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[Llaph]

Reaver's book better come out soon ... wtf @ starting a new series before it.

There is the three brothers's s books ... then wraith's leads to lore ... then sin's book ... and in her's you get the beginning of the lords series.

When you are as OCD about book series like me you pick up all of the connections.... For instance all of J.R. Ward's book are connected somehow, even her contemporaries.
That and your weird brain that absorbs and keeps the stupidest useless crap remembers it all.

[Mello ❣ Illium ✮Harry✮ ☀Myrnin☀ Torin]

Lol! I'm sure Reaver's book will come out after the first book in her new series. I like Reaver, so I'm glad he's getting a book, but then I'm a sucker for angels/fallen angels.

[Llaph]

I have liked him since the days back in UGH! (lol @ that acronym)
The end of rogue rider is such a wtf cliffhanger for his story. :x Him and harvestor ... She doesn't really write too fast either damnit.

[Mello ❣ Illium ✮Harry✮ ☀Myrnin☀ Torin]

That acronym is still plenty funny.

Here's hoping there won't be a crazy wait.

[Llaph]

Ohhh like KC books or patricia briggs? :p Stepping away from my computer now....

[Mello ❣ Illium ✮Harry✮ ☀Myrnin☀ Torin]

Lol!

[Claire]

I don't know who any of these people are! *whines*

[Dale]

I just finished my 14th book this month, Veil of Midnight (Midnight Breed #5) by Lara Adrian. My next book is White Lies (Arcane Society, #2) by Jayne Ann Krentz

[Llaph]

All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire (Love at Stake, #5) by Kerrelyn Sparks

@ claire:
You will if you read the books! :P Only like 3 people from the LoD series first show in the demonica series. Reaver I think shows first in the first book, he did used to work in the hospital. Regan you meet in book 3 ... also where Reaver does great things! I mentioned before that Pestilence/Reseph first shows in Sin Undone along with his brother Ares....
Damn, now I want to read the series again.... I blame Mello.

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

Claire wrote: "Wait what? You can't just drop that on me!! =p"

One character, Regan the Rapist, rapes another character. But obviously she does it so well that they end up together. WTF!

Well, who knows. Maybe it's okay if a female rapes a male. If it's a guy who's held down with some weird power and says "no" over and over again, no one cares. But if it's the other way around...

I also saw some people excuse it because they drank some wine. Yeah, next time a 40 year old rapes a 14 year old and excuses it with "being drunk", I want to see those people's reaction.

As you can see this pissed me off to no end! That's why I stopped reading Ione books even though she used to be one of my fave authors. Good for me, there are enough great stories out there for me to read.

[Arushi]

Basically Claire, the events of the last Demonica book lead to the Lords of Deliverence series. The Demonica series is over all pretty good. The LoD series though is slightly effed up tbh. I still like it, but there is this huge power gap between the Lords and almost everyone else in their world - which makes relationships weird to me, or at least not as much of a partnership as the Demonica series.

I agree with what Sarah said, that one was rape, and while I was pissed about it for a while, I did mostly get over it. At the same time, I have had the last book in that series for a while now and haven't read it yet.

The moral of the story is, read the Demonica series. Its really good. The LoD series, well, I leave that to you after you finish the Demonica one.

[Zeenat]

Reading .

[Claire]

Sarah ♥ Vutch forever ♥ wrote: "Claire wrote: "Wait what? You can't just drop that on me!! =p"

One character, Regan the Rapist, rapes another character. But obviously she does it so well that they end up together. WTF!

Well, wh..."

Ah, yes, I could see why that would be a problem. I was going to read the LoD books but now I don't know. That's not okay.

Do the LoD books have to be read for the rest of the Demonica books to make sense?

[Llaph]

You don't have to read the LoD books to get the demonica books as of yet, but if there are going to be more books set in that world you would miss a lot if you passed them. Information wise....

I will say again that it is a matter of perception. Someone who feels strongly about the subject will always see it as being wrong in every way. I am so not condoning the act since it is such a heinous one. No matter if the roles were switched, the genders changed, the ages changed it will always be the same act. How one sees it is the only thing that may change.
It is a controversial subject, like molestation, murder, cheating, lying, and stealing. How it is handled changes how you see it (most of the time), how it is presented and handled. By handling I mean how does the character (victim and offender) handle their roles, how does it affect their life and people around them?
In Lethal Rider they spend most of the book dealing with what happened. Yeah there was drugging involved, yeah there were lies involved, and both of them were affected by it. It does not mean it was right at all, but really they were both victims of a sort. Thanatos spends most of the book thinking of all of the mean things he is going to do to Regan in retaliation and is deservedly cruel to her; he only cares about the child that she is carrying. Regan spends the bulk of the book feeling remorse at being lied to on top of the issues that she already had with feeling unwanted in general beforehand. She believes that he will never forgive her and tries to come to deal with that.
They have to deal with what happened with them and why and what they are going to do afterwards. God, yes it sucked but it is what you do afterwards … you can hate the people responsible for forever, but in the long run that can only hurt you. I say that from personal experience with more than one thing.

I tend to run on so I put some of it into a spoiler tag so you sightlings don’t have to scroll so much.
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I can understand aversion for a subject and deciding not to keep reading an author’s work. I can think of two instances where I did this … 1 instance I turned around the other I did not really forgive. I love Molly Harper books and I saw the list of books available of hers that I could read when I was checking out her nice girls series, I saw that she had a contemporary book published to, I saw that it had mostly to do with a wife dealing with her soon to be ex husband’s infidelities and what she did in retaliation. Cheating is one of those things for me that I feel strongly about and I told myself that I would not read that book … months later I went back to see about it, read it, and it turned out to me to be a great book.
The other instance is I read a series and the female mc was sad because her fiancé had cheated on her, she had cheated on him previously and they were together (he was cheating on his fiancé at the time with her). At the end everyone is happy, she cheats on him with a guy, he cheats on her with another girl, and oh neato they are all happy and marry the people they cheated on each other for. Okay, so that may seem irrational to someone else, but it makes sense to me.
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The handling of a subject is key really.
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I have read a lot of books and the subject of rape has been in a few. Sometimes it is handled like crap … does it need to be so descriptive? Don’t they know about the less is more theory? Did they plan a power point presentation to go along with this shit?
Some have made it so that “o all that she needed was a good man’s love” … really where did the author come up with that crap? Some have handled it in (what I thought of as) a mature manner and that act was a pivotal point to the story. I recently read a book where this was a big big issue for the female mc, this book spanned like 2 or so years which is really long for that series, and she had to deal with more than just the violent kidnapping and rape. She had to deal with a child that resulted, receiving powers accidently, seeing the person who kidnapped and raped her who she thought was solely responsible for it be cruelly murdered right before her eyes, her almost being next, numerous triggers emotionally and physically that resulted from it, and also finding out that the rapist had no choice at all in the matter and she wasn’t the one who was to be kidnapped.
Oh man did it suck, but the author used it to help shape the character….
A few books before this one there was a similar sort of issue like this. The rape was not violent, they both knew that they had no choice, and they chose together to be defiant knowing that they would most likely be killed for doing so. The female mc had her issues, but they weren’t as bad as the other female mc. She had to get through it a different way … they both had to watch their rapists being killed in front of them.
You would have to know the series to see how this all works; it is not a nicely nice pnr. There are no puppies and rainbows or some fantastic insta mating bond or whatever. Yeah there is passion and the like, but it feels real to me as in “hey there is some nasty shit that happens”.
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I know I will most likely irritate someone with what I said, but really, you can never make everyone happy with what you say when it is about something like this. Everyone … evvvveryone is entitled to what they believe and sometimes people have to experience something and form their own opinions on things to get there.

Man, I really dislike the fact I am so crappy with translating my thoughts into words. It was a hell of a lot easier to paint a picture and keep things to myself.

[Mello ❣ Illium ✮Harry✮ ☀Myrnin☀ Torin]

Llaph wrote: " All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire (Love at Stake, #5) by Kerrelyn Sparks

@ claire:
You will if you read the books! :P Only like 3 people from the LoD series first show in the demonica series...."

Wait, why is it my fault that you want to read it again?

[Llaph]

'cuz I said so? lol

I wont though ... too many things I need to do first. I also have Rogue Decendant waiting to be read ... I keep procrastinating though....

[Claire]

@Llaph that makes sense. I probably won't end up liking the book, because it seems like Regan wasn't forced- she chose her course of action based on the (flawed) information she had. I suppose all of it depends on how much I like the Demonica books. It's entirely possible that I'll be sick of the series by the time I hit book 5.

[Llaph]

That's possible, I just know for me it was different. I really liked both series, it was different for me, which is one of the reasons I have liked it so much.

I just remember avoiding a book or series based on what someone else said and sometimes reading it with a pre conceived notion that sucked for them. Then I would find out what they thought was not the same way I thought and what they bitched about wasn't that bad ... or it did kind of sucked, but I was glad I could experience that on my own.

I have this thing where I want everyone to be happy and like what I like. I am getting over this some though. I also have too much time on my hands....

[Zeenat]

Just finished Rogue Descendant--Great book, really enjoyed it. But misses that special spark that makes a book 5 stars instead of 4.

Back to and

[D.C.]

So, I started the "Black Wings" series yesterday afternoon; the series has been on my radar for quite some time. I've had the books for months, and just now decided to read them. so far I've read Black Wings, Black Night, and I'm on Black Howl. I must say, I'm finding them quite entertaining and enjoyable. Sure, I only picked them because I liked the cover, but they are good.

[Llaph]

Rogue Descendant (Nikki Glass, #3) by Jenna Black

So far this is not my favorite of the series, it was missing something that the other books had. Maybe it was frustration for me? Dunno! It just seemed to lack something or left something out. It was like a Nikki and Anderson show with a side of Jamal and misc extras with well known names.

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I am not the brightest person ever born, but am I the only one who saw that coming with Constatine, Cyrus and Emma? Not going to mourn Emma though—crazy biatch….

Man oh man oh man … and there better not be a triangle damnit.

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[Dale]

*This is the list of book for May 2013*

*1.* Inferno (Chronicles of Nick #4)
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
*2.* The Hunt (The Secret Circle #5)
by Aubrey Clark, L.J. Smith (Creator)
*3.* Hollowmen (The Hollows, #2)
by Amanda Hocking
*4.* Blood Trade (Jane Yellowrock #6)
by Faith Hunter
*5.* Grave Sight (Harper Connelly, #1)
by Charlaine Harris
*6.* Sizzle and Burn (Arcane Society, # 3)
by Jayne Ann Krentz
*7.* Heartsick (Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by Chelsea Cain
*8.* Sweetheart (Gretchen Lowell, #2)
by Chelsea Cain
*9.* Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly, #2)
by Charlaine Harris
*10.* The Third Circle (The Arcane Society, #4)
by Amanda Quick
*11.* Evil at Heart (Gretchen Lowell #3)
by Chelsea Cain
*12.* An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly, #3)
by Charlaine Harris
*13.* The Night Season (Gretchen Lowell, #4)
by Chelsea Cain
*14.* Running Hot (Arcane Society, # 5)
by Jayne Ann Krentz
*15.* Grave Secret (Harper Connelly #4)
by Charlaine Harris

[Llaph]

The arcane society books drove me nuts when I went to read them the first time ... so many different pen names for the same series and the same person. I get it, but back when I went to start this I got frustrated and did not have GR at the time. :x

[D.C.]

The Harper Connelly books are not too bad - she definitely ties up all the pieces in the last book.

[Zeenat]

Llaph wrote: " Rogue Descendant (Nikki Glass, #3) by Jenna Black

So far this is not my favorite of the series, it was missing something that the other books had. Maybe it was frustration for me? Dunno! It just ..."

I just read that book too. (view spoiler)[ I don't want a love triangle either. Everyone says the way he looks at her but she doesn't feel any chemistry. So my guess that he could be related to her, father or something, might still be true. Probably not though. Which means love triangleish... booooo...

I also wonder if Anderson is "good". I can see him being "bad" but we don't know till towards the end. (hide spoiler)]

[Llaph]

Wicked as She Wants (Blud, #2) by Delilah S. Dawson

I love this series right now for reals. I did not want to quit reading it even though I am so tired ... good thing I don't have to open my eyes to type or get around.

@ zeenat:

Seriously …
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I did not even think about the possible father part, to me that would be less creepy … I never saw what Maggie said that she saw. She still has a little brother out there, and no confirmation that her mother has died either. (If so I missed it) She also said she did not remember who her dad was I think.

A triangle could screw things up for me since I loathe them most of the time now. Pfffft @ useless angst. Kick ass pls and do not worry about who you wanna get busy with….

I like how Anderson is this big ? a lot of the time, he did mention after that call Nikki got about Emma from Cyrus that he has done worse. I would hate to see how he used to be, he mentioned a few times that Nikki hasn’t really seen him lose it … the lumberjack job in the clearing is scary enough … what is he like when he loses it??

Love triangles with humans can be annoying enough … one with a supernatural tiger … bleh!

It is always something seriously.
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[Llaph]

I read her harper series, along with her aurora tea garden and her lily bard series. I think I prefer the lily bard ones more ... less annoying bits.
Though I do remember weird/awkward parts. I would have to re-read them to see.

[Jax]

Llaph, Zeeat
I'm turning Green with envy here!
my copies are still en-route!! :(

[Zeenat]

I don't mind love triangles if it's done well. And, it's REALLY hard to do a love triangle well. Usually I am annoyed before it's solved, or really pissed that the author went in the direction that made no sense... (the author didn't build up much of a relationship/chemistry and randomly becomes the one). The author doesn't have to pick the one I like, but it has to make sense and balance well.

[Llaph]

@ Jax:
Just take heart in the fact that you have confirmation that it is really coming.

@ zeenat:
That is true what you said about triangles. I think I said that mainly because deep down I rather everyone get along some how. Good triangles are good to read and I can totally see bad ones. Bad ones that the author totally screwed up a series over.... Not naming names though!

Accidentally in Love with...A God? (Accidentally Yours, #1) by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Cute …some of her descriptions for things were pretty funny and weren’t over done really like one author I can think of. I really needed those giggles today.

"Not that this would validate your theory, but what did he look like?" Guy asked.
Emma took a long moment. Then another.
"Well? We're waiting, Princess Know-It-All," Guy said.
A wicked little smile suddenly made camp on her face. It brought a foldout chair, made a fire, and started roasting marshmallows. Guy suddenly felt uneasy.


That was just one quote, for some reason it really stuck with me.

[Luichy]

Well, I just read the 3 Nikki Glass books in 3 days. I liked them. With the triangle, I do not mind them either. However, I will say that the one character that really annoyed me was Jamal. Liked him in the first 2 books, in this one...he whines too much. He might be “oh, so hot” but Nikki is pushing this relationship too much. Anderson, I have not make my mind about him yet. I kind of like him? At least he intrigues me more than Jamal. How are the other series written by this author? (I think is the Exorcist series) I am thinking about buying them.

[D.C.]

I just finished the fifth "Black Wings" book by Christina Henry. Since I started the series a couple of days ago, I guess I must have enjoyed them as I went through them all non-stop. Not a 5 star series, but certainly enjoyable. There's something about a heroine with no plan and no co-ordination who basically stumbles through life having meaningless banter with a gargoyle that appeals to me.

Guess its back to the Red Hat book....

@Luichy - Nikki Glass is better than Morgan Kingsley - personally I didn't rate either series very high, but to each their own. I thought that Nikki had a chip on her shoulder, but it was nothing compared to Morgan.

[Valerie ~ Val Hall ~]

I don`t read as much as you all do but I managed Blood Redemption, Tempest Rising and Coveted. Now on to the last book of the Blood Destiny series Blood Reunion.

[Mello ❣ Illium ✮Harry✮ ☀Myrnin☀ Torin]

Finished Man do I love this book. And it's not filled with action or anything, but there are plenty of people getting eaten. Anne Bishop does not kill nicely. I love the way the Others fuss over Megan and Sam is so adorable and Simon snarls all the time, but I love him, anyway.

Starting

[Llaph]

re: morgan kingsley and guardians of the night series....
I will admit to having read them both. Morgan, I agree, is sort of whiney and has the "why me" mentality a lot. I also didn't really like her judgemental opinions regarding bdsm ... but I guess it fits for someone ignorant. Jumping to conclusions about stuff was bleh. Plus she is rather un blood thirsty.
black's interpretation about vamps was interesting, but I didn't like it too much. Guardians are supposed to be the nice vamps and don't drink human blood, it his highly addictive, but it gives them uber powers. I didn't get it too much, plus I kept thinking about how they eat ... lamb's blood and milk just stuck in my head.
Both series were okay and most of the time what I think doesn't match with others so!



@mello:
I love anne bishop ... I think I read her black jewels trilogy a million times. I owned that set and I remember starting with book 2 and thinking "wtf I am missing something damnit" and buying book one the next time I went shopping.
I like her snarly males and females ... and they can be blood thirsty too.

I was able to read a couple of other books from that series, but never finished/caught up with it. My library doesn't have the other books so I forgot about it.

[Claire]

Finished last night. I really did like it, but I don't know if I'd read it again. I enjoy that Ione doesn't make her women dependent upon the men for their protection. It's great that they can hold their own.

[Mello ❣ Illium ✮Harry✮ ☀Myrnin☀ Torin]

Llaph wrote: "re: morgan kingsley and guardians of the night series....
I will admit to having read them both. Morgan, I agree, is sort of whiney and has the "why me" mentality a lot. I also didn't really like h..."

I bought the first book in that series, Llaph because I liked The Others so much. Have you read it, yet? I think you'd like it.

@Claire I like that about Ione's female characters, too.

[Claire]

@Mello I kind of want to read the next one but I know that I won't get any studying done

[Mello ❣ Illium ✮Harry✮ ☀Myrnin☀ Torin]

Most likely not. I still need to read Wraith's book myself. I was hoping to get to it this month, but I probably won't be able to.

[Llaph]

@ mello:
the anne bishop one? I was thinking about it. I am rather picky about the books I will by, will only buy them if my library doesn't have them. It is too easy to tap the buy button.... lol

@ claire:
Sorry to say this, but the next book is the best in that series imo. :p I <3 Wraith bunches! Ione's portrayal of women is one that I like too. The women in her other series under her pen name with another author are rather independant too, one imo is too much sometimes and I want to just snatch her bald-headed for being such a pig headed buttface.

Accidentally Married to...A Vampire? (Accidentally Yours, #2) by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

I liked the first one more, I think because it seemed to be more unique. Cimil reminds me a lot of Nyx, minus the Mike Rowe fixation.

And I care? Okay. It's official. I'm my own species now: pathetic-death-wish-osaurus. I sooo hear extinction calling me.

Some quotes just stick with you yanno?

[Mello ❣ Illium ✮Harry✮ ☀Myrnin☀ Torin]

Yeah, Llaph. It is an expensive book. I was shocked when I saw the price, but I thought it was worth it.

[Llaph]

Oh noes that will totally set off my "cheap ass" sense a tingling. I will look into it and see, have a bunch of tbas atm. :x

[Claire]

I get the feeling that I'll like Wraith too. I just don't have the time!!

[Llaph]

@ claire:
I did not like him as much in the previous two books until his. It will be well worth the wait, so atleast you will have a book to look forward to. :)

@mello:
12.99 for an f'ing e-book ... it better talk ... no wait all my books talk to me ... that is as dumb as the pricing on J.R. Ward's books. Sheesh!

[Jax]

LOL - I love perusing this thread!
The wide range of choices is awesome!
And it shows how certain choices tend to be more popular in certain countries than others...

I noted when I stuck my nose into a local bookstore here, that quite a Few of J.R Ward's books are on sale...
so they become cheap reads for us! :)

[Dale]

Llaph wrote: "@ claire:
I did not like him as much in the previous two books until his. It will be well worth the wait, so atleast you will have a book to look forward to. :)

@mello:
12.99 for an f'ing e-book ...."

Well, they can talk in a way with Whispersync from audible.com. You can switch from a audio book to the kindle book or you may read and listen at the same time Immersion Reading. http://www.audible.com/mt/wfs/narrow/...

[Mello ❣ Illium ✮Harry✮ ☀Myrnin☀ Torin]

Llaph wrote: "@ claire:
I did not like him as much in the previous two books until his. It will be well worth the wait, so atleast you will have a book to look forward to. :)

@mello:
12.99 for an f'ing e-book ...."

Lol! Told you it was expensive. Makes me glad I absolutely loved the book considering how much it is.

[Llaph]

@dale:
I am blind so I always have to listen to my books now. I usually get my books from a library for the blind, but since I got an I-Phone for christmas I have been buying e-books to listen to on my phone. (I refuse to sit at my computer to listen to a book.... ) The thing that sucks is that the kindle app does not work wit voice over on my phone so no kindle books! I am stuck with IBook and Nook, I will admit to using Ibook though ... being able to hit buy and use my apple id makes things easier since I don't have my debit card memorized and am lazy. :x

Oh, I haven't figured out caliber either, the one time I tried it did not want to work with my screen reader. Tabbing aimlessly and hoping to hit what I want is a pain and I save that for transferring my bookshare books through I-Tunes to my phone.
I have no idea how other blind people use it all of the time and don't want to break things.

@mello:
I will have to see, I will add it to the wishlist list and if it does not show up I will treat it like I did other books and flat out buy it. If I remember it....

Sun God Seeks…Surrogate? (Accidentally Yours, #3) by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Interesting, I think there was an influx of whiners though …. I think it was because I read them in a row with no break so to speak. I have 1 more book with is more of a novella to read … or I will start something else who knows! Not like I have a lot to do anyways.
I have stuff to do, but I am being such a horrible procrastinator….

[Zeenat]

Alright, I'm going to try the Sookie Stackhouse books. I'll give the first two a chance, even if I don't like the first one, since I'm tainted by True Blood (and I hate that show)

Starting

[D.C.]

The show TrueBlood blew grits. I'm a huge Southern Vampires (what they now call Sookie Stackhouse) fan - I've read them since the first book came out - publish date and Duane has it read and put to bed. Season One kind of followed the first book, and then Season Two kicked in and, after two episodes, the TV went off. All I can say is Charlaine must really have needed the money to let them destroy her series that completely. What a load of sh*t that series turned out to be!

Of course, this is just my opinion, so don't make me put on the fire retardant undies!