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Jun 17, 2011 06:12AM
Hi, Moss. I agree with Lethal. Brigg's Alpha & Omega is more to my liking as well. I had read 2 Mercy books then the A&O short. Just from that short, I knew I liked them better than Mercy.
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A&O is very good. Wonder when the next one is due? I'll have to scope it out. Glad you enjoyed MS, Lethal! I can't wait for the fight with big bad dad too.
So, my pretties .... where to put our chip? :D
Fair Game is the next one, publication expected in February 2012...a little more than 8 months away....
CONGRATULATIONS, Red Rum! Our chip has been placed in our requested spot.
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Good Job!! :D
Steph wrote: "A&O is very good. Wonder when the next one is due? I'll have to scope it out. Glad you enjoyed MS, Lethal! I can't wait for the fight with big bad dad too.
So, my pretties .... where to pu..."
*growls* You guys keep giving tiny hints even though I've been ignoring your reviews. I've just finished
. Don't ruin the rest! Just kidding. Sort of.....
Alyssa, read faster! LOL
Ack! I don't even have the other books! What will you have me do, woman!? Are you gonna buy them for me? *considers it* That would be nice though.... J/k!
Ok, better yet, stick to your own thread! Nanny nanny poo poo! :p Sorry 'bout the spoilerish reviews, but that's the risk ya run bargin' in someone else's lair. ;)LOL! Nah, We'll try to be a bit more mindful and use spoiler tags. Or not. bwahahaha >;)
Steph - we need a new category.....PLEASE???????
LOL! Such impatience. ;) Ono momento.
Happy Reading!! Remember: TWO chips rule starts this week!
This Week's Categories Are:
1. Cover Color: White
2. Character Type: Deity
You may choose to pick a book using both or either category. Be sure to include your cover, if using that category.
Deity: a being people worship (EX: god or goddess); for more info check with the WikMan.
Poor
, always gettin' pushed to the side for other books. LOL!I'm going to finally read
<-- for white cover catHappy reading, team!! I'm off. Have a great weekend!
I'll read
by Toni L. Meilleur for the deity category (Cupid being a Roman god). It has lousy reviews so I hope it's not too stupid. LOL
Steph wrote: "Happy Reading!!
Remember: TWO chips rule starts this week!
This Week's Categories Are:
1. Cover Color: White
2. Character Type: Deity
You may choose to pick a book using both or either category..."
How white does the white cover have to be? I have one or two in mind, but white is one of the background colours, IYKWIM.
Remember: TWO chips rule starts this week!
This Week's Categories Are:
1. Cover Color: White
2. Character Type: Deity
You may choose to pick a book using both or either category..."
How white does the white cover have to be? I have one or two in mind, but white is one of the background colours, IYKWIM.
I was wondering about the "How much white is a white cover?" question myself. I have a couple of backup covers that I'm considering, including
or
.ETA: Of course, with those to books next to each other, In Bed With the Devil looks pink, so never mind about that one. :-P
I have to make a decision now, so I'm going to go in the deity direction and go with:
Crystal, the Harrison one looks plenty white to me :)
Crystal, the Harrison one looks plenty white to me :)
Hi sorry have to change my choice. Apparently the ebook is only available in the US, so it's a no go for me.
Here is my new selection:
Here is my new selection:
PS: thanks everyone for your comments on the Mercy series. I'm not sure I'm in love with it, but I have been hearing good things about the A&O series so might check it out. Think I may have actually read a book in it, Charles and....Anna?
Yep, Charles & Anna
This is one of those series that you should read the anthology first, it's like the first 100 pages of what should have been Cry Wolf.
Yay for the new categories! Very nice picks, team!After going through my read shelf (I don't have any challenge books that fit these categories) I've decided to reread
. I think it's white enough.BTW, to add to what Sandra said, the prequel for the A&O series-which you HAVE to read first in order to understand anything-is also available in ebook for $2.99. So you don't have to buy the whole anthology if you want to read the novella.
Third Categories 4/4 !!!!√Crystal S: Utter Cupidity (Character Type: Deity)-★★½
√Moss: American Gods (Character Type: Deity)-★★★★★+
√Steph: Frostbound (Cover Color: White)-★★★★
√LethalLovely: Devil's Prize (Cover Color: White)-★★
Sorry for not being around to answer your cover color questions, ladies! For future reference, it doesn't have to be as white as mine (Frostbound), but majority white. For instance, the two that Crystal posted are more pink than white, IMO.Enjoy your re-reads, Moss & Lethal. Crystal, I love the title of that book! I'm about 60% into FB and hope to finish today/nite. Happy reading, Team!
-★★ 6/20That was just...excuse my language but Kat Martin just mindfucked me. Hard. Over a table. In the butt. O_O The lessons I learned from "Devil's Prize":
1. Women are stupid. Seriously stupid. It's a wonder we can pee without help.
2. Women are irrational. Things like common sense & decency are inconsequential. Why use our minds when we can marry men who'll do our thinking for us?!?
3. The best way to a woman's heart is through her coochie. You can be a murderer. You can be a spy. You can have wet dreams about boning Barney. It doesn't matter as long as you know how to lay down the pipe. What would normally be considered psychotic turns into "tortured & dark-but forgiveable" if you know how to use your magic stick.
And the most important thing I learned from this book?
4. Do NOT re-read those bodice rippers hiding in your closet. I thought this shit was cute when I was 14. Then again, I didn't even know where my clitoris was at that age. Leave the past in the past!
LOL, I've never read her. Sounds like I made the right & wise decision. hahahahahaLove this review Lethal.
Go read a cleansing UF book quick.
LMAO!! Ah, Lethal, how I ❤ thee and thine reviews. ;)
Read: 20 Jun
Rating: 4★
Review:
I have always enjoyed Sharon Ashwood's Dark Forgotten series. This book was no exception. I think she does a great job of blending UF and PNR. Like a PNURF, paranormal urban romantic fantasy.
This book focuses on one of my favorite characters so far in the series, Lore, a hellhound who managed to escape from the the Castle. He's acting sheriff during a time when supes are on edge. Why? Because the first supe election is only a month or so away. Supernaturals have only been out of the closet for a short time and the humans are still adjusting.
Talia, a newly turned vampire/former hunter, has been running from her abusive sire and is staying with her look-a-like cousin. When her cousin is murdered Lore investigates, Talia freaks and the who-done-it begins.
While I thought I'd be more drawn to Talia, seeing as she was turned against her will, grew up killing "monsters" and now is having to adjust to being that which she's always hated ... I was only partially interested. I was more interested in Lore, Hellhound Alpha. I did feel like they were a good fit though.
Definitely continuing on with the series.
Chip, chip, where to put our chip?? :D
I finished
last night (06/20/11) I'm giving it ★★1/2. I was ok. Just ok. Readable, but not particularly interesting. If I didn't have to read it for C4 it probably would have been constantly set aside for other books. Cons:
*Obnoxious and rude heroine (she improved towards the end, but not a great first impression)
*The conflicts (of which there were many cause the heroine was a bitch) were kinda anti-climatic. They were often solved by a good, old-fashioned screw (pardon my crudity).
*The villians were comical. I think they were meant to be, but I would have enjoyed it more if they weren't.
Pros:
*Ummmm. I guess I enjoyed the interactions with the gods on Olympus.
I highly suspect I wasn't in the mood for this book right now. I'm definitely in a reading rut and having trouble being interested in anything this month. Cranky, cranky, cranky... :-P
Crystal - sounds like you need to read something nice and dark. It'll fit your mood!
HmmmmmSo - where are ya gonna put that bloody chip? Inquiring minds want to know.....
Well, Crystal, sounds like the title was the best thing about the book. LOL! Sorry it was such a disappointment. Hope you find something else to pull ya outta your rut.
Great reviews, Steph, Lethal and Crystal! Sorry to hold us back, but here I am with mine!
Read: 22/6
Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Review:
I always imagine medieval bards received instructions that read like a Neil Gaiman book. Make it a mighty song, their instructors would say, make it sound like a shout but sing it quietly. There will be a man – he must smell like a hero, and taste like a hero, but must sound like a fool. Much later on, give him a sword. Give him a dragon. There will be a woman. Make her grave, and beautiful. Give her a sword, too. Let there be a battle. Let evil be conquered. There is no evil, and there was no battle. The woman returns to her family, and the man dies. It’s a hero’s death, this is how we come to know him. The man lives, and is triumphant. This is how we come to know him. The woman and the man smile at each other across the bloody battlefield. Make it a song to sing to the men and women who unseat kings.
American Gods, Neil Gaiman’s ballad to middle America, is a triumph and a little death all rolled into one. Shadow, our hero, is a new player in an old game: the struggle old gods have to endure to stay alive, to stay afloat on the strength of belief. But America is no place for them, Gaiman says, it’s a place that doesn’t grow gods well and new powers have risen, the gods of the dot com world, the gods of disease and antibiotic resistance, the gods of economic warfare, and now the old ones are in for the fight of their life. Shadow, our bard sings, will fight to the death, for truth, freedom, and liberty. And maybe learn the meaning of belief along the way, or the meaning of America, or something else entirely, who knows? Maybe the song just gets sung because it has to be.
Gaiman is, and always will be for me, a master of dark matter. You can lose yourself in his vast, airy stories, huge rooms of thought and metaphor and poetry that can be terrifying if you don’t keep your wits about you. I don’t think you read his work so much as absorb it through your pores. In American Gods, Gaiman presents us with an offering to his adopted country, rich with intrigue and irony, and biblical metaphor. Gaiman wields the scalpel of deconstruction like a surgeon: religion, belief, death, cultural icons – everything goes under the knife, and is the better for the operation.
If you read one fantasy novel this year, make it this one. If you want to read more than one fantasy novel this year, make them all Neil Gaimans. Who knows what happens if enough of us believe?
Read: 22/6
Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Review:
I always imagine medieval bards received instructions that read like a Neil Gaiman book. Make it a mighty song, their instructors would say, make it sound like a shout but sing it quietly. There will be a man – he must smell like a hero, and taste like a hero, but must sound like a fool. Much later on, give him a sword. Give him a dragon. There will be a woman. Make her grave, and beautiful. Give her a sword, too. Let there be a battle. Let evil be conquered. There is no evil, and there was no battle. The woman returns to her family, and the man dies. It’s a hero’s death, this is how we come to know him. The man lives, and is triumphant. This is how we come to know him. The woman and the man smile at each other across the bloody battlefield. Make it a song to sing to the men and women who unseat kings.
American Gods, Neil Gaiman’s ballad to middle America, is a triumph and a little death all rolled into one. Shadow, our hero, is a new player in an old game: the struggle old gods have to endure to stay alive, to stay afloat on the strength of belief. But America is no place for them, Gaiman says, it’s a place that doesn’t grow gods well and new powers have risen, the gods of the dot com world, the gods of disease and antibiotic resistance, the gods of economic warfare, and now the old ones are in for the fight of their life. Shadow, our bard sings, will fight to the death, for truth, freedom, and liberty. And maybe learn the meaning of belief along the way, or the meaning of America, or something else entirely, who knows? Maybe the song just gets sung because it has to be.
Gaiman is, and always will be for me, a master of dark matter. You can lose yourself in his vast, airy stories, huge rooms of thought and metaphor and poetry that can be terrifying if you don’t keep your wits about you. I don’t think you read his work so much as absorb it through your pores. In American Gods, Gaiman presents us with an offering to his adopted country, rich with intrigue and irony, and biblical metaphor. Gaiman wields the scalpel of deconstruction like a surgeon: religion, belief, death, cultural icons – everything goes under the knife, and is the better for the operation.
If you read one fantasy novel this year, make it this one. If you want to read more than one fantasy novel this year, make them all Neil Gaimans. Who knows what happens if enough of us believe?
LOL! Love the endless stars. Great review. :D
Great review, Moss! I guess you really enjoyed it, eh? ;-)
CONGRATULATIONS, RedRum! Our chips have been placed in our requested spots.
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Good Job!! :D
This Week's Categories Are: 1. Cover Image: dagger/knife/sword
2. Title or Series Word: Magic
You may choose to pick a book using both or either category. Be sure to include your cover, if using that category.
Happy Weekend, Team!
Hmmmm. Too bad I already read Magic Slays. I'm thinking of either rereading
or giving the dreaded "Dante Valentine" series another go with
.
Fourth Categories 4/4 !!!!√Crystal S: Desire Unchained (Cover Image: Dagger/Knife/Sword)-★★★★½
√Moss: Magic Slays (Cover Image: Dagger/Knife/Sword AND Title/Series Word: Magic)-★★★★½
√Steph: Hard Bitten (Cover Image: Dagger/Knife/Sword)-★★★★
√LethalLovely: Shadow Magic (Title/Series Word: Magic)-★★★
I hear ya, I'm in the middle of Magic Bleeds, Lethal. Oh well.I'll be reading
finally. And, thankfully it's a challenge read I need to get done before the end of the month. So, that works out well. It'll probably be a few days before I finish it though - lots goin' on. Definitely by/b4 Friday though.Happy Reading, Team! Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Picking Hard Bitten, Steph? Interesting.... Hmmm.... *wanders off mysteriously*
I'm going to reread
(I listed the wrong book yesterday). Have fun with HB, Steph!
Had a devil of a time finding a book. :-P I kept trying to find something that I could wedge into one of my monthly challenges and I failed miserably. Woe is me. I'm going to read
(sword). On a different subject, my *%^$ computer broke. Sooo, this means I'll be post from my phone, which means posts will be infrequent and brief, cause it's a pain to type on the tiny keyboard. I'm pretty sure the computer is still under warranty so I'll take it to the store as soon as I find time. That won't be easy cause I'm working 11 days in a row. This makes me sad. :-( I'm on day 5 now. Just 6 more days after this. Luckily at the end of the 11 days, I have a 3 day (holiday!) weekend. (I'm on my work computer (naughty, naughty!) so that's why this post is so long.)
Oh.... I feel your pain, Crystal. My computer was probably gone like half the time I was playing Bingo last time. Luckily I had some awesome group members who checked on my picks for books. ♥ ♥ Good luck with the computer.
Ah, that sucks, Crystal! Hope you're able to get it fixed/replaced under your warranty. Good luck!Looking forward to your thoughts on HPD, I have that series TBR.
So sorry to hear about your computer, Crystal. =( My laptop acts like it wants to get bitch slapped pretty much everyday. Good luck with getting it replaced & enjoy your book!
LOL Lethal. Hope she learns to behave soon. :D
If it's ok, I'm going to change my book to
. I originally didn't pick it because I thought the caduceus in the middle of the cover was a staff (that resembled a dagger). Reading the book however, I found that it actually is a dagger. The demons modified the design to be a dagger. Soooooo, I'd really like to change my book. :-) Pretty please!
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