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[Melissa]

Storm Born is very good! Definitely UF with lots of action. The second book in the series comes out July 28th so you won't have long to wait to see what happens next!

[Sue]

I couldn't wait for "Over My Dead Body" to show up so I ordered it from Amazon. I have a problem with books "hello I'm Sue & I'm a bookaholic"

[Pamela, Moderatrix]

Storm Born is fantastic. It's one of the best books I've read this year.

[Lauren]

Ok so I am a little under 100 pages in Club Dead I just don't think I am into the sookie stackhouse books. I read the first one not crazy about it but wanted to give book two a try and it was just ok. So i figured third times a charm and even picked the book for a challenge. I saw the first season of the True blood and was disappointed with that as well. Do the books get better or should I just draw the line here at the third one?

[Adrienne]

i'd love to be able to say carry on::but if you're not enjoying them::then you could ditch them and read something that really rocks your boat::sometimes you just know if aomethings for you or not::
if they're in the ok slot/or like to finish a series once you've started it then just read them as and when::me::i read 'em all but now i'm sookied out and don't wether i can read another one just yet::

[Adrienne]

i'm reading Witch Fire and its a real sizzler::don't know what else to say:) except i'm reading it on the train and maybe i shouldn't::

[Lauren]

Hi Adrienne I think your right. this might be my last sookie book at least for a while. I am in the ok/need to finish a series slot but I can put it off until there is nothing else to read...hehe

[DarkHeart "Vehngeance"]

Adrienne wrote: "i'm reading Witch Fire and its a real sizzler::don't know what else to say:) except i'm reading it on the train and maybe i shouldn't::"

Ha! Good to know. I picked that up in a recent book buying spree. Looking forward to reading it. ;)

[Lori]

Lauren wrote: "Ok so I am a little under 100 pages in Club Dead I just don't think I am into the sookie stackhouse books. I read the first one not crazy about it but wanted to give book two a try an..."

I did the same thing with Christine Feehan's Carpathian series. Read the first two books, probably won't continue the series. It's always so hard when it's a popular series that most people rave about and you're like "Eh". So don't feel bad. I loved the Sookie books but you're not alone in feeling that they aren't all that.

[Gems]

I would love to say I'm reading something at the moment but I'm not. I read Gena Showalter's Enslave Me Sweetly and it honestly killed my need for paranormal romance. After reading Nalini Singh's novels for the past while and also the Mercy Thompson series I just found that book so hard to get into. For some reason a lot of Paranormal romances seem to be failing simply because there's too much emphasis on getting the main characters together in order for them to have at least three bouts of hot sex if not more before the book is over and then you never really hear from them again. I found it was the same thing with Christine Feehan's Carpathian series and also with the sequels to Witch Fire.

On the upside the sequel to Storm Born (I'm wary of this because Storm Born was good but with two male leads, it's heading in the Anita Blake direction which was a massive fail for me but I read all the Vampire Academy series and it was pretty good) is coming out in July but more importantly the next Nalini Singh book is coming and it's Mercy's story. Can't wait for Hawke's though.

[Lauren]

Hi Lori I just don't know what it is about it I don't like. Im thinking it's sookie her self that bothers me. I can't really stand her dialoge with other people. yeah im gonna go with that as reason.

[Kim]

I just finished Storm Born this weekend and have a tickler on the calendar to remind me not to miss the release date on Book 2. *grin* I was hooked.

[BJ Rose]

Just finished Witch Heart and it is sizzling, but at the expense of the storyline to me. Don't want to say more for those who are reading/looking forward to reading it, but I do agree with Gems about the seemingly required 'bouts of hot sex', especially when it comes in like a commercial - we interrupt this extremely dangerous situation you're in because we want you to hop in bed now. I enjoy a good love scene, but ...

Getting ready to start Nora Roberts' Sign of Seven trilogy -

[Lily]

Sookie is a series I really wasnt that wild about until a few books into it.

Further into the book there are lots of supes and the world gets interesting and sookie gets more comfortable in her skin.

Now I like the series and have read all but the last which is on order at the library.

But life is to short to make yourself read what your not liking.

lily

[Ann]

I'm reading Gossamyr by Michele Hauf, it is fantasy and a great book. Almost done will finish it today. If you like fantasy, magic, fairy's and action you will love this book.

[Gems]

Oh the Sign of Seven trilogy! It's a clever plot in a way and Nora always does her best writing when she's writing brotherly interactions... my one vice is how they all pair up but I don't complain because it happens in TV shows and everything else so it never puts me off reading one of her books.

Best example of breaking up the action to have a hot bout of sex is in Kelley Armstrong's Stolen where Elena (I think that's her name) is running from the bad guys, sees hubby and both stop for a quick bout of sex. Though granted I was fine with that since I could understand it, still, there were bad guys to be fleeing from.

[Adrienne]

i think sometimes you want sex and sometimes not::bit like life actually:: it's nice to be able to chose what sort of book you want to read::however::i think sometimes its difficult to tell from the blurb on the cover how the sex will pan out::thats why i like GRs and the reviews::some books i've read marked as erotic romance have in all honesty been sensous/sensual but not erotic::some i've picked up as *standard* romance have had more sex than a hooker at christmas:)::

[new_user]

LOL, Adrienne. True, true. I didn't really take to Bast's books either, but I didn't even get to the sexy-time part, LOL. More often, it's usually the writing/tone that really puts me off of a book more than anything else.

[Adrienne]

there you go::i'm really enjoying witchs blood::but i like the way the book is written::style::pace( it's kind of slow and languid)::language::etc::so for me even if there was less sex i'd be enjoying it::the sex for me is written like comfort food its simmering away nicely (sorry thats not a very good analogy) something to oooh about:)::so thats a bonus for me::

[Gems]

Maybe my problem is that since I read Nalini Singh, I'm comparing everything to it and a lot of the writing out there falls short. It just doesn't have that spark that keeps me interested. It's not the lack of sex in the story or how much there is, mainly it's how it comes about. In Witch fire it was built up well but there was still something lacking in the story for me, so I couldn't connect with it and I haven't gone back to reread it nor do I remember the characters that clearly. In fact that goes for a lot of Paranormal Romances I've read recently, so for me there is certainly something lacking in a lot PR at the moment. Though I'm always on the look out for more since I really love the genre, there's always a focus on plot rather than just how a man and woman get together.

[BJ Rose]

Adrienne wrote: "there you go::i'm really enjoying witchs blood::but i like the way the book is written::style::pace( it's kind of slow and languid)::language::etc::so for me even if there was less sex i'd be enjoy..."

Adrienne, I'm smiling about your comfort food analogy :) but I know what you mean.
New-user, you're so right about the writing/tone of writing that can make or break a book, but when it's working for me, I would just like the author and publisher to let it work, and have some mindblowing celebratory lovemaking when the battle is won. Worst example I can think of right now is from an historical romance where the heroine is being blackmailed about an incriminating article of clothing held by the anti-heroine. So hero & heroine break into the other gal's bedroom to retrieve said article, but have to hide in the armoire when she & her lover come into the bedroom and proceed to get down to business. H/h get so hot & bothered by listening to the other couple's exertions that they proceed to get down to business as well, make enough noise to get discovered, and end up with the scandal they were trying to avoid. Can anyone say Keystone Kops?! Ruined the whole storyline

[Adrienne]

Gems::perhapes you'd like the adrian phoenix books::or christine feehan::a good idea is to check out the bookshelves::then the reviews of poeple who post on your favourite groups::none of us mind thats why our shelves are public::i've found loads of books to read that way::and started to read books that i possibly wouldn't have considered before::theres also listopia and form there you can read reviews::apologies if you already know/do this::

[new_user]

LOL. At least it's creative, Rose. I've seen a lot less thought put into some of these scenes. Imo, the scene should happen when there's still some tension rather than when the battle's won. ;)

[Lauren]

Alright still on the club dead book tough getting through it but i do want to finish it. but does she stay with Bill throught the series? cause im kinda like this Alicide guy.

[Adrienne]

can't tell you b/c it would be a spoiler:}but......i'm trying to think of way round this::

[The Flooze]

Oh, there are other suitors vying for her attentions. We'll put it that way.

[Gems]

Does no one else ever get bothered by that in Paranormal romances? How one female can grab the attention of an army of completely gorgeous guys? Or do we accept it because Paranormal romance is very much a fantasy and this is every woman's fantasy?

[Nichole (DirrtyH)]

Gems wrote: "Does no one else ever get bothered by that in Paranormal romances? How one female can grab the attention of an army of completely gorgeous guys? Or do we accept it because Paranormal romance is ver..."

A little bit of both. It sometimes really annoys me, and other times I accept it to some extent just because it's fiction and why not? But I do prefer books where not every guy in a 30 mile radius is vying for her attention. Too bad those are not very common.

[Gems]

If it has a realistic-ish plotline then it's ok. Take Storm-born for example. The reasoning in that makes sense to me and so I accept it but Anita Blake took things way too far and now I find it hard to swallow that storyline. Characters like that are scorned in Fanfiction for being Mary-Sue's but they're popping up frequently on amazon and in paranormal romances to be exact. It's slightly disturbing and tends to show a lack of character development between the female and the lead(s) because the author has too many characters to deal with.

[new_user]

What, the harem of men? Yeah, that bothers me, LOL. (I'm not being sarcastic.)

[Adrienne]

i think the only books /series i've read where this happens is the sookie series::i can't recall any others at all::

[Gems]

Harem of men: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter/sexer. Merry Gentry - same deal only a little more plausible. There are a few others that I kind of skipped when I realized where the plot was going but that is the big one that put me off stories like that.

Maybe I just like monogamy in the books I read... which limits me in this genre because most girls have at least two men dangling after them, usually of two different species. Even Mercy Thompson had two men after her but that series was really good.

I don't mind the female having a few relationships but claiming she loves them all and wants to be in a committed relationship with them all is a bit extreme and greedy, lol.

[Adrienne]

try adrian phoenix makers song series::black dagger brotherhood::dark hunters::carpathians::night huntress series::Lara adrians Night breeds::they may have numerous sex scenes but not *hareems of men*::

[new_user]

Gems, I'm the same. I don't mind if the heroine's had more than one relationship, even in the same novel, but when she's sleeping with all of them? Yeah... I don't think so.

[Nichole (DirrtyH)]

I'd argue that Mercy had more than two men after her...

Adrienne, those are good examples, but those (except for the Adrian Phoenix books) are all PNR, whereas I think this particular problem is a little more prominent in urban fantasy. In PNR the whole point is that there is one hero and one heroine, but no such requirement in urban fantasy so a lot of times the author goes hog wild with the heroine's love interests, as though it's everyone's fantasy to have dozens of men falling all over them. And sometimes it is fun to read that, but a lot of the time it's like, "Really? What's so great about this chick? She's a complete idiot."

[Adrienne]

i'm getting confused now::i thought (after reading gems post 2486) the issue was with PNR::hence my reason for listing the series that i did::apologies if i misinterpreted::

[Gems]

Ah then that's my mistake for getting PNR and UF mixed up mainly because there's never really been a major distinction for me because they're sold as the same thing here. Anything that involves something supernatural is considered Paranormal.

[Adrienne]

aah ha you're in ireland::i'm in england and here they're sometimes sold as american romance ha ha::so:i'm backing out here as i haven't read enough UF to comment::but gems adrian phoenix is uf and they're excellent reads::

[Nichole (DirrtyH)]

The topic was about PNR, I just noticed that a lot of our examples were urban fantasy, and I sort of realized that that was kind of the difference. I don't think anybody misinterpreted anything. :) It was just something I noticed after we had discussed it for a little bit.

[Gems]

Adrian Phoenix? I've never heard of the name but I'll definitely make a note of it. I'm allowed to buy another book once Nalini's next book comes out - this recession is hitting my booklist hard!

Has anyone read the Angel series by Nalini yet? I have the first one Angels' Blood and I thought it was pretty good in comparison to other stories with angels as characters.

[Nichole (DirrtyH)]

Oh, if you like angels as characters then you absolutely have to read the Adrian Phoenix books!

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[Gems]

I think they're cool. I'm actually trying to write a paranormal YA involving them. Of course, I'm always getting distracted by fanfiction writing instead. I just feel guilty not updating and then complain I have no time to write original stuff.

[Adrienne]

i suspect that sometimes authors/publishers try and *spice* things up where the storyline is flat::what i mean is if you took out all the multiple men all you're probably left with is a formulae novel that could be adapted to suit any period in time::location::

[Adrienne]

i've read angels blood::i really enjoyed it::i've not read any of her other stuff::but she's on my tbr shelf::there are some angel books by joey w hill::i think they're really good ::like nothing i'd read before::they're sold as erotic romance::but they're not really that::the sex is just between the h/h::thre's no kinky stuff what so ever::so they're not like other erotic stuff i've read::but they are dramatic dark and intense::

[Gems]

She is my favorite writer because she has you hooked from the very beginning and her world building just astounds me. Apparently she has a bible were she makes notes for everything so she doesn't forget things but she's the kind of writer that really works for me. She covers all the bases: no vampire clichés, a great world that is believable, a great plot and intrigue and the characters are amazing. I find myself reading and rereading the stories and I never forget them or the side characters. Only in Harry Potter did I care about the side characters just as much as the main ones.

[new_user]

I really liked Angel's Blood too. :) I love that her world of angels is so unique, involved, and fleshed-out. Another author that I really like who writes angel PNR is Joey W. Hill. She writes edgy, troubled, sometimes morally questionable angels too. I highly recommend her.

[Adrienne]

ditto re joey w hill::all our posts are crossing here lol::

[Lauren]

Adrienne wrote: "can't tell you b/c it would be a spoiler:}but......i'm trying to think of way round this::"

yes it seems evey single guy/were/vamp...pulse or no pulse want to get in this girl's pants its driving me nuts.
Adrienne its ok hehehehe you don't have to spoil it. I will finish this book and find out cause now its main reason for finishing it.

[new_user]

LOL, Adrienne. You read my mind. They are quite intense and there's a strong plot.

[Adrienne]

there are certain scenes from *a mermaids kiss* that have really stuck in my mind::the one when jonah is outside in the rainstorm is one that instantly comes to mind::the whole book is just so sensual and feelie::think i need to read it again::