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

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

Welcome to the group Sans!!! Good for you for being willing to give the BR's a try instead of just assuming they are all horrible! Hope you find some you will enjoy!

Hey when in doubt go with the older original version. From what I remember, the changes were pretty small, like some small changes in dialog and whatnot but no major changes to the plot etc... I could be wrong... I have the new one so I will be reading that, we can compare :)

And yes! I am with you Karla! That equals must read! LOL

You are more than welcome to read and comment a little late :) I still have not started my Pirate book yet, I am hoping I will finish up A Gentle Feuding tonight and I can start mine tomorrow... but I probably won't finish before the month is over

Welcome to the group Lisa Marie! Glad to have you!

Country, State, City: USA, Mesa, Arizona
Place: Hanging out at home, sitting on the couch with the laptop
Time: 3:28 PM
Temperature: 104 degrees (ugh)
Weather: Bright and sunny (and hot!).
View: My living room, my husband sitting at our desk in the corner working on his website on our other computer.
Noise: My husbands key strokes and some sort of singer song writer online radio station he is playing right now.
Is this where you usually hang out when you get on GoodReads? Yup, right here or at the other computer where my husband is right now :)

Just for fun :)

Answer the following questions based on where you are right this very second!

Country, State, City: Where in the world are you?
Place: Where are you, i.e. work, home, school, coffee shop, etc...
Time: The current time
Temperature: The current temperature
Weather: The current weather conditions
View: What you see when you look away from your computer screen
Noise: What the background noise is, i.e. TV, radio, conversation, traffic, etc...
Is this where you usually hang out when you get on GoodReads?

Time for our next quarter challenge. I thought I would stick with the game idea so here we go!

Challenge Duration: October 1st through December 31st

Rules For this challenge you can either work a 'crossword puzzle' or a 'sudoku puzzle' or both! (see below) This challenge is a minimum of three books but you can complete as many 'crosswords' and 'sudokus' as you like! A book read can only be used once in this challenge (you can not use a book for a crossword and a sudoku) You can post a list ahead of time if you like or post as you go. Books read can be from any genre you like so don't worry about only using bodice rippers.

Crossword(kinda): Read a minimum of three books that have one word in all the titles (example: Sweet Savage Love, Savage Embrace, Hide my Savage Heart).
Sudoku (kinda): Read a minimum of three books where the number of letters in all the titles add up to 9. This one will be trickier. Example: Lady Vixen (9 letters), Flowers of Fire (13 letters), A Gentle Feuding (14 letters)... 9+13+14=36 ---> 3+6=9

This time I am going to plan to post updates monthly so we can all see where everyone is at! Maybe bring out some of that competitive spirit and also so we can give out congratulations when someone completes the challenge!!!

Please post only once and edit that post with your updates. Please include the date that each book was finished.

This month: Valerie Sherwood! (AKA Jeanne Hines and Rosamond Royal)

About the author: (From author page here on GoodReads)
Jeanne worked as a reporter and fashion magazine illustrator, later she started to wrote gothic novels from 1973 to 1977, until, like other gothic author had to change to the emerging popular romance genre under the pseudonym Valerie Sherwood, and also as Rosamond Royal. She became a popular romance author of five chunky bestselling historicals, including Bold Breathless Love, Her Shining Splendor and This Loving Torment (six weeks on the New York Times paperback best-seller list).

To participate: Simply pick any book written my this popular author (any of her pseudonyms) to read! As you read or when you are done drop by here to discus the author!

Discussion questions: Are you new to this author or are you familiar with her work? If you have read her before, how did the book you chose compare to her other works? Did you enjoy her style? Was the book fast paced or more leisurely? What do you think this authors strengths are? Weaknesses? How was the character development? dialog? setting and atmosphere? etc...

And our October winner is....
Devil's Embrace by Catherine Coulter 1982
Yay!!! I am so excited to read this with everyone!!! I really love this cover so I am going to make it extra big :)

Average GoodRead rating: 3.51
GoodReads description: For beautiful Cassie, the seething city of Genoa seems a world away form her 18th-century estate where she was raised. Until she meets Lord Anthony Welles, the brutally handsome aristocrat who swears that he will win Cassie's heart, even as he conquers her body. And on the eve of her wedding to another man, Anthony proves that he will stop at nothing to be with the woman he loves...
Availability: This should be super easy to find as it is currently in print, check out Amazon (available in print and kindle format, yay!) the original cover is super purdy tho so I would try to find that one used if you can :)

Discussions: This is a somewhat controversial book... What did you think? Did you find it shocking in anyway? Did you find it to be more over the top and offensive than modern romance novels? From other bodice rippers? How do the characters change or evolve throughout the course of the story? What events trigger such changes? What was your favorite scene? At what point in the book did you decide if you liked it or not? What helped make this decision? If you could change something about the book would you? If so what/how?


Please be considerate of others and use 'spoiler spaces' when revealing key plot elements.

That is insane and awesome Karla!!! LOL I don't feel so bad about my habit of picking up a book or two pretty much every single week at the library book sale :)

Antoinette wrote: "i hope it'snot too late. i am waiting on a copy frpom the library"


You are more than welcome to jump in and comment whenever you get to it :)

Welcome to the group Antoinette!!!

Hey Becky! Welcome to the group! I started a thread in our 'book chit chat' folder with your question here I think you will get more responses there :)

Ok everyone, our new member Becky would like to know... "I love a good read...So if you would share ur All time ....top five reads that you be great"

Jeanine ♥ Cheshire Catt ♠ wrote: "My Gemini shiny quarter kicked in and I'm reading CP with Karla too (although I'm way behind her!). Definitely a BR - lets just say 1st chapter pirate rape-fest...."

I have one of these... Captive Secrets I think... I might have to check it out sometime soon :) Sounds awesome.

For my pirate book I was planning on reading
, I'm going to try to zoom through A Gentle Feuding and get to my pirate book ASAP!

I started this last night, we will see how it goes. I might have a better response since my expectations are pretty low, LOL We will see

Welcome to the fun Whitney!!!

Another one for the campaign!


5 stars!!!! Loved it! I think I loved Hide My Savage Heart a little bit more, but this one is more of a bodice ripper!
The Jasmine Veil by Gimone Hall
my review

Welcome Theresa and Brandy!!! So glad to have you both!

Welcome to the group Elaine! I am sure you will find some great romance rec's!