Melindeeloo’s Comments (group member since Jun 15, 2017)

Melindeeloo’s comments from the Read, Reading, Planning to Read and More group.

Inspired by LAB, I was able to get an ARC of The Siren and the Deep Blue Sea too. I thought it was a great wrap up to the series, and I enjoyed it even though I'd missed the previous book. The starring pair shares the spotlight - with some quick cameos from past pairs and a secondary character gets to shine a bit too.

It turns out that the previous How to Love Your Elf is .99 right now on kindle if you got behind like I did.

Well, i finally got to listen to Spells for the Dead - its hard to call a book with such goupy disgusting parts good, but I like Nell and I love Okum and I thought the development of Otis Firewind was really good. It definitely kept my interest.

I didn't keep up with all the book 2's from that group of women's middle age paranormal fiction from a while back, but I enjoyed this one Magical Midlife Dating - it was still kind of fun with its whole crew of goofy sidekicks to the newly magical leading lady.

I gave up on the mafia widow vampire one and the magical typewriter follow ons.

So another good one from the Guild Codex author Warping Minds & Other Misdemeanors, she and a coauthor add to another corner of the universe - the magipol part - and the new character is a young guy with very cool mind powers. I think he is supposed to weave into the other books ( or maybe has?)

If anyone was interested in Kelley Armstrong's serial, it is complete and available on her site until August 13, its called Cursed Luck and I enjoyed it.

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "..."

Nine months isn't too long (well if it doesn't involve growing a small human it isn't:).

I had been thinking about retiring when I made the last tuition payments for my kids - which will be tomorrow - but now I feel like I need to make sure that they can get jobs in this new weird world we are living in, since we didn't save enough for four people to retire. I would really like to escape work, since we are also doing a tech switch and I really am dreading learning all the new stuff and wish I could just leave it to the twenty-something year olds too. Well maybe next year - since the second of my two 2020 grads will finish in December 6 months after her sister - and maybe the future will look less unsettled.

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "Melindeeloo wrote: "I am making more use of my libraries ebook collection. I just read Deal with the Devil and enjoyed it. It is the first in a new Mercenary Librarians series - Mer..."

Are you getting close to retiring?

I am making more use of my libraries ebook collection. I just read Deal with the Devil and enjoyed it. It is the first in a new Mercenary Librarians series - Mercenary + Librarians meant I >had< to give it a shot. It's a bit slow to start as there is a large cast with two teams and interactions within and between the teams to build relationships. Both teams are enhanced so there's some action to go with the romance. I'll read the next.

With Netgalley, I've noticed that I am getting approved by some of the publishers who used to be very picky about 'reach' - maybe it's harder now with some of the few remaining physical outlets for book selling being limited or unavailable in many places right now and no conventions and such.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Happy birthday Vanessa, hope you had a great day.

My lovely MIL has passed away at the great age of 90 years 11 months and 4 days. It was expected but still feels like a big hole in our family. A..."

Lisa, Sorry for your loss. My sympathies to you, your husband and your family.

Vanessa." since its after midnight where you are... Happy Birthday:) Hope you have a nice day!

I read a very interesting book Oona Out of Order - on the eve of her 19th birthday which also new year's eve a girl has two paths forward to her future - and wishes she doesn't have to choose. At midnight though she jumps forward into her 50 something self and receives a note from herself explaining that she's living her life out of order - each new year's eve she jumps into another year in her life, some times forward and sometimes back. She has years that are a total mess but develops a very interesting take on life as the book progresses. It's not a romance but does have a promise of one.

I finished Alpha Night. I enjoyed it with nits: I still notice how dramatically everything is written every time I read a Singh book (it's the reason I can't do this series in audio), and I was starting to get irritated by yet another member of a starring pair looking to be on the verge of death from some incurable thing - but I did like the twist.

I've been reading ARCs and library books lately. On the pretty good side Bears Behaving Badly and Truth Lies and Second Dates both ARCs by MaryJanice Davidson - the first one was a shifter one that sort of had a Shelley Laurenston feel - but without the heroine being psychotic. And the second was a trope fest of a contemporary romance with a mystery and a socially off and clumsy but but hot Medical Examiner as the love interest - I thought this was fun (if you can call a murder mystery fun)

From the library I gave up on Real Men Knit and Not That Kind of Guy, they both were slow starters and didn't hook me right away - I am sort of in short-attention-span mode right now and books have to be not too dark and not too slow.

I did really like another contemporary romance (also from the library) Get a Life Chloe Brown - it was pretty steamy but the leading man was very thoughtful and both he and Chloe 'get a life' - both were hiding for different reasons. I thought the romance was well done.

Now I am off to read Alpha Night.

With all this talk about keeping your library downloaded on your kindle, I had too see how many books I have - 3482. I don't generally keep very many on my kindle at a time.

The second to last Tory book is out Lost Talismans and a Tequila - it is setting up for a big finish in October with the last Tori and the last Robin books coming out a few days apart. This book did move things to a big finish but I was a bit frustrated with the crew before one of the events near the end - Ezra calls everyone on it afterwards. I have high hopes for the next books.

I don't know if this is going to be any good but it is free and part of the blurb sounded kind of funny "With a potty mouth and a Jersey attitude, I've never been the type of girl who cries when things don't go my way. I'm no damsel in distress. Whatever life throws at me, I can handle it. No matter how rough or tough or... weird?

Because falling through a full-length mirror and ending up in a forest wearing nothing but a nightgown is definitely weird. Stabbing a giant scorpion in the eye with a stick? Yup. Weird. Discovering I'm a whiz with a bow and that I can apparently communicate with animals like some grouchy Disney princess—okay, not gonna lie. That's kind of cool.
" Stalk the Moon

TINNGG wrote: "D'you ever wonder why authors don't end series while there's still life in them? Do they really plan for a zillion books and plotlines? Or is it that they plan for x number of books, which sell exc..."
I am having a bit of trouble myself picking up the newest book from series that used to be autobuy for me and some are relegated to 'only if the library has it' status. So, sad.

I finished with Sands several books back, I think you put nailed down the reason - the humor just got tired or not funny and my book funny bone is sort of broken at the best of times.

I just discovered this serial by kelley armstrong, she's doing two episodes a week an its over half way done - and I am hooked.
http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/book/c...

Vanessa, i honestly don't remember. I am sort of interested in the relationship between merit and ethan's kid and hawk's kid. I think there was something about her bonding with some dark artifact? I waited for the price drop so that's an indication of my depth of investment. And now that you mention it, i think I did the first book in audio too....