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I just listened to it, and I'll probably re-read it in May with the rest of you. I read it when it first came out and it IS as good as I thought/remembered. :)
Jordan wrote: "Finished CUTYS a few days ago and am horribly sad as a result. I loved it very much and didn't want it to end."I just love it when books have this effect on me: so many feelings around, such an enrichment... Great!
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Sarah wrote: "Just read Touch & Geaux - loved it, but Abi had me bawling my eyes out at times. Now have a craving for a large tub of chocolate icecream and several large glasses of whisky - unfortunately I have ..."Yep, Therapy needed after finishing. I found myself craving Mary Calme's books after. Which is really funny because I don't normally have an affinity for them. LOL Therapy of some kind needed to recover from the, intense roller coaster ride, reading adventure!
Juthi wrote: "ttg and Valerie thanks for the suggestions! I'll have a look at them later. But I know I won't even look at my textbooks if I have new books to read.And Sarah I can totally relate. I cried myself into a miniature pond reading CUTYS the first time. ..."
Oh no! I was going to listen to more of CUTYS for half an hour before going to sleep but now I don't dare to!
Juthi wrote: "lol ok maybe I was exaggerating just a little! And I cry easily (depending on the book). You should've seen me during The Hell You Say. But CUTYS really ends on a very hopeful note. ..."Thanks for the reassurance! but I cry really easily too...
ED wrote: "I have just finished Diversion. A very good read. Loved it. Gets 5 stars from me."Read the blurb too and jumped at it. Thanks!
Karen wrote: "This week I read
and I'm 50% through
. Tha..."You are so welcome! For some reason, it makes me so happy when I rec a book to someone and they enjoy it something like I did.
I'm going to hate myself for this, but I can't figure out what CUTYS is. Go ahead, hit me with it. I feel stupid already.
Candice wrote: "I'm going to hate myself for this, but I can't figure out what CUTYS is. Go ahead, hit me with it. I feel stupid already."Come Unto These Yellow Sands :)
Reggie wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Just read Touch & Geaux - loved it, but Abi had me bawling my eyes out at times. Now have a craving for a large tub of chocolate icecream and several large glasses of whisky - unfortu..."Um, aren't Mary Calmes' books MORE of a roller coaster ride for you? LOL. Or maybe if it's one you've already read it's more of a comfort read. :)
Juthi wrote: "Hj wrote: "Oh no! I was going to listen to more of CUTYS for half an hour before going to sleep but now I don't dare to! "lol ok maybe I was exaggerating just a little! And I cry easily (dependin..."
I don't think I cried reading CUTYS, but I'm going to listen to the audio soon so we'll see how that goes. I don't need to be crying during my commute. ;)
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LOL. Sounds like a plan! :-)
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I just started Slam! which is out today. I have been looking forward to this one.I'm listening to Frost Burned, the latest in Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series. It's good so far.
I think I might forgo starting Dangerous Grounds and start reading CUTYS
This week i read Camp Hell (which i found to be the best in the series so far), then Baby, It's Cold Outside (which was exactly right :-)), Rifter #2 (wonderful!). Slam! is next on the list while continuing those other series. Lots of catching up to do, yay! :-) i love it when i have so many really cool books to look fw to, a bit overwhelming but in a good way.
Joe wrote: "I think I might forgo starting Dangerous Grounds and start reading CUTYS"Both so good in very different ways :-)
Valerie wrote: "Reggie wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Just read Touch & Geaux - loved it, but Abi had me bawling my eyes out at times. Now have a craving for a large tub of chocolate icecream and several large glasses of w..."I know!! Brownies are always a good strategy too. :)
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Oh, Camp Hell was good. But I kinda like GhostTV the best, I think. Mostly for the out of body experiences Vic has.
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Both so good in very different ways :-)"
What KC said. I've definitely reread DG #1 multiple times. I liked the other books in the series, but the first was/is my favorite.
Valerie wrote: "I just started Slam! which is out today. I have been looking forward to this one.Me too!
Jordan wrote: "KC wrote: "This week i read Camp Hell (which i found to be the best in the series so far), then Baby, It's Cold Outside (which was exactly right :-)), Rifter #2 (wonderful!). Slam! is next on the l..."GhostTV sounds cool :) can't wait to read it, but then the series ends... I liked that Camp Hell was so much more detailed, that it took its time - in a very good way.
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I think there's one more book coming after GhostTV. At least one more. I'll be sad when it's officially over.
Jordan wrote: "KC wrote: "This week i read Camp Hell (which i found to be the best in the series so far), then Baby, It's Cold Outside (which was exactly right :-)), Rifter #2 (wonderful!). Slam! is next on the l..."I loved Camp Hell but I've been saving GhostTV...
Jordan wrote: "KC wrote: "Jordan wrote: "KC wrote: "This week i read Camp Hell (which i found to be the best in the series so far), then Baby, It's Cold Outside (which was exactly right :-)), Rifter #2 (wonderful..."That's good to hear. I hope there is at least one more.
Woah it's crazy that you guys are talking about the PsyCop series because I just got done reading PsyCop like 15 mins. ago and was going to post about it. I'm trying to refrain from buying the next book, Criss Cross, until pay day lol. I really like Jacob and Vic.
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Aw. Thanks, Jordan.
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I'm so glad CUTYS is having a little flutter. :-)
The audio is neck and neck with All She Wrote. ASW is about 20 units ahead. That's really wonderful to see because the book was one of my slower selling titles.
Presently on book 4 Silver Bullet, of the Falls Chance Ranch series.
Johanna wrote: "It's nice notice that so many of us are currently reading/listening to Come Unto These Yellow Sands. :-)"Ha, yeah, coincidentally (I just noticed it, actually), it seems like CUTYS is next on my reading list. With everyone raving so much, I'm really looking forward to it!!
Right now, I'm reading Blacker than Black - I'm not that far in, but, bloody hell, that one's a trip! Very unique, that's for sure! Seems like Twilight hasn't turned me off vampire stories for good ;D
Valerie wrote: "Candice wrote: "I'm going to hate myself for this, but I can't figure out what CUTYS is. Go ahead, hit me with it. I feel stupid already."Come Unto These Yellow Sands :)"
Thank you, Valerie. You're a peach.
it's ok, Candice, I totally thought they were talking about mandarin oranges at first. ;-)
Katharina wrote: "Ha, yeah, coincidentally (I just noticed it, actually), it seems like CUTYS is next on my reading list. With everyone raving so much, I'm really looking forward to it!!Right now, I'm reading Blacker than Black - I'm not that far in, but, bloody hell, that one's a trip! Very unique, that's for sure! Seems like Twilight hasn't turned me off vampire stories for good ;D
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Blacker than Black was a lot of fun, wasn't it? A real twist on vampires or aliens, or whatever. I really liked the world Rhi built there.
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this evening. Lisa Henry really doesn't write easy books. I read them through, driven and staying up too late, kind of holding my breath. If I just read a synopsis or content list, not noting the author, I'd likely pass. An interesting collaboration with J.A. Rock.
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Plus I have the last two Cut & Runs,
and
.I read the first books in the series as soon as I could get my hands on them, then kind of cooled. Maybe I need to be in a certain mood for extended relationship drama? Or maybe its symptomatic of my reading habits in the past couple of years. I'm a book or three behind in a number of formerly read-it-with-wet-ink series.
Sometimes the series seems to have reached stasis (George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice books). Or a writing style I always thought was charming or clever now just annoys me (Neal Stephenson, Seanan McQuire), or I catch myself hoping the author will kill off a main character (Wynn in the Hendee's Noble Dead). Curmudgeon-y mood much? ;-)
Karen - I have the same books as you do waiting on my Kindle, with the exception of the Eden Winters book. I also have The Paris Affair by Teresa Grant waiting (another in a series I love).I think I'm going to save The Paris Affair until I have time to re-read all the earlier books in the series. I'd like to re-read Stars & Stripes before reading Touch & Go. So now it's a choice between Slam and Kestrel's Chance. Tricky!
Harper Fox has posted that her first historical novel, Brothers Of The Wild North Sea, will be out on 11th June!
I have Slam, Touch and Geaux and Kestrel's Chance waiting as well, three of my favourite writers at once! I also have the latest Amy Lane waiting, wich makes it four favorites. It is fun but a little frustrating to have so much good reading to look forward too, frustrating because it is hard to decide which one to start with. So many books, so little time - damn my job for stealing valuable reading time. Btw, having vacation didn't help either, too busy having an adventure to be able to read much ;)As so many others I am fan of the Cut and Run series, without really understanding why I like them so much, it must be something with the dynamic beteeen Ty and Zane that appeals to me. Truth be told, I often find the plot ridiculous, the mystery is hardly a mystery at all and I often wonder if this is how the KGB really operates, then it is a miracle they are able to solve any crimes at all. And the writing is not without its flaws either, although it seems to me it gets better for each book. But, despite its flaws, I love that series! Go figure ;)
Susinok wrote: "Blacker than Black was a lot of fun, wasn't it? A real twist on vampires or aliens, or whatever. I really liked the world Rhi built there."It sure ist!! I've read about at third now, and I (again) almost couldn't put the book aside to go to sleep. Although it was much too late anyways. Although they're called vampires in the book, it's so different that I wouldn't even classify it as a vampire story. Which is great, because the typical vampire thing - well, it'd have to be hella good for me to enjoy that ;D
Right now I'm reading Vanity Fierce by Graeme Aitken. My goodness but the narrator is a crazy, entitled, delusional little git. But fun. :-D He'll just come out with stuff that makes you go "Oh my god, you're insane!" as if it was totally normal. (view spoiler)
Anne wrote: "I have Slam, Touch and Geaux and Kestrel's Chance waiting as well, three of my favourite writers at once! I also have the latest Amy Lane waiting, wich makes it four favorites. It is fun but a litt..."For me it's just the dynamic between Ty and Zane, which sometimes gets to be a little too intense in a way that i don't enjoy, which is why i've kinda decided to wait until the series is done before i read Touch and Geaux.
Slam and Kestrel's Chance were supposed to be next on my list, but i got sidetracked with another Don Strackey novel. I find Stevenson's writing irresistible. There was this little phrase "an astonished looking little Ford" which is great generally and because i do that sometimes - assign facial expressions to cars. It's a weird little thing, but it's one of so many excellent turns of phrases i enjoy in Stevenson's writing.
KC wrote: "Slam and Kestrel's Chance were supposed to be next on my list, but i got sidetracked with another Don Strackey novel. I find Stevenson's writing irresistible. There was this little phrase "an aston..."Some cars actually do have faces ;)
Anne wrote: "KC wrote: "Slam and Kestrel's Chance were supposed to be next on my list, but i got sidetracked with another Don Strackey novel. I find Stevenson's writing irresistible. There was this little phras...":-)
Katharina wrote: "Which is great, because the typical vampire thing - well, it'd have to be hella good for me to enjoy that ;D ..."Same here! :)
I am reading and loving Slam!. I know deep in my bones that I'll have to re-read Muscling Through when Slam is finished. I just know it. Plus I have Harper Fox's Kestrel's Chance. Oh oh oh British m/m. I just love it.
Susinok wrote: "I am reading and loving Slam!. I know deep in my bones that I'll have to re-read Muscling Through when Slam is finished. I just know it. Plus I have Harper Fox's Kestrel's Chance. Oh oh oh British ..."I haven't had a much time to read but I love Slam! so far. I'm learning lots of new vocabulary, too. I want to go home and put on my jim jams and have some hob-nobs (if I knew what they were ;)).
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Heh heh. I *think* that they are biscuits... LOL. I'll have to read Slam! as soon as possible.
I took advantage of Riptide's sale and got Abi Roux's The Gravedigger's Brawl. The storyline really appealed to me. I'm enjoying it so far.
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Read CUTYS a while back and loved it (and that one also made me cry!) but haven't managed to re-read it yet - I will do soon (preferably after fixing the icecream/whisky error!)