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

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

This one is free to everyone and looks like a great plot, from what I can gather somehow they told the guy she was in love with she had died when she was not and they run into each other years later. For a free book that sounds like a great plot and several people said it can be read as a stand alone so I plan to do just that.

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Only 25% into The Very Swift Witches and so far it is proving to be a LOT better than I expected :)

I burned through the novella Once Upon a Winter's Eve and found it to be a bit better than the first novel in this Spindle Cove series, I will have to figure out what to read tomorrow. I guess I need to read this one that I should already have read and reviewed

The Very Swift Witches

TINNGG wrote: "Snow is gone now. DH is sore - his largely sedentary life is getting to him apparently. He installed the last two outlets yesterday and apparently the sitting on a bucket while bent in half did him..."

LOL, you are describing my life of the last week, been sitting too much, looked at some bikes I can't/won't afford trying to work out the soreness from some work I did that my body was not used to for years :)

I also plan to get back to the Spindle Cove series but I was expecting a lot more from that 1st book :)

For those who might want to know about such things, the last book of the "sister" trilogy in available for request on NetGalley Holy Sister , hopefully means I can cut myself off from the world and binge the whole trilogy I have been waiting to read since I bought book 1 Red Sister almost 2 years ago.

I finished Midnight Bite and it was actually better than expected, it was a wee bit oversexed but not too badly for her and I liked the story although it was a bit frustrating at times. A quick read for a vampire romance and at $3 for 151 pages approx the price is right.

Finished The Dark Mage and liked it, good first book in a series even with a couple of things that bothered me it was still 4 Stars and REALLY can't wait for the next one.

I loved the "World of Lupi" but I missed a couple of books a few years ago and now I am so far behind (like 6 or more books) that I would almost have to start all over again.

The first 3 chapters of Wild Country by Anne Bishop are online if you are into such things, I like to be surprised when I start a book :)

http://www.annebishop.com/b.wild.coun...?

I finished A Night to Surrender and while it was good it was not as exceptional as some of her other books, it was odd in one way I would read for awhile and think, "this is getting boring" and things would pick up and you were drawn back into the story again, happened several times so obviously it was not bad :) I think I want a change of pace so I am going to grab The Dark Mage assuming it will be a quick read since I have to read/review Midnight Bite by the 18th

These are the series I binged on in 2018:

Kutherian Gambit (original series starting with Death Becomes Her ) which becomes Kutherian Endgame after book 21

Bridgerton Series (original series starting with The Duke and I (With 2nd Epilogue) )

The Vigilante Chronicles (Another Kutherian spin-off starting with Vigilante: Age of Expansion NOTE: reading this AFTER the orignal series gives a much better understanding of the background)

The Damned series (actually there are 3 of them sequentially (the first 2 already have boxed sets available on KU so you can get multiple books while only using 1 KU slot):
Protected by the Damned (everything starts here Torn Asunder: A Supernatural Action Adventure Opera
War of the Damned (still working on this series)
War Of The Angels (I have not got to here yet)

The Colin McCool books (AKA- The Junkyard Druid) - Loving it and it starts here Junkyard Druid

Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter series - Starts here with the first 4 books ( Year One: A Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter Collection ) This series is a pain to try and figure out the reading order

DemetraP wrote: "For 2018, I liked Kingpin of Camelot. So funny, great pnr.
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I had forgot about that one, it was a great read.

I should mention I am leaving all Kutherian related books out of this because I am so invested in several of the series I am probably not unbiased, they are more like a soap opera addition my Mother had, quality did not matter, you were part of these peoples lives now LOL

They win the prize for most entertaining in a light, quick, "kill'em all and let God sort'em out" genre :)

I read so many books in 2018 it becomes near impossible to put a list together but I will be trying to do it later this month BUT just for fun, name 1 book you think might be the best thing you read that was NOT written by Ilona Andres :) I am using a methodology of seeing how much of what books I can remember and using that criteria (since if I remember large parts it must have been damn good) the winner hands down is Dark Queen with Lake Silence coming in a not too distant 2nd.

Stopped after reading the first 2 book of "War of the Damned" series to read this one and probably the novella that comes after it, only a few pages into it and already liking it a lot

A Night to Surrender

@Paula - reading the followup series to the "Protected By The Damned" series called "War of the Damned" and still loving it. One thing most of these series out of this publisher share is they evolve from what they start as into something different and more interesting which keeps them from getting stale I guess.

This was released today and it just looked appealing and was FREE with my KU so hope to get to read it soon.

The Dark Mage

I would have to really study my reviews to see what my Top 20 or so might be but I can promise you that everything Ilona Andrews wrote this year will be on it and one of the best "first book in a series" in years Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep will be there and while it might not have been quite as "OMG! Amazing" as previous books Lake Silence will be there.

Read another one of the Kutherian Gambit publisher series that I like Resurrection Of The Damned: A Supernatural Action Adventure Opera and they churn them out like pizzas and I still love them :) This is actually the start of a sequel to the 8 book "Protected By The Damned" series which I also enjoyed

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DNDBYSD/

I must not be checking the block or something and I hardly ever actually enter a date I finished the book, guess that explains it