Holly: I’m still not reading much. I’m not really even re-reading anything. It’s awful. I did finally start and get halfway through A Soldier’s Promise by Karen Templeton, but even that isn’t really holding my interest. I plan to finish it, but I’m not in a hurry like I normally am. I might have to just give up on reading for now and go binge-watch How I Met Your Mother or something.
Rowena: It was a good reading week for me. I finished Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs, which I really enjoyed and then I read and adored My American Duchess by Eloisa James. I also read Midnight Captive by Elle Kennedy, which was another great addition to the Killer Instincts series and now I’m reading Midnight Revenge by Elle Kennedy. D’s book! I’m so bleeping excited that we’re finally getting his story.
What are you reading this week? Any new favorites or books that drove you crazy? Share!
Books read this week include ~
— The Golden City by J. Kathleen Cheney. This was an enjoyable fantasy.
— The Seer’s Choice: A Novella of the Golden City by the above author; also enjoyable.
— a re-read of a new favorite fantasy, Grace Draven’s Radiance.
— the short work Breaking Out: Part I by Michelle Diener; this is by the author of Dark Horse which I really enjoyed. This was okay but didn’t really speak to me.
— a fantasy novel that I saw on many Best of 2015 lists: Updraft by Fran Wilde; it was quite good.
— The Golden Songbird by Sheila Walsh is an older regency romance; it was a pleasant story but not something I’m likely to re-read.
— re-read the contemporary romance Artistic License by Elle Pierson which I enjoyed once more. (I’ve been hearing good reviews recently of a book by Lucy Parker and learned that she and Elle Pierson are one and the same.)
— I read with pleasure The Thames River Murders by Ashley Gardner; it’s the tenth in a series of mysteries set in the regency period. Ashley Gardner is a pseudonym of Jennifer Ashley. FYI ~ The first book in the series is available free to Kindle readers:The Hanover Square Affair (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 1)
— I also read a beautiful and very short book The Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith which has lovely illustrations.
— This afternoon I finished K. J. Charles’ A Fashionable Indulgence: A Society of Gentlemen Novel (Society of Gentlemen Series Book 1) which is a romance featuring two men set in regency era England; I enjoyed it.
Just finished the Wedding Pearls by Carolyn Brown and Mary Campisi’s Christmas novella in the Family Affair series. Love them all. Currently reading book #5 in Campisi’s series.
Just finished Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews always a win for me with Kate Daniels. Half way through Reckless by Kimberly Kincaid and enjoying it. Almost done with the second book in the mistborn triliogy by Brandon Sanderson The Well of Ascension. I loved the first book and the second book is proving to be even better…