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Too close to end to be uncertain. I have switched to a book that is #7 and colorful.
I think I'm going to pick one of my multitude of #2 books for this round and save my #7 book in the PsyCop series for Sunday and our winning round. ;)
ReviewHome for a Spell
10/24 2 stars
You go to an apartment complex front office, the manager emerges in a mis-buttoned shirt, with an open belt, pulling himself together. On the way to the apartment he talks about all the young single women he rents to while leering at you. The apt bedroom has a huge ceiling mirror over the bed, it's cracked. He says it will be fixed before you move in, he insists it must be part of the decor.
HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON???
Second issue--if the subtitle didn't indicate witch, you'd never know she was supposed to be one.
Two overly-generous stars because I'm on vacation.
Week 8.5Spot 72 - Series #2
Long Time Gone by S.E. Jakes
Read: 10/24
Rating: ★★★★½
So remember how I wasn’t that huge a fan of the first book in the series, I mean I liked the characters and all, but the overall book just didn’t pull together for me…yeah NOT the case this time around! I really, really enjoyed this one. Of course snarky alpha males and crazy shenanigans always make me happy.
It’s been four months since Tom chose to leave the partnership with Prophet to protect the man he was falling for from Tom’s bad luck. And he’s been nothing but miserable since. Leaving Prophet was the biggest mistake of his life and Tom knows it. He’s written the man an email almost every day since, holding out hope for some sort of response even if it was to tell him to back the hell off, and in four months, nothing. Now there’s a hurricane bearing down on his home in New Orleans and all he wants is to get home to help keep his aunt safe. Being on the back ass side of nowhere on assignment though, and under orders to stay there, isn’t helping keep Tom sane.
Prophet hasn’t let himself read any one of Tom’s emails because he knows once he does he’ll head back to the man that left him behind. Notwithstanding the fat that when Tom ran so did Prophet. He’s buried himself deep into a few black ops missions and left EE behind. It’s now or never though. Prophet knows if he takes the next assignment they want to hand his way he won’t be coming back up for air any time in the near future if at all. Reading Tom’s letters is the life line he needs to pull him back and they quickly send him straight into the eye of a hurricane to protect Tom’s loved ones from nature’s deadly force. Now if only the hurricane was the hard part of this trip.
First of all I’m more than a little in love with Tommy and yes, I still melt every time Prophet calls him that. There’s something about that boy that just does it for me…oh so hot piercings and tattoos certainly help. I like that in this book Tommy certainly doesn’t want to open up about his past and reveal his vulnerabilities, but he’s realized his stupid and is working to get past it. None of that is easy though and it’s still like pulling teeth but he’s learning.
On the other side I want to smack Proph and make him open up a little bit. You can just feel him yearning to trust Tommy and tell him all, but not wanting to get Tom hurt. I want to just shake him and say SPILL IT ALREADY! Stupid boys! I do enjoy snarky Prophet though and like him as a compliment to Tom. They’re a good, strong team.
I appreciated that the paranormal type elements were a bit more toned down here. Tom’s hunches and voodoo senses are still in play, but there was a lot less of the shenanigans with Prophet’s ghosts. I’m still not even really sure what’s going on there and those segments usually throw me out of the story a little bit.
If I had one other minor little irksome thing about this series it’s that sometimes I get a little confused as to who is talking between Prophet and Tom as their voices are very similar. When they get to talking back and forth to each other and throwing out their own little jokes and jabs the “he said/he replied’s” get left off and I’d lose who was saying what. It’s a minor annoyance as it doesn’t happen often enough to really bug me, but is does detract from my ease at reading the story at times.
Still I enjoyed Tom’s past coming back to slap him in the face and say deal with me. I liked that it forced Tom and Prophet to start talking to each other and stop being quite so stupid. The epilogue really sealed the deal for me that these two are making progress. I know that Tom’s not going to back down, but is going to be there to help Prophet out when the going gets rough on his side.
Of course if I could have had anything more in this story to make me happy it would have been to see more of Aunt Della and her lovely borders in Dave and Roger. These three were awesome even when they’re getting their titillation on spying on some crazy hot reunion sex between Proph and Tommy. All three made me giggle at times and I wanted to see more interactions with the lot of them.
All in all the past history in New Orleans for Tom explained a lot and old grudges returning helped bring these two closer together. I’ll definitely be looking for a similar reveal on Proph’s part in the next book. It’s time he let Tommy in a whole heap of a lot closer. ☺ I’d give this one a solid 4.5 stars overall but I’ll round up this time as I really did enjoy the read and I want a Tommy to claim for myself! This could potentially be a bad thing though…they might have to commit me, I’m sure someone would think I was the crazy loony woman. ;) As I’d be a mindless drooling mess every time I looked across the room.
Now reading
and have quick read #7 ready for Sunday :)
Spot 72
Book: The Sweetest Thing by Jill Shalvis
Series: Lucky Harbor #2
Read date: 25.10.14
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
I loved it.
Tara and Ford has history. They were together when they were 17 and Tara got pregnant. Now 17 year later they are back in the same town, chemistry is till there, but Tara's fighting it because she doesn't want to get hurt again. To make things funnier, Tara's ex comes to town to win her again.
Alright everything's all set so as soon as Suzanne posts her book we can roll. Hopefully she'll be able to finish and post today so that we can roll at midnight CST. I'll be just closing the doors at work so I've made it easy for myself in to do it from my phone while I'm closing the bar. :)
So quick update while we wait for Suzanne's review...There were three potential teams that could be playing for the win today, including us, so far it looks like this.
Team 3 (us) - Waiting for Suzanne's post to roll - we need at 4 or higher to go for the win.
Team 1 - Posted already and they didn't roll high enough to be going for the win.
Team 2 - Still hasn't posted to the post your spot thread but they only need a 2 to be going for the win. Looks like they've rolled high enough and have started their reading.
As of 6:39AM CT Team 2 has one review posted and another member is reading for a dual win--SS and SSS--and is quite motivated.I'm watching the sun come up over the Atlantic Ocean from my hotel room, ignoring the whispers of my Kindle.
Team 2 now has 2nd of 4 reviews posted.
Not recently. I messaged her though so we'll see.
Not recently. I messaged her though so we'll see.
Jenne wrote: "Anyone heard from Suzanne?"no, I'm afraid she may think the deadline is midnight tonight.
Spot 72
Read: Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Date: 10/26/2014
Rating: ***
Review: Didn't really care for the first one and the second one was ok... Probably won't continue the series unless I'm desperate for another O Title.
Team 2 is one remaining reviewer from the win. happy reading, ladies.
Reading The Flaming Luau of Death (Madeline Bean #7). Will try to finish before bed; it will be my 5th book today, so no promises.
Review The Flaming Luau of Death
10/27 ★★★
Every author I've ever met prided herself on the accuracy and believability of what she wrote for publication. If s/he didn't know something, they did research. Writing is a profession, so people who get paid to write can declare research expenses on their tax return. If a writer visits a morgue for her raging-epidemic thriller, she can declare the cost of parking in the garage next door (if she keeps the receipt.)
I am certain Jerrilyn Farmer has lots of receipts. I suspect she listed every guilty pleasure she could think of, did every one in turn, and then wrote about it in The Flaming Luau of Death so they'd be proof that she needed to do the research. That's the only theory I have for all the details about spa visits and travel frills in this book. Unfortunately, these details could describe a spa in any mid-size US city, so they didn't make the tropical setting any more real and they certainly didn't add to the main story lines.
I learned about wasabi growing (sadly, I won't be able to declare that on my taxes.) I rooted for the nerd (we need to stick together.) I was confused that a book published in 2005 kept referencing lounge/bar/dance music much older than that, and disappointed that none of the recipes in a catering cozy sounded the slightest appetizing. I was happy that several of the story lines were resolved in the final pages of the book, but the solution to the murder seemed really lame. This wasn't a bad book, it just wasn't as engaging as a book about a fun group trip to Hawaii should have been (despite the inconvenient murder).
Jonquil wrote: "Reading The Flaming Luau of Death (Madeline Bean #7). Will try to finish before bed; it will be my 5th book today, so no promises."HOly crap, you're a super star!
It's not official yet, but it looks as though Roger may have pleaded and coaxed both his SS and SSS teams across the finish line, ahead of the competition. I'll bet he's worn out from the adrenaline, but thrilled.It was fun playing with you, ladies, but now I'm going to go read next to the Atlantic, while I still can.
It was great playing with you.Hope to see you all in next round.
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