Rowena: This week was a busy week for me. I hosted a naughty bookish themed bachelorette party (will blog about that soon) with my book club for one of our members and so I didn’t get a lot of reading done. What I did read though? I LOVED. Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh was great and everything that I love in contemporary romances. Steamy romances with loads of swooning scenes. A hot stud of a hero that I wanted to take a bite out of and a smart heroine who strong and capable. Total win for me.
Right now, I’m reading three different books. Weird, I know but I keep reading different things on different things. I’m reading The Devil in Denim by Melanie Scott on my iPad. So far, that’s good. I’m reading Once More, My Darling Rogue by Lorraine Heath on my phone and Just Like the Movies by Kelly Fiore on my laptop. I’m enjoying all of them too.
Holly: I did some re-reading this week. Alpha and Omega and Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs. Fairytale Come Alive by Kristen Ashley.
I reread Rock Addiction and read Rock Courtship by Nalini Singh. Both were fabulous. Sexy, intense, funny. Love! This series is going to kill.
Right now I’m reading Rhett by J.S. Cooper. I heard mixed things about it, but most of the reviews were good so I decided to try it. OMG it’s terrible. I want to finish it to see if Rhett can be redeemed, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. I’m live-tweeting as I read if you want to follow along. Hashtag #Rhett.
What are you reading this week? Anything good? Bad?
I think I must be the only person NOT excited about a rock star romance from Nalini! Not that I think she can’t do it justice – a rock star hero just does not float my boat! I have been re-reading . . Nora’s Sanctuary, still fab and creepy. Leslie Tentler’s Edge of Midnight – Oooh the tension, even where I have read it before – it still gets me! About to start Touching Evil by Kylie Brant, a reread in anticipation of the third novel in her Circle of Evil trilogy!
Oh and I did read Hit and Run by Allison Brennan and Laura Griffin – was good ☺
Holy canoli, I haven’t read Nora’s Sanctuary in a long time. I remember it being creepy but good. Hmm, I’ll have to go and hunt down my copy of the book.
And I haven’t heard Kylie Brant’s name in a long time. I read the first book in one of her series (can’t remember what it was) but I did enjoy it…obviously not enough to continue the series but I remember it being good.
I haven’t read anything by Allison Brennan though I keep meaning to.
Oh, and also about Nalini Singh. I hate lip rings on a guy but she does Fox’s lip ring in Rock Addiction so well that I want a boyfriend with a lip ring. 🙂
I read the Hit & Run for Laura Griffin’s voice – love her books!
Kylie Brant has gone self published for the moment – her Circle Of Evil trilogy. The last one is due out next week! 😀
Is there romance in the Brennan/Griffin book? I’m a big fan of Griffin’s Tracer series and was just wondering whether the new books fall in that category or something different.
The Brennan/Griffin books are self published and are about 2 women who are PI’s. They started with Crash and Burn and now Hit & Run. The stories are written separately, roughly 100 pages each although the storylines do intersect a little. At the end of Crash & Burn Griffin’s heroine is interested in a male PI – and this continues in Hit & Run – so overtones of romance but not out and out . . . yet! 😀
I got totally engrossed in a Harlequin Intrigue series this week–Cooper Security Agency by Paula Graves. There’s actually a whole boatload of Cooper books (twenty-something I think?) though I just started with the “Security” ones. I’ve been on a real romantic suspense kick lately and somehow stumbled onto one from this series and then had to glom the rest! Intrigue heroines can often be wet blankets but these heroines have been awesome. There was a spy, an FBI agent, a journalist, etc. and no wet blankets in sight. They hit my sweet spot this week!
Sounds right up my street – thanks for the rec 😀
I’ve never been heard of this series. I’ll have to check them out.
I’ve been reading Vicki Lewis Thompson’s Nerds series, just finished Talk Nerdy to Me, and have been enjoying all of them. But I’ve interrupted the series right now to read a secret admirer themed anthology, called (what else?) My Secret Admirer, by Anne Stuart, Thompson, and Marisa Carroll. I’ve only read Anne Stuart once before and that was a joint effort, Dogs and Goddesses, with Jennifer Crusie and Lani Diane Rich, which I didn’t really care for much despite my love for all things Crusie. And I’d never heard of Marisa Carroll, but I picked the anthology up for Thompson. Stuart’s story was a little silly and over the top, and has not inspired me to read more of her. I finished Thompson’s story last night and it was enjoyable, though not as much as the Nerd books. I’ll read Carroll’s story today.
Sanctuary is one of Roberts’ that I haven’t yet read, but I see it mentioned fairly often. I should probably look for it.
Sanctuary is a classic imho! There are 3 well developed romances and plenty of intrigue!
I’m with Willa. Sanctuary is definitely a classic. One that I’d recommend as well.
I am such a sucker for rock stars. I know they aren’t for everyone, but I was sold the second I heard.