Andi reunited 16 months later in Mass. where Devin co-owns and Art Gallery.
Andi is now engaged to Sam.
The book ends with Devin asking Andi, how's the sex with Sam, to which she replies, "Fucking Fabulous".

I LOVED this book.
Both characters were likeable, and the story was realistic.
No cop out ending with the characters breaking everyone's hearts to be together.
Maybe that's why it stuck with me.
There's a part 2.
6 years later, Sam dies, leaving Andi a widower.
She runs into Devin again, but no one is good enough for her.
Sam was perfect.
Sam was the best.
And she knows that Devin is still in love with her.
So she goes to him just because "he's alive."

I didn't read book 2, and I don't think I will.
I can't sit there and watch Devin being walked over.
He was such an awesome character, and honestly, he wasn't given a fair chance in the first book.
But I still love this story.



THIRTEEN!

I started this book earlier today, and I just finished an hour ago.
Set in the year 1899.
This is one of the youngest stories I've read.
The characters are about 18-19 years old.
Todd loved Ann.
Ann loved Kent.
Kent broke off his engagement with Ann to get engaged with Rebecca.

Todd, decided he wasn't going to take over his father's bank, and he was going to move to North Dakota to become a farmer.
He was going to leave the day after graduation, despite his father threatening to disown him.

At a school dance, where Todd and Ann went together because of their parents pestering, Ann asked Todd to marry her and take her with him.
Todd says no at first, but when Ann says that she'll just runaway anyway, he agreed.
He knew Ann didn't love him.
That she loved Kent.
Ann said that she could learn to love him.
But instead of waiting a week for graduation, Ann convinced Todd to leave that night.
They snuck from the dance, packed their stuff, loaded it into a wagon, and left.

They went to Jamestown, North Dakota, where Todd had purchased a farm.
They didn't interact to well at first, because Ann didn't see him in a romantic way.
She didn't see him as a man.
He was just her best friend's brother.
A classmate.
So they shared separate rooms.

Todd valued Ann.
And Ann started to appreciate everything he did for her.
She grew up with servants, but she loved learning to cook, with the help of her neighbor/mentor Barbara.
She would make new meals for Todd to try.
When she thought that Todd was going to financial trouble, she secretly started working at a store.
She would help the store keeper in exchange for free groceries.
That way the cut their food budget.
Ann really did appreciate Todd.
She called him the best husband.
She did eventually fall in love with Todd.

Guess who shows up a few months later?
Agnus!
Agnus is Todd's sister, and Ann's best friend.
She's about 16-17.
She sneaks out of Virgina, telling her parents she was going to a retreat in New England, but instead comes to North Dakota.
She tells Ann that Kent left Rebecca, and has been asking about her.

But before Agnus can get too comfortable. guess who shows up?
Todd's parents.
The dad drags Agnus away.
He tell Todd that if he comes back now, he'll forgive him and give him his position back at the bank.
Todd HATES the bank.

Then guess who showed up the next day?
That's right, Kent!
Kent tries to force Ann back.
She pushes him away but he forces a kiss, that Todd happens to walk in on at the wrong time.
He rushed out, Ann followed by Todd wouldn't listen.


Then guess who else shows up that same day?
Ann's parents.
They were so cool and supportive.
When Ann was first dating Kent, they tried to get her to notice Todd.
They didn't like Kent very much at all.
But by time they arrived, the damage Kent has caused was underway, and Kent had already head back to Virgina.

After talking to Ann's dad, Todd decided to her Ann out, and he believed her story.
The town gossip, who witness the whole Kent/Ann thing showed up two days later to tell Todd that Kent was very aggressive, and Ann was trying to get away from him


Some time later, after Ann and Todd finally consummate their marriage, Ann ends up pregnant.
While Todd is out scouting his land, Kent shows up.
Ann hides as Kent breaks into the house.
She manages to get to the barn, but the gun is missing.
Just when all hope is lost, Todd comes riding in and shoots his shotgun, scaring the horse shit out of Kent.
Then guess who showed up at that moment?
Kent's dad.
He made Kent leave, and told Todd and Ann that he was sending Kent to Ireland to live with his very strict uncle.

Ann starts to have this Kent nightmares, that she gets over once she learns how to shoot the shotgun, vowing to kill him if he ever came after her again.
They have the baby, a boy, in December.
Ann's parents move to Jamestown.
Todd's parents shows up on Christmas.
His dad asked if all could be forgiven and they can start again.
All is forgiven.

I liked the whole concept of the story, and it didn't even phase me that the setting was old.
I liked it.




The next book I will read is my Biology textbook, followed by my Pre-calc book, and my Linguistic book, wrapping it up with some Chinese assignments.
I have a lot of assignments to complete this weekend.

Vol 36

School starts soon.
I am NOT looking forward to it.


Introducing book number *inserts drum roll* SEVEN.
Yep, that's right.
I'm already at book 7.

I wanted to read this story for a while.
It's another mixed-couple story.
Miranda, a half Brazilian half African American sports reporter, was trampled at a rock concert that her friend was covering.
Lucas, a Welsh rock star, was performing his guitar solo when he noticed that the crowd was going a little too crazy.
A "Crush" was happening.
Lucas starts to pull the victims being smashed and trampled onto the stage, and as he held Miranda it was love at first sight, for him at least.

Lucas contacts Miranda's job a few days later.
He wants to check up on her and see if she's okay.
This was the perfect publicity stunt her boss was looking for.
So the boss kinda threatens her to accept Lucas date, but one of the reporters have to go with her.
And Miranda really hated those two ass kissing smart mouth reporters.
So instead she chooses her best friend, the music reporter, to go, and they set off to Wales, to Lucas Castle.

This was a good mixed-couple story.
I liked how it Miranda and Lucas interacted.
I liked how Miranda's best friend, a gay guy, interacted with Lucas.
He was very protective of Miranda.
And I liked how Lucas best friend interacted with Miranda.
She beat the crap out of him.
Hilarious.

Jordon, Miranda's ex, was despicable.
I really didn't like him.
But her sisters fiance, Jordan's best friend, was a good guy.


I didn't know what to expect.
But overall I enjoyed the story.


But wait, there's more.

BOOK EIGHT

"Tell me something."
Her expression instantly turned serious. "If I can."
"If you wanted a woman to learn to take time out to smell the flowers, what would you do? Send her roses?"
"Never," she declared at once. "Too ordinary," Her expression turned dreamy. "If I had the money, which you do, I'd plant a whole garden for her."
"You can't be serious." He studied her expression. "You are serious, aren't you?"
"Of course. If she has her own garden, she can't help but take time to smell the flowers. and every time she does, you'll be on her mind."

..................


Molly!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. When the house keeper appeared in the doorway, he ignored the scowl that his ill-mannered shout had spawned. "Get Mr. Sparks for me, will you?"
"You're going to plant the garden?" she asked, her expression brightening.
"I'm going to plant the garden." -Sherryl Woods


This is my favorite scene from the entire book.
Kevin has to be the funnest, most infuriating guy around.
But he's adorable in a way.
Very endearing.

Gracie was the manager of an international chain hotel somewhere in France.
After up and quitting one day because she and her boss never saw eye to eye, although the two of them made an excellent time.
She has no family. No friends.
After leaving France, she goes to Virginia, just outside the DC area, to this place she visited many many moons ago with her family for vacation.
She plans to stay there for just the summer.
As she takes her daily walk, she notices this empty Victorian style house, and falls madly in love with it.
She had this idea of turning it into a bed and breakfast.
She goes in search of the owner of the house to see if she could buy it.

Kevin is the one who manages the house.
Originally it was his aunt's house, the crazy old biddy.
(The elders in this story show no mercy at all. Loved it)
Kevin refuses to sell the house, but instead he starts to court Gracie.
Not that he was interested, although he was, but he felt that Gracie was too stiff.
She didn't know how to have fun, how to lay out on the beach, sip a very drinks, stop and smell the flowers.

But Aunt Delia, Molly, and Ms. Johnson, the three older ladies in the story, have their own ideas for Gracie and Kevin, and that bed and breakfast Gracie wants to build.

I really enjoyed this story.
5 out of 5 from me.

This is one of the 4 free books I received.




BOOK NINE

Oh god!
It's funny that the first thing I say when I remember this book is, "Oh god!"
Noah Kincaid is a minister who moves to Virgin River.
It's a nice remote village somewhere in California.
I won't lie about the location.
The entire time I read it, I thought the setting was in North Carolina.

He moves to Virgin River after buying an old abandoned church he intends to fix up.
But first he needs an assistant.
In walks Ellie Baldwin, a hard working 25 year old, with two children, by two different guys, one died and one in jail, who is currently fighting a custody battle.

Of course Ellie and Mr. Kincaid developed a special relationship.
One so special that Noah even has premarital sex with Ms. Baldwin.
That had to be the funniest part.

Noah is the kind of guy you want around when times are tough.
He's very intelligent and diligent.
He'll do everything in his power, and out of his control, to help you.
The same can be said for everyone in Virgin River as they unite to help Ellie regain custody of her children after they were wrongly taken from her.
They really were wrongly taken, and they ended up with Ellie's looney ex-husband of three months.
How is that even possible?


This was another one of the free books I received.








BOOK TEN!
Oh yeah, baby!
I got to ten books.
I read this book this week as well.
Another one of those free books I received.
School starts this week, so I read as much as my attention span allowed.

This story was short. About 200 pages give or take.
And because of the short length, I think this story was very very rushed.
By pages 40 or so, they were so madly in love. (Although the never admitted it, until page 100).
Andre was a charmer.
A conniving charmer.
And Jo was such a sweet heart.
But this story just moved to fast pace for me.
They were so in love three-four days after they met.
That just seems fickle.
But it's a nicely written fickle love story.



I tried to read the 4th book I received, but I found a major flaw in the book immediately, so I can't read it. This flaw is too huge.

Now I'm done.

Vol 35

As I said before, I went to New York this past weekend.
I got to hang out with my lovely okaasan, Roxana, whom I haven't saw since I left Japan December 22nd 2008.
Such a long time ago.
My darling otousan, Chloe, was also there.
I finally got my TVXQ Yoochun uchiwa she bought for me last summer, but she didn't have my meiji chocolates. (Which I will order offline now)
I met Didi as well. She came to Japan after I left.
She was nice and fun to play with.

Some things we did were; ate Indian food, ice skating, ate Korean food, went to see Sherlock Holmes, ate Chinese food, Karaoke (twice), ate some more, went to the book store.
It was more fun then I make it sound.
It was a very chill weekend.
But I left a few hours early.
I'm a city girl, but New York is not for me.
I was ready to get back to the mean-streets-of-Baltimore.




I also read Never Say Never, but I didn't find it to interesting.
I pretty much skimmed through it.
I don't think I was in the mood to read while I was on the bus.
Or maybe, it just wasn't an interesting book.
I've come to realize that most of these black/white couple books are very similar in plot.

Vol 29

Nalini Singh, you are so mean.

Back in August I bought a book called "A Lick of Frost" by Laurell K Hamilton.
I can't remember why I bought the book, but I read it and liked it, but was confused.
As it turned out, A Lick of Frost, was the 6th book in the Merry Gentry series.
I went to Barnes and Noble and ended up purchasing books 1-5 and 7.

Merry Gentry series is a rated 18+ series.
Basically, Merry is a hoe.
But she's a legal hoe.
Merry is the Princess of the Unseelie court.
She is the first mortal sidhe born. Ever.

The series was about the trails Merry and her men (16 of them) faced as Merry fought (against her will) to become to crowned princess of the Unseelie court.
Merry faces numerous assassination attempts from the people of both the Unseelie and Seelie courts, her deranged cousin who wants to sleep with her, her aunt who is insane, and an uncle who believes she is the one who can give him children.
Ill.
At the end of book 6 Merry finds out she is pregant with twins.
She's pregnant with twins but her children has 6 fathers, and each of those fathers becomes the King to her Queen....

Yeah, I don't really know how to explain this story.
Most of the time Merry was just sleeping with someone.
But the 8th book comes out in December and I want to see how these twins will look.

Again, Nalini Singh, you are so mean.
WHY DO I HAVE OT WAIT UNTIL 2011 TO READ HAWKE'S BOOK????
I already KNOW who Hawke's mate is, but who is Indigo's?
GGRRRR

Nalini Singh is the author of the very interesting Psy-Changeling series.
Also rated 18+.
My coworker recommended this series to me.
She loves it.
A lot.
So I borrowed the first book from her.
I am the slowest reader in the world, but I read the first book, Slave to Sensation, in record breaking time.
The book is set in a future world, about 80 years from now, and the world is divided into three races. Changeling (half animal half human shape-shifters), Psy (possess great Psychological abilities but are completely without emotion), and average humans.
After an increase of violence and rage, back in the 1960's-1970's, the Psy started to condition all emotions from their race.
This act, Protocol I, is called Silence, and the Psy are perfect in their Silence.
Psst, yeah right. Just ask Sascha darling or Ice-man Judd how perfect their Psy are.
But was Protocol I a good idea overall?
NO!!!!!
The story is about those who are fighting against that crazy Psy council, mainly the Leopard and Wolf changeling and their mates-to-be.
AWESOME SERIES!
But don't pay attention to the covers.
The people on the covers look nothing like how the characters are described.

Nalini you really are mean.
July is too far away, and I want to read about this J-Psy Sophia.


The series I am TRYING to read now was also suggest by that same coworker.
It's the Highlander series (rated 18+) by Karen Marie Moning.
I can't really say anything about this series.
I only read one of the books and I'm trying to read another, but I just can't get into it.
That old 16th century Scottish accent is bothering me.
And these girls are very dumb.

That's pretty much all I have been doing besides school.
I still need to book books 4-6 of the Psy/Changeling series.
I borrowed those from my friend but I had to return them.
That sucks.
The Psy/Changeling series also have about 3 novella's out.
Well two are out now, and one comes out next August.

I need to pick up another part-time job and as much money as I have spent on books in the pass month, I need to work at Barnes and Noble.
30% off.

P.S: When I say the books are rated 18+ it's because there had to be a sex scene at least every 4 chapters, and in Merry Gentry, there was a sex scene in every chapter. j/k

P.P.S: I read two other books as well. "Queen of his Heart" and "Ebony eyes". These books are solo books, but they were entertaining.
LAINE!!!!

Not died yet

Okay, so I plan to update soon.
I haven't done much of anything in the pass few months besides School.
I still work, but only 2-3 days a week.
Right now I should be studying for a French test tomorrow, or either sleep.
I have to work on my proposal for my major.
I finally came up with a name for my major: "Neurobiology of Language".
There's actually a study about this as we speak, but I won't get into it because no one would know what I'm talking about.
Back in August I picked up a book (first time doing so since 2005).
That book lead to another, and then another, and then another.
I've read about about 18-19 books, and I have 6 more sitting in front of me that I'll finish but mid-next week, hopefully.
So that will total 24-25 books since August.
And those 24-25 books are all from 3 different series, which my next update will be about.