Dangerous Ground by Josh Lanyon
Lone by Rowan McBride
Faith and Fidelity by Tere Michaels

All three very good reads, in very different ways.

Just finished Again by Kathleen Siedels? And that was completely awesome, a book within a book almost, love those things. And the Harper series by Sookie Stackhouse author(I forgot her name), which I like better, but I’m afraid that 4th book was the end with the resolution.

I also went crazy at amazon with the free downloads using the instructions in the Dear Author November 23rd post. I found 14, all but 2 were free, the 2 I paid for, one was 68 cents and one was 2 .79. That’s a lotta reading material for less than 4 bucks.

Off topic kinda .. Speaking of Kindle, the man was playing with my ipod touch and I caught him reading “Bound for the Holidays” by Mackenzie McKade which was free last month I think, anyway he gives me this narrow eyed look over his glasses and says my reading choices frighten him LOL. Scaring the man is worth paying money for in my opinion extra points for scaring him for free!

For the holidays I hit the eHarlequin store and ordered a bunch of their Christmas books. I’m a total holiday ho-ho-ho and will spend the month of December reading Christmas romances, watching Christmas movies and being a big soppy sap.

Thanks! I’ll go check it out.

Love Cajun heroes too! After the Night and Kill and Tell by Linda Howard are also favorites of mine. Another great one is Lucky’s Lady by Tami Hoag.

Just finished Temptation and Surrender by Stephanie Laurens. My first (and probably last) book by her. I picked it up at Fictionwise due to their 100% rebate, figuring I’d give her a try. But I really wasn’t that into the book. Found her writing style a little distracting.

I am starting Shoot to Thrill by Nina Bruhns, my first book by this author.

I read this one last month and enjoyed it. But I’ve really been looking forward to the second book in this series — If Looks Could Chill due out next week. It takes place in Louisiana and features a Cajun hero. I’m addicted to books set in Louisiana, especially Romantic Suspense.

I blame Linda Howard… two of my favorite LH books were set in Louisiana — Kill and Tell and After the Night (which features one of my all-time favorite heroes).

And Marilyn Pappano… her Southern Knights series, which took place in New Orleans, is one of my favorite Harlequin/Silhouette series.

I also turned my mom on to Kathleen Gilles Seidel’s books, and she bought Seidel’s entire backlist, so I’m planning to go on a little glomming spree when I get home. For anyone who’s looking for some lovely holiday reading you couldn’t do better than Seidel’s Again and Till the Stars Fall.

I also wanted to dig out my copy of Good Omens and Lord of the Rings because I’ve been reading Paradise Lost and I keep being reminded of those two books for some reason.

At the moment I’m reading and enjoying Lace for Milady by Joan Smith, recommended to me on this site. I also really enjoyed On the Edge by Ilona Andrews, and the excerpts for the second novel with William as a hero are making me yearn for more. I utterly loved Wedding Bell Blues by Meg Benjamin (why aren’t her contemporaries in print as well as ebook? – then again I bet Samhain will eventually have a print editon), there’ll be a third Kongisburg ebook out in December, focussing on Lars.

Also recommended by DA I jumped into all three Phoenix Rising novels by Denise Rossetti, Ellora’s Cave, she really knows how to combine erotica with an actual interesting fantasy plot and quirky & lovable characters. I liked Tailspin better than Strongman, by the way.

And I read some pure fantasy, too. And some manga, for that matter.

@Gina:

The only quibble I had was at the end over the “big conflict”, the way it played I found myself pissed off at nearly all the main characters in the book, most especially the Heroine who up until that moment I really liked. But it's only a few pages in an otherwise well played love story and the culmination more than makes up for it.

You know that was exactly my reaction, I thought the hero had totally believable problems and the heroine until then had shown patience – I think if she had used another 50 pages to move the relationship a bit further along in time it would have been more believable that the heroine lost patience with Jack.

I do think Nora Roberts is getting ever better with the comedy and friend interplay among the group, and I loved the soccer references ^^ – finally the US is catching up to the rest of the world with regards to that particular game.

Next I am going to start Dead Man’s Boots, Mike Carey’s third Fix Castor urban fantasy mystery. I held out until audible had the book for download because I like the narrator. I like this series oceans better than the Dresden Files.

Or maybe Charlaine Harris’ Grave Secrets , latest in the Harper Connelly series. I always like her less popular series for some reason. Grave Secrets is also available on audible.

I’m just not in the mood for romance right now.

Re: Hunger Games. It was one of those books I found compellingly readable, and I could totally see why people loved it, though it wasn’t something I personally would read it.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the latest Victoria Holt reissue, Lord of the Far Island, which releases today. That’s the book I wanted to read over the holidays. But Tae’s comment above about The Hunger Games made me push my copy to the top of the pile, so maybe I’ll start reading that tonight.

Next on my pile, Heyer’s “Regency Buck.”

Also, just finished the audio of Robert Goolrick’s A Reliable Wife, historical fiction set (primarily) in 1907/08 Wisconsin. Very Shakespearean tragedy and AWESOME. But don’t worry–there is an HEA, of sorts.

When I reached the end, I actually shouted, “Burn in Hell, Westerfeld!” and then went online to see if I could pre-order the next volume. :D

Hahaha. Okay. I’ll wait then. Thanks for the mini-review!

@Angela James:
Oh, sorry! You’re right, it’s Leviathan. It’s the first Westerfeld I read. I’d just finished it, actually.
Although it took me a bit to get used to the illustrated book format (as it’s been ages), I found it highly enjoyable. The main female character – Deryn – is Scottish (yay!) and a fantastic role model for young female readers. The main male character – Alek – is curious, adventurous and sometime reckless, but easy to like. While both were a bit cardboardy in some aspects, they were easy to root for.
The whole story is a fun and highly imaginative adventure with interesting conflicts/contrasts of history and future, and science and technology, male and female as well as certain social classes and powers. And animals and machines, of course.
Downside? I disliked the cliffhanger ending. When I reached the end, I actually shouted, “Burn in Hell, Westerfeld!” and then went online to see if I could pre-order the next volume. :D

Ack, I got carried away, sorry. In short: yes, it’s worth getting.

So what am I doing? Rereading Hidden Talents by Jayne Ann Krentz, since I also bought a metric ton of her backlist in digital format on Fictionwise last night.

In the new, I want to read this weekend category I have: Hard to Hold, The Better Part of Darkness, and Three Days to Dead. Oh, and After the Night by Linda Howard since Jane MADE me buy it last night, since I’ve apparently somehow missed reading it.

@Maili is it Leviathan you’re reading? I went searching and that was the closest I could find. I’d be curious to hear if you like it. I’ve often thought of trying his books.