Other Awesomely Awesome Books We've Read or Want to Read.

oh, Meljean Brook is good, if you liked her you could try Bec McMaster...somebody here mentioned her book Kiss of Steel and it´s really good, sweet and fun

I will have to try that, it looks fun

Rageane wrote:Nina,

Have you tried the Steampunk romance?  I would suggest the Iron Seas series from Meljean Brooks...they are fun and the world she builds is pretty cool too!

It's waiting on my shelf somewhere, but I doubt I'll be able to read it until school starts since we are going to move Yeeeeey!!

Well as far as I'm now I've read Rapture by Jacquelyn Frank and the latest German translation of the Lord of the Underworld-series.
I read one of the previews ones as well, the first one with Maddox and Ashlyn and ... I didn't like it. It was sort of dull.
Same with the Jacquelyn Frank books. You sort of ... know the story and the characters. The only "new" thing with the series was ... the ... uh sexuality. I was amused and fascinated and a bit disturbed because it is really disturbing in some way how they're dealing with their sexuality. And then I was like: wait ... if they can't even lit a candle without burning to ashes ... how are they going to watch TV?!
The most fun thing was actually to think about what a ShadowDweller CAN'T do. Like ... i don't know, ANYTHING FUN!

Linda, I agree with both Jacquelyn Frank and the LotU series. It's like.. the characters don't have a sense of ego or agency. They're all the same, only some characteristics change. /sigh

And the Shadowdweller series, holy fuck. Like, sure, it's great to be sex-positive, but how cracky is it to think that an entire kingdom, after war and everything, would be like, "Hmm, so we could obviously do a lot of things about our problems.. Starting with a mandatory sex school!" I laughed my ass off.

MELJEAN BROOK IS A GODDESS. READ ALL OF THE MELJEAN BROOK. I love her SO much.

I know! That's exactly what I thought! And did you read Adams book? Then you know what happens to Isabella and Jacob. And usually I'm always crying when stuff like that happens but there I was like ... mhh, okay, sad. But that's it. The characters are boring.
The sex thing is really ... creepy. Imagine sitting there, watching someone giving a guy head. For them it's probably like ... idk Algebra for us .. but ... urgh. It seems wrong. But it IS something new!

That's not even my main problem, I just found their priorities to be so unbelievably.. stupid. If you're an author and want to tell people that being sex-positive is a good thing, then four for you, but I'm not sure introducing a mandatory sex school is the way to go. /still cackling

Adam's book was incredibly disappointing and worldbuilding-wise also a shock. The timetravelling? Jesus Christ, if you do timetravelling, do it well or go home. /not cackling anymore

Just finished Kate Daniels #6, Magic Rises.

Damn.

Patricia wrote:Just finished Kate Daniels #6, Magic Rises.

Damn.

I'm 3/4 through it...and yes I'm right there with you!

Let me know when you're through!

I just finished Fated by Rebecca Zanetti. This books is so good!

Patricia wrote:Let me know when you're through!

I'm with you...DAMN is right!