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[Leea, Escape Artist]

Regina wrote: "So glad you loved it! I am checking in after working (seriously) an 80 hour week. Heading out for a weekend of camping in the northern woods in Wisconsin. Not sure if I will have service or not. :)"

Have a blast Regina!!

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Kay wrote: "Leea wrote: "I know some people have a hard time getting into the language or the way that some of the downside ghosts talk. Keep reading, it's a fantastic series.

I finished Sins & Needles - lov..."

I cannot wait to read it. It's been so hot here so we've been hangin' at the pool most days. Stay cool Kay! It's going to be so hot this weekend.

[Lisa]

Hope you have a fun, relaxing weekend, Regina :D

I just finished and glad I kept with it. I almost didn't and it was funny - as I kept reading the star rating kept going up LOL! It just got better and better. AND, little ol' Wenatchee, Wash. was in there! Blew me away. That's our "big city" (but it's not really big) where we do most of our errands and shopping, medical, etc. But for major stuff, we have to go either to Seattle or Spokane. Anyway, for a zombie book, it was pretty darn good. For serious horror. Otherwise, I like my zombie books with some humor mixed in with the horror.

And I finished and loved it! It even brought out some tears.

Now I'm starting as a group read (a library loan) and on audio to listen to this weekend during yard work.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Can't wait to hear how you like Devils Metal... I love Halle's writing.

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

I can't wait to read Hunted! I'm going to read that after Come Alive.

[Regina]

Thanks! Who is reading Devil's metal?! I have that and want to read it. I liked the beginning of Come Alive but the Dex pov is getting old. I want Perry back.

Leea did you read ?

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Devil's Metal is a different vibe from her other writing. It's sort of like the movie Almost Famous.

Wasn't Hunted great? Really liked that book.

Started

[Regina]

Ah I see Lisa is. :)

Stacia that is what I thought of when I read the description.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Regina wrote: "Thanks! Who is reading Devil's metal?! I have that and want to read it. I liked the beginning of Come Alive but the Dex pov is getting old. I want Perry back.

Leea did you read [bookcover:On Eve..."

Not yet... but I need to. I can't wait to read more about Ellie.

[Lisa]

Whoever said "Dex is such a guy!" is SO right! LOL! OH, that just reminded me of a convo between Oberon and Atticus!! Won't say anything more. You have to hurry and read it, Wendy! Just a little teaser :D

Yep, I haven't officially started Devil's Metal (weird, the 'add book/author' isn't working right now)yet but plan to tonight. It's queued up and ready. Waiting.

What are you planning to take to read, Regina? Anything?

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

Next week sometime. Reading , then . After that, I'm all over Atticus... at least in my fantasies.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I love the cover model for Atticus. He's so pretty.

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

Sooooo pretty.

[Lisa]

He IS. I feel like an echo. I tried to see who the model is. Just curious. Only found the name of the artist. Here's his website. Hey, I recognize some of these covers! Not sure if these people are real or not. They look real. And beautiful. Disgusting. *sigh*
http://genemollica.com/gallery02/

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

wow, he's done a lot of familiar books.

[Domino (aka Meme)]

Leea wrote: "I know some people have a hard time getting into the language or the way that some of the downside ghosts talk. Keep reading, it's a fantastic series.

I finished Sins & Needles - loved it and I c..."

thanks Leea. i'll stick with it. the language takes a bit used to. and all these references to the church. i do like some of Chess's lines though.

[Domino (aka Meme)]

Kay wrote: "Domino (aka Meme) wrote: "started listening to . i thought it would be pretty good, but i'm having a hard time getting in to it =("

It's the downside language tha..."

yeah Kay, the language is distracting. plus i'm not really getting what the story is about. i know Chess is like which or something that sends ghosts back to "their home", but then she has this drug problem and is in deep with a drug dealer. i'm just trying to figure out story line. i'm going to give it more time and hopefully some things'll be cleared up for me =D

[D.G.]

Finished and it was AMAZING! The best of the trilogy!

Isn't it awesome when a trilogy goes from good to best instead of the other way around? It's so disappointing when you read a great book and have the sequels turn out mediocre to downright horrible (I'm looking at you Delirium.)

I'm also listening to , as part of my Agatha Christie series re-read (although I haven't read this one) but if the bingo shelf fits , I'll stop "Mirror" and listen to that next.

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

Domino (aka Meme) wrote: "Kay wrote: "Domino (aka Meme) wrote: "started listening to . i thought it would be pretty good, but i'm having a hard time getting in to it =("

It's the downside ..."

The first one was a bit confusing to me too, but once you get through the beginning and the first book it gets amazing.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

D.G. wrote: "Finished and it was AMAZING! The best of the trilogy!

Isn't it awesome when a trilogy goes from good to best instead of the other way around? It's so disapp..."

Right there with you on Delirium.

[Domino (aka Meme)]

Wendy F wrote: "Domino (aka Meme) wrote: "Kay wrote: "Domino (aka Meme) wrote: "started listening to . i thought it would be pretty good, but i'm having a hard time getting in to i..."

thanks Wendy. i'll push through. wanna get to the amazing part. hehe =D

[Ian]

I really loved Eleanor & Park. I'm kind of glad it's rating high because it doesn't quite fit neatly into a genre type and I wondered if it would find a market. I guess good writing rises to the top.

I'm reading The Dr Pepper Prophecies at the moment. Very much a British cute and quirky chick lit novel. It's an independent so there are a few editing issues but I'm liking it a lot.
And The Raven Prince which I was chastised for removing from my TBR.

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

I'm loving Eleanor & Park. It is much sweeter than I anticipated.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Wendy F wrote: "I'm loving Eleanor & Park. It is much sweeter than I anticipated."

It's so sweet and touching. I love park!

[Marcella]

I finished . I have to say that I think Kaleb is a favorite of mine. Although I had a few issues with the book, overall I loved it.

[Domino (aka Meme)]

Ian wrote: "I really loved Eleanor & Park. I'm kind of glad it's rating high because it doesn't quite fit neatly into a genre type and I wondered if it would find a market. I guess good writing rises to the t..."

ooh Ian, i love The Raven Prince. i wasn't so thrilled about the other books in the quartet, but Raven Prince was definitely a keeper for me. i hope u like it =D

[Kay]

I finished too. I really liked it. It's nice to return to romance with a Psy. Marcella, what did you think about the ending.

I also finished a quick YA ...finally these are available in ebook for the U.S. I've been waiting forever to read this series and it turned out to be really cute, angsty teenage love. Looking forward to more.

[D.G.]

The ending of HoO was awesome. I was in shock, even though I knew it would happen eventually.

[Angie Elle, BaBAMB!!!]

I am starting .

[Marcella]

Kay wrote: "I finished too. I really liked it. It's nice to return to romance with a Psy. Marcella, what did you think about the ending.

I also finished a quick YA [boo..."

I really liked the ending Kay. It definitely leaves it open for another book. I'm interested to see what the end result will be of the decision that was made. Kaleb was an amazing character. The one thing I'm not sure I understood about him though was whether or not he broke Silence. Especially considering everything he went through and his motivations for retrieving Sahara.

[Regina]

I just finished Joyland - it was very enjoyable. Starting the audio of Angelfall! I am both excited and nervous to be reading it again.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Finished and had a love/hate with it. The humor was great and I laughed a lot but the story went on past a certain point to where the humor started getting old.

Started and loving it so far.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

It's July 1st. We are starting a new group read of Mr. Perfect for the month. The topic is up in the group read folder.

The poll results are in for the two following months. These are the group picks for upcoming reads.

Group Read for August

Group Read for Septemember

[D.G.]

I was totally enraged by a sub plot in so now I'm too mad to read anything. Hopefully I'll get out of the funk soon.

[Tellulah]

Got off NG. Kind of a Britney Spears story. But so many horrible people in it. And I had no idea what motivated the main character. The whole thing felt like an exhausting, pointless exercise in bullying. Wish I hadn't read it.

[Marcella]

D.G. wrote: "I was totally enraged by a sub plot in so now I'm too mad to read anything. Hopefully I'll get out of the funk soon."

What subplot are you enraged about?

[Lori]

Tellulah, thanks for the heads-up. I got "Between You & Me" from NG, too.

Making my way through by Mia March off NG - wooHOO! Loved her 1st book. This one seems to be just as good... still set in the sleepy Maine town. Colin Firth is supposed to be filming some scenes in that town, so that's the thread that binds the story together.

Also found two more series I like: J Kenner's Stark Trilogy: , , and from NG (another woooHOO) the 3rd book, . And it all started with a freebie! I can't tell if I'm non-discriminate when the book has really good steamy scenes or if I'm just going with what I, personally, like. This series isn't the best thing I've ever read, but I'm enjoying it - wrapped up in the characters and their lives. But it *is* another young, damaged billionaire and a younger damaged beauty; so yes, another bandwagon jumper. But... what can I say? I like it.

2nd series is about the Fitzgerald family that started with another freebie: , , and . More to that series, but haven't finished them yet. While there's a "sameness" of sorts to the stories, the characters aren't cookie-cutters. And the mysteries involved in the 1st two books were decent - not just after-thoughts in-between steamy scenes.

Yes, reading like no one's biz these days... not much else to do when it's 117-degrees outside! But also loving the break.

I need to start writing reviews, though... I'm way behind!

[D.G.]

Marcella wrote: "What subplot are you enraged about? "

It's a huge spoiler. I ranted in my review if you want to know the details.

[Kay]

Marcella wrote: "I really liked the ending Kay. It definitely leaves it open for another book. I'm interested to see what the end result will be of the decision that was made. Kaleb was an amazing character. The one thing I'm not sure I understood about him though was whether or not he broke Silence. Especially considering everything he went through and his motivations for retrieving Sahara."

The next book will be interesting for sure especially how will the Psy live now?

About Kaleb and Silence (view spoiler)[ Didn't he break Silence a long time ago? but his abilities are so strong that he's been masking it this whole time (hide spoiler)] <---Maybe DG can help clarify this.

I also loved the end when (view spoiler)[Kaleb let his shields down just for a second so that those two other TKs could see his bond with Sahara. (hide spoiler)]

[Marcella]

I thought he did too but I do not remember them mentioning it. I do not know if it was a given since they knew each other since they were young.

I did love that part as well. It was risky.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Hope everyone had a great weekend...

I finished - loved it, until the ending which just pissed me off but I have to say this is a must read for sure.

Now i'm going to read , Can't wait to get back inside the mind of Dex :)

[Marcella]

My weekend was ok Leea. I almost burst into flames from the heat here. Geez I hate summer.

I finished reading and since I couldn't really come up with something else to read, I decided to look through my Nook library and TBR list and decided on .

[D.G.]

About Kaleb's Silence (view spoiler)[ he said in the book that his Silence had always had a big crack and that crack was Sahara which sort of implied that his Silence was still up - and I think he sort of needed it to control his abilities. I don't think his Silence broke until he got her back though. And he says he doesn't feel empathy so I'm not sure that even 'cured' of Silence, he'll be all touchy feely. (hide spoiler)]

[Marcella]

That makes sense D.G. but at the same time (view spoiler)[didn't his silence have to be broken in order to feel anything at all. For example, when he went to see Sahara when they were younger and told her he didn't like Santano either. I think his Silence was broken and just because he didn't have empathy, doesn't mean it is in tact.(view spoiler)[

I guess it is up to interpretation. (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[D.G.]

Good point, Marcella. That said, I think (view spoiler)[ there are different levels of Silence. Some people seem to be completely Silent - I remember at some point the Changelings saying that Silent Psy had a stink and those were the ones that follow orders even if they had to kill innocents - while others looked Silent but have some feeling underneath, but which they control. (hide spoiler)]

But that's my theory, anyway. :)

[Anna (Bobs Her Hair)]

@D.G. and Marcella (view spoiler)[Silence was implemented to stop the serial killers, the rage, and high rates of insanity among the Psy. Since they couldn't eradicate specific emotions all emotions were suppresed. Kaleb did have a crack and he did have consequences (the pain he felt when Sahara touched him).

But I've also notice the Psy do feel emotions while seeming outwardly cold. Some are power-hungry, ambitious, and covetous. I think emotions bubble up and they suppress them, feel the pain, or compartmentalize (e.g. Kaleb).

Anyway, this is how I've interpreted the series. Hope this helps. (hide spoiler)]

[D.G.]

We knew the purpose of Silence - we're just trying to figure out the minutiae. :)

Only really powerful Tk (cardinals or really high in the gradient like Jude) feel pain when they didn't follow Silence...it's called resonance or dissonance (don't remember the exact word) (view spoiler)[ and this was a way to train them so they wouldn't lose control of their abilities. Non powerful Psy don't feel pain if they don't follow Silence because nothing happens if they lose control. (hide spoiler)]

[Kay]

Thanks for clarifying Silence, DG & Anna. It's hard to keep up sometimes especially since I don't re-read any of these books and it seems that I'm only reading 1-2 books a year in this series. There should be a wiki page. LOL

[D.G.]

HAHAHAHA! It's amazing how I remember all the details of this series considering that I've only read them all once. :)

[Marcella]

Thanks ladies! This helps a lot. There are so many details to remember when it comes to this series. As we are discussing it it is refreshing my memory so thank you!

I just hope the next book is about Aden or Vasiq.