Nonny's comments (member since Apr 20, 2008)

Nonny's comments from the Paranormal Romance group.

Eileen's books definitely need to be read in order. I haven't read the novellas, but the books are awesome -- if leaning more toward urban fantasy than romance. The worldbuilding is superb and the characters fascinating... although I will mention that the first book is the weakest of the series and reads much more "traditional" paranormal. The following books, she really hits her stride and makes it her own.

My husband and I used BooksFree for awhile. (Our local library and the system it's connected to don't like to carry anything but literary fiction and books ages out of date.) It's like Netflix for books.

It didn't work out so well for us because we suck at sending the books back, but it might an option worth looking into. It's certainly cheaper than buying all new books. :P

Cheri: It's asinine to pick up the, what, 4th? 5th? book in a series and expect to be able to understand everything. It's easier to do in romance, because some series are stand-alone, but you pick up an urban fantasy series and try that? You are S-C-R-E-W-E-D.

My reading... *cough*... I'm going through a "historical" phase at the moment. I'm reading Theft of Shadows by Naomi Bellis (which has paranormal elements, so I guess it counts *g*) and Master by Colette Gale right now. :)

Ranata, I'm in the same boat. I've been reading more YA and fantasy recently because it doesn't have a lot of sex. There's a greater value put on sexual tension... which used to be the case in romance. I've read way too many books where the sexual tension has been lost and instead, it's just characters humping like bunny rabbits.

If you're gonna do it, do it right. Dammit. :P

There are two very good YA series I would recommend, though the romance in both takes place over the course of several books. They're the Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine and the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead.

The Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine has a strong romantic element. There are sex scenes, but they're more along the lines of what you expect to find in fantasy; short and glossed over, instead of the blow-by-blows more common in romance.

The Lupi series, starting with Tempting Danger, by Eileen Wilks. Quite good, and the sex is maybe a bit more graphic than in the Weather Warden books, but it's not frequent.

Working for the Devil and the following books by Lilith Saintcrow. There's a romantic plot that follows through the course of the series.

That's all I can think of right off the top of my head. Hope this helps! :)