I just found Shannon K Butcher and started with NO REGRETS, its a series of 3, the next is NO CONTROL, then there is another due in Oct i believe. SHe is fantastic!! They are romantic suspense based on Delta Force guys. Good quick reads, lots of chemistry.

Also found Lori Foster’s series on SBC guys (like our UFC fighters). Alpha males, good chemistry. Quick reads. Addictive.

Oh, and Gina Showalter (sp.?)…she has a Dark series. I ended up buying the #3 book on a whim and liked it. SO i went and got the first 2 but havnt started them yet. Its paranormal/contemp.

I wish Sand Chronicles didn't wait to release the volumes so far apart. As soon as I finished #3 I wanted #4.

Can’t agree more!! I’m trying to force myself not to read until next year so I can have most of the series at once.

Already ordered for me are Chalice (R McKinley), Nation (T Pratchett), and The Rogue Hunter by Lynsay Sands.

On hold at the Library for me are:
Liberty (Garrison Keillor)
Dark Curse (C Feehan)
Edge of Desire (S Laurens)
The Graveyard Book (N Gaiman)
Supreme Courtship (C Buckley)
Seduce Me At Sunrise (L Kleypas)
Mr Cavendish, I Presume (J Quinn) …although the previous one was disapointing–I’ll still give this one a try.

Julia Quinn's Mr. Cavendish, I Presume comes out on September 30. I guess that's really an October pleasure, but I'm guessing there will be a few people who nom-nom-nom it on the day it's released!

Heh. I will probably one of those people.

DARK EMBRACE by Brenda Joyce – a letdown

I’ve just finished reading Dark Embrace, third book in the Masters of Time Series. The elements from the previous books in the series were present but somehow the writing was flat. There was just too much focus on the ‘woe is me, i’m in so much pain… a feral being spoiling for war’- lead male character and the ‘i’m here to save you even if you spurn me’- female one. This sort of characterisation, when handled correctly, can be a good story. It was just too OTT, bordering on the absurd. It’s like asking for a full pound burger meal at Maccas (Mickey D’s for the states) that when you get it, the subtleties/ textures are lost and you get sick of it (not that Maccas’ gourmet in the first place.)
On the bright side, world building was solid and I got to see characters from the previous books. Would prolly still read the succeeding books just to see how the others get their HEA.

SEDUCE ME AT SUNRISE by Lisa Kleyaps- CAN’T WAIT

OMG, been waiting for this book to come out for like, like forever! (cheerleader squeal included)
I’ve reading and re-reading all excerpts available.
Can’t wait for this book to redeem the Hathaway series as the first one Mine till Midnight didn’t have the oomph- pierce the heartstrings emotion that Ms Kleypas’ books normally evoke.
Based on the excerpts and buzz online, that wouldn’t be the case on this one.
-Thank God for ebooks otherwise I’d be waiting awhile for this to come out in Melbourne.

FAEFEVER by Karen Marie Moning

I’m jumping on the bandwagon of booklusting. KMM’s writing’s spectamazing. Characters come alive esp Mac. You see her grow from southern belle to bad-ass sidhe seer. First POV’s so seamless you can literally see Mac’s synapses firing at a rapid pace keeping up with the changes her emotions evoke.

It’s a dark/urban fantasy with sexual tension that KMM promises to satisfyingly resolve (previous books didn’t have sex in it). However the richness of the story pulls you in and never lets you go.

Okay… i better stop now and get back to work.

Raine
Full time lurker
Rare poster.

I was pleasantly surprised, even though it’s more detailed and a bit more dark than the Highlander series , it’s still her voice and I read Dark Fever in one evening.

Okay, I’m shutting up now. My booklust is getting embarrassing.

Oh, and in a totally different vein, Julia Quinn’s Mr. Cavendish, I Presume comes out on September 30. I guess that’s really an October pleasure, but I’m guessing there will be a few people who nom-nom-nom it on the day it’s released!

So, consider it a fast-paced, complicated blend of Urban Fantasy/Dark Fantasy. KMM’s Fae are not the sexy Fae of LKH’s Merry Gentry series, they are the stuff of nightmares. It’s definitely not a romance, though KMM has indicated that there will be some romantic elements eventually. And expect to see some familiar characters from her Highlanders series popping in.

Jane, I consider the Fever series to be a master’s class in the use of first person. I know alot of people have problems with the popularity of books written in first person POV, but the FPPOV added to this book’s enjoyment. We, as readers, don’t know anything until/unless Mac does, so it makes the reader feel that much more involved in the story. Mac is recounting to us things that already happened. However we don’t know right now if this is Mac telling us or something she wrote down in her ever present journal and we are now reading, or someone is reading the journal to us… maybe even after her death.

Even though I haven’t read it yet, I wouldn’t recommend jumping in with Faefever. Start with book 1, Darkfever (which I read, turned over, read again, then downloaded and listened to the audio book all within a few days– yeah, it’s that good), then book 2 Bloodfever, is a fairly quick read (the ending kind of irked me). I’m listening to the audio book (narrated by Joyce Bean) now in anticipation of Faefever’s release.

Oh, and to answer your question Jia, yes, I think it’s book 1, Darkfever, that is available as a free podcast.

Regarding the Morning series, is this the one where one of the books is being serialized as a free podcast right now?

I agree with everyone else about Faefever. Granted I haven’t read it yet but it’s definitely a book I’ve been anticipating.

Egads, the booklust I have for it! Especially since I just finished the last of the KMM Highlander audio books (narrated by the eargasmic Phil Gigante) and realized that this last book, Spell of the Highlander, is really a prequel to the Fever series. I read it when it was first released, but I admit I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to all the detail about the Hallows. Little did I know how important that sub-plot would turn out to be!

Also, Jean Johnson’s The Storm, released on the 2nd (I should have it tomorrow). Even though it’s not something I would normally read (I admit the man candy on the 1st one caught my eye) the Sons of Destiny series has become book crack for me.