First up, I picked a book off of my unread shelves and dug into young adult dystopia with Isobelle Carmody's "Obernewtyn." I'll give the book credit for doing a few interesting things but, for a book as small as it is, it moved superbly slow and was surprisingly dense. Didn't wow me. Not even with psychic powers, which I have a weakness for. It's apparently the first in a series of seven. I doubt I'll venture any further.
Back to romance! I love sale books. I bought the ebook version of Laura Lee Guhrke's "And Then He Kissed Her" last week for $0.99 because that's a price point I like, I read a single blog comment that said it was great, and the premise sounded awesome. None of those things guarantees an awesome read, but an awesome read is what I got.
The book's set in Victorian England and the main character is a publisher's secretary/aspiring author. When she finds out her total rake of a boss has never read more than snippets of the manuscripts she's been submitting to him over the years, she decides it's the last straw for her rather safe and stagnant life. My favorite thing about Emma is that she doesn't make big decisions all willy nilly without thinking about the consequences first. She makes tough decisions, follows through, and lives with the repercussions. Emma's awesome.
Her love interest is pretty great himself. Here are some of his best quotes:
"Why women put all those feathers on their hats nowadays is incomprehensible to me. You look like you have an ostrich's backside on top of your head."
"Women of virtue are a pain in the ass."
"Tell me, at this point is it acceptable for the woman to dither in this fashion? Isn't she supposed to just end the poor fellow's suspense and say yes so he knows he hasn't made a thorough idiot of himself?"
"No," she choked. "he deserves to suffer until she's convinced of the depth and sincerity of his affections."
After the awesome that was my previous read, I decided I needed to switch genres or anything I read would be a disappointment. Perfect time for an Eve Dallas break!
I intended to just read one. It'd been a while since I'd read one and the murder and mayhem can get a bit much sometimes. Yeah, I hit a nice streak. I read "Origin" and "Memory" back to back, took a quick break, and then devoured "Born." There are babies in 'Born In Death!" I could not help myself. All three were really good reads and I can't help but be relieved that none featured psycho rapist/murderers whose only motivation is hatred of women (those are my least favorite cases and Roberts was hitting them often for a while there).
For the last read this week, though not chronologically since I read it on the aforementioned "In Death" break, I successfully got another book off of the unread shelves. I found myself thinking "I have got to get some of these damn harlequins off the damn shelves" so I picked up "The Disgraced Playboy" fully expecting it to stink since the last few Harlequin's I've read bombed.
Consider me pleasantly surprised. It was quick and it was angsty and overwrought as all get out. The heroine was strong as steel and I totally cheered when she was finally able to just not give a flying fuck about other people's judgements of her life. Fun read.
Done for this week! Expect far less books in the next wrap-up.
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