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

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

Well looked over the choices in this years Goodreads Choice Awards and to be honest IMHO this is the lamest choices in all the years I have been voting. I finally gave up and voted for the 2 Ilona Andrews books (wishing I could have voted for Anne Bishops last "Others" book) and gave up on any others.

@Vanessa - more aggravating but it is possibly a bit more like a cliffhanger than normal for her and I enjoyed it but waiting for the next one is going to be hard :) The idea of waiting and reading the last 2 together sounds like a good idea except for the fact that there are so many characters involved now that you might not be able to recall who does what by the time the next one comes out (I need to look for a date)

Elizabeth wrote: "Kristi (foxtail_too) wrote: "Vanessa wrote: "I'm also listening to The Courtesan Duchess
. Are the other books good reads too?"

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You really should try A Bachelor Establishment and it is a stand alone 5 star novel IMHO and a great break from our usual PNR/UF

re: credits - I use both but I have not been offered Pantry credits in months and it was fine with me since I do use them, never could figure out what/when they offered one over the other

She Who Must Be Obeyed made me use my saved up Amazon slow shipping credits to buy her a copy of Hocus Pocus since the old one we had was on VHS LOL (there goes that next cheap book I was gonna buy)

LAB☺ wrote:" I haven't read any of the Ben/Tanzin novellas. So I guess based on the book blurb for Midnight Labyrinth I probably should.... "

They seem to get a bit better each time, this looks to be the best one, it is a difficult thing to take a character who started off as a child and make him into a love interest to an immortal vampire, she is taking it really slow (no other way) but he is 25 now and the romance we all expected is just barely starting to show. I doubt it is going to be in full bloom in this book (I could be wrong) but I have to say the speed of things is about right, so far they have all been great adventure type plots with that romance an underlying thing that gets a bit more pages each time.

Reading Midnight Labyrinth tonight and it is totally grabbed my attention and I am getting worried that I may have to put it down so I can get some sleep tonight ..... or not LOL

re: A Discovery of Witches I read book 1 and tried book 2 but it wins an award for possibly the most expensive totally boring piece of crap I ever bought and why so many people thought it was great boggles my mind, the writing itself was well done but the story sux IMHO

re: Spellbinder I was sure I would dislike it but I ended up giving it 5 Stars, I did not think so for awhile but it turned out to the the best Elder Races book in years IMHO but if you have not read Moonshadow it might not be as good for most people.

Finished 69 Million Things I Hate About You and it was excellent, kinda a romantic comedy and it had a great ending, wish it had a sequel for some of his buddies already but since this came out this month I am guessing it will be a bit before we see Brooks book "The Billionaire's Unexpected Baby"

Started 69 Million Things I Hate About You and it does grab your attention pretty quickly.

The only thing I have read of hers is A Bachelor Establishment and it was 5 Star reading

Finished Hard Breaker last night and have not written the review yet but it was a bit of a disappointment since I really did love the series but this felt more like she was tired of writing it (or maybe it was not selling well and she had to finish it) but I am trying not to give it 3 Stars but 4 almost seems dishonest, I scanned large parts of it, loved the ending but it felt rushed. A sad ending in many ways to a good series.

I have to say that A Bachelor Establishment is one of the better things I have read this year as far as pure entertainment , loved it.

"Ride him like a rented pony" - I got to admit I have never heard that one before and it made me laugh (and worry for rented ponies everywhere)

LAB☺ wrote: "I think I am going to DNF The King's Man. I can't get past the writing style. I don't even know what's going on without reading the same paragraph twice. It feels liek to much work ..."

I have to read Hard Breaker first then I was looking at 69 Million Things I Hate About You if I have time before my next required review (somebody already talked me into buying it sometime back)

@Lulu - That was how I saw it also, more of an Amazon help forum than any kind of book discussions

I finished A Bachelor Establishment and it was close to a 5 Star story, I hate it when I find I have been harboring such an exceptional story in my TBR for months and months. Highly recommended and it is a stand alone, great dialog, great characters, great plot, mystery that is solved in just the right timing and manner. Loved it

I needed a change of pace so I grabbed a historical romance (I assume) that one of you recommended months ago out of my TBR called A Bachelor Establishment (Jodi Taylor writing as Isabella Barclay) and find it humorous and a bit of an adventure plus a mystery. about 40% into it and it looks to be 4-5 star novel so far

I may have given the wrong impression of Bayou Born it WAS a good book but she has invented a world that requires a lot of setup, trust me I WILL be reading the next one, just wish it was here already. There are still a good half dozen mysteries I still want the answer to and I could hardly put the book down so don't let me give you the impression it was bad but I would expect everything to move a bit faster in the next books now that everything is setup (she spent more than half the book not even knowing "what" she was)