Holly: My oldest daughter graduated high school this week. It’s been a crazy busy -and emotional- time that hasn’t left room for much reading. I took a break from party preparations to reread Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh, and I reread Soaring by Kristen Ashley during the early part of the week, but that’s all I’ve had time for. Hopefully things will die down after this and I can binge-read for days.
Rowena: It looks like I’ve found my reading mojo because I’m a reading machine this week. I’m on Book 4 for this week. I finished Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway and I really liked that one. It was cute and Emmy was such a great protagonist and I’m so glad that I read it because that book had me all teary eyed thinking about all that Emmy and Oliver went through in the ten years that Oliver was gone. Benway did a fantastic job of telling their story and I enjoyed it to pieces.
After Emmy & Oliver, I read Making Your Mind Up by Jill Mansell and I didn’t like it. At all. Too much of the book drove me nuts and the characters lacked the personality that I usually expect and love from Mansell books so I didn’t care for the book. Next, I read Last Year’s Mistake by Gina Ciocca and while I liked it more than the Mansell, I still didn’t actually like it. Kelsey and David drove me crazy with all of the wasted time and dumbass teenage logic and in the end, while I understood why Kelsey thought the way she did, I still didn’t like her. Gah.
After that, I jumped into The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi and it was yet another contemporary YA that I just did not like. I didn’t connect with any of the characters and when the big reveal came about where the love interest disappeared to, I thought it was lame. Not a good enough excuse to turn into a ghost and then come back after six months of radio silence and want things to go back to the way they were. All of the characters drove me crazy and they yelled a lot too. I wanted to tell the whole lot of them to shut up.
Right now, I’m reading After Hours by Claire Kennedy and it’s shaping up to probably be the same – enjoyment wise – as the last two YA books that I read and that makes me sad. I love contemporary YA but I’m reading all of the wrong ones. Gah. Hopefully my next read will turn out better. After After Hours, I’ll be jumping into Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis. Bring on the Colorado lovin’…:)
What are you reading?
Wow, I think the first book you mention is the only one I’ve heard of! Haven’t been paying much attention to new books lately. Though I am reading an ARC, For Real by Alexis Hall. I was a little uncertain about the premise and almost didn’t request it, but think it’s really good so far.
Hey Willa! As you can probably guess, I’m working on my review pile. I had such high hopes for all of the books that I mention in this post but none of them are shaping out to be what I wanted them to be. Grr. I’m hoping the Shalvis will save this month for me. Wish me luck.
For Real is going to go on my TBB list if it ends up being a good one for you. Happy reading!
I re-read a bunch of In Death books this week–I had forgotten how good some of the earlier ones are. In fact, I was shocked at how shocked I was, that Naked in Death is soooo good and holds up so well after twenty years.
Twenty. Years–and forty books and a bunch of novellas. Holy crap, Batman!
Today I re-read Sarina Bowen’s The Understatement of the Year
Other books I’ve recently read and enjoyed ~
Her Ladyship’s Companion by Joanna Bourne
Shiloh Walker’s Busted
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Her Hesitant Heart by Carla Kelly
Lorraine Heath’s The Duke and the Lady in Red
Before I Fall by Jessica Scott
Way of the Warrior which is an anthology by Suzanne Brockmann, Julie Ann Walker, Catherine Mann, Tina Wainscott, Anne Elizabeth, M.L. Buchman, Kate SeRine, and Lea Griffith
I have only had time to read one book the last 2 weeks (*sob*), but it was a good one: Keir by Pippa Jay. It’s a sci-fi romance, which I rarely read, but this one really captured my interest.