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

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

I finally finished listening to High Voltage. I really liked the transformation of Dani, more of the background into both Dani's and Ryodan's "childhoods" and just how similar they were, even centuries apart.

The star text was something else, and Shazam/Hunter was a cool twist.

I believe that Christian took Daegus home at the end of the last book. I think that he plead his case with Daegus being surrounded by family and tribe would have a better chance of getting control of his beast. He already had control of what, 16? demons that inhabited his body/mind with him. He was probably a more natural choice than almost anyone.

Sean becoming an Unseelie prince is weird to me. I don't recall anything about why he is becoming one, just that he is. I don't think that he is the father of Cat's daughter. She appears to be trying to sprout wings.

I think that Shazam whining about how he was going to be left alone again because Dani was mortal and was going to die was a subtle nudge to be a Hunter, although it was against the rules. Also he was always absent when all of the big bads intruded into Dani's apartment. Didn't he know as a Hunter that the cockroach wasn't an insect? It was kind of abrupt the ending of Papa Roach Wasn't it? It was as if that storyline had wore itself out and Moning couldn't be bothered to give it an actual tale.

There are still lots of questions left on the table, but I am satisfied with this installment.

I love Maud and little Helen, she's so cute. The way that Ilona portrays Helen, human and yet very much a vampire, is exactly what you would imagine a 1/2 vampire 1/2 human would be. I love this "Sweep". It is sooo good!!

Vinity... I get what you mean about the Iron Druid series. I happen to really enjoy the Oberon side stories and will miss those very much. In the last few books, everyone seems to have scattered all around the world, doing their own thing. I do look forward to them all getting back together.

Doug... Bummer, I was so hoping that the conclusion of the "Kings" series was going to be fantastic. The Time King is one of my favorite characters. I abandoned the Nightmare King for some new shinies and never went back. It had periods of interesting action and periods of sheer boredom, and it lost me. I guess that I will eventually get back to it and read, The Dragon King. I don't even know who the traitor is yet.

I received a post from Kevin Hearne, sadly, Scourged is going to be the last of the Iron Druid novels. Hearne writes-

"I certainly hope you'll savor the last book of the Iron Druid Chronicles, Scourged, which wraps up many of the series' long-running conflicts and leaves us with the possibility of revisiting the world later on. I'm currently working on two other series (The Seven Kennings and the Tales of Pell with Delilah S. Dawson), but there is room for further adventures should my schedule (and the Muses) allow. But this particular story arc with Atticus has been building to a head for a long while."

Scourged comes out April 3rd.

I have been listening to the Virgin River series. I like them but it seems that every book has an off the wall bitchy woman moment. I'm reading Paradise Valley.

After this, I am going to jump into High Voltage.

Doug.. is that the last book in the series? I have to finish the Nightmare King and get caught up for the grand finale!

Liz... I finished the latest "Outlaws" book, For the Soul of an Outlaw I liked it right up until the end, it had a strange conclusion to the pack wars. I would still give it a 3.5-4.0* review, but then again I am more generous in my ratings than you, LOL!! :-)

Carol and Ezi where have you both been? Miss you!!

I decided to give myself a Virgin River break. I am listening to Accidental Sire. So far it is just as chaotic as you would expect with Jane in the mix. I like it.

I am reading a book for the pick it for me March challenge, One Tequila I've only just started it so I'm not sure about it yet.

Ilona Andrews have a treat for us, the first 2 chapters of Magic Triumphs on their blog. There will not be any Sweep of the Blade this week, but they gave us a "bone" so to speak.

http://www.ilona-andrews.com/magic-tr...

Lisa... I remember that a long time ago that you had mentioned the Virgin River series. I listened to the first 2 and then went on to something else. I saw them on the Romance section of Audible and decided that I needed to catch up on the series. Wow, now there are a ton of books. I do like the small town and the isolated but always cozy feel to the books. I wouldn't mind living there, if I was younger and single. LOL!
Re: Dearest Ivie, Thanks for your kind words. I really did enjoy the banter between the MC's, didn't you? I also liked how Ivie stormed into Haver's office and demanded a resolution, and who exactly provided it.

This was posted on the Girls, Guns, and Grimoires Burn Bright discussion. Re: Patty Briggs

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/commen...

Liz... If you are interested in reading the Alpha and Omega series, you have to first read the novella of that same name. It is the beginning of Charles and Anna's relationship/mating. He goes to Chicago at her request because her Alpha is doing something bad and has to be investigated. The first Full length novel in that world is Cry Wolf. These aren't smexy reads and like her other series, Mercy Thompson, these are basically closed door sex scenes.

I finished Dearest Ivie. I found it engaging, witty, and sentimental. I am sometimes disappointed in short stories or novella's written by various popular authors, but so far, never Ward. I gave it a rating of 5*'s. Well worth my time.

On audio, I have been listening to the Virgin River books. They revolve around a very rural fictional town in Northern California and a group of loosely linked former Marines and their HEA's. They are free with the Romance package on Audible.

The latest T.S.Joyce book is out, For the Soul of an Outlaw. So I think that I will read that before I jump into High Voltage.

Lisa... I'm doing the exact same thing, reading Ward, then Moning.

To beat this into the ground re: Bran (view spoiler)[ I think that Bran enjoyed Mercy's sense of humor. There is a real family love there. (He disguised himself to go and rescue Mercy, they don't even belong to him anymore.) He probably got a kick out of her retaliations. There isn't much that will surprise the old wolf and when she grew up he probably caught himself looking at her in a new way. He was wise to send her away, for both his and Samuel's sake. He also knew that she also needed to find her own way. Leah has always known that she isn't Bran's "love", she's his mate, his partner, and surprisingly quite an adept manager of the pack. I do have a new found respect for her. I didn't know that she was such a direct person until now. Now I understand her animosity towards Mercy, I don't like it but I understand it. Werewolves live a very long time to have to be second best all of the time. I think that that statement really didn't mean anything more than what was said. I'm going with my gut and taking it with a grain of salt, Bran is not perfect, but no one is. (hide spoiler)]

LAB & HappyBookWorm... Frost states that they were never on the same page at the same time, but in the same book. She said " I’ve known since book 5 of my primary series, the Night Hunter series, that I was going to fix the two of them up." Did Veritas appear before the Vlad books? How about Marie, the voodoo/ghoul queen? She would have secrets. Justina is just as good a guess as any. We'll have to wait and see.

I finished Lake Silence. I really liked it. I thought that the h, Vicki, was a tad bit over the top in her "affliction". I loved the Crows and their game of murder. The Elementals, Elders, Ponies, and the Sproingers were great characters. I can hardly wait for the next book. (view spoiler)[ I think that her future mate is Julian, he was devastated when he thought that she drowned (hide spoiler)]
I too found some formatting and actual editing problems.

Next up is Burn Bright.

Black Dog the Complete Collection is free on KU for now.

https://smile.amazon.com/Black-Dog-Co...

Aussie Girl... I spent lots of nights babysitting and reading bodice rippers when I was young. All of the people that I babysat for had them, and strangely, most had old "true crime" magazines.
I hope that Ian has a great HEA.

This is from Ilona Andrew's blog. The cover for----- Jeaniene Frost's IAN book due out in October, and an interview with her on Entertainment Weekly.

http://ew.com/books/2018/03/07/jeanie...


ETA...Duh!! Her quote about his h,

"My heroine — she’s only kind of hinted here and there and showing up a little bit on the page, but I’ve known a lot of her secrets for a while as well. I’ve known since book 5 of my primary series, the Night Hunter series, that I was going to fix the two of them up. So I’ve been dropping little hints in my last Night Prince series. I had the two of them in the book, but not on the same page at the same time. This has been a long time coming, to finally get to tell both these characters’ stories and put them in a situation where there’s romance, there’s danger, there’s a lot of humor and hijinks too."
So any guesses as to who is Ian's mate?

Thanks Doug.

Thea Harrison has a teaser from a new Dragos novella due out in late April or Early May.

http://theaharrison.com/teaser-from-p...

Doug... What is that? I haven't heard of Grace co-writing a book.

Elizabeth wrote: "vanessa worse then potato chips i tell you...so since February i have read all the books in Hells Canyan

and then moved to Fire bears and now I am on second book in Kanes Mountain

there is someth..."

Liz...Yes you need to read a couple of other series before you read Kane's mountain. You should read the Saw Bears, then the Grayback bears, then the Boarlander bears, then Harper's mountain. Kane's mountain comes after all of those. You aren't alone, I got sucked into those books and kept reading them one after another too. They are quick, intense, smexy reads and many of the groups are all intermixed.

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "Douglas wrote: "@HappyBookWorm - I don't know where she got it from but one of the comments on my review said "The next book is about the community of Bennett" so might be, I need to check out her ..."

HappyBookWorm... I have been reading Etched in Bone for a bit of a catch up.
In it, Bennett is the town for which Simon and Vlad were having a job fair at The Courtyard to man the ranches and farms after the Elders went through. Virgil Wolfguard is the sheriff and that is where Simon is sending the female human Jana Paniccia to be his deputy. She went through the police training program but is unable to be a police officer in the human world. She also likes to write, usually fiction, but lately writes observations to which Simon said "whatever that is". Simon thought that she might write her stories and they could publish them in the Courtyard newsletter and Great Island's Newspaper, as a way to calm their friends and loved ones whom they have left behind. Simon thought that Virgil would have less problem with a female deputy, and more of a problem with the fact that she is human. (Such a Simon thought). I also can't help but feel that Jana's last name is very much like the word panacea, how apropos.