I just started reading the "In Death Series" by JD Robb aka Nora Roberts. I bought the first two years ago and started the the first one I got about 2 chapters into it and it wasn't grabbing my attention. I recently decided to give them another try and I am enjoying them this time around.
Naked In Death ~ C+
The first book Lt. Eve Dallas (police detective) meets Roarke (billionaire) for the first time at a funeral he is a suspect in a case of the murder of the high class call girl. The book introduces a lot of the characters that are reoccurring in the series Mavis, Feeney, Nadine & Summerset. She eventually solves the case while falling for Roarke in the process. The book to me was just an average book, but I still wanted to see what happens next.
Glory In Death ~ B-
In the 2nd book Eve is investigating a series of murders of successful career woman. We see on going relationship of Eve and Roarke at the end of the book he proposes. We also meet Delia Peabody a police officer who becomes one of the major characters in the series(so far my favorite character). I really started to get into the books and really want to know what happens to the characters.
Immortal In Death ~ B+
The book is about series of murders that are all connected even though the method of death is different in each one they a revolve a drug called immortality. Mavis ends up being the main suspect, so Eve works extra hard to clear her. We get the answer to Roarke's marriage proposal and the wedding plans the book ends with Eve and Roarke's wedding. This one is my favorite of the ones I read so far.
Rapture In Death ~ B-
The book opens with Eve and Roarke on their honeymoon, Their is an apparent suicide at Roarke new space resort that is being built. After Eve and Roarke get home their is another suicide and in the process she finds out about another one that happened when she was on her honeymoon. Eve is unsettled by the 3 suicides so close together; the ME ends up finding little burn marks on the victims. In their personal life Eve and Roarke are adjusting to married life.
I am enjoying the series so far for me it started out slow but I plan on continuing reading the rest of the series with some breaks with other books in between. I love the characters and their interactions. One of the things that surprised me was how fast Eve and Roarke got married I kinda thought that would drag out over the series for awhile but it didn't bother me.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
2 New Reviews
Marliss Melton ~ Too Far Gone ~ B-
The hero Sean Harlan & heroine Ellie Stuart met in the last book when she bought the hero of that books son to him who she was raising. When Ellie's sons are kidnapped she contacts Sean to help her find them. The police think that Ellie and or Sean are the main suspects in the kidnapping. So they set off on their own adventure following any leads they can to locate her children. The book also has a subplot featuring an undercover FBI agent and a rich heiress. I liked the book for the most part only a few minor concerns for me but still a very well written good book.
Jean Johnson ~ The Flame ~ B+
I love the Sons of Destiny Books they are has quickly becoming one of my favorite series. This book is about the seventh brother Koranen(a fire mage) and Danau (aquamancer). Danau and 3 other aquamancers come the Nightfall to study the islands permanent magical water source. Koranen then has to figure out which one is his destined mate. The book is filled with laugh out loud moments and good written story maybe a little slow at times. I really really didn't like the cover of the book it doesn't fit in with the rest of them and I usually don't care about covers. I love the whole cast of characters in the books and can't wait for the 8th book. If you haven't read any of the series you should definitely given them a try.
The hero Sean Harlan & heroine Ellie Stuart met in the last book when she bought the hero of that books son to him who she was raising. When Ellie's sons are kidnapped she contacts Sean to help her find them. The police think that Ellie and or Sean are the main suspects in the kidnapping. So they set off on their own adventure following any leads they can to locate her children. The book also has a subplot featuring an undercover FBI agent and a rich heiress. I liked the book for the most part only a few minor concerns for me but still a very well written good book.
Jean Johnson ~ The Flame ~ B+
I love the Sons of Destiny Books they are has quickly becoming one of my favorite series. This book is about the seventh brother Koranen(a fire mage) and Danau (aquamancer). Danau and 3 other aquamancers come the Nightfall to study the islands permanent magical water source. Koranen then has to figure out which one is his destined mate. The book is filled with laugh out loud moments and good written story maybe a little slow at times. I really really didn't like the cover of the book it doesn't fit in with the rest of them and I usually don't care about covers. I love the whole cast of characters in the books and can't wait for the 8th book. If you haven't read any of the series you should definitely given them a try.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Fall TV
I haven't been able to get into many TV shows this year not many are catching my attention. Right now only 3 shows that I am watching regularly.
Shows I'm Watching
Criminal Minds ~ My Favorite Show Right Now
Legend of the Seeker ~ Just Started But So Far I Like It
Survivor ~ This Hasn't been the best season but I'm still watching
Shows I'm Sorta Watching
CSI ~ I'm Only Kinda Watching Because I'm Sad About All The Cast Changes
Dancing with the Stars ~ I Miss Cloris
America's Next Top Model ~ So So season
Rock Of Love: Charm School ~ Kinda Entertaining
Shows' I am Waiting For
LOST ~ Premieres in Jan. I can't wait!!!!!!!
Shows I'm Watching
Criminal Minds ~ My Favorite Show Right Now
Legend of the Seeker ~ Just Started But So Far I Like It
Survivor ~ This Hasn't been the best season but I'm still watching
Shows I'm Sorta Watching
CSI ~ I'm Only Kinda Watching Because I'm Sad About All The Cast Changes
Dancing with the Stars ~ I Miss Cloris
America's Next Top Model ~ So So season
Rock Of Love: Charm School ~ Kinda Entertaining
Shows' I am Waiting For
LOST ~ Premieres in Jan. I can't wait!!!!!!!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
My Latest Reads All Paranormal!
Listed in Order in enjoyed them:
Sherilyn Kenyon ~ One Silent Night ~ Grade: A+
I am one the people who still likes almost all of Ms. Kenyon's Dark Hunter books. This book is about Stryker leader of the Daimons and Zephrya his ex-wife. The main plot of the book is Stryker lets loose an ancient evil named War to kill Ash and Nick, Artemis finds out and sends Zephrya out to kill Stryker. This book as a lot of new information about the DH world and some major changes in it. I liked that the villains got a HEA, which often doesn't happen and I found it interesting to read. In her world the theme I like about them is almost everyone as good and bad in them and not every thing is black and white. The book is little on the short side(not as short as Upon a Midnight Clear which was one the books in the series I haven't liked), but I still good read especially if your a die hard Dark Hunter fan.
Kerrelyn Sparks ~ All I Want For Christmas is a Vampire ~ Grade: A
I really like Ms. Sparks Love at Stake series, this one had me enjoying the book right at the beginning and pulled right back into her world. This book is about Ian Macphie and Toni Davis. Ian has been one of my favorite character in past books. The plot is Toni's roommate gets attacked by Vampire and is placed in a Mental Institution so Toni sets out to prove that vampires are real and in process ends up getting attacked by the evil vampires. The good vampires save her and end up offering her a job at their security company, where she meets Ian who is own mission to meet his one true love. The book was funny and I really liked it.
Robin T. Popp ~ The Haunting ~ Grade: B+
The is the 7th installment of the Immortals series. I have read all of them and for the most part enjoyed them. This one is about Mai a wood nymph and Nick a spirit walker. Mai is having some issue since the final battle in book book 4, she is having some bad dreams and hallucinations, she seeks out Nick to help her with her dreams after a interesting 1st encounter she contacts him to help find her missing neighbor.
Allyson James ~ The Dragon Master ~ Grade: B
This is the 3rd book in her dragon series. The heroine is Carol Juan and the hero is Seth a Red Fire dragon. We met Carol in the first two books, she is a serious and determined person who doesn't believe in dragons. She is actually a Dragon Master and can call any dragon to her which is how she meets Seth(who isn't happy about being pulled out of dragon space). I thought this book was pretty good but not my favorite in the series.
Christine Warren ~ One Bite with a Stranger ~ Grade: B-
This is actually a reissue expanded version of her 1st Other Book, which was E-book through Ellora's Cave. The heroine Regina and her friends are trying to make their fantasy come true, Regina is not as open as this than her girlfriends but reluctantly agrees to her finds planing her fantasy which includes a vampire to sleep with if. She ends up going to club where she suppose to meet the "vampire" her friends knows but ends up meeting Misha a real vampire instead. This book was OK I really don't like the original plot device so after that it was hard for me to warm up to the book after that.
Jaci Burton ~ The Darkest Touch ~ Grade: C+
This is the 3rd book in the demon hunting series. The book is about Angelique an archaeologist and Ryder a demon hunter. The is also a subplot featuring Angelique's twin Isabelle and Dalton another Demon hunter. I had hard time remembering the last book in the series so it took me a little while to remember the past characters and some off the setup for this book. I thought is was an okay book to me wasn't a great book but wasn't an awful book.
Sherilyn Kenyon ~ One Silent Night ~ Grade: A+
I am one the people who still likes almost all of Ms. Kenyon's Dark Hunter books. This book is about Stryker leader of the Daimons and Zephrya his ex-wife. The main plot of the book is Stryker lets loose an ancient evil named War to kill Ash and Nick, Artemis finds out and sends Zephrya out to kill Stryker. This book as a lot of new information about the DH world and some major changes in it. I liked that the villains got a HEA, which often doesn't happen and I found it interesting to read. In her world the theme I like about them is almost everyone as good and bad in them and not every thing is black and white. The book is little on the short side(not as short as Upon a Midnight Clear which was one the books in the series I haven't liked), but I still good read especially if your a die hard Dark Hunter fan.
Kerrelyn Sparks ~ All I Want For Christmas is a Vampire ~ Grade: A
I really like Ms. Sparks Love at Stake series, this one had me enjoying the book right at the beginning and pulled right back into her world. This book is about Ian Macphie and Toni Davis. Ian has been one of my favorite character in past books. The plot is Toni's roommate gets attacked by Vampire and is placed in a Mental Institution so Toni sets out to prove that vampires are real and in process ends up getting attacked by the evil vampires. The good vampires save her and end up offering her a job at their security company, where she meets Ian who is own mission to meet his one true love. The book was funny and I really liked it.
Robin T. Popp ~ The Haunting ~ Grade: B+
The is the 7th installment of the Immortals series. I have read all of them and for the most part enjoyed them. This one is about Mai a wood nymph and Nick a spirit walker. Mai is having some issue since the final battle in book book 4, she is having some bad dreams and hallucinations, she seeks out Nick to help her with her dreams after a interesting 1st encounter she contacts him to help find her missing neighbor.
Allyson James ~ The Dragon Master ~ Grade: B
This is the 3rd book in her dragon series. The heroine is Carol Juan and the hero is Seth a Red Fire dragon. We met Carol in the first two books, she is a serious and determined person who doesn't believe in dragons. She is actually a Dragon Master and can call any dragon to her which is how she meets Seth(who isn't happy about being pulled out of dragon space). I thought this book was pretty good but not my favorite in the series.
Christine Warren ~ One Bite with a Stranger ~ Grade: B-
This is actually a reissue expanded version of her 1st Other Book, which was E-book through Ellora's Cave. The heroine Regina and her friends are trying to make their fantasy come true, Regina is not as open as this than her girlfriends but reluctantly agrees to her finds planing her fantasy which includes a vampire to sleep with if. She ends up going to club where she suppose to meet the "vampire" her friends knows but ends up meeting Misha a real vampire instead. This book was OK I really don't like the original plot device so after that it was hard for me to warm up to the book after that.
Jaci Burton ~ The Darkest Touch ~ Grade: C+
This is the 3rd book in the demon hunting series. The book is about Angelique an archaeologist and Ryder a demon hunter. The is also a subplot featuring Angelique's twin Isabelle and Dalton another Demon hunter. I had hard time remembering the last book in the series so it took me a little while to remember the past characters and some off the setup for this book. I thought is was an okay book to me wasn't a great book but wasn't an awful book.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
latest reads
Karen Chance ~ Midnights Daughter ~ Grade: B-
Dorina Basarab is Mircea's daughter from the Cassandra Palmer books (we don't find this out till this book I think), she is a dhampir which is half human/half vampire. The main story line is her father wants her to help find her uncle Dracula to imprison him again, with the aid Louise-Cesare.I have only recently began reading Urban Fantasy and most of them have been in 1st person so I do not have a lot of comparison to other UF books but I enjoyed this one. It had few minor problems like sometimes I wish I knew what Louise-Cesare was thinking and a few times she cuts away from something and then explain's what happened in the next scene. If you like UF or any of Karen Chance's other books you should give this one a try, you might be a little lost if you never read any of her other books especially with some of then secondary characters.
Jeanne Ray ~ Julie and Romeo & Julie And Romeo Get Lucky ~ series Grade: B+
I found Julie and Romeo at my local libraries book sale for $1.00 it looked interesting and the story featured rival florists getting together so I bought It. When I got home looked the book up to see any reviews on it and found there was sequel so I bought that, to read them back to back. When I started the 1st book, I almost stopped reading right away because of the age of the Main Characters (50+) and because they were in 1st person point of view, which I thought wouldn't interest me, but I was wrong. The Main story of the 1st book is that Julie and Romeo run into each other at seminar they decide to go out after and talk even though there families have been feuding for all there lives. They end up starting to fall for each other; the ensuing story is what happens when there families find out. The second book main story line is Julie's granddaughter has a lottery ticket obsession and what happens when she wins. It also continues with resolving the open issues from the 1st book and see how they have adjusted to J&R's relationship. Both books are written very well. The surrounding families in each book are wonderful yet have there own issues and Idiosyncrasies that all families have. There are a lot of funny parts. They are very feel good books and have much happier endings then Romeo and Juliet that the titles play off of. If you like family sagas then give these a try.
Dorina Basarab is Mircea's daughter from the Cassandra Palmer books (we don't find this out till this book I think), she is a dhampir which is half human/half vampire. The main story line is her father wants her to help find her uncle Dracula to imprison him again, with the aid Louise-Cesare.I have only recently began reading Urban Fantasy and most of them have been in 1st person so I do not have a lot of comparison to other UF books but I enjoyed this one. It had few minor problems like sometimes I wish I knew what Louise-Cesare was thinking and a few times she cuts away from something and then explain's what happened in the next scene. If you like UF or any of Karen Chance's other books you should give this one a try, you might be a little lost if you never read any of her other books especially with some of then secondary characters.
Jeanne Ray ~ Julie and Romeo & Julie And Romeo Get Lucky ~ series Grade: B+
I found Julie and Romeo at my local libraries book sale for $1.00 it looked interesting and the story featured rival florists getting together so I bought It. When I got home looked the book up to see any reviews on it and found there was sequel so I bought that, to read them back to back. When I started the 1st book, I almost stopped reading right away because of the age of the Main Characters (50+) and because they were in 1st person point of view, which I thought wouldn't interest me, but I was wrong. The Main story of the 1st book is that Julie and Romeo run into each other at seminar they decide to go out after and talk even though there families have been feuding for all there lives. They end up starting to fall for each other; the ensuing story is what happens when there families find out. The second book main story line is Julie's granddaughter has a lottery ticket obsession and what happens when she wins. It also continues with resolving the open issues from the 1st book and see how they have adjusted to J&R's relationship. Both books are written very well. The surrounding families in each book are wonderful yet have there own issues and Idiosyncrasies that all families have. There are a lot of funny parts. They are very feel good books and have much happier endings then Romeo and Juliet that the titles play off of. If you like family sagas then give these a try.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
My Latest Reads
Deirdre Martin ~ Power Play ~ Grade B+
Good book it's the latest in a series about the Fictional NY Blade. The books goes with the others in the series, but I think it would also stand alone nicely.
JR Ward ~ Black Dagger Brotherhood Companion ~ Grade B+
Theirs a short story about with Z and Bella. A small time line, Dossier's on all the brothers, a question and answer section and a preview of the next book Lover Avenged. If you are a brotherhood fan you will most likely like this book. The short story was good and I liked the dossier section because it breaks down each brother and gives more insight into the whole world. If you haven't read any of the brotherhood books then this isn't the book for you.
Allison Brennan ~ Playing Dead ~ Grade A-
This is the third book in her Prison Break Trilogy and I think it was my favorite of the whole trilogy, it did a really good job of wrapping every thing up. I really like her characters they all seem like real people.
Joy Nash ~ Immortals: The Crossing ~ Grade B+
I have enjoyed the immortals series, some more than others. I liked Mac in the first set of books, I think he was one of my favorite supporting Characters in the books, So I was definitely looking forward to this book and it didn't disappoint. The only thing I didn't was some of the the heroine actions.
Good book it's the latest in a series about the Fictional NY Blade. The books goes with the others in the series, but I think it would also stand alone nicely.
JR Ward ~ Black Dagger Brotherhood Companion ~ Grade B+
Theirs a short story about with Z and Bella. A small time line, Dossier's on all the brothers, a question and answer section and a preview of the next book Lover Avenged. If you are a brotherhood fan you will most likely like this book. The short story was good and I liked the dossier section because it breaks down each brother and gives more insight into the whole world. If you haven't read any of the brotherhood books then this isn't the book for you.
Allison Brennan ~ Playing Dead ~ Grade A-
This is the third book in her Prison Break Trilogy and I think it was my favorite of the whole trilogy, it did a really good job of wrapping every thing up. I really like her characters they all seem like real people.
Joy Nash ~ Immortals: The Crossing ~ Grade B+
I have enjoyed the immortals series, some more than others. I liked Mac in the first set of books, I think he was one of my favorite supporting Characters in the books, So I was definitely looking forward to this book and it didn't disappoint. The only thing I didn't was some of the the heroine actions.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Introduction
My first post, I plan on blogging about the books I read (mostly romance novels)the last book I read was CL Wilson's King of Sword and Sky, I loved it and cannot wait until June for the next one in the series.
I also plan to blog about the movies I've watched recently and my favorite TV Shows. I am a huge movie fan I watch just about any type of movie except horror movies, the last movie I watched was The Forbidden Kingdom, I thought it was a great I give it a B+. I am a huge reality TV fan( Survivor, Big Brother, Project Runway, and most of VH1's shows plus many more. My two favorite TV Shows are Lost and Criminal Minds, I also like the original CSI. I watch mostly reality TV because I until recently I worked mostly evening's during prime time TV. Most reality shows are online and I can watch when I have time, plus some of the cable channels repeat the shows after midnight.
I also plan to blog about the movies I've watched recently and my favorite TV Shows. I am a huge movie fan I watch just about any type of movie except horror movies, the last movie I watched was The Forbidden Kingdom, I thought it was a great I give it a B+. I am a huge reality TV fan( Survivor, Big Brother, Project Runway, and most of VH1's shows plus many more. My two favorite TV Shows are Lost and Criminal Minds, I also like the original CSI. I watch mostly reality TV because I until recently I worked mostly evening's during prime time TV. Most reality shows are online and I can watch when I have time, plus some of the cable channels repeat the shows after midnight.
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