Cherra wrote: "Yz wrote: "Cherra wrote: "Any thoughts on the ACRO series by Sydney Croft? The cover stories look pretty good--just curious what others might think...
[bookcover:Riding the Storm|..."
Cherra - I read book one of the Mona Lisa series, and I loved it! I'm off reading other things right now, but I plan to return to Mona Lisa soon... the series had SUCH love/hate reviews, it was taunting me - daring me - to try it... and I found that I agreed with the Mona Lisa lovers. :o) ]]>
I read before bed, and set aside AT LEAST an hour... usually, two hours of reading time at the end of my day.
I tend to blast my way through a series when I love it... like with Josie Litton's books, I started with the viking trilogy, loved it SO much, I HAD to read the next two series IMMEDIATELY, which were actually spin offs of the viking series... and I was glad I did that, because the people in the spin off books are distant ancestors of the vikings, so I caught lots of subtleties I may have missed had I waited too long between series. To give you an idea of how much I loved those books, the three series together total nine books, and I read them inside a month!
Right now, I'm on a Kresley Cole binge. I literally bought every book in the Immortals After Dark series yesterday, after falling in love with books one and two, so I'll be devouring that series for the next few weeks.
I'm not necessarily "anal" about finishing a series, I just get really addicted to the writing style or the world-building that author creates, and so I just can't stop until I've read it ALL!
Right now, I have a new reading habit that I'm enjoying. I'm a romance and erotica junkie, but I've also always loved historical literature - I call it "higher minded" literature - the stuff that's more like 700+ pages and may not have sex in it - LOL. Anyway, right now at night, I read 50-100 pages of The Historian, and then to shake off the horrors of Vlad the Impaler, I finish my nighttime reading by switching to the next Kresley Cole IAD book, and read 50-100 pages of that. It's really fun! I feel well-rounded when I alternate those styles at the same time. ;o) ]]>
"Getting scarier now... "
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bookshelves: fantasy, keeper-shelf, paranormal-romance, vampire-love
This is actually BOOK TWO in the series! It's listed incorrectly on Good Reads, so beware, and read this one after A HUNGER LIKE NO OTHER, and before WICKED DEEDS ON A WINTER'S NIGHT!
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I really, REALLY enjoyed this book. It did not disappoint, but there was a big reason why I didn't give it five stars: the heroine. Kaderine got just a LITTLE bit "high maintenance" there, and her obsession with winning the game [you'll know what that means when you read it:] was a bit... "much" at times. She was likable enough, but she made me roll my eyes and say, "COME. ON!!!" one too many times, which brought it down to four-stars for me. It's still definitely a "keeper shelf" book.
The hero, Sebastian, was phenomenally sexy and honorable. At first, I was afraid he'd be too shy and... inexperienced... too innocent for my taste [alpha male addict that I am:], but He. Was. PERFECT.
Just like in A HUNGER LIKE NO OTHER [my first ever Kresley Cole book:], I found in this book that she writes the BEST beginnings - I mean, "BLAM" out the door, and we're off! type beginnings - and her endings just ROCK. They're not too sappy, they make me smile... just... fantastic stuff. Sexy as hell, fun, exciting, romantic, adventurous and loaded with mythical beings. Kresley Cole delivers all that I LOVE in Paranormal Romance in ways that are new and fresh. I've bought all the books in the series now, and can't wait to begin book three tonight! ]]>
Shelley
added a quote:
"The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth. And once you've seen that truth - really seen it - you can't look away." — Elizabeth Kostova
"The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth. And once you've seen that truth - really seen it - you can't look away." — Elizabeth Kostova
Shelley
added a quote:
"The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime." — Elizabeth Kostova
"The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime." — Elizabeth Kostova
This would be a 4.5 star rating for me. I dreamed of Lord Easterbrook at night, I swear. And the heroine, Leona, was WONDERFUL. Very intelligent, sexy writing and a true page-turner. ]]>