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Juana "Darkness"
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Jun 24, 2012 06:34PM
For Favorite Series I will go with Belong to Me by Shayla Black
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I've changed your title on the Master List Juana :)I didn't much enjoy Hush, Hush, glad you changed it!
@Amy, where are you off to?
Oh my,
is terrible. I'm only 40% of the way through and I can barely continue. Ana acts like an immature, pre-teen bimbo. She spends her time blushing and acting like everything is scandalous. Also it never seemed to bother me before, but EL James can't write. She masks this with complicated words thrown in every chapter or so, but the rest of it is horrible.
Jeann, you aren't alone in that observation regarding EL James.
Ah, thanks for letting me know Sandra. The book seems super overrated IMO. I was shocked to find mostly 4-5 stars when I checked out the ratings.
I read some very good reviews not long after it came out and decided the book was not me :)I've got a lot of BDSM & erotica books but this sounded just pretty crappy and badly written.
I just finished the book, it was terrible. Miles worse than the first one.
Shelf: Favorite Series
Date finished: 26/6/12
Rating: ★
There's been a lot of hype surrounding this series, especially after the recent 'mummy porn' book banning scandal. I found the 1st book to be quite enveloping and addictive, but the 2nd was just a total shocker. It just further exasperated how amateur the author is, which wouldn't be a problem if only her writing was good. And that, it's not. I don't usually hate on books but this was just painful to read.
I list out all the problems here at my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I'm just appalled at the Goodreads rating, but perhaps those who had enough of the first book didn't continue further.
Excellent, good work Jessica! Impressive seeing as you have assessments too! Good luck with the assessment and talk to you soon.
Great, Jessica! By the way, what are "assessments"?
You mean university, Jessica? Forty-five pages! For an examination? Yikes!
Yep, university, Lisa Kay :) Commonly called uni here. We love to shorten everything and if it is already short, we lengthen it. LOL.
Wow that's a crazy long assignment!! Are you doing a thesis or something Jessica?
Jessica wrote: "Yeah its now overtaken my longest other assessment by 5 pages, most likely 7 or 8 by the time its done."Sounds like a lot of hard work, Jessica! Good luck to you on it.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Hi, team!SOS: ~ Book Shelf Bingo! ~
Book Shelf: YA Paranormal
Title/Author: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor
Series: Daughter of Smoke and B..."
Hi Lisa Kay, I'm Lisa M. Just poking around looking for some books to add to my maybe list for the Bingo Card. I read Daughter of Smoke and Bone for the first week also and really liked your review. I hard core really Loved this book! Although, your review blows mine out of the water. I think you have convinced me to get the audiobook. I love to "re"listen after I have read a book. Take Care.
Oh, I'm glad you loved the book, Lisa! And thanks for the compliments on my review. I notice my reviews are better when I love the book/audio. Some people's are better when they hate the book (I usually chuckle over the funny ones).I hope you enjoy the audio!
Thanks Jeann, I'm glad I changed it too since I've been dying to read Belong to Me since I got it a couple months back.
Hey Lisa is it ok if I do the Free Space next shelf since I'm the last one to go. Or I don't know how you pick who's next just asking since it looks like everyone has done the Free Space already except me.
Oh Juana feel free to read the Free Space next if you want. We usually fit it in between shelves. You can pick any book you want for it, just let me know what you would like and I will add it up.
Juana "Darkness" wrote: "Hey Lisa is it ok if I do the Free Space next shelf since I'm the last one to go."Do you mean me, Juana? Because I'm new to Book Shelf Bingo. However, I say go for it, just because I want to be stamped. LOL!
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Book Shelf: Favorite Series
Title/Author: River Marked, by Patricia Briggs
Series: Mercedes Thompson, #6
Rating: ★★★★☆
Read: June 27, 2012
First-time author: No
To-be-continued: Yes!
Review: my goodreads review
Picture of the Columbia River Gorge, by Doug Porter
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★★★★☆ (This is a review of the audiobook.) This sixth installment of Mercy Thompson’s series is very well narrated by Lorelei King. Ms. King certainly has cemented her voice as Mercy’s in my brain and she delivers nicely for this first person narrative. Love her Italian accent for Stefan (a vampire), who features in the opening scenes of this volume. It has kind of a “I want to drink your blood…” cadence to it, but Ms. King totally gets away with it.
Nevertheless, without giving away spoilers, this one is mainly about Adam and Mercy. We get to peer into a different, sweet, romantically intimate side of their relationship as they get even closer. They end up camping in the Columbia River Gorge area and eventually battling evil; (view spoiler). Mercy also gets some answers about her Native American Indian father she never knew.
This one is a little different; no mechanic’s shop, very little pack interaction. (Thanks goodness Jesse made a phone call to complain to her father about Darryl.) And the pace seemed slower to me, too, though Ms. Briggs always has a nice way of setting future scenes up without me even knowing it. So, it is a given that it must be read, if you’re planning on continuing this wonderful Urban Fantasy series that has a touch more romance this time around.
Anyone who has researched Patricia Briggs knows that she was strongly influenced by magic and fairy tales. This one is loaded with them, most of them Indian legends, and they are pretty neat.
Stonehenge Memorial at Maryhill, Washington
<--February, 2013
Excellent review Lisa Kay, I love the pictures you put in, makes it really visual! I haven't started the Mercedes Thompson series yet but it is definitely on my list.
That first pic is so creepy, very appropriate. LOL.The others are just lovely Lisa Kay :D
I always thought the slower pace had something to do with the river flowing.
Thanks, Jeann! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
Sandra wrote: "I always thought the slower pace had something to do with the river flowing." I was thinking the same thing, Sandra! Mind Meld. ☺
Good Gravy Beans! I said this one was the fifth instead of the sixth. **sigh** That's what I get for writing it at 1:30 in the morning!
Jeann I would like to go with The Rustler by Linda Lael Miller
for the free space.
Shelf ~ Free Space
Date finished ~ 06/25/12
Rating ~ ★★★★
Ok... I expected this to be a little different than what I got. But all in all, it was pretty good.
This is an anthology & each story has a tapestry of some kind in it. It is not all PNR but HR as well.
The Kiss in the Shadows by Lynn Kurland
This historical romance was about a shunned girl, Lianna who was ward of the court, ugly from pock scars to her face, but had a whole lot of wealth left to her after her family was slaughtered.
She meets Jason & his brother. She is poisoned & the men watch over and guard her. People are leary of Jason who has studied dark arts under "the dragon"... All 3 have something in common.
This was a sweet story, but not an epic. It's a clean no sex at all romance. Just saying.
An Interrupted Tapestry by Madeline Hunter
I was very surprised by this author. I have never read anything by her. It was good!
Giselle asks her longtime friend, Andreas for 100 pounds. Her brother is being held hostage & she needs the money as payment to the kidnappers.Giselle's brother owes everyone money & they are all coming to collect.
When Andreas goes to her, he interrupts several people collecting their markers, saying he is first in line because his are older. Giselle explains the ransom & they both set out to save the no good SOB.
That said, it was a great story & Madeline Hunter is now added to my author list!
Dragonswan by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Channon is kind of a nerdy jumper wearing English Major who is studying the origin & story behind a pictorial tapestry that includes pictures of dragons, as it hangs in a museum. As all SK books go, she is approached by a male Hottie Sebastion.
Sebastian is of coarse an Arcadian Sentinal Shifter dragon from way back in time & Channon is his mate.
Great Were story... What can I say?
Into the Dreaming by Karen Marie Moning
How have I missed this story? For shame!I love her highlanders!
oK...
The Unseelie King has Aedynn held as a prisoner for 5 years (500 or so in faeryland terms) renaming him "Vengence"...He has been doing all the kings vengence for so long, he has forgotten who he is.
The queen has rigged her magic to go against the king by filling a human girls dreams of this highlander. Terms of his release is that he has a 30 day reprieve to live with the humans & he must fall in love in 30 days or be forever held as "Vengence"
Jane is his dream girl & she has to convince him that he loves her...
This book was good. It was incredibly clean considering what these authors usually write,so I was kind of surprised. I am not sure it was done on purpose??? maybe?
***I am having spacebar issues having to go over my words againto put inthe spaces like this. soi am going to writemy other review later when Ihave timeto fix it like i had to with this review.
Excellent, good work Amy!Juana, I've changed your title. Can't wait for the bookshelf to be announced tomorrow!
Shelf ~ Favorite Series
Date finished ~ 06/27/12
Rating ~ ★★★
I'll finish this reviewwhenI have time st sort out all these spacebar problems & reallywrite a good review.
Rightnow, all i can say is WOW... Iwas really entertained knowing so manypeoplearereadingthis. It so twisted & stupid!! It's all about themoney.
I actually stood inline at Disneyland & laughedabout thebooks with a friend, 2 women from Ohio, onefrom England (forgot where exactly) & someman... Believe me,it madeour hour wait short! Roger Rabbit in toontown to be specific!
lol that's pretty hilarious Amy. I got so frustrated with the series that I gave up on it.
Great review, Amy, even withthespacebar problem! ☺
Title/Author: Belong to Me by Shayla Black
Date Finished: June 28, 2012
Shelf: Favorite Series
Rating: 5 Stars
Review: On a mission at a BDSM club for the FBI Tara encounters her old flame. And immediately tries to get him replaced as her Dom instructor. Logan is having none of that so he puts a claim on her or marries her. So even though they have several rough patches to go through they put them aside so they can save the life of an FBI Agent. But not with out some trust on her part which she gets in the end. After some threats are made Logan's moms killer. Then they are off on the mission only to make some interesting discoveries in the end. What do you think will happen at the end of their mission?
Excellent I'll add that to our Master List. We can request our first stamp now!YAY Shelf Announcement! New2You: Series - personal shelf
For the new shelf I will read
which also fits in with the buddy read here!
This is my new 2 me series pick... It's a new series too! I wonder how it compares to the last one!This post being short, I can go back and fix the spaces. I will fix the others when I get home!! LOL!!
Hey, ladies! Sorry, I've been sick; however, I'm pretty much back with the living now. I'm about 99% sure I'll be listening to
as my "new-2-me-series," but it will be later in the week.
CONGRATULATIONS, Ferociously Flirtatious! You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'favorite-series'.
[Your updated BINGO card can be viewed on page 1]
Good Job!! :D
Yay thanks Steph! Our first stamp, yippeee.
Congrats on the stamp FF!
How is everyone going with their reads? Jessica and Juana, let me know what your New2You read will be so I can add it to the shelf.I just picked up my New2You read
Jeann, sorry, I think I'm going to change my New2You series. I have major problems in my plumbing and have had workmen here. (And it is going to cost a fortune, so if anyone has any extra money, send it my way.) Anyway, I'm over half-way through with
. It was already on my iPod/Touch instead of the other one when I had a chance to pop something in my ears.
No probs, I just changed it.
Like I said over on HEA, it sounds horrible Lisa Kay. All my fingers are crossed for you, that it doesn't get any worse!
Nooo how frustrating, I hope you get your internet problems sorted out soon Jessica! I was without internet for 10 weeks when I moved house but at least I had my mobile.
Glad it got straighten out, Jessica! Oh! I just loved that book. I read it about once a year. The narrator on the audio is to die for!
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Book Shelf: New2You Series
Title/Author: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs, by Molly Harper
Series: Jane Jameson, #1
Rating: ★★★½✩
Read: July 4, 2012
First-time author: No
To-be-continued: Yes. Eventually.
Review: my goodreads review
Jane’s Secret Unicorn Collection?
★★★½✩ (This is a review of the audiobook.) The first in the Jane Jameson series is wonderfully narrated by Amanda Ronconi; she does the snarky inflection of Jane’s first person POV just right. I think the biggest problem I had with this book was I wasn’t in the mood for snarky. (I know, I know! But, it was on my iPod/Touch and I couldn't get to what I wanted.) Too bad. Maybe at another time. Ditto with continuing the series: maybe later. I know I like this author; however, as Carolyn F said in her review: “There were some funny parts, but more smirks not laughs.”
I know I need to work on suspending my belief in RomanceLandia, or Paranormal ChickLit City, or wherever this book is set. However, the fact that Jane was given a gift certificate instead of a severance check just pushed my button. It was so against the law, I was rolling my eyes.
I guess I was in the mood for romance and this one doesn’t really go there. Well, there is the whole relationship between Jane and Gabriel, but that runs hot and cold. This dude, who happens to be Jane’s Sire, needs to roll it back a bit and give Jane the benefit of the doubt. The poor woman has gone through enough, already! She doesn’t need his ambivalent feelings.
Jane also doesn’t seem like a librarian, or my mind’s stereotype of a librarian. I was so glad to come across the part where she starts craving a book instead of blood. (view spoiler) But all that isn’t the basis of the story, which involves framing Jane for murder - more than once - and dealing with the upshot of that from the Vampire Council.
By the way, each chapter started with an excerpt from The Guide for the Newly Undead, which was entertaining.
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Great review Lisa, it kind of sounds like chicklit but with vampirres.
Yup, that is what it was, Jeann. Thanks, though I think my reviews are better when I LOVE the book. Some people are so good at snarky reviews; I'm just not one of them; not very good at saying why I wasn't crazy about a book, either.
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