MJ’s Comments (group member since Dec 23, 2014)

MJ’s comments from the What's the Name of That Book??? group.

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Heller. Tilly works for Heller in small security firm. There’s 6(?) books so far, but the last(?) book has staled as the writer has appeared to stop writing g for personal reasons.

I wanna read it!

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Berkeley Street. Sentient type house and ghosts.

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The Men with the Golden Cuffs

Long shot tho. h is a erotica writer. Has a very ‘basic’ (that’s not really on the page) agreement with jackass dom mostly for info at this stage. She gets threats and ends up with bodyguards who are doms and they help her out some. Ménage.

Traci Harding, several series and some stand alones. Big on reincarnation and becoming enlightened souls thru life’s lessons. Time travel too.
- The Ancient Future trilogy and fools up trilogy
- The Mystique series

Melanie Rawn, very old series, might have problems getting hold of. Different world that is split into princedoms. Head prince is an asshole to H looks to take over and build a better way... h is a powerful ‘sunrunner’ (kind of magic, and is not really supposed to marry into power)
- The Dragon Prince series and a follow up series

Katherine Kerr, started a long time ago, not sure about availability. Bad shit happens and lead character promises not to rest until it’s put right... covers centuries of him following and guiding all the linked souls thru multiple lives.
- The Deverry series

Karen Lynch, supernatural stuff. Vamps, demons, werewolves, fae etc. Follows teen h who is ‘other’ but doesn’t know what or why.
- Relentless series

Donna Augustine(?), h dies and is enlisted to the universe board as Karma. Costars include Fate, Luck, Murphy’s Law, Jinxes, and a few others. Santa and the like make appearances.
- Karma series

JC Diem, has three series all with ‘main’ female lead. My fav is about a teen h who gets enlisted to be backup for super secret agency... ends up supernatural and fighting the big bad, with lots of smaller jobs on the side.
- Seven Psychics, the Shifter Squad (I know, the name... it was actually the only reason I picked it up cause of the ridiculous name ;)

Nalini Singh, two UF series which are awesome! The latest books are struggling, but there’s still a good 12 or so great books in each series before it starts wobbling.
- The Guild Hunter series (Angel’s Blood), vamps, angels, and other all simply ‘part of the world’.
- The Psy/Changeling series (Slave to Sensation), shifters/changelings, Psy/mind powers, and human all ‘part of the world’ and in a power struggle essentially.

Erica Stevens, dystopian world that vamps have taken over. Humans fighting for freedom.
- Captive

Melissa Haag, reincarnated women/girls who are supposed to assess and judge the world to keep a balance. Bad guys have been screwing up the system aiming for their own benefit for generations.
- The Judgement series (HopeLess)

CM Owens
- The Daughters Trilogy, descendants of the ‘gods’.
- Faders, dystopian world where a machine ‘fades’ anyone breaking its laws from existence before they break the law. But it has no ‘reason’ as such.

Bethany Adams, modern day elves.
- Soulbonded

More Sci-Fi-ish

-Nimisha’s Ship. Future universe colonised.

- 3013: series. Adult! Yes, there’s lost of sex, but if you look around that, the world and stories as are awesome. I can’t remember any of the h’s being wimps. Multi authors, so search *3013:*

Could look thru Traci Harding’s stuff. Doesn’t remind me directly if any of the ones I’ve read, but maybe. (Not Celestial Triad or The Ancient Future set either, I know those well.)

And I think there’s a Kylie Chan who has an immortal warriors one too.

I’ve got a scene stuck in my head when I read this of a cavern home/city(?) in the mountains and the immortal mum maybe talking to her immortal daughter who’s just found her (male) soulmate. But it could be from a movie or something. I can’t readily place it with anything.

Hmmm, some of the CM Owens, Sterling Shore series hero’s might work. They become that after they fixed their h’s... but on the outside they are a variety of rich, good looking, players and some are flat out assholes. Then again, a couple of the biggest assholes turn to putty for their women. Actually, I think most of her H’s turn to putty for their women. The Daughters trilogy and maybe the Cursed series too.

You might get more hits if you put a few more details in the thread title... There are thousands of second chance novels, so a bit of direction let’s people know straight up if they’ve read anything like it.

Sounds good tho.

Any idea how old the book is? Is it mills&boon style? Country of setting?

Sorry, tried to spoiler that, but didn’t work.

Truce, RL Mathewson.

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Families are friends. The H is an annoying little shit... a family trait. Picks on h and she humiliates him and then it flashes forward to adults where H is planing to get away from the still echoing humiliation, and he and she hate each other and start a prank war that brings them together.

It’s a flashback/prequel type book to the origins of the Neighbours from Hell series. The ever eating, ever annoying, hella good looking Bradfords.

I’ve def never read Greg Iles, but it sounds good, so I added to my lists.

As for more on the book I’m looking for B, I’m really not sure. The timeframe for me seems to suit when I was all about Dean Koontz and James Patterson (20 or so years ago... holy crap... that’s a long time ago!). I remember the victim (h?) being kidnapped and put in the art box in the back of the truck/ute, cause no one would suspect anyone in there. I assume it’s years later or maybe looking back that the woman is faced with her daughter mimicking her scar and being worried/sad about it. I MAYBE think it might have been some desert ish location, like I imagine the artist colony near the Mohave? And when I think about it, I get the impression of a ‘good man’, maybe later husband or cop, and possibly a caravan in there somewhere.

I’ll keep looking and let you know if I find anything or if anything pops up on my thread (when I find it again ;).

Crap, not 100% sure (it was a long time ago), but pretty sure it was the Harry Bosch series from Michael Connelly (The Poet maybe?)... double crap, now that I’ve gone to have a look at the blurbs, I wanna read them again! And triple crap... I’m sure I gave those books along with my James Patterson and Dean Koontz away years ago. Now I’ll have to hunt them all up again ;) Oh, for a home library with endless shelves 🤞

Lol, you wouldn’t say that if you didn’t find out it was the artist til the end!!! ;P

I once read a book, and it was the reporter. Then I realised it was something like book 5... so all thru the first 4 books I was like ‘you idiot, don’t trust him... he’s the bad guy!!!’ Lmao!

I’m looking for one that may be his too... long shot, but do you remember if the artist kidnaps someone/girl and puts them in an ‘art box’ on the back of his truck? Think the box was built to stand paintings upright in. I also think the same story had the bad guy scarring the girls boob somehow (hot tongs?) and years later her daughter(?) used lipstick to mimic how mummy looked, freaking her out...?

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Really? You never liked any of them?

There’s a difference between the asshole/woman haters who simply couldn’t care about anyone but themselves and the assholes that were either redeemable or just (through the story) started to let the h under the walls of his assholishness.

I’m trying to think of books for examples, but I’m getting stuck.

It is sad when it feels like you ‘lose’ an author or a fav character because of it. It’s interesting that I used to see some of the behaviours as ‘not ok, but a good read’, and now the same type of behaviour just has me slamming the book shut and going on a ranty-tanty. It’s adjusted my tolerance I guess, or maybe its just ‘linked’ certain behaviours to bad outcomes, where before I could see the bad behaviour I wouldn’t put up with myself, but not see a real world link...?

I’m slowly going thru my list to see if I can find the one I was talking about.

Probably not, but I remember one where the h was just an innocent bystander trying to read her book in peace in a tree where she over heard a girl and aunt/maid(?) schemings to be left alone with with him and cause a required marriage. Thing she was paying the maid to wander off, and that was part of how the h proved it when she called out of the tree to save him. Don’t think he knew who she was that day but hunted her up during the book. Can’t remember much else, so there may or may not have been more ‘saving’.

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Truth in my Lies. Has some romance.