What Are You Reading May 16?

[Okie]

I'm starting this week with The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

[Aly is so frigging bored]

I am rereading the Guild Hunters series by Nalini Singh and continuing the Guardians of Eternity by Alexandra Ivy

[Dls]

Rereading some old favorites. Started Vanessa kelly's new book but haven't really gotten caught up in it yet.

However I do at least feel like she really is writing about the period. I have picked up a couple of books lately where they completely ignore the social conventions and morals of the day. Why do they even bother writing historicals if they are not intrigued by the ways the time period shaped relationships? And frankly one had the heroine behaving in ways that I don't think a 21 c young woman would do in the same circumstances...

[Susan]

Sorry, DLS. I also dislike that - when the "heroine" is so stupid as to NOT consider the repercussions of unlimited unprotected sex and then gets Pregnant! Oh, Mercy! What have I done to deserve this? (duh)

I just started reading the Silk and Seduction series from 2010 that was in my TBR pile. They are 8 short Harlequin Historicals with an overarching mystery woven into the plots. The first book is The Lord and the Wayward Lady by Louise Allen.

[Janga]

I'm reading a Harlequin SuperRomance by Jeanie London, The Husband Lesson. Christine Merrill's Harlequin Historical Dangerous Lord, Innocent Governess is next. I hate the title, but I really like Merrill's books. So, I have high hopes for the book.

[Kasey]

I have been reading The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. I just started the fourth book today.

[Irisheyes]

I read Diane Farr's UNDER THE WISHING STAR. It was good but dragged a little in the middle. I'm trying to decide whether to read the next one in the series UNDER A LUCKY STAR.

I also just finished JOE'S WIFE by Cheryl St. John and really enjoyed that. It's out of print so I'm kind of bummed I have to return it to the library.

[Irisheyes]

Dls wrote: "Rereading some old favorites. Started Vanessa kelly's new book but haven't really gotten caught up in it yet.

However I do at least feel like she really is writing about the period. I have picked ..."

I know what you mean, DLS. I can usually spot these within the first chapter or two and then feel it's best to just put it down before I get too frustrated. I think a lot of today's authors try to attempt something new and original and they completely disregard why readers actually read historicals.

[Okie]

I've got a ton of YA's to read :)This weekend I'll be starting on- Mercy by Rebecca Lim, A Touch Mortal by Leah Clifford, and Shadowspell by Jenna Black.

[Kasey]

I am going to start Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare. I haven't read any by her yet, but I have heard some really good things about her first series.

[Manda]

Kasey, I hope you like Goddess of the Hunt. It's a great friends to lovers story.

I'm about halfway through Break Point by Pamela Clare. It's good, but exhausting because the hero and heroine are on the run. I feel like I'm on the road with them.

[Dls]

"I think a lot of today's authors try to attempt something new and original and they completely disregard why readers actually read historicals. " That's true, of course, but in this particular case I think she was just trying to write something racy--there are at least two scenes in the first 50 pages that would just never have happened in any way--one of which involves a bath on an overnight boat trip to France--the likelihood of someone getting that in the early 19th c on anything short of a luxury yacht would be 0...not to mention that the scene violates all the likely ways that a young women would behave when involuntarily sharing a cabin with a man she doesn't know. Sigh.
On a much brighter note, I'm really enjoying Dragon Bound. Its funny and does a wonderful job of really playing out how the various paranormal factors would affect the relationsihp between the characters. I'm not a big paranormal fan at all (and couldn't get through Nalini Singh) but I highly recommend this one.

[Theresa]

I just finished Catch of the Day by Kristan Higgins, the only one of hers I hadn't yet read. Hmm. I know this was a RITA winner, but to me it felt unfinished. I absolutely loved the story that was there, but at the end of the book, there were still unresolved questions, and the romance was at a very tentative stage. This is where a JQ-style "second epilogue" would be great.

I read KH's All I Ever Wanted not too long ago, and I absolutely loved it. Like Catch, it's got a strong and silent and socially maladjusted hero. :) But in that one, I felt like we got to know what made him tick, and she mixed humor and poignance so beautifully.

[Susan]

The Lord and the Wayward Lady by Louise Allen:
Finally finished it today. It was a very good book, I didn't want it to end so I took it a chapter or two per day. The ending was perfect, and she managed to work in setups for two or three of the later books in the series without skimping on a believable climax or some nicely built romance. How she did it in such a short book is that, although the servants have names, they do not get to say much. The 8 main characters say enough for the story to flow nicely.

[Kasey]

Manda, I did like it and now I am reading the next one in the series!

[Aly is so frigging bored]

Re-reading Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh. I love her writing. After this I'll read Alexandra Ivy's Darkness Revealed.