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Saturday, December 06, 2008
Dial M for "meh"
Dial M for Mischief
by Kasey Michaels
Jolie's father, a PI, is dead - an apparent suicide. She comes home from Hollywood to be with her sisters at the funeral, and they decide to investigate the cases he'd been looking at to see why someone killed him, because obviously he didn't do it himself.
Also back in the hometown is her former fiance Sam, whom she left to go break into the movies, because if she'd staying with him she'd never have been happy. He's rich, and still in love with her, so he forces his way into the investigation so he can keep an eye on her.
They stir up some trouble, rule out one of the former cases (though finally solving the case of the disappearance of a runaway bride), and fall in love again (awww.). However, we still don't know who offed Daddy because there's two more books - one for each sister - that we'll still need to get through.Labels: family, romantic "suspense"
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Crazies, all of them
Sizzle and Burn
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Raine has blamed the Arcane Society for her father's death for years. She also hears voices and uses them to solve murders. Her crazy aunt dies and she finds a prisoner in the basement of her house (she'd been in an asylum, so it wasn't crazy aunt's doing).
At the same time someone tries to kill her AND the Arcane Society has interest in her father's research, so Zack's sent out to get the info and protect her. They end up in a rather epic battle with members of the rival psychic group who are using some formula to amp up their powers, though the formula makes them insane and then they kill themselves. Apparently Raine's father was aware of an early version of this formula and had been working on an antidote? Whole thing was very weird.
And then we learn that Zach was fooled by one of the bad people and almost married her, so now he doesn't trust his judgement and even though he's a direct descendant in the line that's always head of the good-psychic council he wants to avoid everything. Until Raine teaches him to trust himself and they bring down the bad guys and then he takes charge and all is good with the world until the next book, because one of the baddies faked her death so we'll totally see her again...Labels: ghosts, hunky armed forces or government operatives, romantic "suspense", special abilities
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where did blue smoke come from?
Blue Smoke and Murder
by Elizabeth Lowell
Raft guide Jill saves the son of one of the execs at St. Kilda Consulting, who also employed the heroes in a few other books I've read, so he says if she ever needs anything...
Fast forward a bit and Jill's reclusive grandmother is killed on her secluded ranch, she receives threats when she tries to sell some family heirloom paintings, so she calls the dude and he sends Zach to help her.
There's all sorts of stuff involving male chauvinism, discrediting a famous Western artist, and restoring Jill's family's good name, with a showdown in a desert between Zach and one of the bad guys. And then they live happily ever after.Labels: hunky armed forces or government operatives, romantic "suspense"
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I really meant to keep up...
Sigh. This might be everything - I tried to slow down when I realized there was a backlog again. These are generally organized from good to bad-ish.
Playing James
by Sarah Mason
Mediocre reporter gets assigned to the police beat in a PR move for the department where they have her riding along with one of the officers (James). They’re both in relationships but have the traditional bickering and reluctant attraction, and eventually end up together. Really liked this one, and not just because they had British accents in my head while I was reading.
Rumble on the Bayou
by Jana DeLeon
Local small-town sherriff (daughter of the former sheriff) has to call in the feds when they discover a crocodile full of cocaine floating in a woman’s pool. Fed that's sent has history with the theoretical bad guy and doesn't understand small-town politics. Power struggles, deep hidden secrets, etc. Fun.
Stacked Deck
by Terry Watkins
Rather like what maybe happens to the girls from Gallagher Academy when they grow up – a secret network of super-awesome female spies traveling around and saving the world. Absolutely ludicrous, and I love it that way. Supposedly this is part of a series (“Athena Force”), but my library seems to only have this book. Thankfully the library also has a form where I can recommend things to add to the collection ("pretty please buy more books about hot female spies so I can live vicariously through the books!").
Don’t Look Down
by Suzanne Enoch
Sequel to Flirting with Danger; former cat burglar is now engaged to British billionaire (seriously, the accent AND the bank account? I’m in love) and goes legit, becoming a PI who has to solve the murder of her first client. As always, though I liked the characters the first time I was okay with not knowing what happened during their happily-ever-after phase.
Drop Dead Gorgeous
by Linda Howard
Sequel to To Die For; again, I was happy when we left the couple alone and happy and alive at the end of the book. But no, we have to have more random attempts on her life.
The Deadliest Strain
by Jan Coffey
Chasing a rare, infections strain of bacteria. There was potential for a romance that was never explored - that made me sad. I want either non-fiction involving bacteria OR fiction involving sex. This was neither.
Village Affairs: A Mystery
by Cassandra Chan
British, in an ambiguous time period, aristocrat/amateur sleuth helps out when his Scotland Yard friend gets called in to work a case. At least he has a high-strung model girlfriend to make things interesting...
Body Language
by Suzanne Brockmann
Best friends are attracted to each other but each thinks they don't stand a chance with the other. They pretend to be together so that she can make some jerk she works with jealous, pretend starts feeling real, then big misunderstanding and argument, then all happy in the end.
Seven Days and Seven Nights
by Wendy Wax
Rival radio talk-show hosts have to share a small apartment for a week. They have some history, are reluctantly attracted, etc. Poor communication ensues for a while but is anyone really surprised that they get together in the end?
Public Displays of Affection
by Susan Donovan
There seem to be a LOT of books out there based on the premise that this naïve girl has a hot fling (often on the side of a road) with a nameless but gorgeous guy, then goes off and marries someone else who proceeds to die, and then the nameless guy miraculously moves in next door and they realize they were meant to be together forever. Does this really ever happen?
Bad Girls Don’t
by Cathie Liz
Belly Dancer/free spirit extraordinaire is just what the uptight cop mourning his dead wife needs. (gag)
TailSpin
by Catherine Coulter
The Sherlock/Savich series really isn’t doing it for me anymore.
No Safe Place
by JoAnn Ross
Cop gets dragged into helping investigate the disappearance/death of her estranged twin (con artist) sister, with the assistance of a former cop who went bad (supposedly). Everyone’s redeemed in the end.
Kiss of Death
by Meryl Sawyer
Iraq war vet inherits an estate from his mysterious uncle, there’s lots of murder attempts that throw him together with the caretaker who, as usual, butts heads with him but is reluctantly attracted, etc. Don’t remember how it’s resolved.
Wizard’s Daughter
by Catherine Coulter
I remember a bit of this. It was weird, and involved a trip to an alternate realm at the end. Catherine doesn’t usually do the supernatural stuff. Very bizarre.
EDIT: to anyone who gets this multiple times, sorry! I kept finding books that were left out...Labels: Brit lit, burglary, crap, girl power, hunky armed forces or government operatives, irresponsible parents, melodrama, romantic "suspense", trashy romance
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Friday, August 01, 2008
How do things like this get published?
The Death Dealer
by Heather Graham
This is the sequel to The Death Room, which, unfortunately, I didn't really discuss when I "reviewed" it (cop-out post).
In that one, Leslie's fiance Matt dies, and then she starts seeing/talking to ghosts, including him; there's also super-weird nights where she somehow has sex with a ghost. She almost falls for Matt's doppleganger cousin Joe during a period when she's attempting to help with archeological renovations in lower Manhattan, talking to ghosts who help her make "amazing" discoveries, and there's someone killing hookers, and at the end Leslie essentially sacrifices herself to save Genevieve, who's actually a social worker trying to save hookers who'd been held by the killer for a few weeks, and then she gets to be with Matt after all. Super-weird.
And in this one, she's still hanging around, providing interstitial narrator-type chapters. Someone's killing people in an Edgar Allen Poe club, and Genevieve's worried about her mom, who's a board member, and she's kept in touch with Joe, who's a PI, so they work to figure it out, and start to fall for each other, but both are worried that Joe's also still in love with the dead Leslie, and they also both start seeing/talking to ghosts, eventually calling in the professional ghost-people who helped Leslie in the first book, and at the end the killer's found and they realize they only love each other, and Mom survives, and then Leslie and Matt can finally rest. Again, super-weird.Labels: crap, ghosts, romantic "suspense"
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need to find better-quality reading materials
No Safe Place
by JoAnn Ross
Long-lost twins, a local crime boss, a disgraced ex-cop who's vindicated in the end (of course), and a whole lot of voodoo. Convoluted and (as always) rather eh.Labels: romantic "suspense"
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Monday, July 28, 2008
More meh.
The Perfect Fake
by Barbara Parker
Lots of double-crossing and international terrorists and garden-variety criminal types all revolving around the forging of a Renaissance-era map that was inadvertently destroyed during a murder. Lots of people die because of this map. Lives are generally ruined, but, of course, the protagonists, who initially argue and hate and don't trust each other, come to their senses, and after the bad guys are all killed or arrested, sail off into the sunset (no, seriously, he's been restoring a boat in his spare time).Labels: action, romantic "suspense"
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Meh.
Tribute
by Nora Roberts
Follows her usual plot of boy meets girl, they solve unresolved tragedy from her past, she almost dies at the end, but the baddie is captured/killed, they live happily ever after.
This time Cilla buys the farm where her (famous actress) grandmother mysteriously died of an overdose decades ago, falls for Ford who lives across the street, and stirs up memories of the past which results in mysterious accidents and stuff until the truth comes out that it was someone close to them and unexpected (Nora never gives hints), and then Cilla and Ford can get married.
I suppose that all could have been labeled with spoiler, but it's not like you read a Nora and think they might break up...Labels: irresponsible parents, melodrama, romantic "suspense"
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Not really all that strange
Strangers in Death
by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
Nora's written like twenty of these "mystery" novels featuring Detective Eve Dallas, and I think I've read them all. I don't really remember the details of this one's plot anymore (most importantly, how the bad guy pulled it off), but it followed the same pattern of murder, Eve knows almost instantly who's to blame, various conflicts, Eve's right and bad guy goes to jail. Really, I just enjoy not thinking for the few hours it takes to read these, and the interactions between Eve and her husband are always amusing.Labels: futurism, mystery/detective, romantic "suspense"
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Monday, April 21, 2008
the book-reviewing backlog is a bit out of hand
I actually did try to keep track of all the books I've read in the past few months and haven't gotten around to reviewing. In the interest of getting back on track, we'll cover them ALL in a single post. Arbitrary "rating" system of webdings may or may not accurately reflect the quality of these books, but at least it makes the post more interesting...
In no particular order:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J. K. Rowling) PPP (except for the epilogue, which I wasn't a huge fan of - that gets maybe P)
On the Loose (Tara Janzen) bbbb
Shadow Music (Julie Garwood) O
Hello, Doggy! (Elaine Fox) CCC
Cutting Loose (Tara Janzen) JJ
Hot (Julia Harper) zz
Bones to Ashes (Kathy Reichs) pp
Simply Sexy (Linda Francis Lee) EEE
Delicious (Susan Mallery) A
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Ally Carter) YYYY (Seriously. This one was fun.)
Tempting (Susan Mallery) SS
Puss 'n Cahoots (Rita Mae Brown) ll
Blame it on Chocolate (Jennifer Greene) Q Death Match (Lincoln Child) VV Simply Scandalous (Carly Phillips) jjjj Lost in Austen (Emma Campbell Webster) XX With This Puzzle I Thee Kill (Parnell Hall) LLL The Cat's Meow (Emily Carmichael) D An Assembly Such As This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman (Pamela Aidan) mmmm Duty and Desire : A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman (Pamela Aidan) qq These Three Remain: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman (Pamela Aidan) www Between You and Me (Jane Blackwood) G Kisses to Go (Irene Peterson) ee Creation in Death (J.D. Robb) NNNN The Dead Room (Heather Graham) BBB Night Swimming (Laura Moore) R I Do (But I Don't) (Cara Lockwood) jj An Ordinary Spy (Joseph Weisberg) - I remember something about this one! I didn't get past page 4 because every other freaking word was redacted, and it was just incredibly annoying. Not worthy of webdings. ...that might be all of them. Labels: anthropology, crap, decomposing bodies, historical fiction, hunky armed forces or government operatives, martial arts, murder, mystery/detective, princesses, romantic "suspense", trashy romance
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Maybe she can predict what the customers want?
Title: Bloodstone
Author: Gwen Hunter
Hunter wrote a series featuring an ER doctor that I really enjoyed a few years ago (four books, this one might be the first). This book is totally unrelated.
Tyler is a psychic jewelry designer; someone kidnaps her brother David. Evan, a distant cousin is former military/police/PI/etc., and is skeptical of psychics, but they work together with Tyler's friends Isaac and Jubal (fantastic stereotypical gay couple), crazy Aunt Mathilda, and David's daughter Jane to save David from corrupt developers, evil half-sisters, and a bad cop (no, seriously, those were the villains) who want his land because there's gold on it, and he wants to preserve it as a protected enviromental area. I think this would have been more enjoyable if there'd been a trip to Rhea's ER... Actually, it was pretty good, I just have some issues identifying with psychic characters.Labels: romantic "suspense", special abilities
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give it up! create new characters!
Title: Double Take
Author: Catherine Coulter
Julia's been convicted by the press of murdering her husband August, who was much older than her and very rich, but there's no evidence. A "random" attempt on her life was interrupted by Cheney, an FBI agent in the right place at the right time. The attempts continue, which start to convince local cops that maybe they're looking in the worng place; Cheney and Julia go talk to her husband's psychic colleagues to find the killer. Sherlock and Savich are called in to help, plus to track down why a woman who looks just like the dead wife of their friend Sheriff Dixon Noble is wandering around San Francisco. I forget who killed August, but vaguely remember the look-alike being some sort of con-woman.
The books featuring Sherlock and Savich started with The Maze, which I really enjoyed. Apparently so did Coulter and a bunch of fans, since she turned them into recurring characters and this is something like the 10th book that uses a contrived plot to bring them in to interact with random FBI agents that they're somehow close friends with despite the fact that they're new characters created to be the love interests in the present book. The first few worked, but each one gets harder to enjoy...Labels: murder, romantic "suspense", special abilities
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I think we've run out of names for characters - Archer?
Title: White Lies
Author: Jayne Ann Krenz
Apparently there's a whole society of people with special powers, and they're all classified by type of powers and their strength...
Human lie detector Claire goes to spend time with her estranged family, who are like local royalty in their town, and finds the body of Brad, her half-sister Elizabeth's asshole husband. She goes back a year later and falls for Jake, who's also got special powers, except he's a hunter. They solve a mystery involving Brad hiding the magnitude of his powers from everyone and being a gigantic con man. Elizabeth and her parents, Archer and Myra, all thought the other killed him because Brad was a jerk, but were afraid to ask each other. Myra initially hates Claire because she's the product of Archer's affair. Somehow Claire and Jake find the killer and fall in love and everyone lives happily ever after. The End.Labels: romantic "suspense", special abilities, trashy romance
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Talk about dysfunctional families!
Title: All Night Long
Author: Jayne Ann Krenz
Irene goes to her hometown for first time in 17 years since her dad supposedly shot mom and himself in the kitchen after former friend called her promising info, but was found dead the next day before she could tell. Irene stays at a lodge owned by Luke, an ex-marine; he helps figure out what really happened, and in return she helps convince his family he's not PTSD or ED (was engaged to daughter of family friend, couldn't go all the way with her, now the family stages interventions, etc.) - a subplot is that the former fiance should marry his brother because they're in love and don't realize it. A local cop responsible is responsible for the deaths of Irene's parents and friend, on orders of local big-shot senator that her dad was going to expose as a criminal or something.Labels: hunky armed forces or government operatives, murder, romantic "suspense", trashy romance
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Friday, November 23, 2007
um, no.
Someone to Love
By Jude Deveraux
Jace's fiance died suspiciously in England; he finds a postcard sent to her days before her death several years later with a house on it and is still not over her, so he buys the estate and tries to figure it out. Helped by Nigh, local girl who'd been a war reporter for a few years, hindered by housekeeper Mrs. Brown; also ghosts in estate that they interact with. Mrs. Brown is actually the aunt of a mobster who'd had affair with the now dead fiance when she was a teen in England at boarding school (which she never told Jace about), he tried to get back together with her when she and Jace were in england but she turned him down. He told Mrs. Brown she broke his heart, she killed the fiance in a guest room at the local pub where she was staying and made it look like suicide. Jace makes friends with his estate employees and townspeople over the course of the story, and stays there but buys smaller place with Nigh, since his love for her helped him recover from the dead fiance and all he learned about her after her death.Labels: Brit lit, crap, ghosts, melodrama, romantic "suspense", trashy romance
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Really, Nora?
Title: High Noon
By: Nora Roberts
This is apparently her latest hardcover release. Nora seems to be hurting for major plot development points, since she threw one in here that I was not a fan of.
Phoebe, a hostage negotiator for the Savanna police department, meets Duncan when she's talking one of his former employees out of jumping off a roof. Romance ensues. She's got a kid and an agoraphobic mother. He's a lottery-winner, though she wasn't aware of it because it happened during the kid's birth.
And someone's messing with her. She dresses down a uniformed officer for subordination, and (this is the part I wasn't a fan of) he attacks her in the stairwell at work and fingers her.
When it seems like someone's out to get her on several instances after that, he's naturally the first suspect, but it turns out that some lunatic wants revenge because of a hostage she didn't manage to save.
The big climax takes place in a jewelry store where Duncan was heading to buy an engagement ring; his surrogate sister and mother are already there, for consultation. Plus the asshole former cop (he was fired) works there as a security guard. And Phoebe has to prevent the crazy (who has a Gary Cooper complex of some sort, hence the title High Noon) from learning her connection to some of the hostages and killing everyone. She obviously succeeds, since failing would put a bit of a damper on her relationship with Duncan, and the crazy is taken out by a sniper, and then she and Duncan get married.
Not the most satisfying book. I was with her until the rape, then wondered why Nora had to take what should be a feel-good trashy romance and make it a bit too graphic and real-life. Eh.Labels: depression, hunky armed forces or government operatives, romantic "suspense", tragedy, western
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Friday, November 16, 2007
A Book Worthy of KET
Title: Agnes and the Hitman
Authors: Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
An entertaining book with a horrendous amount of plot twists and complications. When I picked it up, I didn't know to expect gratuitous sex scenes, which was a bit annoying (yeah yeah, I know those are supposedly the good parts, but I don't generally read smut. Plus, when you pick up a book and aren't expecting that, it's irritating when suddenly you're reading a full-blown... - well, you get the idea). You'd think a librarian would remember that Crusie is more or less in that smut categorization, but no. I guess being an academic librarian has addled my brain.
So, Agnes is a woman with a temper and a penchant for hitting men on the head with frying pans (she's up to 3 or 4, but really, who's counting?). She's a cook, with a cooking column in the paper, so it just seems to happen that the frying pan is always a convenient weapon.
Then this kid shows up and tries to take her dog, gets bonked on the head with a frying pan, AND falls through the wall into a basement Agnes didn't know she had. And dies.
So Agnes seeks out Joey's help. Joey is ex-mob. He calls in his hitman nephew, Shane (a governmental hitman, of course), to protect his "little Agnes", because of course, Joey knows more than he's telling. Shane comes to her rescue, cue gratuitous sex scene (Agnes has an anger problem and her shrink told her to take it out in non-violent physical activity. Although I'm not convinced that scene really qualified as non-violent).
Also, there's the subplot of Agnes throwing a wedding on Saturday (the story takes place the week leading up to the wedding). Agnes just bought a house from Brenda (aka biggest bitch ever), who has this evil plan to get her house back by making Agnes default on payments. Brenda agreed to waive the first 3 months of payment if Agnes had Maria's wedding (Brenda's granddaughter) at the house. Of course, Brenda gets the house back if Agnes misses three payments - which she will have done if the wedding gets moved.
Oh yeah, and there's the subplot with Agnes' fiance, Taylor.
And that subplot with Shane's next hit.
Chaos ensues involving mafia, $5 million, a bomb shelter, flamingos, a pink wedding dress, multiple attempts on Agnes' life, a crooked government employee, other hitmen (or perhaps hitwomen), and way too much more to even begin to name.
My favorite character by far was Carpenter, Shane's cleaner. And by cleaner, I don't mean clothes or houses. Bodies. He's this huge hulk of a man who is ordained in some sort of out-there religion and is always making the most bizarre comments. He's nuts, he's sweet and unexpectedly caring for a cleaner, and he really makes the book.Labels: romantic "suspense"
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Saturday, November 03, 2007
more nuns!
Title: The Sinner
By Tess Gerritsen
Maura, the Boston Medical Examiner (previously encountered here, though technically that book comes after this one), is called to the scene in a cloistered convent in the middle of a freezing winter, finding a dead novice and a critically injured nun laying in a courtyard. During the autopsy, it's revealed that Camille, the novice, had recently given birth - rather shocking for a nun, even one who hadn't yet taken vows. They find the baby's body in a pond on the convent grounds, and learn that it was anencephalic - highly deformed and unable to survive, the baby's brain was outside it's unsealed head. Searches for the father initally prove fruitless and serve only to insult the local priest, Father Brophy, with whom Maura, reluctantly, forms a connection.
Another body is found in an abandoned restaurant - seemingly unconnected, the killer cut off the victim's hands and feet, and peeled off her face after death; her teeth are in deplorable condition, and they're stumped as to how to identify her other than the odd lesions on her body.
Around this time, Maura's ex-husband, Victor, randomly shows up. He's a doctor for a tree-hugging, save-the-world organization, and they've been divorced for three years.
Maura identifies the random victim as suffering from leprosy; then they start making all kinds of connections. The surviving nun, Sister Ursula, recently spent three years in India as a nurse in a leper colony. The colony was wiped out in a suspicious massacre and burning while she was off getting supplies, returning to charred destruction. Sister Ursula was working for One World, the same group Victor is the poster-boy for. Just next to the leper colony was a pharmaceutical plant owned by Octagon, a major corporation. Shortly after the massacre, Octagon made huge donations to One World. Sister Ursula, who had been in a coma, started to recover, then suddenly stroked while all her doctors were around the bed.
One of the doctors, who had claimed to be her internist, was actually an Octagon employee, and had been the plant doctor at the one in India. The plant released a cloud of toxic chemicals one night, killing all the inhabitants of the village, except for one random woman, and the doctor led the efforts to hide the accident by destroying the village like it was an attack for being lepers. Ursula recognized him, and he pretty much killed her; he had already been interfering with her care the entire time she was in a coma. Victor was technically innocent, but had come to Boston to see what Maura was learning.
Maura was left alone, again, at the end.Labels: murder, nuns, romantic "suspense"
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
unfinished
Title: The Men I Didn't Marry
Authors: Janice Kaplan and Lynn Schnurnberger
I don't so much go for the mid-life crisis novel where the book opens with a couple dropping the youngest kid off at college and then the husband informing the wife he's leaving her for a pre-existing girlfriend. I think I still identify more with the college-student kids than the actual heroine of this book. However, there's apparently an audience for this sort of crap, because this is the second book like this these authors have put out. Whatever.
Title: You Suck: A Love Story
By Christopher Moore
Didn't really suck me in (hah). Plus it's written in first person, and I often dislike that.
Title: Queen of Babble in the Big City
By Meg Cabot
I liked 'Queen of Babble' and didn't really see the need for a sequel - the relationship issues seemed contrived, and I didn't like the messing with the initial happy ending.
Title: Knock Off
By Rhonda Pollero
Main character was too ditzy (even for me).
Title: The Accidental Florist
By Jill Churchill
Eh.
Title: Remains to be Scene
By R. T. Jordan
Eh. Major characters not very likeable.Labels: crap, fiction, mid-life crisis, romantic "suspense", trashy romance, vampires
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usually I identify with the heroine, but in this case, not so much
Title: The Hunt
By: Allison Brennan
Miranda was kidnapped as a college student, was tortured and raped, and somehow escaped the killer by falling into a river. He likes to torment his victims by telling them to run (after several days of the torture) and then he actually hunts them, like deer. He does this every few years, and Miranda’s the only one to ever get away. She, of course, decided to join the FBI so she could bring the bastard down, but was thwarted by her former lover, Quinn, an FBI agent who worked on her case, who thought she was to emotionally tied to the Hunter. Therefore, she remains in her small Montana town, acting as the local search-and-rescue guide and leads the hunts for the girls (more realistically, their bodies) each time the killer strikes.
The authorities, including the sheriff, a rebound boyfriend who didn’t work out because she’s still in love with Quinn, obviously bring back her former lover several years later, and they work together to bring in the killer. Which they do. And he and Miranda live happily ever after – or as happily as one could expect for people brought together by torture, rape, and murder. Oh, and the killer is a weirdo falcon-watcher who had an incestuous relationship first with his mother, and then later with his sister, who also happens to be married to the local judge.Labels: romantic "suspense", trashy romance, western
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