Iron Kissed

Okay, so this one you might not want to let your 11 YO (no matter how precocious) read. It's still not explicit, but it does have much stronger sexual themes (like rape) and violence to it.

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Zipped thru Moon Called and Blood Bound and am reading the third in the series Iron Kissed. Fabulous...and clean enough to let a teen read (or even my 11 YO son). Werewolves, fae, vampires...all told by a female mechanic who's a walker (shape changer). Complex, rich with detail, great stuff.

Sequel not until November...gah!

The newest finished book for today is Nina Harper's Succubus in the City. And yes, it's a knock off of Sex in the City. But I enjoyed it and can't wait for the sequel Succubus Takes Manhattan, (yes, also pre-ordered) due out in November. I hope she'll wrap up the love story and the mystery in that one...waiting almost another year to see will be crappy. ;) I had to ignore the stereo-typical man bashing: "men don't keep diaries." Yes, actually, they do, but they're usually called journals...my husband has kept one (volumes and volumes) his entire adult life. "Men don't care about our sexual pleasure." Bah, with a few exceptions, almost every man I've had tried very hard to make sure I enjoyed it...not his fault if I didn't. Yes, in a few cases he could have cared less... But, a good read, nonetheless. And the couple sex scenes are hot without being explicit or crude.

The tall blue cat (a Bastform demon), who's a librarian just cracked me up.

She gives a good insider's view of life in Manhattan, too. I looked up some of the restaurants and shops...they actually exist. Not places someone like me would ever be able to afford, but then I'm not one of Satan's Chosen.

Public
Cafeteria
Butter
Barney's
ONO --This one actually looks affordable!

Better in bed...

Just finished Jennifer Weiner's (that's like whiner, not weener) Good in Bed. And, while it has a few continuity errors (and she apparently does not know that looms do not produce knitted items, but woven items), it is, in a word, fabulous.

I recommend it highly.

What a novel idea....

One of the benefits of finally giving up playing Neverwinter Nights (NWN) is that I finally am able to finish a book. Recently, I've really gotten into the Succubus series by Richelle Mead (whom I insist on calling Michelle Read...). I've even pre-ordered Succubus Dreams, due out 6 October. They're funny, well-written, sexy without being crude, and imaginative. I kind of wish the Succubus series had a warning or something..although that wouldn't help any (in fact it would just encourage teens all the more)....she wrote the vampire academy series first, which are for young adults (read: teens). However, the Succubus series is most definitely not for teens. Well, it's not something I would want MY teens reading, at least. But, for adults into paranormal/urban fantasy, I highly recommend them.

As for the Magic series by Cheyenne McCray...don't waste your money or time. The most interesting thing about these is the author's name. She didn't even do basic research to find out that Anu was a GOD and not a goddess (sometimes, Wikipedia is your friend). [edit: okay, okay, I did the research and she meant Danu, the goddess. But she wrote D'anu and the heroine kept saying things like "Dear Anu, Sweet Anu, Anu please..." The goddess' name was Danu. Anu was a Sumerian god.] The hero of the third book, Wicked Magic, is an over-the-top, caricature of the rough, never-love-anyone-until-he-meets-the-heroine asshat. The sex-scenes were jaded and prurient and just plain boring after the first one. The writing is appalling, technically speaking. I tend to stick a book out, though, no matter how horrible. Your money, your risk.

Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series looks very promising, though. I just finished Book 11, Devil May Cry and it was very enjoyable and you didn't really need to have read the first 10 in the series to "get" it. It's still a bit jarring to hear the gods talk in modern-day lingo, but I suppose they would have changed with the times (except Artemis--I crack up each time she gets a metaphor screwed up). I've gone in and put the first three Dark-Hunter books in my cart at Amazon (I buy used). I'll look for them meanwhile at Half-Price Books. I have a bunch of books coming anyway, so don't need these immediately. Here I am, needing to be rid of books...and ordering more!

Meanwhile, I've picked up a book that's been on my shelf for 23 years and I've never read it (don't laugh...I have some even older that fall in that category). It's Richard Adams' Maia...it's so huge, I'll probably be able to finish 3-4 other novels while reading it.