Dls’s Comments (group member since Sep 14, 2010)

Dls’s comments from the Fans of Eloisa James & Julia Quinn group.

Finished the new Duran which I really loved. And read Loretta chase's new book. Compared to some of her other books it's a 4 bit compared to anyone else it's a 5....some really lovely moments.

I love Loretta Chase--I think three of her books are in my top 20 books of all time.

This book didn't quite make it there. The hero felt awfully like the hero of Don't Tempt me (did anyone else feel like that?) And while I like the whole Delucey family idea, somehow Marcelline didnt feel Delucy-like to me.

I'm not sure I'll reread this over and over the way I reread so many others of her books.

They are standalones. Two have characters that interact (Written on your skin and Bound by your touch) and occasionally familiar names pop up, but htey are in no way part of a series.

She's hit or miss for me too but when she hits its a home run. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Me too. But I haven't seen anything suggesting she will. Have you?

Started Meredith Duran's new book. Wow. She manages to be far more realistic about the life of a girl from the slums and still make the potential for romance with a lord believable. Amazing.

It's Slow Heat by Jill Shalvis

Sometimes I find the sweetest moments are when one of the main characters reveals their feelings to a third party. (and I love books with kids in them...)

In this book we first really start to like both hero and heroine when we see how they interact with nephew. So it makes sense that hero would reveal his feelings to the heroine’s nephew….

Remember--you can give clues but don't give the name or author--I'll post that Tuesday night.

Hero sighed. “Yeah.” He turned to look at the booth in time to see heroine climbing out onto the platform. He spent a few minutes watching her try to get comfortable up on the bench seat in a borrowed bathing suit top and shorts.

She might be bossy and stubborn as hell but she was one hell of a good sport.

The line was at least ten people long, which was good. Lots of people meant lots of money, and lots of money meant more resources dumped into the 4 The Kids pockets. That’s what this was all about, but he couldn’t help but grin as he watched heroine warily eye the little kid at the front of the line, specifically the lever he had to hit in order to dunk her.

Santos appeared with his boys and heroine’s nephew at hero’s side. “What’s Aunt heroine doing in there?” nephew asked hero.

“She’s in there because she likes me,” hero said, as he received dark murderous looks from heroine.

“Are you sure she likes you?” nephew asked doubtfully.

“Yeah.” Hero smiled. “She just doesn’t know it yet.”

“You’re weird,” nephew said.

The little kid at the front of the line threw his ball and missed the booth entirely.

From inside the dunk tank, heroine took a visible breath of relief.

The next kid in line missed as well.

And the third.

“Wow,” nephew said. “They all suck.”

“Maybe not,” hero said.

“You know she’s going to get real mad if she goes in. She doesn’t like it when her hair gets wet after she straightens it. “

“No?”

“No. And she’s looking at you like you’re in big trouble. Are you in trouble?”

“What would being in trouble entail?” hero asked him.

Nephew shrugged. “Maybe no ice cream after dinner.”

“Huh. I do love ice cream.”

“Yeah,” nephew said. “But at least she’s nice even when she’s mad. She doesn’t get scary or anything. Well, except for tonight when she almost cried. That was scary.”

Hero’s gut tightened as he took his attention off heroine and looked down at nephew. “You get scared back home?”

Nephew lifted a shoulder. “Sometimes. Like when I get left alone.”

A slow burn churned within him for the way he’d been treated. Knowing all too damn well exactly how shitty felt, hero gently set his hand on nephew, glad the kid was safe here with heroine for now. Nephew accepted the touch with only a little squirm—progress.

The next kid missed and nephew made a sound of disgust. “What, can no one throw?” He shoeved a hand in his pocket and pulled out a few bucks. “I’m gonna show ‘em how it’s done.”

Hero gently squeezed nephew’s shoulder, holding him back. “Wait.”

“Why?”

Hero pulled another twenty out of his pocket.

Nephew’s eyes lit up.

“To not dunk her,” hero directed.

“You want me to stand in line and miss?”

‘Yep.:

Nephew eyed the line and all the kids in it, and slid his gaze back to hero. “You paid all of them?”

Hero smiled.

Nephew just stared at him. “You sure she’s not your real girlfriend?”

“Just don’t hit that lever, kid. I’m a lot tougher than your Aunt heroine.”

Nephew grinned and pocketed the money. “You so like her.”

“Yeah,” hero smiled. “Yeah, I do.”

At the realization that the big, bad, hero herolastname was nothing more than a sorry sap, nephew just shook his head. But then he said softly, “I like her too.”

I've always thought what was Forbidden was Serena's freedom--freedom to choose her own husband, freedom to enjoy sexual pleasure.

I'm on a Jayne Ann Krentz reading binge, of all things . I needed something totally frivolous...

Janga, I had the same problems. Little things--like having Anna make what sound like American muffins which would have been called tea cakes--and big things--like the very mixed social status of Emma in The Soldier--and also just lots of implausible things, like getting a house furnished so quickly and knowing exactly what went where when Anna had only seen it once. Still, the relationships really work....

Just finished The Heir. I has very ambivalent reactions about it too, for the same reasons as the Soldier. The relationships she creates feel real but she ignores too much of the historical period and too much of the plot is unbelievable.

Ok I'm buying it. I have my first by her out from the library but this sounds too good to miss.

I would love to hear your thoughts about the Soldier, Janga. I too had very ambivalent reactions.

I have been reading old Mary Baloghs--the short story A Precious Rogue, The Lady with a Black Umbrella, and next are Christmas Beau and A Counterfeit Betrothal. Every so often I check what is reasonably priced on Alibris--these had all been pretty expensive but for some reason the prices had come way down.

I have no clue at all, but I am fascinated.

And its really wonderful--even to someone like me who doesn't usually like paranormals.

I love the next bit too when hero finds them

Oh no! There goes one of my puzzler ideas! Wonderful choice. Great book. I can't wait for the next one.

I have been rereading a lot of Balogh. I also got The Heir, so I may switch to that