Vaginal Fantasy Book Club discussion
Book Discussion & Recommendation
>
I Just Finished Reading (or I'm Reading Next!)
I got for Christmas Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon, finished, lots of fun with the end of the Mayan calendar
Frozen Heat by 'Richard Castle' , still reading and having way to many fan girl squees with burglary detectives Malcolm and Reynolds
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs, not started yet, new Alpha and Omega, Yippie!
And Cold Days by Jim Butcher, finished, Dresden is back as the Winter Knight. Awesome!!
Over the holidays I read The Native Star
which was a great Western-steampunk with just a little bit of romance. I also finished Warprize
which is a fantasy with a vaguely Middle Eastern flavor. It's lush and slow-moving in a good way and the central romance was pretty great. I'll definitely be checking out the second books in both these series!
Just read the third book in the Succubus Dreams series and I'm neurotically refreshing my hold list at the public library for when the fourth book will be ready for me to pick up. The ending on the third book...I've never been so pissed off and upset about a book (in a good way) and I need to know what will happen next! I even talked about it when my best friend and I hardly ever discuss books with him!I'll finish Kiss of Snow in the psy-changeling series and will start on Tangle of Need tonight. Then I'll have no more of that series until the next book comes out. *le sigh*
So far this month I have read The Goblin King (VF), Outlander(VF) and Old Man's War(Sci Fi).Currently reading Stormdancer(Fantasy) shall tell you girls soon if it is good or not. There is so much hype for this particular book...Hopefully it lives up to it though it probably will not. :)
Claire wrote: "Over the holidays I read The Native Star which was a great Western-steampunk with just a little bit of romance. I also finished Warprize"
Claire, be prepared for a tear-jerker in Warsworn!!! That book is all sorts of emotional.
@Olivia, we have a "The Goblin King" thread on last month's discussion board!
I've read all the Outlander books and love them! I've told all my reader friends and gotten them hooked as well. Also read the Goblin King - liked the take. Now I'm reading Frostbound by S. Ashwood. I'll checkout Warprize and Warsworn, thanks!
Dajinxed1 wrote: "I got for Christmas Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon, finished, lots of fun with the end of the Mayan calendar
Frozen Heat by 'Richard Castle' , still reading and having way to many fan girl sque..."
I like your taste in books! I didn't realize a new Patricia Briggs one was out, and I need to read Time Untime as well!
The Handmaid's Tale is excellent, hope you are liking it so far. :)
A Memory of Light by Jordan & Sanderson. Finally the last book after over 20 years!
So, after I finished Kiss of Snow and Tangle of Need, I went back to Richelle Mead's Succubus series. I finished #4 and #5, and started on #6 last night.Not sure what I'll read next. I did end up putting a hold on Mead's Vampire Academy even though it's YA.
I just finished reading City of Bones, the first in the Mortal Instruments series. I am now reading Heat Wave, by Richard Castle. I had no idea these books actually existed! I love Castle!
I just finished "Cast in Shadow", thanks to another member of this group in a different thread. I have already started to read the second book on my tablet and have the next three on hold at the library.
I finished reading River Road by Suzanne Johnson. Pretty enjoyable urban fantasy with wizards, I think.Now reading Dark Dealings by Kim Knox. This is fantasy romance/erotica. The hero is pretty crude, but he's opening the heroine's eyes to her own magic and how she's actually being used by those around her. The story's a bit dark, with dark, twisted characters. I'm enjoying it very much.
I started reading The Beekeeper's Apprentice last night. It's definitely not worth the hype, but I'll finish it anyway.ETA: I didn't finish it after all. I got halfway through and couldn't read it anymore. It's like badly written fanfic (badly written in that it was all telling and not showing with the most pretentious Mary Sues I've ever read...the prose itself was well done though). I was bored and moved on to other things.
you should read heat, so want to buy ur book but have no money on my card
I just finished Days of Blood and Starlight, the sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor. It was really, really good. I feel it might just be up for book of the year for me (I know it's very early to decide that though)! Highly recommend this series, I can't wait for the third book!
Just finished Sarah MacLean's A Rogue by Any Other Name. I really liked her Love by the Numbers series, but I had a real problem with the premise of this one, which made it difficult to feel anything beyond annoyance. I also started skimming towards the end because the writing devolved into pure cheese.
Someone mentioned the JR Ward Black Dagger Brotherhood series at some point so I gave it a try. I'm enjoying it enough that I've stuck with the series. Very sexy although the sex scenes tend to all be very alike. Still, some cool story lines. If you are very into brooding, tortured vampires, you'll like this series.It would be nice to have a hero who is something other than huge and well-muscled.
Julie wrote: "I just finished Days of Blood and Starlight, the sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor. It was really, really good. I feel it might just be up for book of the year for me (I know it..."I loved those books!! So good, the first "angle" books that I was able to actually get into!
Just finished Riveted by Meljean Brook, the 3rd Iron Seas book. This is one of the better romance books I've read (and it doesn't have an alpha male love interest...yay!). I liked this one even better than the Iron Duke, and much better than the 2nd Iron Seas book (couldn't get into the 2nd book, just didn't enjoy the two main characters or the story at all).
Just finished reading The Psychic and the Sleuth, by Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon. First time reading anything by these authors and I liked it well enough. Though I have read better M/M romance books.I'm reading another book by them next, called, House of Mirrors, which seems more interesting. It's set around 1900 and one of the main characters is the owner of a traveling carnival. Can't go wrong with carnies.
Finished the first book of the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead. Interesting story world, but it's very weird to read a book that's so YA after reading so many adult romance books. :p
I've recently completed Back to the Good Fortune Diner and am now reading Forbidden Jewel of India. Both incredibly rich novels published by Harlequin.
Mod
I just finished
and now I'm working on
.
Claire wrote: "Over the holidays I read The Native Star "I loved The Native Star. The next book is really great, you actually get a really solid HEA and the hero's backstory explained. I also love that it's just two books in the series. Sometimes I can only commit to so much.
I tried to read book one of the Collegia Magica series, but I didn't even make it 100 pages into the first book before I abandoned it. It was boring, overwritten, and I didn't care about the characters or anything going on.I finished the second Desperate Duchesses book by Eliosa James. I really did not like the first book because I thought it was tedious and I felt the characters were silly, but this one was better.
Mary wrote: "Claire wrote: "Over the holidays I read The Native Star "I loved The Native Star. The next book is really great, you actually get a really solid HEA and the her..."
The second one is definitely on my (much too long) TBR list. Goodreads does have a 3rd and 4th book listed, but they look like they deal with the next generation of characters.
Mary wrote: "Claire wrote: "Over the holidays I read The Native Star "
I loved The Native Star. The next book is really great, you actually get a really solid HEA and the her..."
There are only two books published because the author got dropped by her publisher. Last I checked, she plans to self-publish the rest of the series.
"I loved The Native Star. The next book is really great, you actually get a really solid HEA and the her..."
There are only two books published because the author got dropped by her publisher. Last I checked, she plans to self-publish the rest of the series.
Ender wrote: "Just finished Riveted by Meljean Brook, the 3rd Iron Seas book. This is one of the better romance books I've read (and it doesn't have an alpha male love interest...yay!). I liked this one even..."
This is what I have on deck to read next. I'm halfway through Heart of Steel. I really like Archimedes and his sister. Yasmeen, I'm on the fence about. Sometimes I'm really drawn into her character, and sometimes she's just too much the tough, abrasive heroine. I really enjoy Meljean Brook's Iron Seas world, and The Iron Duke was my fave book out of the 2012 VF selections.
I also started Nicholas by Elizabeth Amber. It's the first book in her 'Lords of Satyr' series. It's really trashy - the prologue has sexy times, even. I think it was supposed to be character-defining sex, though. As in, these dudes are satyrs! Satyrs have sex! But sacred pagan sex!) But, yeah, there are stock characters so far and alpha males, but not as hilariously full-on crazy as the Nina Bangs dino shapeshifter series to make up for it. I kind of bought this book for the sake of eye-rolling, though, and not because I thought 'satyr-faerie romance' screamed quality storytelling. It's at least gloriously out there enough to make me giggle.
In between reading the book of the month for Vaginal Fantasy and The Sword and Laser book clubs I'm catching up and reading some of the previous monthly picks from last year.Right now I'm almost halfway through Grimspace and I'm liking it so far.
I've also been reading The Dresden Files and have read the first three. I plan on reading the rest.
Just finished
and will probably start
next.
I just finished the steampunk/vampire novel Kiss of Steel (yeah, wtf is right). I think I saw it on one of the ladies Goodreads shelves a few weeks ago.I'll probably continue with the series to see what happens in the world, even though I have to admit it definitely won't be at the absolute top of my list due to the predictable "you're mine and you will submit to my advances since you need my protection" bullshizzle. I really hate that dynamic. If you hated it in the Iron Duke, then you'll hate this book. If it didn't bother you at all AND you liked the alpha male way of Singh's Psy-changeling series, then I suspect you'll really like this book.
Gunnhildur wrote: "I'm almost halfway through Grimspace...[and] I've also been reading The Dresden Files..."
How funny! I tried to get the next Grimspace books from the library, but we don't have them! And I just put the Dresden books on my "to get" list for this weekend. I tried to read them years ago because I really liked the TV series, but the writing was so bad that I doubt I got to page 20 on Storm Front. I'm going to try again though. My tolerance for bad writing has gone way up recently. :p
BonnieBew wrote: "I'm halfway through Heart of Steel. I really like Archimedes and his sister. Yasmeen, I'm on the fence about. Sometimes I'm really drawn into her character, and sometimes she's just too much the tough, abrasive heroine."
I think every character annoyed the heck out of me in that second book, and I don't know why. I suppose none of them really felt like real people to me.
Read & skimmed We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (a book on the genocide in Rwanda in the mid 90s). Though the book is really poorly organized, I would recommend it to everyone. It was a tragedy, and the world was partly to blame for not speaking up against it. Every chapter has story after story from survivors (and thankfully, no pictures) and goes into how the UN and the media ignored it. It really makes you wonder what is going on right now that we aren't speaking up about (or are outright ignoring), too. :(
Mod
. Now that I'm more invested in the series I'm getting nitpicky about things, but I'm still loving it!
I just finished A Study in Scarlet and now I am starting City of Ashes from the Mortal Instruments series.
I just finished the last two in the series that includes In Bed with A Highlander. I actually like the second one more than the other two.
Someone pmed me Firelight by Kristin Callihan as a recommendation (well actually they recommended the second book in this series). I can't say my major annoyance with the book without a major spoiler, but all in all...it has a female character that kicks ass and I digged that. It's a paranormal historical romance if I had to categorize it. Phantom of the Opera meets Buffy (at least at the end...sorta)?
I read Frostbite last night, book two from the Vampire Academy series. I liked this one better than the first because it wasn't all about high school drama. The main character is impulsive and aggressive, which is a nice change. If you like (or don't mind) vampires and don't mind YA/high school settings, I'd recommend the series (so far). :)
I just finished reading "The Dark Knight"
. Wonderful read for anyone who likes good guys wear black and thoroughly enjoy the assassin's creed series (especially Ezio).Next I'll probably resign myself to read my local book club Feb. pick "Glow"
.
I just loved Breath of Fire
by Tammy Kane. About a Elera the dragonslayer who rescues Karl from being a virgin sacrifice and in reward demands his viriginity.
Just finished Stormdancer and Bad Austen: The worst stories Jane never wrote. Both were quite good, a little average but good.I'm currently half way through Beautiful Creatures because the movie is coming out soon, now I'm wishing I hadn't bought the stupid book. >.<
I've been really busy with work projects so I picked some nice light HR to read for the past week. I just finished Unveiled and Unclaimed. Unclaimed is the story with a virgin hero that Felicia was talking about a couple hangouts ago. I liked both of them, but am really looking forward to the 3rd in the series, Unraveled. Smite seems like the most interesting brother to me, and there have been just enough hints at his "tragic past" to keep me interested.I also bought One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean and am looking forward to that - smart girls for the win!
I probably won't read it and Unraveled back to back because they seem like they might have similar plot lines and I don't want to get bored. Anyone else get a little annoyed by the "sibling sets" romance trope? Milan's series is about 3 brothers; MacLean's is about 2 (I assume book #3 will focus on the 3rd) sisters. Is this just an easy way to get a multi-book deal, or are these the literary equivalent of soap operas?
I got off to a good start with reading in January.Just finished The Name of the Wind on audio book. Really solid epic fantasy.
Some of my favorite Urban Fantasy reads of January include:
Bayou Moon - I just love Ilona Andrews
Once Burned - A great spin-off series of Jeaniene
Frost's Night Huntress World
Some enjoyable LitFic picks:
Middlesex - A good coming of age/coming of boy story by Jeffrey Eugenides
Gone Girl - A deliciously dark & twisted tale by Gillian Flynn
Disappointing reads:
Outlander - sorry, I hated this month's VF pick
The Sisters Brothers - this may be the first western that I've read, by Patrick deWitt, and at times I was really drawn into the story, but alas, it never really seemed to go anywhere
Notorious Nineteen - Come on Janet Evanovich, this series seems to have devolved into cookie cutter caricatures plugged into the same plot. Once upon a time, there was character development in this series, but that is a thing of the past
Hissy Fit - a moderately entertaining Chick Lit tale from Mary Kay Andrews, unfortunately predictable and the heroine meandered toward annoying a bit too often
Valerie wrote: "I got off to a good start with reading in January.Just finished The Name of the Wind on audio book. Really solid epic fantasy.
Some of my favorite Urban Fantasy reads of January include:
Bayou ..."
I think Bayou Moon is my favorite of the Edge series (still have to read the last one) and I really hope it gets picked one month for a VagFan group read!
I finished the rest of the Vampire Academy series last night: Shadow Kiss, Blood Promise, Spirit Bound, and Last Sacrifice. I couldn't put them down (even though I had some major logical issues with her story and disagreements about her worldview). I really didn't think I'd like a YA series that much. I've liked Richelle Mead's stories better than any other author in the last few months, even though her prose is...not that great.
Over in the Classic Trash Bookclub we are reading Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt. My mom was a huge gothic romance reader when I was a kid, and I am excited to see if these books are more than just Jane Eyre ripoffs. I want some high drama in my romance!
Finished Moonglow, book 2 in the Firelight series (I read the first last week). Not sure when book 3 comes out.The world is a mix of historical romance & magic/paranormal. I'd say the series is somewhat above average for your typical romance novel.
Just finished
which I enjoyed a great deal. Gave it a five and reviewed it. I'm about to start
.
Vaginal Fantasy Book Club
Books mentioned in this topic
Hot and Badgered (other topics)The Black Lily (other topics)
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (other topics)
Neon Gods (other topics)
Slave to Sensation (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Philippa Stockley (other topics)Olivia Waite (other topics)
Shelly Laurenston (other topics)
Nalini Singh (other topics)
Ann Aguirre (other topics)
More...
I recently read House of Suns, which was a beautifully written space opera, though the end felt a bit anti-climactic to me.
Since I plowed through my re-read Outlander early in the month, I also re-read Dragonfly in Amber (Book 2). DiA was as far as I'd made it into the series before, but I got started on Voyager (Book 3) today. I'll probably get through all 7 current books just in time to re-read them before the 8th comes out in the fall. :P