We will be posting our Top 10 of 2009 this entire week. Today’s list is from Jennie. The list is unranked. You can find more of her reviews here.
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (review by Jia)
- Bound By Your Touch by Meredith Duran
- Written On Your Skin by Meredith Duran
- Pleasure And Purpose by Megan Hart (review by Janine)
- Scandal by Carolyn Jewel (review by Janine)
- Indiscreet by Carolyn Jewel
- Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas (review by Joonigrrl or read the haiku review)
- Since The Surrender byJulie Anne Long (review by Jane
- Not Quite A Husband by Sherry Thomas
Nifty list. I have not yet read the Collins, the Kleypas or the Long, but I have enjoyed all the others.
I didn’t know you had read Pleasure and Purpose and I’m so glad you enjoyed it too!
And because it’s not linked above, I’ll just point out that you reviewed Scandal also.
I just finished Pleasure and Purpose about a week ago; I did enjoy it quite a bit. Thanks for your review, Janine – I probably wouldn’t have tried it otherwise.
I just wanted to say thank you guys So Much for reviewing Meredith Duran. Based entirely on what I read here, I went out and hunted down Bound By Your Touch and both it plus the next one were the most exhilarating literary experiences I’ve had from works written this century. *lol* I never would have known about her fabulous valuable writing if not for you guys. Thank you!
I’ve read and loved 5 of those: both Durans, both Jewels and the Thomas. Great list!
I loved Smooth Talking Stranger. One of my top books for 2009 too. And I recently read The Hunger Games, which was awesome, and am looking forward to the rest of that series, including Catching Fire.
Ooh, some of my favorites here, too! Great list – I look forward to seeing the other posts.
You know, even though I was only able to come up with nine books (my other top reads this year have been non-romance or not published in 2009, or both), it occurs to me that this is a pretty damn fine list. Definitely a case of quality over quantity. Many of these are pretty high on my top 100 of all time. 2009 has not been a bad year for me, romance-reading wise.
@dri: Oh, yes on Meredith Duran. I’ve become an avid fan–and I found her here.
Hmmmm…I HATED Lisa Kleypas’s Sugar Daddy (I was very happy I got it from the library), although I like her historicals (and a few, I love). Is Smooth-Talking Stranger more of the same? if so, I think I”m going to have to pass, I just didn’t like her contemporary voice. Or is STS a lot better than SD?
I liked Smooth Talking Stranger much better than Sugar Daddy, but I didn’t hate SD (I think it was a B- or C+ for me?), so I’m not sure. I would say that STS has more of a conventional-romance plotline than SD, but the voice and style aren’t radically different between the two.