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

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

If you can see it, this will make your day :)

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If you like what looks to be a good spy type mystery this one is FREE to everyone today The Midnight Caller

https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Calle...

and for the 100th time the date for Wherever You Are has been pushed back, it is now Nov 2020, the original date was last year early (or it may have been 2018)

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "I read a book from Netgalley and unexpectedly loved it. It's not like anything else I've ever read. The premise is that a young woman has amnesia. She finds out her name from her cell phone, and st..."

And because you cannot even have too many books, I requested it, it sounded like fun. Sometimes you get in a mood where you really want to read something to make you laugh. Sadly my next 2 books look to be fantasy with a lot of dead bodies around :) I also am trying to fit Sweep with Me in, I can't believe I left THIS one in my TBR this long.

DemetraP wrote: "Can anyone recommend their favorite vampire romance series?

I liked Cat and Bones by Jeaniene Frost, I liked the Midnight series by Emma Holly. I liked the very early Anita Blake/Jean Claude roma..."

Well since you named the best ones, I think this series is also in that league at least for the first 8-10 books (there are 16 in the series plus novellas). More in the vein of Black Dagger Brotherhood but she does not torture her characters as much :)

Kiss of Midnight

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

Melindeeloo wrote: "Douglas re: A Heart of Blood and Ashes
Milla Vane is MelJean Brook's new pen name."

I finally figured that out after she put up a map of this world LOL

Reading A Heart of Blood and Ashes and while loving the story it seems a bit more erotic than called for and tends to waste my time in places but overall I can see I will be reading what I assume will be a trilogy until the end. Unless I misunderstood something this is Nalini Singh writing under a different pen name. The H is really hard to get to like but you eventually do since he has reasons that combined with grief make him a bit hard to accept our heroine, but it is a process :) Still too much time spent in sexual or near sexual situations IMHO

Well because you can never have enough books I added this one to my TBR for only 99 cents sounded like a steal The Weaver

https://www.amazon.com/Weaver-Emmi-It...

Well half way through The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie and while it keeps you kind of glued to the pages I have to say it is a bit dark and I have a hard time seeing where any HEA is going to happen but I guess that must be part of the allure.

"Douglas wrote: "I laid Fireborn down and have never picked it back up..."
TINNGG wrote: the plot was a side note. The real reason for the book to be is so the hotheaded, self-absorbed dumbass to get laid...repeatedly.

LOL, well said, you need to write a review

TINNGG wrote: "I finally finished Fireborn last night. Don't think I'm the target audience, but suspect Daughter would have DNFed it so...yeah Needed to sleep on it before cobbling up a review of ..."

I laid Fireborn down and have never picked it back up, wasn't bad but I was having to force myself to keep reading which I hate to do in general and especially when I know I have good books waiting to be read :)

Vinity wrote: "Oh, and Doug, for god sake, go read The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie. It's fabulous"

Gotta read 1 more before I can get to it (and finish the one I got that is just barely holding my interest but too good to put down)

@Melindeeloo - I have had Three Mages and a Margarita sitting my my TBR so long I think it has edust on it :)

Same here, her "Others" series was the first of hers I could get into at all, tried Black jewels a bit but it was VERY dark

Well did a marathon of all 8 episodes of The Witcher and while I am now totally hooked, I also feel cheated a bit since if you put all the repeats of scenes together it would probably add up to over half an episode. Now begins the long wait LOL. The skipping around in timelines is about the only real complaint and a bit of what I considered boring filler. It ain't GoT but it might get there

Vanessa wrote: "I forgot to mention that one of my all time favorite books is on sale for $1.99,
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie If you are a..."

Bought it, it will probably take up residence in my TBR for months :(

Cable TV shows seem to think everyone wants to see maximum sex and violence in our favorite TV shows on cable, what could have been one of the best shows on cable but in the first 2 episodes we had rape, massive amounts of violence, killing of pregnant women and then to top it all off we got to see the "King" taking a dump in the garden. Yeah, pretty much ended that even with a good story line. Hope they don't ruin the Witcher but it IS a violent story with many plots where he has bad choices and worse choices. While "Game Of Thrones" was far from PG rated, I never felt that it crossed that line.

Happy New Year to a year of great reading :)

For those who are addicted to this amazing series, the next book was released on 31 Dec, now I have to remember where the last one ended


Inflection Point: A Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter Novel

I decided that I did not need to start another series right yet so I found this stand alone by Lisa Kleypas that is supposed to be exceptional.

Suddenly You

Not sure about the books but in the game he has a lot of "you want the really bad choice or the even worse choice" type scenes :)