false 27 2067 1317 true 5623704 read 2 true 1605544 currently-reading 692 true 1605543 to-read 53 true 3187758 onhold 3 true 5102454 reference 0 false 3192132 requested-at-library http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36006692 My Own Kind of Freedom: A Firefly Novel (eBook) by Steven Brust
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77934829 S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mystery) by Sue Grafton
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77934824 to: R is for Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone Mystery) by Sue Grafton
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51338172 to: Kindred in Death (In Death, #29) by J.D. Robb
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51335596 to: Frostbitten (Women of the Otherworld, #10) by Kelley Armstrong
What's better than a series you can rely on to provide solid plots with intriguing twists spiced by the occasional sexy romps? All that with ongoing character development! I love seeing the growth Elena is making, and the way her relationship with Clay deepens and matures over time. I can't think of much to say without giving away too much to those familiar with the series. I doubt this is the best place for readers new to Women of the Otherworld to start, simply because they wouldn't get the full effect of the continuity, but they wouldn't be lost, either. I loved it! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77269203 Cyn's review of Trouble in Paradise
by Tianna Xander

Yeah, the sexy bits were just too - assumed. Like, just telling us that these guys are oh-so-hot, and that they can't resist this chick's smell, without ever getting into what makes them so sexy or what it is about her scent that gets them all het up, that sort of thing. There's never any build-up, no flirtation, no time spent working into a relationship. It's strangers, tension, and Hot damn, we're doing it! all! together! (And no, Ms. Xander, there aren't any women in the world who use strawberry-flavored lube as skin lotion. None. Grown-up women are able to acknowledge that they have lube in their nightstands because they have sex lives! But it isn't something that women on the run, whose bags were packed by their mothers after crazed killers ruined all their personal belongings, would normally have on hand.) ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77271976 to: Apparent Horizon by Laura Anne Gilman
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77269203 to: Trouble in Paradise (eBook) by Tianna Xander
I am not entirely certain that I want to publicly acknowledge having read this book. The blurb is not only poorly written, but inaccurate. The cover art - is that art? I'm not sure what or who it's supposed to depict, and after reading the book I still couldn't describe the four main characters in terms of anything but sexual characteristics, and even then, all three men might as well be one guy copied a few times, what with all the huge, throbbing, hard, chiseled, tan, and muscled going on.

I probably wasn't supposed to demand any kind of real plot or continuity out of erotica, but I'm contrary that way. We meet a woman who has worked all night in her garage. We're told she has exceptionally good hearing as she takes off her iPod headphones. Shortly afterwards, we learn that some THING has been stalking her - wait, she worked all night in an unlocked place without an alarm system, wearing headphones that block her oh-so-good hearing, despite supposedly being all anxious about a killer who is after her? I don't buy it.

I frequently felt that this might be an excerpt of a larger work, or from a series of stories that readers are expected to be familiar with. Decent authors know how to repeat key information without boring returning fans so as to help new readers get their footing. Is that just not done in erotica?

Yes, I'm probably being too critical. But if it doesn't work for wanking, it should work as story. And it didn't work for either, for me, at least. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77268699 to: Catseye (ebook) by Laura Anne Gilman
If there were a prize for "that's just creepy in a really understated way" Gilman would get it. ::shudders ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77251023 to: Don't You Want To Be Beautiful? (ebook) by Laura Anne Gilman
Very cute. I think I remember reading this one in an anthology, years ago. I can definitely relate to the hard-selling harpies in the cosmetics department! ]]>