I Just Finished Reading (or I'm Reading Next!)

[KC]

I'm halfway through both and , and I just finished . I'm debating which book to start next, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands or The Native Star. Oh! I also got The Killing Moon from the library... so yeah, between those three.

[Teresa]

I just finished last book in the Fever series by Karen Marie Moening (Shadowfever).

I'm reading 'The Water Witch' book 2 in the Fairwick Chronicles series by Carol Goodman.

Once that's done, I'm going to tackle Daughter of Smoke and Bone. :)

[Anna]

I just finished Master of Crows, having not read it with the group. Oh my god I loved it. Such subtly beautiful moments. I loved the rough edges of the characters and the world. Simple details really brought it to life. So happy to have been introduced to it here.

[Katie]

I just finished reading The Compound and even though it is a YA book it has such an adult message that I think adults would enjoy it to. The characters had depth without a huge description.

[JadeShea]

I'm reading Beautiful Disaster again, because the second one is coming out next month, and I can not wait for it. I'm also half way through with Afterlife and I'm really enjoying it so far.

[Eddie]

I just discovered a new series to obsess over: Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer.

I am a geek girl who grew up in Wyoming in the 70's and I was wild about Pirates and the sea. These books are the wish fulfillment of my 14 yr old self.

A young orphan from the streets of London dresses as a boy and goes to sea as a Ship's Boy in the British Navy. Along the way (in-between pitched battles with pirates and ship-board politics) she deals with getting her period (she thinks she is dying of a strange plague!), falls in love with a fellow Ship's Boy and has quite a passionate sexual awakening.

I started the first one yesterday at 8pm and ended up staying awake until I finished it at 4am. This book transported me both to the high seas of its setting, AND to the days of my first geeky passions. A double win!

[Clayton]

Looking at the nominees for the March books I came across THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern . What an amazing book! Every character is magical and poignant in their own special way. The mysteries behind the circus grab your attention at every turn and each one is revealed in a mystical scene of sensory delight that you can't stop reading. Read this book!!!!!!! !!!! ! ..... !!!

[Eddie]

Clayton wrote: "Looking at the nominees for the March books I came across THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern . What an amazing book! Every character is magical and poignant in their own special way. The mysteri..."

I so agree - this book was so visually sumptuous!

[Claire]

Anna wrote: "I just finished Master of Crows, having not read it with the group. Oh my god I loved it. Such subtly beautiful moments. I loved the rough edges of the characters and the world. Simple details real..."

That might be my favorite new title I've read in this group!! Glad to hear others loved it just as much.

[Justine]

I just finished Trust Me on This. It was okay, but didn't have me laughing out loud like many of Jenny Crusie's other books did.

I'm reading Slave to Sensation next. I started the Psy-Changeling series in the middle, then went back to read the rest. Because I found Lucas a bit annoying in later books, I never went back to read Slave. But the Ghost's story Heart of Obsidian is coming out in June, and I want to make sure I have all the details on the Psy Net and Council.

[Melissa]

Marked this as a Want to Read; Maybe one we could choose as a pick of the month.
The Collector (Dante Walker #1) by Victoria Scott.
I just love the tag line "He makes good girls...bad."

[Ami]

Sometime today I'll be just finished with Michael Grant's "Light" (#6 "Gone") and next I'll be reading "Rise" (#3 "Eve") by Anna Carey and "Walking Disaster" (#2 "Beautiful Disaster") by Jamie McGuire.

[Cynthia]

Recently reread the Outlander series which I love. Just wish the next one would come out!

With the new season starting, I got sucked back in to game of thrones. Finished book 4 and starting book 5. I have to say, I skip the chapters of the characters I don't care for.

[Mary]

I just started reading Heat Wave by Richard Castle. I recently discovered the Nikki Heat series after watching the ABC series Castle for over 3 years. I never knew they were actual books until seeing them in my local bookstore. I also found imagining Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic as the characters makes it 100% more enjoyable.

[Dajinxed1]

Mary, I Love the Niki Heat books. I just laugh
Myself silly over Roach.

I just finished the Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh and I WANT MORE! I may have to check out her psy-changeling series.

[Melissa]

Just finished Breaking The Wrong by Calia Read and loved it! :) Now I'm starting Fight With Me from the With Me Series by Kristen Proby

[xenu01]

I started the Kitty Norville series, got utterly hooked, and read 5 books in a week.

[Mitzi]

My good friend has a book out Amazon Kindle as a serial, it is called Deal With A Demon. Two episodes are out so far, and I'm enjoying it - she busted out the sexy times in part two, so no waiting through half the book to get to it! hehe Thought I would mention it here on VF in case anyone might be interested in checking it out!

http://www.amazon.com/Deal-Demon-Kind...

By the way, I think the Kindle Serial thing is pretty neat, treating a book kind of like a TV show - a new episode every week. Gives you something to look forward to!

[Glaiza]

I also loved The Night Circus!

I just finished Deathless by Catherynne Valente. Russian folklore + alt. history + magical prose.

At the moment, I'm in the middle of American Gods.

[Candice]

I also thought Master of Crows was great! I think the reason so many of us responded so positively was because it was a surprise; we don't know the author and we didn't have any preconceived ideas about what it was going to be about, therefore everything ended up amazing!
I've just finished The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group for work and Lord of the Flies for my brain, but can't seem to decide what I'm going to pick up for my ME pick out of my to-read list. Blargh!

[Jocelyn]

I'm currently reading a serial called Yesterday's Gone, which was released online, one chunk every week. I'm into "Season 1", and while it was difficult to keep all the characters straight, I soon got the hang of everyone's stories and am really enjoying it!

I'm also halfway through Divergent and am obsessed. I love it! I can't wait to read Insurgent and for book 3 to come out. The movie is looking pretty awesome, too.

Next on my list is actually finishing up the Millennium series. I waited for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest to come out in paperback (which took forever) and then never had a chance to pick it up! The first two books blew me away, and I'm dying to get started on number three.

I'm also going to start The Mortal Instruments series! Hopefully before the movie comes out ;)

[Candice]

Don't forget to read the Infernal Devices series after Mortal Instruments - IMO A far better series by this author, and the paperback for the third one came out last month :)

[Audra]

I'm reading Mercedes Lackey at the moment.

[Claire]

I got all in a sci-fi mood with this month's picks and am almost done with Rebels and Lovers by Linnea Sinclair. This is the 4th (and last?) in the Dock Five Universe series and I'm loving it just as much as Hope's Folly. Devin is so not an alpha male character, the "kid" is actually helpful and not annoying, and Makaiden might even be a better heroine than Rya was. Can't wait to finish this one!

[Kelli]

Bitchie wrote: "I just finished the Experiment in Terror series by Karina Halle. There isn't much sex in the series (none at all til book 3 I think) but this is an excellent series. Kinda different, about a web se..."

I just read those all, too. In days. Lurved them.
They reminded me a little of the Stacia Kane books, Downside Series. Very fallible leads, dynamic characters, action, slow burning love kinda stuff dare I say a bit angsty. In a grown up angsty way.

Anyhoo...hope that's a new series for you. I'm off to check the goodold listopia now to see what my next dex/perry like book is going to be.

[Brianne]

I just finished Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen. Not one I would normally read but when the back says your marriage problems dont end because there is a zombie apocolyps I had to read it

[Cynthia]

Brianne. That sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out. Thx

[Sara]

I've finished Beautiful Creatures and am half way through The Host. I have the 2 books still to read and I have another 2 waiting to be read.

[Dajinxed1]

I just finished the first two books in the Underlight series.

Waiting for book three to come out. First two books are:
How Beauty Met the Beast and;
How Beauty Saves the Beast;
and the one coming out is How Beauty Loved the Beast.

Short, quick stories but fun. Little sex lots of tension. Looking forward to book three. Author is Jax Garran.

Now I'm back to the Jack Reacher series for a bit.

[Madelyn]

Just finished Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger. Read it. Now.

[Emily]

Just finished Game of Thrones. Now I'm on to reading Wool for S&L. Also this month I was pleasantly surprised in reading Souless and am going to have to add that to a mounting number of series I want to finish. (Along with Robin Hobb and all the Outlanders gah and GoT!!)

[KC]

Completed Song of Scarabaeus and Dearly, Departed in terms of fiction. I kind of felt "meh" on both, but I might pick up the sequel to Scarabaeus. Nonfiction wise, I finished Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking and that has been one of my favorite books that I've read this year.

Next up is Ghost Planet and The Killing Moon.

[Claire]

Last week I finished #3 in the Shifters Unbound series, Wild Cat, by Jennifer Ashley and have since read the sequel, as well as the novella Lone Wolf that just came out!

I'd definitely recommend this series to the group - plenty of sexytimes, but there is plot and substance as well. The writing is very fast-paced, and while a lot of the heroes have the alpha-male thing going on in spades, there are some gentler ones as well. I particularly like Ronan (from Bodyguard and Diego from the aforementioned Wild Cat. Diego's story is especially interesting because he's a human male in love with a Shifter woman and constantly has to prove himself the equal of the alpha Shifter guys around him.

[xenu01]

I just finished Gail Carringer's latest, Ettiquette & Espionage, and it was a fast, pleasant, very humorous read. I highly recommend it.

[Dajinxed1]

Finished three Reacher novels by Lee Childs. Killing Floor, Echo Burning and Tripwire. It is still a fun action/adventure series after 10 of the 16 - 20 Reacher books.

Reread Joan D Vinge's Cat series. Psion, Catspaw, and Dreamfall, still waiting for the fourth book since the 1990's. It can't just end with Dreamfall. That's just not nice.

Hmmm, 7 days since I last added to this list, no wonder nothing gets done at my house.

[Amy]

I just finished Good Omens and I'm currently reading A Game of Thrones. I'm a little disappointed I was led to believe it's extra dark and violent, so now I think those recommenders are ninnies.

[xenu01]

Madelyn wrote: "Just finished Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger. Read it. Now."


I have loved that book to tatters three times. It is a great favorite of mine.

[AJ]

Amy wrote: "I just finished Good Omens and I'm currently reading A Game of Thrones. I'm a little disappointed I was led to believe it's extra dark and violent, so now I think those recommenders are ninnies."

Oh it gets darker. Keep going.

[Vicky]

In the last month I read:

The Name of the Wind, which was great but not quite as zomg-amazing as I thought it would be.

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, a fun idea with spies in the early 1800s. I liked it but felt like the main couple were a bit immature which kind of annoyed me, lol.

The Night Circus, LOVED. It was a different reading experience, more artsy and abstract than literary. There were some things in the book that I don't usually like in reading (jumping timelines, vague characters) but it all seemed to work in this book and I didn't mind it so much.

[Elizabeth]

I just finished reading The Drowning Cityand The Bone Palace The books are part of a trilogy but you could read them all as stand-alone books because they don't really tie in at all.

The Drowning City was good, but it had some issues because it was the author's first book, but the 2nd book, The Bone Palace definitely showed the author's growth and improvement in the weak areas of her writing from the first book. The sex scenes tended to fade to black more often than not but I think it would be great alternate! The main character is a necromancer!It was the first series I read where the necromancer was not evil. It was a nice change.

[Nik]

I just finished Spider Wars, its part of the Shifter Lords series but is kinda apart as its told from a side characters pov.
I'm now reading Changeless the second book in the parasol protectrate series

[Isabell]

I just finished one of the Black Dagger books and I really like them. The onky irritating thing is, the books are split in two in german, that way you have a lot of cliffhangers and I had to read two books in one day, to see what happends. It's not Bad, but a bit irritating.
Next I want to read "shadow's claim" and "poison Princess".

[Dajinxed1]

Just finished Beauty Awakened by Gena Showalter. Not a Lords of the Underworld book but in the same universe. It is and Angels of the Dark book. The second I believe. I really liked it. The Lead Male starts off super alpha in his element but then is unsure later. I highly recommend it.

Next for me is the new Sherrilyn Kenyon book Inferno. Book 4 in her YA series the Chronicles of Nick. Been waiting for this and am super excited to get started on it.

I also have 4 Doctor Who books and Wool Omnibus Edition.

Haven't been able to find this month's picks at my Library yet. Still looking.

[Nadja]

Admit I'm very late to the party but started to make my way through the Anita Blake series. I'm still on the early books (Circus of the Damned, #3) and I have heard people say it will basically be a sex series with a powerhungry Anita at some point... I shall enjoy it until then and maybe further :D

What's been lying around my flat is too much to mention. I'm stuck somewhere in the Demon Cycle by Brett and for university I am reading books and articles about Gamification. I REALLY interesting subject if you're interested in games and business etc.

[Kathryn]

I can't be the only one diving into Charlaine Harris's Dead Ever After this week?!?

[Cynthia]

Oh no! I'm reading it too.

[Madelyn]

xenu01 wrote: "Madelyn wrote: "Just finished Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger. Read it. Now."


I have loved that book to tatters three times. It is a great favorite of mine."

*squee* Just remembering the flashbacks makes me all melty inside.


I just finished . I'm also trying to get caught up on the Septimus Heap books by Angie Sage. I'm currently reading .

[Vicky]

I read the Leviathan Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan, Behemoth and Goliath, a YA Steampunk WW1 Alternate History that is lots of fun. The Central Powers are "Clankers" and fight with steam-powered mechanical creations and the Allies are "Darwinists" who fabricate biological creatures from DNA (the Leviathan is an air ship based off the DNA of a whale), so the world building is really cool.

I finished up the Sookie Stackhouse series with Dead Ever After. I'm okay with how the series ended, but I think the series stretched on too long and was disappointed in how forced the book felt.

I finally read Assassin's Apprentice and the hype from S&L let me down. There were definitely some neat ideas behind it, but it just didn't do it for me. Does the series get better from here? Or should I just stop if I didn't like the first one?

[Alyssa]

I am currently reading by Lizzy Ford.

[Madelyn]

I finished Physik, so now I'm onto Queste. I will finish the series at another time; I'm just not into them right now.

I just finished Wool Omnibus for the Sword and Laser Book Club.

I get this month's picks from the library yesterday, so I just started Poison Princess.