Someone asked, so I am slowly compiling a list. I'll add to it here and there, as I have time and remember everything I've read - which is a hell of a lot ^^;; Without blurbs, sorry. The reviews I've done can probably all be found under the 'books' tag, or you can ask.

The two bolded are my absolute, hands-down favorites. I re-read them all the time. They make me happy.

My favorites:

Faith and Fidelity by Tere Michaels
Brindisi Bedfellows by Jamie Craig
Devil's Fire by Sarah Bell
Wes & Toren by J.M. Colail
Dark Lord Seeks Friendship by Elisa Viperas (I can't find a link for this one, argh)


Some other good ones:
Caught Running by Madeleine Urban & Abigail Roux
Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban & Abigail Roux
Mexican Heat by Josh Lanyon & Laura Baumbach
With Caution by JL Langley
Under My Skin 1& 2 by ML Rhodes
Crossing Borders by Z.A. Maxfield





The ones I like despite myself:

Private Dances by BA Tortuga
Handyman by Claire Thompson
To Hate and to Hold by Dakota Rebel

I bought this book expecting it to be dumb and amusing, but I actually could not hate it. There are things I could nitpick and shred, but I'm content to say that given it's a vampire book and the whole forced marriage thing, it was not too bad at all.

Caved and started reading The Accidental Sorcerer by K.E. Mills. It's really good so far. The weird thing is that I tried to read a book she wrote under a different name, and totally hated it. I never got past the first couple of chaptes. I really like this one though, and if I finish it may go grab the second one. Gerald, the MC, is total love. I just need to stop slashing him with everyone, heh. The book makes me want to do a similar premise, the whole wizard stuck in bad kingdom for X reason. Shall have to one day, hmm.

After that, I must return to Sword of Truth before my mother kills me.

Oh! I also read The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig. It's the fifth in Secret History of the Pink Carnation series. They are kick ass books. They are fucking awesome books. They are the reason that romance is an awesome fucking genre, and she is so very high on my list of writers whose autograph I would love to have. My favorite remains Seduction of the Crimson Rose with Deception of the Emerald Ring in second, but I love them all. Already I want book six. They are funny, clever, sweet, intelligent and unashamed of the fact they are romances. Srsly, I love these books.

In other news, I have German Chocolate Cake coffee. ^___^

Man, I do not want to go to work.

So. My createspace page says that Midnight and DwtD are still 'unavailable' on Amazon.

Except, today I go to see if that's changed, and find that three copies of each book has sold. Bwah? The thing still says they're unavailable.

Except, I go to Amazon, and there they are -__- Sheesh.

Dance with the Devil

Midnight

And thanks to whoever has already bought them. That's pretty awesome, considering I did not know it was even possible yet ^^;;;;

A master list, so I can keep track of the shit I actually like out of the 450+ ebooks I actually own. Some of them are familiar, obviously, if not all of them. Will add more as I find/remember.

Newest likey, however is, Faith and Fidelity. Blurb is in the list, but I should also add I found the author's LJ and am happy to stalk it for the present. When someone can take a premise I normally do not care, and make me like it--well, there is nothing but love :)

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Was going to read, when it occured to me to pimp some random books.

A friend gave me Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis a few weeks ago and the book is totally jacked up but so goddamn funny. I totally and completely loved it. Clever, funny, and so many different kinds of wrongness.

The Dracula Dossier by James Reese was a solid read. It wasn't quite what I expected it to be, but that is not a bad thing. I liked it. The style was of a journal being kept, to record the crazy ass shit poor Bram Stoker was enduring. I liked the voice. Some of it was silly, but I think that too fit. Plus, it wove together Jack the Ripper and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Not an easy read, per se, but that's hardly a bad thing. I enjoyed it. But, to be fair, there is bias. I love historical fiction, and the Ripper->Dracula thing was made of win.

I may have already pimped this, but in the ebook circle I do love Brindisi Bedfellows by Jamie Craig. I cannot find anything to complain about here. It's very quickly becomoing what I read when I just want something pretty and sweet and solid. I swear there was another ebook I wanted to pimp, but at present it's totally escaping me. Jamie Craig is a hit or miss. Some of her (technically, their) writing I love, other stuff I'm massively disappointed. If she (they) wrote more stuff like Brindisi, I would be mad with the pimping.

Just After Sunset is Stephen King's new short story book. While Nightshift remains my favorite King SS book, Sunset was pretty rockin'. The Cat From Hell had me looking at my cats with deep mistrust until...actually, I still kinda am. I love Stephen King. Mine Lord Gaiman is muchly adored, and I may be a romance writer at heart, but King was the first author with whom I really fell in love.

Speaking of Mine Lord Gaiman, if you read no other book by him, you should read The Graveyard Book. In the course of showing it to others, I've listend to it about five times since it came out. Never gets old. And, it is so worth the audio. I’ve read it as well, but Gaiman is so freakin’ amazing reading.

Currently, I am reading Outlander by Diane Gabaldon. I muchly love the woman’s style, and her skill with history is one reason I shall never attempt true historical fiction. I would never be satisfied with my own efforts, next to this. I think I still love Lord John more, but so far I like Claire & company just fine. Though, it’s sort of exhausting to think there are at least six more books of this length to go. I reall am sick of long series. Still, I am willing to attempt it. That alone says something.

S’all I got, I think.

Despite being informed it is SO GOOD and YOU SHOULD READ IT by all and sundry, I have not yet read Twilight. If this trend every changes, it is solely because someone is putting a literal gun to my head and I refuse to die over a matter of sparkly, emo vampires and their osc girlfriends.

I am happ happy with this one ^____^

Regency contains four stories you guys know - Deceived, Scandalous, From Afar, and Lessons. However, it also contains a brand new novella - The Highwayman. Much love to those who read it for me while I wrote it <3

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Regency can be found here. <3

I should be in bed, but I'm getting my review tomorrow so not really going to sleep well for fretting -__- and it's no good telling me not to, or whatall, cause I will. It's the sort of fretting that lets me write good stories, but makes me a paranoid freak everywhere else in life.

However, the point of this post is not my whining and fretting. It's a rec.

From, of all places, Torquere Press. I think we all know my feelings on Torq.

The saddest part of all is that I almost bought this, then decided Torq had burned me enough and had plenty of my money. A friend shared it with me (and I swear to god if I hear one word about that not being allowed, I will punch someone), and being too tired and twitchy to write, I gave it a read.

The Devil's Fire by Sara Bell is a pretty good read, overall. It has its ups and downs, but considering the publisher and all else, I am impressed. I did not feel I wasted my evening reading it.

None of her other stuff looks all that interesting, but maybe I'll give it a try.

So go read, if you're inclined. I'm off to try and sleep >_o Good night/good morning/good day my dears!

Currently am reading Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Saw the movie awhile ago, and liked that well enough. Only eighty or so pages into the book, but so far I like it. Interesting, and I'm curiuos to see how it will all play out, and how much more different it will be from the movie.

Though I can only take so much in the way of vampires at a time, so am also reading a favorite, which I just got in paperback - A Mankind Witch by Dave Freer. It's a sidestory from a series I adore -- the Heirs of Alexandria by Dave Freer, Eric Flint, and Mercedes Lackey. My favorite characters are the two Freer writes -- Manfred and Erik. I'm telling you, the books are worth reading just for them, and there are plenty of other cool characters besides ^__^ I so wish the next book in the series would come out, but I fear they've abandoned it *sigh*. The first two books are Shadow of the Lion and This Rough Magic. Mankind Witch takes place between them.

Also on a whim just recently bought Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg cause it looked interesting. So far I see it's written in first person, so we'll see. The second one comes out soon, I think.

So today I got some books in the mail. One of the was Oleander House by Ally Blue. Now I've read stuff by her before and was very meh. But this one I liked. It's a bit awkward, I think sometimes people who write contemp try too hard to make their chards sound normal and stuff, but no major major complaints. The book doesn't resolved, since it's only the first of what I assume is a series (I haven't looked for the others yet). For that I do give her mad, mad props. The one char is closeted and married, a premise that really leaves me cold but she does do it well -- and that they're not fucking like bunnies at the end please me muchly.

Definitely worth picking up. I'm glad I didn't give up on her entirely.

What should I do next? Screwdrivers? Singleshots? Anthologies? Any pref, lemme know

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