Wench - Dolen Perkins-Valdez ** If I had never read The Help I would have liked this so much more. As it was, it was excellent (although depressing). Not the humor of The Help but an intriguing look at the life of slaves who were kept as mistresses.
The Extra-Naturals - Kay Chronister (draft) Interesting storyline, needs some work fleshing out. Great start.
Pillow Talk - Freya North Delightful. Reminded me of Jill Mansell and Marion Keyes.
Shatter (Children of Man #1) - Elizabeth C Mock Loved it. Roughly edited being self-published but good enough that I recommended it to everyone that I know enjoys the genre.
One Deadly Sister - Rod Hoisington Terrible. Really, truly ... bad.
Render (Children of Man #2) - Elizabeth C Mock Just as good as the first. Well, almost as good as the first. Kinda upset that the third isn't out yet, to tell you the truth.
Graceling - Kristin Cashore (reread) LOVE THIS BOOK. I actually read some of the reviews online this time I read, and I'm not sure what some of those people are smoking because I loved it and everyone I know (and I forced it on everyone I knew who even slightly enjoyed YA supernatural) loved it as well.
Fire - Kristin Cashore (reread) See above. Love.
Hollywood Scandals - Gemma Halliday I got this and the other two for 99 cents (boxed) on my Nook. Predictable but worth the buck for six hours and 2000 pages. Enjoyable fluff.
Hollywood Secrets - Gemma Halliday See above.
Hollywood Confessions - Gemma Halliday See above.
Awakening - Karice Bolton Just started ... it's full of cliches but it shows promise. I'll let you know next month what I think.
3 comments:
I read the sampler, including the chapters of Graceling and Fire, which made me want to read them all again. I may have to check out Shatter. It was recommended to me on Amazon, but last month I was trying to avoid buying new books and reading the daily deals I'd picked up. :)
So I accidentally went away for a 2 week vacation without my Nook charger. And then, on the 2nd day of said vacation the book I was wait-listed for at the library (digital) that had 200+ people in line behind me became available. Seriously. And I asked to borrow 2 or 3 of your Nook books.
I ended up downloading said library book onto Chuck's computer and reading it and getting so addicted, that I then BOUGHT physical copies of the next 2 books in the trilogy. But I still need to read the ones you loaned me via Nook.
MF, if you need to re- borrow, that's fine with me. The Halliday boxed set was one of the things I lent you and it was super easy reading, so you'll fly through those. Camille was the other, and it was also pretty light but not bad. OG above actually recommended that one to me.
What book? Hunger Games?
OG, you also were recommended on facebook to read Shatter because I posted it to your profile as soon as I finished. It's one of those books that has 30 or so main characters and you don't think you'll be able to keep track and then everything falls into place. I don't even remember everyone's names, but I really liked it.
I'm Number 4 on the wait for Bitterblue, so I'll have that in the next couple days I'm sure. :) I had to re-read in anticipation!
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