What are you reading December 26?

[Okie]

I'm starting this week with a YA Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts

[Manda]

I'm in a full on Lisa Gardner glom now. While I wait for the next D.D. Warren one to come out, I'm starting on the backlist with The Perfect Husband. It's actually very romantic suspenseish. Which I am loving!

[Dls]

I'm reading Joanne Ross The Homecoming and just bought Meg Benjamins new book . I also have 6 downloading on my nook tomorrow...

[Kasey]

I read EJ's novella Winning the Wallflower: A Novella the other day. It was a fun book, plus it was free on Amazon this weekend so I broke in my Kindle with that one.

I am also finishing up the YA series, The Luxe. I am halfway through the last book, Splendor.

[Dls]

I'm reading How The marquess Was Won. Lots of wonderful bits in it. But ultimately the plot feels repetitive and a little shallow to me. That disappoints me because Long is one of my autobuys.

[Janga]

I thought the plot was thin, Dls, but I loved the characters so much I could forgive the lack of substance in the plot. And JAL's prose always delights me, as do her kissing scenes.

I liked Robyn Carr's Redwood Bend better than Hidden Summit, although I am weary of Virgin River pregnancies. I also read The Summer Garden, the final book in Sherryl Woods's Chesapeake Shores series. I liked the updates on all the family, but there is almost no conflict between the H/H. I'm finding fear of commitment overused and unconvincing in many contemporary romances I'm reading.

I'm reading Lisa Kleypas's Rainshadow Road, and I am in love with the hero, who has commitment issues I do find convincing. I also really like Friday Harbor as a setting. It is a distinctive place, not just another generic small town. And I'm really intrigued by the touch of magical realism in this one.

[Dls]

I think Long writes some of the best romantic banter in the business. And I really liked Phoebe as a character. So it frustrated me that her hero was so unoriginal.
I agree about fear if commitment. I hate to say it Jamga but I winder if that's partly our age. My college age daughter seems to have a hard time imagining having both a job and a marriage. So do her friends.

[Theresa]

While I wait on the new JAL and EJ to reach me, I'm reading SEP's Match Me if You Can. I've been glomming her lately (with a few breaks for other books).

I definitely prefer SEP's books that are less connected to the Stars football team. (The hero of It Had to Be You started and ended the book as a complete Neanderthal.) But her writing is so witty and complex, there's been a lot to enjoy in every book of hers I've read.

[Kasey]

Finished the Luxe books last night. They were interesting, but it wasn't my favorite series. It was just okay.

Now I am going to read the newest by Sabrina Jeffries, To Wed a Wild Lord.