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I finished Dark Desire by Christine Feehan last night, cold was way better yesterday. This morning I started Life Skills by Katie Fforde, I am now 3 chapters far in this book

I've read 2 chapters in Dark Desire by Christine Feehan, not going fast at the moment because I'm having a bad cold and can't concentrate a lot

Blurb: Carly Phillips – Lucky Break Long ago, a witch proclaimed an eternal curse that every Corwin male who married for love would be destined to lose his woman and his fortune.... Jason Corwin knows he should resist his attraction to Lauren Perkins. But after one night of mind-blowing sex with his supposed and very seductive enemy, he can't bring himself to stay away. All Lauren wants is to sell her late grandmother's old house and leave the past behind forever. But that's not an easy thing to do when gorgeous contractor Jason Corwin whispers sweet, sexy somethings into her ear...about staying. Then a saboteur and the promise of hidden treasure change everything, and one lucky break just might put an end to the Corwin curse.... My Opinion The last one in the Lucky series, and also the last cousin of the Corwins. After Derek and Mike finding love (even with a curse) now it’s Jason’s turn. This was the best ending for a series, great wrap up and love can be found even with a curse on your head. (Awww) For all us hopeless romantic souls recommended series Grade:7/10

I'm working my way very slowly through the books (DW and TW) Still with Rose in the DW books at the moment and the 3rd book in the TW books .... Like I said working slowly through them

Blurb: Susan Elizabeth Phillips – Heaven, Texas Sent to locate former football star Bobby Tom Denton and get him to the set of his first movie, straitlaced Gracie Snow finds herself in the hands of a charmer who is determined to make her over. My Opinion I like it when opposites attract, especially in books. I liked this book, as it’s once more a athlete in there and one with a Texas drawl for once. For us weak-kneed women a recommended book (series) Grade:7/10

Blurb: Annette Blair – Larceny and Lace Madeira Cutler is busy opening her new vintage clothing store in what was once the town's morgue when she discovers an intruder snooping around a bunch of bones in a body drawer. Now, she'll have to dig up more than the past to solve a crime. My Opinion This is the second book in the Vintage Magic Mystery series. I enjoyed this one better than the first one and never thought I’d say this after the first one but I’m actually looking forward to the third one now. I have way too many questions lingering and they will probably get answered in the last instalment of the series. Great book, Good series. Not too much hocus spocus going on and just enough mystery. Grade:7.5/10

Blurb: Jade Lee - Getting Physical (18+) When savvy business student Zoe crosses paths with sexy international businessman Stephen - a Tantric master - she's about to get a transcendent learning experience! The sex is incredible, mind-blowing, life changing! Unfortunately, it also comes with a time limit. Because Stephen's home is on the other side of the world. Still, Zoe's going to enjoy every moment with her skillful, exotic lover. But it isn't long before she realizes she'll have to choose. Does she want to hold on to the life she has.or have a lifetime of feeling his body move against hers? Like there's a choice. My Opinion I needed a short story (being a book +/- 200 pages) and had this book lying around and though why not. Not a bad story although all in all it seems that the back story was cut short to give me, the reader, a read visual on the tantric sex part in the book. It could have been better, although not bad for a Sunday afternoon read. Grade:6/10

Blurb: Lynsay Sands - The Renegade Hunter Having agreed to be fixed up by her sister, Josephine Willan unfortunately finds herself very bored. The gorgeous men she'd been introduced to are all looking at her strangely and they're barely speaking to her. So Jo steps out for a breath of fresh air. Before she knows it, she's attacked, then rescued...and being kissed senseless by her rescuer! Nicholas Argeneau went rogue after the death of his life mate fifty years ago, but he's never stopped hunting for the evil vampires that torment mortals. He's tracked one of them to the enforcer house, and when he finds a woman in danger, all of Nicholas' protective instincts kicked in. Before he knows it, he's kissing her senseless. But life on the run is all he has to offer...or is it? My Opinion I was really looking forward to this book. Ever since the last book in this series “The Immortal Hunter” when I got a glimpse at Nicholas Argeneau I wanted to know his story. I didn’t putt his book down when I was reading it started in the afternoon and read in one go till late evening just to finish it. Ok, Miss Sands is one of those favourite authors I have and I haven’t read anything bad so far from her hand (still have to read the older books) but as in many book series going on for a long time (I mean 12 books+) with this one I didn’t have a d

Blurb: MaryJanice Davidson - Really unusual bad boys Bridefight - One minutes Lois Commoner is popping pain pills for her bum knee; the next, she's in a strange land with a magically delicious naked man named Prince Damon. Questions? Maybe one or two. Mating Season - Lt. Anne Sanger jointed the W.A.C.s to see the world and meet someone, she meant Europe and nice Boise farm boy - not a feral, well-built, rakish man in a bathtub claiming he has wished her to be his mate. Groomfight - Rica Callanbra is used to odd things happening, but sweet, godlike hunky men falling from the sky? She'll take him! Talk about heaven on earth. My Opinion As you might have noticed I’m working my way through the “Bad Boys” books. When I started this I didn’t expect shape shifting cat-man though. Not that I mind that! Well it’s not bad for between books or fast day reads but not a book I would personally choose to crawl into bed with and read straight through. Grade:6.5/10

Blurb: Tess Gerritsen – The Surgeon In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again. He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him "The Surgeon." The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned reputation as a top trauma surgeon. Cordell's careful facade is about to crack as this new killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's own ordeal. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. Her only comfort comes from Thomas Moore, the detective assigned to the case. But even Moore cannot protect Cordell from a brilliant hunter who somehow understands--and savors--the secret fears of every woman he kills. Filled with the authentic detail that is the trademark of this doctor turned author . . . and peopled with rich and complex characters--from the ER to the squad room to the city morgue--here is a thriller of unprecedented depth and suspense. Exposing the shocking link between those who kill and cure, punish and protect, The Surgeon is Tess Gerritsen's most exciting accomplishment yet. My Opinion I don’t read a lot of crime books, but sometimes I get challenged by someone and I just have to read one then. This one is the first in a series and since I’ve been told this is a good book I just said OK I’ll read it. When I started it, I had difficulties putting it down, and the real good part is that you don’t really find out who the actual bad guy is until about 100 pages from the ending. You get hints, but no names. That what I like in a crime book! Grade:8/10

I've read As you like it (the manga edition) last night since I didn't feel like starting a full book yet. this morning I started Larceny and Lace by Annette Blair.

I've read The Renegade Hunter from Lynsay Sands yesteday. I'm now on a Sunday lazy day and have read some comics I still had lying around and a harleguin book just to indulge before I start reading some other stuff again tomorrow morning

Great books, these are in the Rogue Hunter Arc in the Argeneau series, I'm going to start the Renegade Hunter on Saturday I'm really looking forward to it. I'm still reading The surgeon almost finished but really anxious to find out who the bad guy is

Still reading The Surgeon I'm about halfway now and have few ideas who did it but nothing specific enough yet.

I'm at page 120 of The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen - up to now I'm really liking the book, like you all said I would

Blurb: Rachel Vincent - Rogue I know that better than most. Since rejoining the Pride, I've made big decisions and even bigger mistakes: the kind paid for with innocent lives. As the first and only female enforcer, I have plenty to prove to my father, the Pride and myself. And with murdered toms turning up in our territory, I'm working harder than ever, though I always find the energy for a little after-hours recreation with Marc, my partner both on and off duty. But not all my mistakes are behind me. We're beginning to suspect that the dead are connected to a rash of missing human women and that they can all be laid at my feet—two or four, take your pick. And one horrible indiscretion may yet cost me more than I can bear.… My Opinion After reading the first book (Stray) in this series, I knew wanted to read more. In this world of werecats and protecting their territory, this book is very good. It took me a couple of chapters to get back into it all, and a couple more to remember the first book correctly to follow again (It seems I’ve read a few to many paranormal books since the first and the second in the series). But once I was back, the reading got better and better and I even gasped at a certain part of the book (for the people who’ve read this they might know which part, for the ones who haven’t read and find out). Grade:7/10

Blurb:Susan Elizabeth Phillips – It had to be you The windy city isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville-the trendy, outrageous and curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head coach Dan Calebow - an Alabama-born former gridiron legend and blond barbarian. Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors - a sexist, jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. The beautiful new boss is everything Dan despises - a meddling bimbo who doesn't know pigskin from a pitcher's mound, So why is he drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile? And why does Dan's good ol'boy charm leave cosmopolitan Phoebe feeling awkward, tongue-tied and frightened to death? My Opinion: I’ve been thinking of reading this book for a while now. When I first came across this book and saw that it was about an other athlete type than I’ve read up to know, I just said to myself, let’s try it – there are more athletes than baseball and hockey players(being the topic in the sports romances I’ve read up to now). In this case we’re dunked into the world of American Football. To be honest, this was a very nice first meeting with the rugged athletes in this sport. I am willing to read more… Grade:7.5/10

Blurb: Meg Cabot – Every boy’s got one Maid-of-honour at her best friend Holly's wedding, Jen takes an instant dislike to best man Cal. But when Holly and Mark's wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jen and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike for one another in order for the wedding to go ahead. My Opinion: I really liked this book. This is the last one in the “Boy” series by Meg Cabot and also the last one written in e-mail/PDA/diary form. From halfway through the book you think it’s going to go this way and it doesn’t really go that way until the last 5 pages. Keeping me on my toes in a romance, not something that happens a lot since I mostly read them because I know happy endings are a given. I loved being swept away to Italy once again. Grade:7/10

I finished Rogue by Rachel Vincent yesterday evening, this morning I started The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen this morning, onle 2 chapters far now but first impression is good

I'm 5 chapters far in Rogue by Rachel Vincent at the moment waiting for it to pick up, I read the previous book so I know that it will pick up:smile2:

I finished: * falling for you by Jill Mansel * Only Pleasure by Lora leigh This morning I started Every boy's got one by Meg Cabot

Blurb: Nancy Warren – Bad boys down under Those accents. Those muscles. Those take-no-prisoners smiles that say, 'Care to join me down under?' Join USA Today bestselling author Nancy Warren for a trio of deliciously sensual stories where the bad boys are from Oz . . . but they sure know how to speak the language . . . Turn up the heat and get ready for three of the hottest imports to hit these shores. When these bad boys come to visit, you're guaranteed a g'day, mate. My Opinion To have a change in the long list of Scotsmen that I go through (reading wise) I thought why not read about Australians for a change. Good thing that in the Bad Boys books you have the diversity of nationalities. After reading this book I kinda wished I could go to Australia and meet some of the bad boys that lurk around in the cities. Not a bad book, good for killing time and stories short enough that you can read them in one go. Grade:7/10

Blurb: Jill Mansell – Falling for you After a romantic encounter under the cover of darkness, former ugly duckling Maddy Harvey is shocked to discover in daylight that her potential Prince Charming is a totally unsuitable ghost from the past. My Opinion I do read a lot of chick-lit books and this was the very first one I ever read by Jill Mansell, although people have been recommending them to me for ages. I now understand why. Although at the beginning I had a rough time getting focussed on the book once it started rolling and all the romance plots thickened I was hooked. Good book for all of us hopeless romantics Grade:8/10

Blurb: Lora Leigh – Only Pleasure Since Chase Falladay came to her rescue two years ago, Kia Stanton has never been able to forget the powerful man or the kind of life he leads. So two years later when she runs into Chase and his friend, Khalid, and leaves with them that night, she knows exactly where it is all heading. However, little prepares her for what it is like to be in Chase's arms, and in his bed. After years of holding back, Kia is finally able to be the woman she's always dreamed of being in his arms. Kia is a dream Chase has not allowed himself to entertain. Now that he has her, it's her heart he's after and he's determined to win it, no matter the cost. And even though they both agreed that it would only be for pleasure, somewhere along the way it becomes and all-consuming love. My Opinion I’ve read, up to now, all the books in the bound hearts series. And even though they are very hot from time to time, I did feel a progression over the many books. The books are no longer pure sex but also some detective work in it. I so feel that it’s good to have read all the books since otherwise I might be shocked a little at some scenes (like I was with the first book). This one is recommended in the series, maybe even as a stand alone but since we are meeting a lot of people of previous books it’s best to start at the beginning *grin* Grade:7/10

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