Rosalind

Blurb: Melissa Marr - Wicked Lovely The clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in this cool, urban 21st century faery tale. Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world, and would blind her if they knew of her Sight. Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries. Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer. Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention. But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King and has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost! Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working any more, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything. My Opinion This book was my reintroduction to the world of fairies. Last time I read something with fairies I was a child and it might have been something like a Disney version of Peter Pan. To be honest in comparison to the child-like fairy tales this comes as a little shock. I liked this new view on the world of those fairies. I want to read more from this series. (I’ve read the first in the manga series Desert Tales that follows this story since I read the book and now) Grade: 7/10

Blurb: Meg Cabot - Nicola and the Viscount In Regency London, every girl wants to make a good match. Nicola thinks she's done it with the fabulously handsome (if conversationally challenged) Viscount Sebastian Bartholomew. Turns out she's wrong -- but it may be too late! My Opinion: As in my opinion of the other historical by Meg Cabot “Victoria and the Rogue”, I found this one a weird read to be a book by Meg Cabot. It was fluent enough and I didn’t mind reading it but since this is one of the earlier book (before the bunch I’ve read Queen of Babble, Heather Wells Mysteries) I could not say it was a page turner for me. Since it was only a short one I only spend 2 days on reading it. Grade: 6.5/10

I've finished flat-out sexy by Erin McCarthy saturday night late and started Simon Says by Lori foster yesterday (only starting chapter 3 now)

I finished reading Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. Now on to the next book, still deciding on it.

I finished Lucky Streak by Carly Phillips last night, started Bitten by Kelley Armstrong half an hour ago.

Back from holiday, I read the following books: * Deirdre Martin - Chasing Stanley * Kerrelyn Sparks - The undead next door * Judi McCoy - Almost a Goddess * Richelle Mead - Succubus Blues * Lynsay Sands - Devil of the Highland I started Lucky Streak by Carly Phillips I'm almost halfway through While I was gone my new stack of comics arrived and Simon Says by Lori Foster arrived as well

I'm reading Her Sexiest Surprise by Dawn Atkins at the moment. A little Harlequin read between books. I'm leaving on holiday for 8 days tomorrow and have about 7 books on my suitcase to read while I'm there

I've always been a reader, we started going to the library with school when we started reading and I just gott he reading bug. I did have a slump during my teens but that was mostly because of the boring as H*ll books we had to read for school. When I started going to college I started reading again like I did when I was in elementary school and I haven't stopped since. Now for the last 3 years I've been reading more than watching tv. Which results in a big load of books since I started buying books at the same time.

I started Sugarplums and Scandal this morning. I'm 2 chapters far in the first story.

I finished the 3rd story in Hot Ticket and started the 4th and last one. Only have to read about 20 pages before the book is done. Afterwards I'm going to start Sugarplums and Scandal - I needed to read 1 story in each Anthologie to proceed resp. in the NY Blades series by Annette Blair and the Love at stake series by Kerrelyn Sparks. I'm taking the next book of each of the series with me on holiday next week

I'm halfway throug the series. They are put aside for the moment until I feel I need a very light read again. Waht I read up till now was really good though

Never walked out of a film, fell a sleep during American Beauty though. I know a lot of people like this film and normally I like that type of films but this one just couldn't keep me awake

I've started the 3rd story in Hot ticket, starting a new day book aswell still chosing one

I've finished Lucky Charm being the first story in Hot Ticket and started Same Rink, Next year which is the second story I've started reading Bad Boys in Kilts which contains of 3 stories, I've finished the first 2 only the last one to go

I finished Curveball by Kate Angell and started Hot Ticket by Deirdre Martin, Julia London,Annette Blair and Gery Buckley this morning.

I finished Wicked Lovely yesterday evening, started Curveball by Kate Angell and The Deed by Lynsay Sands this morning.

I've read another 70 pages in Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. Has anyone else read this book??? Did anyone notice the abundance of grammatical errors in it?

Blurb: Kristin Harmell - Italian for beginners Thirty-four-year-old Manhattan accountant Cat Connelly has always lived life on the safe side. But after her little sister gets married, Cat wonders if she has condemned herself to a life of boredom by playing by the rules. She decides to take a chance for once, accepting an invitation to spend a month with an old flame in Italy. But her reunion with the slick and gorgeous Francesco is short-lived, and she finds herself suddenly alone in Rome. Now, she must see if she has the courage to live outside the lines for the first time - and to face a past she never understood. It will take an unexpected friendship with a fiery Italian waitress, a whirlwind Vespa tour of the Eternal City with a handsome stranger, and a surprise encounter with an old acquaintance to show Cat that life doesn't always work out the way you expect, but sometimes you have to have fall in order to fly. My Opinion: What happens when your grandma embarrasses you in front of the whole congregation when your little sister is getting married and you’re still single. Well that’s what happens to the leading lady in this book. As we discover her journey to Rome (I love that city myself) we get swept away by the romances, the self discovery and well any one who knows Rome memories of the eternal city. I love my memories of the eternal city. Grade: 7.5/10

Blurb: Diane Castell, Karen Kelley, Rosemary Laurey - Texas Bad Boys "In Bed with Someone" by Rosemary Laurey - Rod Carter was supposed to end up running the Ragged Rooster. Instead, Old Man Maddox gave the bar to his granddaughter, some prissy Brit art gallery owner right off the boat from London. Miss Juliet Ffrench - yeah, two "f's" - knows jack-all about beer, winning friends, and running tabs, but she's got a killer smile. All the lady needs is someone to give her an education in Texas hospitality, up close and personal... "Run of Bad Luck" by Karen Kelley - Nina Harris loves photographing naked, sexy men. But, when she inherits her grandfather's ranch in Texas, and meets foreman Lance Colby, she thinks she may have met her match. Lance is pretty sure real cowboys don't drop trou for national magazines. Still, as a Texas gentleman, he'd be more than happy to give Nina a private showing... "Come to a Bad End" by Dianne Castell - Silver Gulch Sheriff John Snow thinks women have their place - in his kitchen or his bed. He would certainly never go for some women's libber businesswoman like Lillie June. The men in town want him to close down her fancy new spa, and he's happy to oblige. But once he meets Lillie, soothing massages, personal pampering, and one-on-one body wraps don't seem like such a bad thing at all... My Opinion Yes, a book about bad boys, and Texas ones while we’re at it. This is not the first book I read about bad boys. There is a whole series of them, I’m working my way through very very slowly. But this one with the cowboy behaviours and the women not letting the men rule from the minute they meet, not bad at all. Good for a between books read, I love the fact that it’s only short stories that have to be read, so it’s easy to divide time to read them all. Grade: 6.5/10

Blurb: Gwyn Cready - Seducing Mr Darcy Mr. Darcy just isn't Flip Allison's style. She prefers novels with hot sex on the bathroom sink to the mannerly, high-tension longing of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. That is, until she pays a visit to Madame K, who promises a therapeutic massage with an opportunity to "Imagine Yourself in Your Favorite Book." Somehow, on the way to a sizzling sink-top session with a Venetian Adonis, Flip lands right in the middle of Regency England -- and dangerously close to handsome Mr. Darcy. So close, in fact, that she discovers a side of him even Jane Austen couldn't have imagined. Waking from her massage, Flip is on top of the world and ready for her upcoming book club -- that is, until she notices a new scene in which Darcy and spunky heroine Lizzy Bennet are arguing over...Flip Allison? Her rapturous liaison with Darcy has had disastrous consequences for Austen's characters -- not to mention millions of Pride and Prejudice fans! Flip has twenty-four hours to put the story back on course, and Magnus Knightley, a sexy but imperious scholar whose brooding good looks and infuriating arrogance are decidedly Darcy-like, is the only one who can help. The only problem is, Flip can't keep her hands off him, either.... My Opinion How much can you do wrong if you end up in your favourite book. This is what this book is about. Well that and a romance. As the classic Pride and Prejudice gets changed by the protagonist in the book, we have 24 hours to change it back to it original form. But I fell in love with Magnus Knightley not the elusive Darcy (although he was my beau in the original Pride & Prejudice). Grade: 7.5/10

Blurb: Stephenie Meyer - Midnight Sun (draft 4) Twilight told out of the point of view of Edward Cullen. My Opinion: After having read the complete twilight series, and previously the first chapter of this book, I decided I might take up the whole draft that you can find on the Stephenie Meyer website. I was surprised at how good my memory was of the first Twilight book to put it all together with this one. But more I finally got Edward’s motives behind everything he does. (And get the film much better now as well since Rob Pattinson was given the draft to prepare for his robe as Edward). I truly hope that Stephenie Meyer finishes the book and that it gets released properly. The book and the fans deserve it. Grade: 8/10

Blurb: Meg Cabot - Victoria and the Rogue Growing up in far-off India, wealthy young heiress Lady Victoria Arbuthnot was accustomed to handling her own affairs - not to mention everyone else's. But in her 16th year, Vicky is unceremoniously shipped off to London to find a husband. My Opinion I found this a weird read. I’m not used to Meg Cabot going all historical fiction, and all in all historical fiction for young adults. The book is quite short and easy to read, good for those few hours that I had to spare. This is by far not my favourite Meg Cabot book but still not the unreadable kind. Grade: 6.5/10

Blurb: Lora Leigh - Wicked Pleasure (18+) Jaci Wright has been running from the Falladay twins, Chase and Cam, for seven years now. Fears of the desires they arouse in her, and the knowledge of the relationship they wanted with her, spurred her to run, to find a life that kept her traveling the globe and out of their reach. But now life has come full circle. A new job has placed Jaci in the Sinclair mansion with Chase and Cam. And they're tired of waiting. It's hard enough to face accepting a relationship with two men rather than just one, but gossip and the tattered tales of juicy secrets fill the society she now moves within. Can Jaci face the world knowing she's a lover to both men, or will her hesitancy and her fears destroy her chance of happiness forever? My Opinion After having read other books in the bound hearts series, I didn’t like this one as much as I liked the others. It was more toned down. Still a good read for warming up lonely nights but not the thing to read when the nights are not that lonely. Grade: 6.5/10

Rebecca Bloomwood(shopaholic), who wouldn't want to be Misses Luke Brandon

Haven't tried them yet, are not on my wishlist yet either.I'll put them on there for now cause I don't seem to have room for new books on my shelves at the moment, need an other clean up on them. (Meaning the TBR list is of books I have already but still have to read) I'm wondering what is so interesting about my TBR list though?