Another reading round up

[angela_o]

Bare bones listings on this one.

#81 is That Summer by Joan Wolf(Jun/07). Wolf wrote one of my alltime favorite romances, but her contemporary stuff just isn't comparable.

#82 is Till We Meet Again by Judith Krantz(Jun/07). It's funny how two-dimensional Krantz seems now. I thought she was hot stuff when I was in high school.

#83 is Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews(Jun/07). Set in Madison, Georgia and while interesting, it couldn't seem to decide whether it wanted to be a romance or a mystery and thus failed to really achieve either.

#84 is Red Handed by Gena Showalter(Jun/07). Reminiscent of Scott Westerfeld. I'd consider reading more in the series.

#85 is Under the Rose: An Ivy League Novel by Diana Peterfreund(Jun/07). Sequel to Secret Society Girl. This series makes me nostalgic for my alma mater.

#86 is Dark Lover by J. R. Ward(Jun/07). A friend recommended this series to me so I decided to check it out. The names of the protagonists nearly did me in initially, but it has some complex world-building so I stuck with it.

#87 is Lover Eternal by J. R. Ward(Jun/07). #2 in the series.

#88 is The Hookup Artist by Tucker Shaw(Jun/07). A YA with a gay teenager as the lead. A little breezy, but it's good to see more representation of gays in the genre.

#89 is Lover Awakened by J. R. Ward(Jun/07). #3 in the series.

Will I be able to hit 100 by the end of the month? Only The Shadow knows...

Comments

[janajoh.livejournal.com]

My m-i-l turned me on to Mary Kay Andrews; I've read her Savannah series (Savannah Blues, Savannah Breeze). Didn't like Breeze nearly as much as Blues, probably because the Breeze heroine was TSTL, in my opinion.

Red Handed is on my list. You should read Awaken Me Darkly and Enslave Me Sweetly. Savor Me Slowly (December) is the next book in that series, while Black Listed will hit up the YA alien huntresses next month.

Once I pick up a J. R. Ward, I cannot put her down until I read the end. It's an addiction, and I love the world so much, I can overlook the flaws that would normally drive me batty.

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

I thought I might try out Savannah Blues simply because I grew up about 45 miles from there.

I liked Showalter pretty well. Are the Darkly and Sweetly titles adult books or YA?

Interesting your reaction to J. R. Ward. I definitely had to plow through to get over my initial reaction to the nomenclature. My first response was that it was so ridiculous that it threw me right out of the story. Throwing an "h" into a word does not an immediate new language make and I much preferred the vampires nicknames to their full names. But, I fully admit that I'm persnickety and difficult to please. lol

[dpeterfreund.livejournal.com]

I love Gena Showalter's books. The Darkly and Sweetly books are the adult titles in the same alien hunter series as Red Handed. Kind of unusual that there are adult AND YA books in the same series, but I love them both.

Thanks so much for reading!