Guys

Does any one know What type of changes are made in Google algorithm in 2011 that everybody is taking about?

http://www.likesbooks.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5157

ETA: Discussions of the book begin on the 3rd page of the topic.

I don’t go to AAR because I find their site incredibly counter-intuitive to navigate.

So, then I thought I’d like to see this discussion you reference, but there’s no way to get there from the review. Or if there is, I didn’t find it. Looked at the forums, but couldn’t find the thread. Now, I’m really frustrated and reminded yet again why I don’t visit AAR.

I know there are interesting conversations taking place there, but I just don’t want to deal with their site! grumble, mumble, mumble

I agree that a large portion of the book was really great. I got very excited reading the first half, because I have missed Putney’s historicals. The stuff toward the end puzzled me as well, but like you, I will still buy the next one. I hope there are fewer improbabilties in it. I’m sorry to hear that sales are low, because I was so looking forward to more historicals from Putney.

ETA:

I also wonder whether the reason that I haven't seen reviews anywhere is because of the same reason you don't want to write one: too many spoilers necessary to explain the reaction.

Forgot to reply to this. It does make it very hard to review a book. I make it a policy to only go into things that happen in the first third of a book. In this case, the first third was wonderful. I really dislike it when reviews spoil the second two-thirds for me but that is where all the problems with this one were.

I’ve seen very little mention of this book anywhere and the Amazon standings for it aren’t good (I use TitleZ to keep track of books I’m interested in), so I don’t think it sold as well as one might have hoped.

I’m relieved to see somebody else shared my feelings about the developments in the last third because I was starting to feel that I might be mean or having a bad month or something (well, I *am* in a slump, but still…). It was doubly disappointing because the first 250 pages or so were really great!

I’m really baffled by the direction the book took and even more baffled that her editor didn’t say ‘too much’. The way things are going in the business lately, I’ll be curious to see if there even will be a second ‘Lost Lords’ book next year.

I think this particular series would have been better off being released back-to-back. I’ll probably buy the next one in hopes of it being better, but this one was a nasty surprise and I wonder if that’s all people will remember by the time the next title *is* released.

I also wonder whether the reason that I haven’t seen reviews anywhere is because of the same reason you don’t want to write one: too many spoilers necessary to explain the reaction.

@Ann:

If your womb is clenching then you are having some kind of awful cramps and are either in labor or should see a doctor asap.

Yeah, funny how symptoms that would make us run for the emergency room in real life just get passed along from book to book in romancelandia! All the “wet & dripping” going on in most stories make me think we’re in an international pandemic of STDs!

Did you notice how Amazon left the ‘Virgin’ out of the link?

She really doesn’t look very happy on that cover, does she?

I almost want to read this just for the cheese factor…

Now I’m depressed. This sounds totally 70s rape ‘romance’ to me. Ugh!

Polo-playing sheikh Prince Kaliq Al’Farisi loves his women as much as his horses. They’re wild, willing, and he’s their master!

Stable girl Eleni is a local Calistan. Raised by her brutal father on the horse-racing circuit, she feels unlovable. When her precious horses are given to Sheikh Kaliq, she refuses to be parted from them.

The playboy sheikh is determined to bed Eleni-’and when Kaliq realizes she’s a virgin, the challenge only becomes more interesting….

If it were April 1, I’d think they were joking, but I’m afraid they are serious… you gotta wonder what’s going on in their collective publishing minds?!?

If your womb is clenching then you are having some kind of awful cramps and are either in labor or should see a doctor asap. I don’t quite understand arousal and “clenching wombs” going hand in hand. The physiology of arousal does not have the womb spasm.

OK, back to lurk status now. Thank you. :)

The Playboy Sheikh’s Virgin Stable-Girl is an August title.

Also read the new Victoria Dahl, Start Me Up. Liked the heroine. Hero was a bit of a blank for me. Didn’t enjoy this one as much as Talk Me Down, but it’s still a pretty funny read. I would recommend it.

p.s. Edited for a typo of author’s last name!

Forgot to say earlier that one of the books to which I most look forward is coming out at the very end of July (perhaps belongs in next month’s pimp thread), and that’s Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare. I enjoyed her earlier novella, which I won in a DA contest, and I can’t wait to see what she does with a longer format.