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

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

Mskychick wrote a review on Death Becomes Her saying why she did not like it and it was true enough but I thought I should give a detailed response to her overall accurate review and compared it to mine:

I think you have to like the violent bloody heroine types but enough humor kept me involved. The foul mouth thing is true, and yes many of today's heroines are a man in a woman's body IMHO BUT the whole thing about the above (my) review is from a viewpoint of having read 15 books+ by the time I wrote it so from that vantage point it becomes more like a Robert Heinlein novel than a paranormal. I am sorry you did not enjoy it but nothing you said was untrue about book 1 but as the sales went up, so did the quality of editing and that includes story and plot editing, I have now read over 20 of this series and about a dozen or more in the spin-offs and still enjoy the mindless entertainment I get from these novels (and have actually just started one of the new spin-offs which is a true "Starship Troopers" type series but if we all enjoyed the same thing, there would be a lot less authors writing books :)

Sharon wrote: "Douglas wrote: "I have Elusion in my TBR but have not gotten to it yet"

Move it up Douglas! I want to know what you think of this book."

I am reading His Lordship's Last Wager: A Regency Romance Between Bitter Enemies and then depending on what my review queue looks like I will try to get to it, not a lot of releases between now and March so should not be hard (I am still secretly reading books in the Kutherian Gambit universe and some are really good, some are not, the original is still the best) Death Becomes Her

I did not know she had finally released the 3rd book His Lordship's Last Wager: A Regency Romance Between Bitter Enemies (actually thought she had given it up) so I bought it, loved the first 2 hope it is at least as good as they were.

I have Elusion in my TBR but have not gotten to it yet

I finished The British Knight and it was one of those that you really enjoy reading but a year from now won't remember hardly anything :) The author has a problem with the sex scenes IMHO since her characters go from professional people for the most part to gutter language in the bedroom, its like somebody else writes them

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "The Duke by Kerrigan Byrne is on sale. Any opinions on the book? I have the first two and am ashamed to say I haven't read them yet."

Oh, hell, get them read NOW, those are the best 2 of the series IMHO and book 2 The Hunter was freaking great! Also, the book on sale The Duke is excellent, it was not my favorite in the series but with those first 2 being 5 Stars a 4 Star books is still not a bad book in the least :)

Well the sequel to Mr. Impossible turns out to be Lord Perfect which has an $8 price tag and a synopsis that sounded like she changed a few names and details and wrote Mr Impossible all over again mostly changing the gender of the parts so I am going to pass until somebody tells me it would be money well spent. I grabbed this from my TBR The British Knight since I read the previous book in the series Duke of Manhattan and enjoyed it.

Well I finished Mr. Impossible and it falls into that very small class of books I use the term "delightful" to describe (since I never actually use that term in real life). It was humorous, witty, exciting and other than the fact you have 2 people that take a very long time to figure out they love each other it was great, had some slow times in the middle but very few and I still did no scanning. Worth every penny, similar to the books of Kerrigan Byrne that I enjoy but with a bit more humor and the more bloody parts are pretty glossed over more. Now I need to see about a sequel since there are other brothers to find an HEA for it would seem :)

Since several people I know put this on their 2017 Best Of list, I grabbed it and am reading it tonight

I can truthfully say that nothing by KM Shea that I have read has been less than 4 Stars and this is FREE to everyone, obviously hoping you will buy the other books. I grabbed it and might give it a try this month sometime.

Enthroned

Holly wrote: "Vinity wrote: "Since people are making list. I'd like to know people's comfort reads or palette cleanser.
"

Anything by Jennifer Crusie."

Nobody does it better but I have already used up almost all of her really good ones :(

Well IMHO Heart on Fire was a barely decent finale to a barely decent trilogy but I think I am in a minority, I gave it 3 stars for several reasons but mainly for wasting my time with about 100+ extra pages that did nothing.

www.amazon.com/Heart-Fire-Kingmaker-C...

I realize now that posting a long list of books has less impact than 1 book so list 1 book you read this year you think everyone should read, it may or may not have been the best book you read (like almost any of the Ilona Andrews books) but the one that made the biggest impression. Mine is easy :

Dustwalker

(Reposted from my FB page)

Well in going through my reading this year I discovered something, there were a lot of "good" books this years but the number of "GREAT" books was down from previous years and even many of those are clustered in a few authors listed below:

NOTE: These are books I READ in 2017, not published necessarily and I am sure I forgot a couple and will add them if I did.

Feel free to mention books you think I left out in the comments.

THERE IS NO ORDER

Dustwalker by Tiffany Roberts (you will NEVER forget the ending)

A Duke in Shining Armor: Difficult Dukes by Loretta Chase

The “Outcast” series by Keri Arthur

Anything written by Faith Hunter

Anything by Ilona Andrews

Anything written by Grace Draven

Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra by Anne Rice (MUST read book 1 The Mummy first)

A Bachelor Establishment by Jodi Taylor writing as Isabella Barclay (seen it listed with either author)

The Scot Beds His Wife (Victorian Rebels) by Kerrigan Byrne (this is book 5, should start at book 1)

White Trash Zombie Unchained by Diana Rowland (another you need to start at book 1, this is a sort of finale)

The WHOLE 20 book series of The Kurtherian Gambit by Michael Anderle (reading book 20 as I write this, totally addicted)

Bring the Heat (Dragon Kin) by G A Aiken (nobody does insanity better)

Silver Silence by Nalini Singh

Super Sales on Super Heroes by William D. Arand (an adventure into weirdness and insanity)

Etched in Bone (The Others) by Anne Bishop (a series so good it is almost its own genre)

Eleventh Grave in Moonlight/ The Trouble with Twelfth Grave by Darynda Jones (this series is headed towards a BIG finish with book 13 it seems)

To Catch an Heiress by Julia Quinn

I read Venom & Vanilla and liked it but it was so far into weird that I am not sure I would get the sequel when it comes out.

Kristi (foxtail_too) wrote: "There's a second book, about his friend Connor and wife Megan ..."

I have that one also and read it but for whatever reason I liked it but not as much as this one

I made the right choice, fell back on a reread of that book I was looking for Waking Up Pregnant and it already has me smiling :)

Damn, I have started about 4 books tonight and none of them are grabbing me. Still looking ... I have some GREAT ARCs but I don't typically read them more than 2 weeks in advance so the only thing left is stuff from my KU that has been there a long time (I read the great ones quickly). The reviews for the Dannika Dark series Crossbreed are fantastic but it just ain't calling to me. Anyone read the first book Keystone ?

Holly wrote: "I got an Echo Dot for Christmas. So far we have been having fun with her, asking all kinds of questions. She knows Siri by reputation and has been hanging out with Cortana (Google AI) more lately."

If you play music on it or just want better sound buy this to go with it, you won't believe how good this little speaker can sound. Pairing it up is easy and I keep the speaker on charger power all the time since I don't carry it anywhere

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FJILVDS

No I would never forget to put the book in, that would be be just plain old ........... never mind :)

Three Wishes

NOT to be confused with Three Wishes by Kristen Ashley which I consider to be on Doug's Top Books of all time even though it was at times one of the most horrible and heart-wrenching stories I ever read, not the light hearted read I thought it was going to be when I bought it years ago. An exceptional but hard reading experience I loved in the end.