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

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

Well I just got an ARC for a Christmas book from an Italian author who lives and was born in Australia

The Christmas Witch

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Congratulations Doug on your review in Nalini Singh's newsletter! Good on you and good review. I must say I felt very proud to be a book friend for ten years now. It was 2009 when I first discovere..."

Glad for all of us that moved over here after we lost our Amazon thread (I did not even know she posted my review ) :)

TINNGG wrote: "I don’t have that one yet. There’s only a B&N here and it’s anyone’s guess whether they’ll have it out today. I read the bits and pieces though and... who are these people?! Who is Magnus? Who is T..."

You have to really suspend your belief system for these newer books :) These 2 guys show up from England at Marguerite's request and your question about getting her help immediately seems to be a huge plot hole but since that is like the first few pages I guess it did not matter too much :)

I finished Immortal Born and it was pretty much like the last few and a good solid 4 Star but miles away from those early books that were such fun to read.

Well as of this writing I am down to 13775 which makes me wonder what they are doing, it looks like another methodology redo and yes they usually make it worse.

I have not paid attention to my "likes" recently but I have been exactly the same rank for weeks which is VERY unusual, maybe they are redoing their methodology again

The last 2 or 3 books have been leading up to Archangel's War and for me it did not disappoint. My only problem is trying to figure out where she can go from here??

Well in a rush but finished Archangel's War and loved it, gave it 5 Stars and that might be 1 too much but I have a soft spot for this series so I might not be unbiased :) One of my fellow reviewers who does write good reviews gave it a 3 because you do spend a lot of time stressed out and battling and you are no place near the end yet :) (the ending was totally worth it) it is such an ending I had to go to her FB page and make sure it was not the last book if that gives you a clue :) I got to write a review for it tonight

I finished Hate Notes and the last half was not as good as the first half IMHO but was still great reading. I give it 4.5 Stars but probably won't round it up to 5 if I write a review but round it down to 4. The ending was a small bit bittersweet and after reading almost the whole story the very few sex scenes were so overly erotic that did not mesh up with the couple that I had been reading about IMHO but who am I to argue with over 3400 reviews and 90% of them 4+ so I think you can be assured you will enjoy it.

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "Douglas wrote: "HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "I enjoyed this contemporary romance so much - it is on KU.

Hate Notes"

It better be good, I threw one back into the pond to get it added..."

I am at chapter 8 and all I can say so far is a word I reserve for when I review VERY entertaining contemporary romance novels which this IS so far :) Delightful ....

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "I enjoyed this contemporary romance so much - it is on KU.

Hate Notes"

It better be good, I threw one back into the pond to get it added to my KU queue :)

I did this one, can be read as a stand alone, was very good and reduced my book hangover :) I can loan it also if you want to send me your email address to mail4dcm@gmail.com (I will remove this email after a day or 2)


Burn

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "I'm reading Sapphire Flames - speechless, it is so good."

How can 2 people be so talented ??

Reading one of those books that started out a bit mediocre IMHO but each time I thought I might DNF it the story got a bit more interesting and here I am at 12:30AM not wanting to go to bed and only at the 63% mark

The Duchess in His Bed

It reads like there were 1 or 2 books before this but enjoyment is not required for you to read them first, I might backup at some future date to read them but time is not my friend on all the books I have to read already :)

@TINNGG - Actually know exactly what you are going through and not sure where you are but St Jude's has some of the best doctors and anything that is not paid by insurance is free, travel expense, room & board, pretty much anything. Just thought you might need to know. Until my grandson had a very similar problem I never knew that a benign tumor that was not cancer could still grow and be life threatening. He is doing fine today but my daughter and son-in-law spent many days there and many follow-up trips to Memphis

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Look what I got in the mail today.... Yep, still reading and loving the BDB."

You are hopeless LOL Enjoy your reading.

I am still reading The Blacksmith Queen (had a bunch of stuff pop up that I had to deal with) but I am really enjoying it so far, not a crazy as the Dragonkin but crazy enough to be really funny in places.

Well just finished How to Love a Duke in Ten Days and while I did give it 4.5 Stars it was not quite as good as her "Victorian Rebels" series. Definitely one I will grab the next book regardless :)

I am finally about to start he one a couple of you have already read The Blacksmith Queen and hope I can get a few laughs out of it :)

Well I finished Sapphire Flames at about 2 AM this morning and as usual all I can say is "DAMN that was good" and how they keep doing this at such a high level is just amazing.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

@Vanessa - I gave Most Eligible Billionaire 4 stars which was probably too high but I enjoyed the previous book The Billionaire’s Wake-up-call Girl so much I think I was still liking it but this one was not as good and I did scan a good bit.