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Michelle M LOL @ "down with the metrosexual" Can you imagine if you really did meet a man like one of the hunters or the BDB? I so cannot see it LOL ...how sad
Girl, I CAN see it. Problem is, that I can imagine it so well, I'm ruined for the silly creatures that inhabit day to day life. If a leather-clad, hard ass (in more ways than one), decisive man came along, damn skippy I'd jump him. Maybe I should start frequenting some biker bars...
Leather-clad, hard ass, Yummy! Love all BDB and Dark hunter. Dream about them. Just started Dark Thirst by Sara Reinke. Just finished Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione. Loved It!
Count me in on the trip to the biker bar!Finished Soul Mates Bound by Blood. OHG that was a smokin hot book. Started In the Blood, the follow up book to Rush of Wings, which I loved.
I too loved Desire Unchained!Luckily for me, it just needs to be sunny and chilly and my husband has his leather jacket and chaps to ride his motercycle! The stuff my dreams are made of! ; )
oh my, what have I started?and all give a hand to Josephine, who already has her leather-clad man!
Michelle M. wrote: "oh my, what have I started?and all give a hand to Josephine, who already has her leather-clad man!"
Michelle...yes, you are evil...and yes....you've definitely created a monster here...grrr
kudos to Josephine!
Well for me I work in research so most men I meet want to talk to me about statistics and poverty and while I feel great at the end of the day .... the men are well really smart LOL and I will leave it at that
Leather jacket and nice tight fitting jeans MMMM- delicious. I also have one of my own and it is getting warmer outside so that means more motorcycle riding. Is anyone else getting a little hot under the collar?
Liz wrote: "Leather-clad, hard ass, Yummy! Love all BDB and Dark hunter. Dream about them.
Just started Dark Thirst by Sara Reinke. Just finished Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione. Loved It!
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Yummy is right. I had wicked dreams after Lover Eternal, and then I read Lover awakened and phwoaaarrrr. What chance do nice, ordinary husbands have against Zsadist?
Just finished Bitten to Death and hmm. I dunno.
Just started Dark Thirst by Sara Reinke. Just finished Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione. Loved It!
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Yummy is right. I had wicked dreams after Lover Eternal, and then I read Lover awakened and phwoaaarrrr. What chance do nice, ordinary husbands have against Zsadist?
Just finished Bitten to Death and hmm. I dunno.
Luckily I found my husband before I found the BDB or else all would be lost.
Who am I kidding with 28(!) books checked out of the library, I leave myself no time for the man-hunt. Just finished Urban Shaman. Others have complained that CE Murphy muddled her myths, but I thought it was really good-mainly because the main character and her sidekick are just so damned likable.
I'm reading Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost now and having a hard time getting into it.
Especially because I picked up Gil's All Fright Diner from the library last night and it's yowling at me. It just seems like it's going to be so funny. I shall be crushed if it doesn't live up to expectations! I haven't read Martinez before-has anyone else?
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Also finished Linnea Sinclair's Gabriel's Ghost. It was a great read. It took me a while to finish it because my eyes can't really stand reading in front of the computer for a long time, but I'm so in love with "Sully." This is actually one of the rare occurrence when I actually wish I'm the heroine, and I have a "Sullivan" in my life. He is just one intriguing hero. I highly recommend the book.
I'm also on my last disc with Club Dead by Charlaine Harris, book 3 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. I'm starting to not like Bill at all. Eric, on the other hand, is starting to sound yummy.
Eric is my big blonde Viking and I adore him. Hmn. And I think even HE wears leather pants.
Wow. I have a one track mind.
Yes, Eric is definitely my choice of Sookie's men. Despite the fact that blonde never does much of anything for me. He's so cocky, but I feel like, hey, he's got enough reason to be. And no matter how arrogant and suave he might be, he's always there for Sookie in a pinch, whether it's winter-wear or certain death!
I love Club Dead especially the part where he is in Sookie's bed and she is like what are you doing and he says "snuggling" LOL
See! Cocky bastard, yet oh so cute. Such a fab dichotomy.
Yz wrote: "Finished An Enchanted Season. I think the best novella is the one by Nalini Singh. Second would be the one by Maggie Shayne. The other two are just okay. Also finished Linnea Sinclair's Gabriel..."
Eric just gets yummier... just keeo reading/listening :)
Just finished "Dance with the Devil"....I <3 Zarek...best DH book so far (I'm reading them in order..or trying to at least)
I TOLD you, Stavroula. Never doubt me, child. Now you know what the vicious Facebook fight was about. I still think I'd win him.
Stav...Mine just came in at the library and I am so excited Zarek was kind of tormented and I wanted to know if they tried to kill him on the helicopter at the end of Night Embrace. Plus I want him to have a HEA. Anyway we should compare notes when I am done :>
Dawn, you're going to love it....and yes, lets compare notes when you are done.
What do you think of the Gargoyle book? I tried to reserve it b&n by my job yesterday, but they were out of stock.
Dawn, you are so going to love it.
Michelle M. wrote: "I TOLD you, Stavroula. Never doubt me, child. Now you know what the vicious Facebook fight was about. I still think I'd win him."
We have a new addition to the DH fan club....Jaime read Fantasy Lover today and started the Kyrian one....she officially hates me AND you...be prepared to hear about it in person tonight
Ah, I love spreading the PNR, Dark Hunter addiction. Hey! Why don't all the Dark Hunter fans see how many people they can convert! Challenge issued!
I think The Gargoyle is a fantastic book. I am close to the end and I am kind of sad about it. This is one of the most compelling, intense, enthralling, and captivating books I have read in a longtime if ever. It is hard for me to explain the book but it is a love story between the two people I think the writer calls them misanthrope and the manic depressive/ schizophrenic artist. Anyway we are following this man who has been terribly burned and this women who has been alive for 700 years. In between Andrew Davidson writes these beautiful short stories which stories weave in and out of the main one. The short stories are about people sacrificing everything they have for love - which may or may not include their own life, they create and then are consumed or watch their gifts be destroyed, anyway it is amazing because these mini stories form these tentative connections to the main story.I just love it!
DarkHeart wrote: "Still on my YA kick, I finished the House of Night books this morning, and have pre-ordered the book due out next week (hardback!? sigh...). After my initial reservations, I found myself quite enj..."I haven't preordered the book but I saw on Amazon.com that you can preorder for $10.00 which is good for a hard back. I didn't initially like the first book and I read the 2nd because I had it and felt like I had to read it but then I found myself getting all of them and now I can't wait to read the next one.
I am reading High Stakes by Erin McCarthy and it's a hoot! Also reading Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani, I read her other books a few years back before getting into paranormal stuff and really liked her, so I thought I'd give it another try
Sue wrote: "I haven't preordered the book but I saw on Amazon.com that you can preorder for $10.00 which is good for a hard back. I didn't initially like the first book and I read the 2nd because I had it and felt like I had to read it but then I found myself getting all of them and now I can't wait to read the next one."LOL, yeah, I completely understand. Zoey put me off initially, but I enjoyed the story and looked forward to seeing what new mess she got herself in. While they don't rate up there with Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy and Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampires, they're still entertaining books.
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In the meantime, I started The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts. I have to know how this trilogy ends.
Will be picking up Dark Seduction by Brenda Joyce again. Not entirely sure yet how I feel about this book and I'm almost halfway done.
Yz, Sookie always getting the beat down is unfortunately something that continues throughout and is noted by a lot of people as irritating. But, I rationalize it by the fact that she is a mere little mortal spending time with all the big and bads. The fact that she throws herself into the fray and still survives is both a testament to her stupidity and her courage!Eric's role becomes much more central as the series rolls along and Sookie gets entrenched in vamp politics. He's a much more likable and realized character than Bill and I'm thrilled that he's increasingly at the forefront.
Hope you like the next one!
Also, I was thinking of checking out that Nora Roberts trilogy. I'll have to snoop around for it next time I'm at the library!
Finished In the Blood and wow, another great book by this author. Dante is quickly becoming one of my most favorite tortured heroes, and I do mean tortured. His childhood was as bad, if not worse, then Acheron's and Zadist's. Started Pleasure Unboundlast night. Only in a couple of chapters but if this book lives up to it's hype here in Goodreads, it's going to be an awesome read. How can you resist a sexy incubus demon...I mean c'mon!
I am just starting L.A. Banks vamp series with Minion. I'm also reading J.D. Robb's new book. I just finished the Dresden Files book 3 and I really am happy about finding a new series.
Yz - I couldn't even finish Dead Until Dark because I found Bill so nauseating... I really got the sense he never wanted anything more than to get into Sookie's pants. Lori - I'm glad you liked In The Blood! I'm trying to figure out how I am possibly going to survive until next January for the third book! Probably by reading the first two a couple more times...
Katdragon wrote: "I am just starting L.A. Banks vamp series with Minion. I'm also reading J.D. Robb's new book. I just finished the Dresden Files book 3 and I really am happy about finding a new series."I bought Minion last week, but have yet to read it. let me know how you like it
Lori wrote: "Finished In the Blood and wow, another great book by this aut..."I agree! Adrian's books quickly became favorites of mine. Not only is Dante a wonderfully developed character, but so are Heather, Lucien and Von - and she leaves you desperate to know more about all of them and frustrated that you have to wait until next year for the next book!
Ooh, I have Minion sitting on my shelf as well and keep meaning to read it, so I'll also be interested to hear what you think of it.
I finished Second Skin last night, and quite enjoyed it. Luna drives me nuts some times as she's so self destructive. I look forward to Witch Craft in the autumn though.Now, I'm determined to go back and finish off When Darkness Comes as I started it last month and really haven't given it the chance it deserves, having repeatedly putting it aside for Morganville Vampire and House of Night books.
so although I told myself I'd take a small break, I started reading the next DH, Kiss the Night...Michelle was right....after Zarek, you don't want any less...I'm debating whether to just put Sergei Lukyanenko's "the Last Watch" down and continue just with the DH for the time being...although not PNR, and just regular old paranormal/fantasy, its still pretty good...lets see if I can handle 2 books at once.
I have really been getting in to the DH series I Just finished Nigh Embrace and I have the next one with Zarek. I felt so bad for him in the Night Embrace.
I'm working on Kim Harrison's White Witch, Black Curse and I haven't been in the mood for real novels this weekend, so I'm only 100 pages into it. It's good, I just was consumed by an urge to read graphic novels all weekend. So I read six and then settled down and started Harrison's latest edition.
Speaking of graphic novels did I hear correctly that the dark hunter series is going to have its own graphic novel?How interesting is that?
Ooooo! I haven't read the Anita Blake ones yet, but have been meaning to. I like that they did one for Jim Butcher's series.
Dawn wrote: "Speaking of graphic novels did I hear correctly that the dark hunter series is going to have its own graphic novel?How interesting is that?
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yes....its going to be a manga version of it...They've got a sneak peak of it on yearofacheron.com
They were really pushing the Dark Hunter manga at NY comic con. Kenyon had her own booth. They gave everyone samples of the first Manga which is Kyrian's story, but I just can't reconcile manga with my mental vision of the characters. Everyone comes out too "pretty."I think the first is out in April??
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