Well this month we started out with moving to a new house. Then I went on vacation so that helped my reading log because I had many hours of sitting the car to read. Later, my parents took the kids for about 4 days and I spent a bit of that just chilling out and reading :)
On my car trip I re-read Elizabeth Vaughn's trilogy of Warprize, Warsworn and Warlord. Still great books!
I read a bunch of neat ebooks this month.
One Night with Rock Star by Chana Keefer (sweet rocker romance with Christian theme, very good)
Stars, Love and Pirouettes by Roy and Alicia Street
The Princess Problem by Diane Darcy (cute, sweet contemporary fairy tale)
Markings by S.B. Roozenboom (very nice shifter paranormal)
Midnight Playground by Eliza Gayle (re-read)
Forbidden Forest by Tenaya Jayne (very good fantasy, looking forward to next book)
Tucker's Fall by Eliza Gayle
Try Me and Tempt Me by Olivia Cunning
Their Virgin Captive by Shayla Black and Lexi Blake
One Night Forever by Lisa Renee Jones
Ask For it by Selena Blake
Educating Ansley by Cat Johnson
Blood Seduction by Pamela Palmer
Pride's Prejudice by Misty Dawn Pulsipher (an excellent and sweet contemporary retelling of the classic. Definitely recommend.)
Magic Bites (Kate Daniels Book 1) by Ilona Andrews (re-read)
Magic Burns (Kate Daniels Book 2) by Ilona Andrews (re-read)
Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels Book 3) by Ilona Andrews (re-read)
Because of moving and taking a vacation I did not get much from the library this month but I did read:
Forged in Steele (KGI Book 7) by Maya Banks
Dream Eyes by Jayne Ann Krentz
Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh (great addition to the series, really liked it)
Fever (Book 2) by Maya Banks
Real by Katy Evans
Once Upon a Tower by Eloisa James (not so crazy about this one, the characters annoyed me towards the end. Some of them redeemed them selves but this is definitely not my favorite by her)
Written in Red (The Others Book 1) by Anne Bishop (Could not put it down, loved it!)
Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson 7) by Patricia Briggs (library)
Rush (Breathless Book 1) by Maya Banks (library)
Highlander Most Wanted (Montgomerys and Armstrongs Book 2) by Maya Banks
The Duke and I (Bridgertons Book 1) by Julia Quinn (library ebook)
Chains by Shiloh Walker (re-read)
Full Disclosure by Dee Henderson
Ann Silver is a cop’s cop. As the Midwest Homicide Investigator, she is called in to help on the worst of the cases, looking for answers to murder. Hers is one of the most trusted investigative positions in the Midwest.
Paul Falcon is the FBI’s top murder cop. If the victim carried a federal badge or had a security clearance, odds are good he sees the case file or his guys work the murder.
Their lives intersect when Ann arrives to pass a case off her desk and onto his. A car wreck and a suspicious death offer a lead on a hired shooter he is tracking. Paul isn’t expecting to meet someone, the kind that goes on the personal side of the ledger, but Ann Silver has his attention.
The better he gets to know her, the more he realizes her job barely scratches the surface of who she is. She knows spies and soldiers and U.S. Marshals, and has written books about them. She is friends with the former Vice President. People with good reason to be cautious about who they let into their lives deeply trust her. Paul wonders just what secrets Ann is keeping, until she shows him the John Doe Killer case file, and he starts to realize just who this lady he is falling in love with really is . . .
I really enjoyed reading a Dee Henderson book again, it has been way too long since I have read or re-read one of her books. I really like Dee Henderson's style and characters that she creates. I enjoyed the characters in this book but I also enjoyed the different kind of cop book that this was. Most books where the main character(s) are cop(s) have a serial killer that they are trying to catch before they kill again or someone after them and are very suspenseful. This one was not one of those. These are two cops that have been cops for a while and have worked up the ladder and are portrayed more as what I would expect FBI and such who are not undercover typically do. There are some intense moments followed and preceded by lots of paperwork, waiting, thinking and analyzing. Now because of this it was a little slower reading than her usual books. But I still found it a good read.
The two main characters are trying to build a friendship and then a relationship amidst working in two different states and very demanding jobs. There was a lot they had to work through and issues they had to deal with while trying to learn each other and see if this was a relationship headed for marriage and that was nice to watch. I liked that she brought the O'Malley books into the storyline, that was nice ;)
I would recommend this if you were looking for something different with a solid romance story to it.
Some very good books this month. Great additions to some good series.
Delusions in Death (In Death Book ???) by JD Robb Great addition and also got the newest one from the library yesterday and am half way through already :)
The Seduction of Elliot McBride by Jennifer Ashley
Hot Ticket (Sinners Book 4ish) by Olivia Cunning
Midnight Playground by Eliza Gayle
Going Under (Bound by Magick Book 3) by Lauren Dane
Jungle Inferno by Desiree Holt (phoenix Book 1)
Re-read
Backstage Pass (Sinners Book 1) by Olivia Cunning
Double Time (Sinners book 3) by Olivia Cunning
Heart of Darkness (Bound by Magick Book 1) by Lauren Dane
Chaos Burning (Bound my Magick Book 2) by Lauren Dane
Well this month was my birth month and I got a Kindle gift card (so happy) so I bought
The Billionaire Bad Boys Club by Emma Holly
Double Time (Sinners Book 3 (or 5)) by Olivia Cunning
Try Me (Sole Regret book 1) by Olivia Cunning
The Regelence Rake by JL Langley
I also got Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks from the library, and I finished it in one day. Very good read. The heroine is deaf because of a fall three years before and is thought to be addled. But she is just fine mentally. Ms Banks writes an acknowledgement at the end of the story that the character's ailment was loosely based on her husband who had gone through college without anyone knowing that he had a hearing issue because he could read lips. So I thought that was neat.
I re-read Laid Bare by Lauren Dane and Undercover by Lauren Dane because I was wanting a Lauren Dane fix.
I also won a free e-copy of Missy Martine's Changing Their Wolfen Heritage (Wolfen Heritage Book 3). I have not read any of the others in this series but I still enjoyed it. Abused heroine, protective shifters, menage, what is not to like :)
I was feeling an urge to re-read My Fair Captain and The Englor Affair by JL Langley (really good m/m sci-fi historical) and so I did and then realized that she had released the third book recently so I went and grabbed that one. The Regelence Rake was a decent addition. It is not my favorite of the series but it was good. The series is based on two worlds that were started with a desire to live in the Regency period of England. so the whole social structure of their worlds are based around that time period, the dress, societal rules, names of places and their manner of speaking. But they are in a technological age to have to deal also with spaceships and computers. I have enjoyed reading about this world.
Also got used copies of Cherished by Maya Banks and Lauren Dane, two of my favorite authors, and Tart by Lauren Dane. Yay! :) At this point I have read Cherished and really enjoyed both stories and now am in the middle of Tart.
I treated myself to a Kindle gift card this month so bought a bunch of ebooks and sailed through them
Board Resolution (Knights of the Boardroom #1) by Joey W. Hill was a free ebook from Amazon so I grabbed that and then had to re-read the next two stories in the series that are in the Laced with Desire and Unlaced anthologies.
Archangel's Storm (Archangel Book 5) by Nalini Singh - Got it from the library until I can buy a copy. Had been looking forward to Jason's story and was not disappointed. She was a different heroine and I really liked her. She is not a kickass heroine but has her own strength and inner steel from her past and has had to learn to pick her battles the hard way.
Full Disclosure by Dee Henderson - Love it, will post a longer review soon.
I read about 9 other ebooks as well. None that were awesome enough to mention though. Mostly freebies from Amazon.
OMG, so did not realize that i had not posted this yet. It has been done and just sitting here (bad blogger).
Again, did not read many physical books. I have read about 9 ebooks. I will mention two of my favs this month were Blood Knot by Tracy Cooper-Posey and Roped by Ann Jacobs. Both free downloads from Amazon when I got them.
These were the ones i got from the library
Gunmetal Magic (World of Kate Daniels 1) by Ilona Andrews
Back in the kate Daniels world but the main character in this story was Andrea. The novella at the end of the book gives you Kate's perspective during Andrea's story.
Bared to You (Crossfire Book 1) by Sylvia Day
Very emotional book. There are discussion questions in the back of the book, I thought that was interesting. The way this book ends, it leaves room for more of them in the next books, they still have issues and have not resolved all of them which I think is kind of a nice change. Instead of having the characters live HEA after 200 pages, I know that I will get to watch them work out more of their issues in the next book. There are moments when I want to smack both of them but they are both coming from abusive backgrounds that leave some serious scarring and that is not going to be resolved in the two weeks that this book takes place over and I am kind of glad of that. More realistic.
If You Can Hear Her by Shiloh Walker
This I have mixed feelings about. I thought it was well written and I liked the characters but it did not fully end and I have to run out an get the next book because they still have not gotten the bad guy. The main couple in this book intrigued me because she is blind and i love characters who have a impairment they have grown to stand tall with and the man or woman with the depth to look past the physical (can you guess that Beauty and the Beast is my favorite fairy tale). But this is the first in a trilogy and it is not a hardship to go get the next book, it is just driving me crazy who the bad guy is. Ok off to the library for the next book.
Making great use of my library this month, I read:
Deliciously Sinful by Lilli Feisty
Desired by Nicola Cornick
Hush by Cherry Adair
Afterglow by Cherry Adair
Wicked Enchantment by Anya Bast
Cruel Enchantment by Anya Bast
Kiss the Dead (Anita Blake series) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Dark Enchantment by Anya Bast
No One Left to Tell by Karen Rose
Dark Enchantment by Anya Bast
Midnight Enchantment by Anya Bast
All very good books, I enjoyed them very much and it was a nice mix. A contemporary, historical, 3 contemporary suspense, a paranormal and then a fantasy series all in one month :) As well as more ebooks that I post at Goodreads (easier to keep track of there).
In my effort to thin out my books I am picking off my shelf the ones that I kept for re-reading purposes but have never actually re-read them. And those that I have been keeping to read one more time before I give it to the UBS. So here is what I have pulled from the stacks this month.
Strip Search by Shelley Bradley (to UBS)
Dangerous Boys and Their Toy by Shayla Black (to UBS, mainly because of the cover)
The Winston Brothers (anthology) by Lori Foster (to UBS)
Wild by Lori Foster (to UBS)
Silent Confessions by Julie Kenner (to UBS)
On the Edge by Susan Kearney (to UBS)
Beyond the Edge by Susan Kearney (DNF the re-read) (to UBS)
To Trust a Wolf by Kate Steele
Beyond Innocence by Emma Holly (to UBS)
Angel's Flight (Archangel anthology) by Nalini Singh
Seduce Me in Dreams by Jacqueline Frank
Seduce Me in Flames by Jacqueline Frank
Forget Me Not by Elizabeth Lowell (has been on my shelf for a loooong time) Did not realized I had not read it. I enjoyed it but it will not be a keeper for me, so it is also going to the UBS.
The Duke's Perfect Bride (Cameron Brothers Book 4) by Jennifer Ashley Love this quartet!
Heart of Darkness by Lauren Dane For some reason, I thought I had read this so had not picked it up. Apparently I had not, so I am glad I grabbed it. Thought it was very cool that the De la Vega cats and the Cascadia wolves were mentioned in this series so I may hope for some crossover later, maybe :)
Bear Meets Girl by Shelly Laurenston This series is so fun, the characters are just so over the top, it is very entertaining to read!
Celebrity in Death by JD Robb Good addition to the series. So surprised that I am still loving it after all of this time and the amount of books in it. Usually after about the 15th book I am looking for an end to it, but this one, not so much. :)
Besides these i have a bunch of ebooks that I keep track of at Goodreads.
I have been reading a lot of ebooks lately (haunting the free Kindle books) but these are some of the paperbacks I have grabbed from the library over the last couple of months.
Whispers in the Dark (KGI Book 4) by Maya Banks
LOVE this series!
Eternal Captive by Laura Wright
Very good :)
Firelight by Kristen Callihan
Great new author! I really enjoyed this book and look forward to the next one.
Spirit Bound by Christine Feehan
Am enjoying this series, not sure if I like it as much as the original Sisters books though.
Heart and Swords anthology (Celta series) by Robin D. Owens
The Celta books are always great! This anthology contains stories from all different times on (mostly) Celta.
Never Love a Highlander (Highlander Book 3) by Maya Banks
I never read medieval stories but I enjoy this one, maybe it is the author :)
Matthew (Circle 8 Ranch Book 1) by Emma Lang
Born to Darkness (Fighting Destiny Book 1) by Suzanne Brockmann
Darkness Bound (Chimney Rock Book 1) by Stella Cameron
This one was ok, I will try the next one, to see if it gets better.
The Departed (FBI Psychicis Book 2) by Shiloh Walker
This book comes after The Missing but can be read alone. I enjoyed it, but I really like psychic stories :)
Dare to Believe (The Gray Court Book 1) by Dana Marie Bell
Kiss of Snow (Psy-Changeling Book 13) by Nalini Singh
Winds of Fury (Valdemar (Reign of Selaney) Book 7) by Mercedes Lackey (re-read)
e Beast by Eloisa James (A-)Dark Horse by Kate Sherwood (ebook) (B)
Undercover by Lauren Dane (re-read)
Wow, it is currently when I am writing this, December 21 and i am just now writing down what i have read this month, talk about crazy busy. Here are the books that I could remember that I read.
