Rowena: It’s been a pretty hectic week for me, trying to come down from my high of being with so many book lovers and some of my favorite authors last weekend at RWA (post and pictures on that will be coming shortly, I hope) but I did manage to get some reading done this week. I re-read Double Standards by Judith McNaught after an interesting debate about all of the jerks and douchewads in that book with Holly and Tracy and I read and absolutely adored Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh. Julie James recommended that book to me a couple of years ago and I always meant to read it but never did…until this week. I love, love, LOVED Lucas Hunter and can’t wait to read the rest of the series. But before I can start anything else, I MUST read my book club read for July which is Sundays at Tiffany’s by James Patterson. I can’t read anything else until I finish that book.
Casee: I am reading Echoes at Dawn by Maya Banks. It’s about Shea’s sister, Grace. Shea from Whispers in the Dark. I wasn’t thrilled by the psychic turn of the series, as you can see from my review. There hasn’t been a lot of woo-woo stuff so far, so I’m giving it a chance.
I can’t wait to finish the book because I want to read Joss Ware’s new book. If I get really impatient, I might come back to the Maya Banks.
Holly: I’m reading Double Standards, a stupid crappy McNaught from the 80s and its all Rowena’s fault! Haha jk.
I really am reading DS. It’s interesting to read an older book again, now that my perspective – and the world’s – has changed. I still think the hero is an ass, but it gives me a great deal of satisfaction to see how far we’ve come as a society.
What are you reading this week?
I’m starting to think I’m one of the few who didn’t love Slave to Sensation. I had to read it for class and the general consensus of the mostly 18-year-olds in class didn’t like it much either. (I was the oldest by a decade.)
Holly, I wish I had had DS when I was doing the research on romance in the past 20 years or so. Not paranormal but still useful. Just to compare.
I like DS. Yes; it’s gulity of sexual harrassment, but it’s from a different era. I don’t judge the hero’s actions by today’s standards. Now if that book was written and released in 2012, then I’d have an entirely different opinion. As an aside, it’s sort of interesting that Mad Men is so popular when it wasn’t a good time period for working women.
I just started Crux by Moira Rogers.