Vickie's Picks
Hello all!
I'm back from the RWA conference and finally beginning to get caught up on sleep. I have news from conference, but I think I'll save that for later and just blog a little today and start a new thing I hope to do monthly called "Vickie's Picks." I'll tell you what I've been reading and recommend (or not). Please feel free to jump in and leave comments with your own recommendations (or not :-) )
First, the great J.D. Robb's ORIGIN IN DEATH. I am an absolute addict for this series. I adore Eve and Roarke and Peabody and Summerset and well...everything about the books. This one is a bit more of a straight mystery/police procedural than some of them. There is not a lot of development in the Eve/Roarke relationship, but it is still a great book! I was standing in the bookstore the morning it was to be released harassing the clerk into putting it out. (She finally went into the back room and brought one out to get rid of me). It was worth the trouble.
Next, Virginia Kantra's first single title romantic suspense, CLOSE-UP. I've been a fan of Virginia's since she began her career at Silhouette Intimate Moments around the same time I started there. CLOSE-UP is a taut, tense thriller, but still manages to pull off the trademark Kantra emotional punch. It is full of great sexy and spunky dialogue that keeps it from becoming too dark, and has some really memorable scenes. You gotta love a book where the heroine rescues the big, tough hero from drowning.
The last two books I would recommend this month are very light, chuckle-out-loud books. ENCHANTED, INC. is touted as "Bridget Jones meets Harry Potter" and lives up to the promise. This trade-sized paperback is fun, fun, fun. You might have to look in the mainstream fiction section to find it. It isn't really a romance in that it doesn't end with a firm relationship. There is plenty of relationship potential, however. This is the first of a series, and author Shanna Swendson tells me the romance will develop slowly over several books. Below is a picture of me at the booksigning in Reno with Shanna.
Finally this month, I give a thumbs up to another light-hearted paranormal, THE REMARKABLE MISS FRANKENSTEIN. I don't usually like books with historical settings, but I definitely make an exception for this one. It is so silly that it's wonderful! The niece of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein is out to live up to her family's reputation as groundbreaking scientists by proving that vampires really do exist in regency London, and oh...the trouble she gets herself into! I loved it.
That's it for now. Anyone else want to recommend something?
I'm back from the RWA conference and finally beginning to get caught up on sleep. I have news from conference, but I think I'll save that for later and just blog a little today and start a new thing I hope to do monthly called "Vickie's Picks." I'll tell you what I've been reading and recommend (or not). Please feel free to jump in and leave comments with your own recommendations (or not :-) )
First, the great J.D. Robb's ORIGIN IN DEATH. I am an absolute addict for this series. I adore Eve and Roarke and Peabody and Summerset and well...everything about the books. This one is a bit more of a straight mystery/police procedural than some of them. There is not a lot of development in the Eve/Roarke relationship, but it is still a great book! I was standing in the bookstore the morning it was to be released harassing the clerk into putting it out. (She finally went into the back room and brought one out to get rid of me). It was worth the trouble.
Next, Virginia Kantra's first single title romantic suspense, CLOSE-UP. I've been a fan of Virginia's since she began her career at Silhouette Intimate Moments around the same time I started there. CLOSE-UP is a taut, tense thriller, but still manages to pull off the trademark Kantra emotional punch. It is full of great sexy and spunky dialogue that keeps it from becoming too dark, and has some really memorable scenes. You gotta love a book where the heroine rescues the big, tough hero from drowning.
The last two books I would recommend this month are very light, chuckle-out-loud books. ENCHANTED, INC. is touted as "Bridget Jones meets Harry Potter" and lives up to the promise. This trade-sized paperback is fun, fun, fun. You might have to look in the mainstream fiction section to find it. It isn't really a romance in that it doesn't end with a firm relationship. There is plenty of relationship potential, however. This is the first of a series, and author Shanna Swendson tells me the romance will develop slowly over several books. Below is a picture of me at the booksigning in Reno with Shanna.
Finally this month, I give a thumbs up to another light-hearted paranormal, THE REMARKABLE MISS FRANKENSTEIN. I don't usually like books with historical settings, but I definitely make an exception for this one. It is so silly that it's wonderful! The niece of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein is out to live up to her family's reputation as groundbreaking scientists by proving that vampires really do exist in regency London, and oh...the trouble she gets herself into! I loved it.
That's it for now. Anyone else want to recommend something?
Until later,
Vickie
posted by Vickie Taylor at 3:35 PM
3 Comments:
Oh, I loved Origin in Death and Enchanted, Inc. Haven't read the others.
Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy is great, though not quite a romance. It's from LUNA books.
Holly Lisle's romantic suspenses are good - Last Girl Dancing and Midnight Rain. Separate stories, but both were amazing.
Karen Marie Moning's Immortal Highlander was good, even better than I was expecting. More Fae than Highlanders, which was nice.
I have Carved in Stone in my tbr pile.
Thanks for the recommendations, Nicole! I'll have to look for some of those.
I've read all of those, and would recommend Victoria Laurie's mysteries with a bit of romance thrown in. Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye, is the 1st title and I can't remember the second.
Another author I would recommend and read a lot of is Charlain Harris. Actually, I just read a lot, but that's another story.
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