Jennefer’s Comments (group member since Mar 12, 2010)

Jennefer’s comments from the Bodice Ripper Readers Anonymous group.

I started my book this weekend. Only about 50 pages in and the poor girl has already been sold twice, the first time by her mother! :( Looks like the main character being considered property is a really big part of this book, but it is fantasy with an alternate reality/code of ethics so it is a bit different from the BR's that have this theme. I will post more as I get a better feel for how the theme plays out in this book.

Anyone else started theirs yet?

Just so you get the idea, I'll go ahead and do the first cover



A book with a kissing couple on the cover

The way this works is simple. I will post a word to get started. Then someone post a cover that has that object on it and then post the next word for the next person and on and on. Easy enough?



A book with a headless woman on the cover

I'll start. I do have some pictures of me on my profile but I decided to go with something romancy for my avatar. I like my pic because I really like the graphic line drawing style and the pose of the couple. I have had it since I joined Goodreads. Every once and a while I think about changing it but I just can't find anything I like better! :)

I was just wondering how everyone chose their avatar? Is it a picture of you? If not what is it and why do you think it represents you well in the world of Goodreads??? How is it unique to your personality?

Annabel Joseph wrote: "...Why did you decide to join this group?: It is just really great to be in a group where you don't have to apologize for the smutty, non-politically correct fiction you perv to...."

LOL! It is nice isn't it!!! :) Welcome to the group Annabel! Glad to have you!

If I am not sure about a book, I just hang onto it until I am sure that I don't want it anymore. So, when I have a book that I know I won't read again, but I just don't know if I want to give it up, I will just keep it. Then if the next time I go through my books to clear up my space I still don't know, I'll keep it until the time comes when I come across it and I could care less if it is sitting there or not. You know what I mean? I don't have to love a book to keep it, I need to really not care about it to give it up. When I come across a book on my shelf and I think 'wow, I haven't thought or talked about that book in forever, forgot I read it' then I know it's time to let it go. But until then, I just hang onto it.

My shelves aren't as full as they would sound like they would be, lol. Well not with keepers, running out of room for TBR!!!

That sounds perfect Tammy!

Hehe... I'm so silly... but you are right Jeanine, nothing like grabbing a rare one in the wild! :) I am pretty excited and am going to read it soon. Maybe when I am done we can have a "Where Passion Leads" train for those who are interested. I would want it back but I can share.

Jeanine ♥ Cheshire Catt ♠ wrote: "...Well I think we kind of dissolved into - what's in the back of the old book you are reading - game! :) ..."

That works too :) We will go with that! LOL

As a matter of fact, I think I will just rename the game! It's easier and just as fun that way anyway!

OMG!!! I am still shaking I am so excited!!!! I just got home from my library book sale... picked up about 12 fun new books the the absolute most exciting one is....

by Lisa Kleypas

that is right!!! I just bought this OOP super HTF book for $0.50! What????!!!! I was jumping up and down in the isles! It barely even has a spine crease, no torn corners, no dog ears. Oh I think I am going to cry! Best book shopping trip ever!

Seems like I am always the last one to chime in on our group reads! Oh well, that's just the way my reading has been going lately I guess. Anyway...

First of all, Karla, you are not the only one who likes the history stuff!!! That was pretty much my favorite part of this book! I thought this was a perfect balance of historical/romance and I loved it all the more for it!

So for me the good stuff was:
I loved how rooted the story was is the historical setting and how the characters were very much a part of real events that were happening at the time. Loved that!

I thought the relationship progressed pretty smoothly. They had the one big set back towards the end but it wasn't too bad for me. I really loved the scene where she makes him say that he loves her. They are both dancing around the subject and neither one of them wants to say it fist. Loved that!

I liked Christopher very much. He was a good emotionally tortured/can never trust a woman again character with the history with Nicole's mother and all. Loved that!

And the not so good stuff:
Nicole was a pretty flat character. She bored me. Blah!

I thought it was really weird that nothing happened on the two 6 week trips they took between the U.S. and England. Both ways whatever their emotional state was when they left was how the still felt when they arrived. He does not calm down after 6 weeks? What? They don't talk about what happened on their last night in England until they get to the U.S.? What? I don't get it! Blah!

Was it really necessary to refer to Nicole as a 'vixen' 50 times throughout the book?!? She is a vixen in bed, when she is scared, when she is happy and playful, when she feels cornered... on and on! I get it! She is a vixen! The name of the book has been firmly justified! Blah!

Now this might be stupid, but my biggest gripe about the book... the improper use of an 'epilogue'. Epilogue is not just a fancy word for last chapter!!!! The last chapter of the 'regular' book ends with the couple still not speaking to each other, Alen's fate still unknown and the war still raging around them! You can't have all that major conflict resolution in the epilogue! It doesn't work that way!!!! The epilogue is for snap shot of HEA and maybe to tie up some background story ends, but not for the main conflict resolution! Oh that drives me crazy! I could scream! Blah!

Amanda wrote: "...I just think the BR's are ripped on a little too much! ... I'm aloud to say that in a group of BR supporters, right? ;)..."

Preaching to the choir sister!

Mary wrote: "I know I have something like this. Does it count if they aren't sold but just kidnapped? Like a Highlander bride stealing or Indian Captive type plot?"

Sure! Sounds great!

What is your favorite band/singer and genre of music? Brian Adams, Eric Clapton, Jack Johnson, Jonny Lang, Michael Buble, the late great Michael Jackson, I love my George Winston Linus and Lucy CD, recently fell in love with Florence And The Machine... oh and more, much much more but I guess I will stop there

Besides historical romances, what are your favorite genres? I think like many romance readers I am a very eclectic reader. I have read a little bit of just about everything I think except horror (maybe I should try some). A lot of non fiction (religious studies, history, memoirs, cookbooks, all kinds of stuff), historical fiction, mysteries, erotica... I love it all!

What are some of your favorite television shows and what's your favorite genre?
So You Think You Can Dance
Project Runway
Hell's Kitchen
Family Guy
American Dad
The Simpsons
South Park!!!
and of course I love Sienfield and Friends, classics!

What are your favorite films?
Anchorman!!! "I wanna say something. I'm gonna put it out there; if you like it, you can take it, if you don't, send it right back. I want to be on you." [Veronica turns and walks away:] "Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I... I wanna be on you." Haha!
All the Austin Powers Movies
All of Kevin Smiths movies (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob etc)
and others but these are my absolute tops!

The most of important question of all... Coke or Pepsi? Diet Coke! I know it might give me cancer or something but I just can't stop! lol

Welcome to the group Amanda! Hope you find some great rec's here! :)

Sweet Savage Love is set mostly in the old west (US and Mexico). It is pretty good, I would recommend it. I also really enjoyed A Heart So Wild by Johanna Lindsey... actually read that one first, it was really great! :)

Riccarla wrote: "The closest book to the theme that I have is Valerie Sherwood "To Love a Rogue":

Lovely Lorraine London had a sensuous charm that seemed to ignite the passions of every scoundrel in New England. ..."

That sounds perfect! I can't wait to hear what you think of it when you read it! :)

I love browsing your books Karla! You have a bit of everything and keep it all so nicely organized! It is a great resource! :)

Tammy wrote: "Great idea, Jennefer!! Now to find something to read -- is there a list somewhere that you know of?

No offense to those of you who have picked one, of course!"

I couldn't find any existing lists out there (might be out there just couldn't find it) but check Karlas shelves and we also have a couple on our group book shelf here. And you can always just start checking the back covers of old romance novels at your local used book store, bound to run into one w/out much trouble, this theme was pretty common in those old bodice rippers! :)