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Happy New Year hun...xxx See you started reading the House of the Night series. I know it can get a bit childish and you would love to shake the characters a bit...like I did but after a read the second book I just wanted to keep reading them. I am now onto book No 4...still say poopie and that but I just want to know what happens.

OMG...I missed giving reviews for 6 books that I read last year...how slack of me!!!! Ok, I will give quick reviews of each and then I will be requesting to close this log and onto my 2010 one. Jeff Lindsay - Darkly Dreaming Dexter Ok it was quite a while ago that I read this but I have to say I struggled with this. Being in Dexter's mind was terrible...I mean I got really really bored with the way he was thinking. I was really disappointed in this book and honestly don't know if I will read the rest of the books. I gave this one 6/10 and that is being generous. Karin Slaughter - Triptych Again, another one a read a while ago but I do remember that this was another book I just couldn't put down. I loved the way Slaugher introduced the characters and Very enjoyable so this one got 10/10 from me. Karin Slaughter - Fractured This still was a great read for the second book in the Altanta series however I did not think it was edge gripping as Triptych but still great. 10/10 again. Karin Slaughter - Kisscut Finally I got the second book in the Grant County series to read. After reading the first book (the only book in a long time that had me reading until the book was finished in record time - UNPUTDOWNABLE!!! ). I found the story a little hard to take in, So I little harder for me to enjoy compared to the first one. But I loved catching up with the characters especially Jeffrey...for some reason after this book I am not liking Sara...don't know why. That may change when I read the third one but this book still gets 10/10. Charlaine Harris - Living Dead in Dallas & Club Dead I am just going to review this books together. I just love the Sookie Stackhouse series and I can not say a bad thing about these books. I just love the relationship between Sookie and Bill, Sookie and Eric, Sookie and Alcide. These books are just pure fun and I highly recommend them. 10/10 for each. Sorry that was all rushed, but after a few months of reading a book I do forget details. But you can find my reading list for 2010 in my sig. Hope to see you there and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! xxxx

Denotes book moved to TBR list| current reading Denotes book read Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat Anne Rice - The Queen of the Damn Anne Rice - The Tale of the Body Thief Anne Rice - Memnoch the Devil Anne Rice - The Vampire Armand Anne Rice - Merrick Anne Rice - Blackwood Farm Anne Rice - Blood Canticle Becca Fitzpatrick - Hush Hush Brom - The Plucker Brom - The Devil's Rose Brom - The Child Thief Christopher Ransom - The Birthing House Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon Elizabeth Peters - Silhouette in Scarlet Elizabeth Peters - Trojan Gold Elizabeth Peters - Night Train to Memphis Elizabeth Peters - Laughter of the Dead Kings George Orwell - Animal Farm Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird James Patterson - Cat and Mouse James Patterson - Pop! Goes the Weasel James Patterson - Roses are Red James Patterson - Violets are Blue James Patterson - Four Blind Mice James Patterson - The Big Bad Wolf James Patterson - London Bridges James Patterson - Mary Mary James Patterson - Cross James Patterson - Double Cross James Patterson - Cross County James Patterson - Alex Cross's Trial James Patterson - I, Alex Cross Janet Evanovich – Visions of Sugar Plums Janet Evanovich – Plum Lucky Janet Evanovich - Fearless Fourteen Janet Evanovich – Plum Spooky Janet Evanovich – Finger Licking Fifteen Janet Evanovich - Sizzling Sixteen Jasper Fforde - Lost in a Good Book Jasper Fforde - The Well of Lost Plots Jasper Fforde - Something Rotten Jasper Fforde - First Amount Sequels Jasper Fforde - The Fourth Bear Jasper Fforde - Shades of Grey Jed Rubbenfeld - The Interpretation of Murder Karin Slaughter - A Faint Cold Fear Karin Slaughter - Indelible Karin Slaughter - Faithless Karin Slaughter - Skin Privilege Karin Slaughter - Genesis Katherine Howe - The Lost Book of Salem Kelley Armstrong - Stolen Kelley Armstrong - Dime Store Magic Kelley Armstrong - Undustrial Magic Kelley Armstrong - Haunted Kelley Armstrong - Broken Kelley Armstrong - No Humans Involved Kelley Armstrong - Personal Demon Kelley Armstrong - Living with the Dead Kelley Armstrong - Frost Bitten Kelley Armstrong - Waking the Witch Kim Harrison - Every Which Way But Dead Kim Harrison - A Fistful of Charms Kim Harrison - For A Few Demons More Kim Harrison - Where Demons Dare Kim Harrison - White Witch, Black Curse Kim Harrison - Black Magic Sanction Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind Markus Zusak - The Book Thief MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unwed MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unemployed MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unappreciated MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unreturnable MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unpopluar MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Uneasy MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unworthy MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unwelcome MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unfinished Maxim Chattam - The Cairo Diary Patrick Suskind - Perfume: The Story of a Murder P.C and Kristen Cast – Hunted P.C and Kristen Cast – Tempted P.C and Kristen Cast – Burned Rachel Caine - Midnight Alley Rachel Caine – Fest of Fools Rachel Caine – Lord of Misrule Rachel Caine – Carpe Corpus Rachel Caine - Fade Out Stephfordy Mayo - New Moan (Twishite Saga Book 1) Stephenie Meyer - The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella The Harvard Lampoon - Nighlight: A Parody

Denotes received and added to TBR list | currently reading Denotes read Denotes read & returned to sender|next on list Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris - Bookring by Weave Dead to the World Dead as a Doornail Definitely Dead All Together Dead From Dead to Worse Dead and Gone Dead in the Family Grave Sight (Harper Connelly) Series by Charlaine Harris - Bookring by Weave Grave Sight Grave Surprise In An Ice Cold Grave Grave Secret The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom - Bookring by Inver The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent - Bookring by Charm

The books in my TBR list are books that I have on my shelf to be read, are library books or from bookrings. LB denotes Library Book | BR denotes Bookring These books are in no particular order Priority TBR List TBR Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Kate Moss - Labyrinth Marian Keyes - Angels John Grisham - A Time to Kill Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island Ian Rankin - Knots & Crosses George Orwell - Animal Farm Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird Maxim Chattam - The Cairo Diary Val McDermid - Beneath the Bleeding Val McDermid - Killing The Shadows Patricia Scanlan – Foreign Affairs Patricia Scanlan – Mirror, Mirror Jenny Colgan – Do you remember the first time? Mary A Larkin – A Matter of Trust Anne Rice – Blood and Gold Marian Keyes – The Other Side of the Story Marian Keyes – Last Chance Saloon Marian Keyes – Sushi for Beginners Marian Keyes – The Charming Man Sinead Moriaty – In My Sisters Shoes (started) Janet Evanovich – Metro Girl Janet Evanovich – Full House Jonathan Kellerman – When The Bough Breaks Shaun Hutson – Lucy’s Child Shaun Hutson – Heathen Cathy Kelly – Someone Like You Cathy Kelly – Lessons in Heartbreak Virginia Andrews – Into the Garden Virginia Andrews – Pearl in the Mist Virginia Andrews – Broken Wings Virginia Andrews – Fallen Hearts Virginia Andrews – Darkest Hour Virginia Andrews – Hidden Leaves Virginia Andrews – Into the Woods Virginia Andrews – Wicked Forest Melissa Hill - All Because Of You James Patterson - Hide and Seek Stephen King - The Cell Michael Cordy - The Crime Code Jane Green - The Beach House Amanda Brunker - Champagne Kisses Dinah Lampitt - Sutton Place Dinah Lampitt - The Silver Swan Dinah Lampitt - Fortune's Soldier Catherine Cookson - A Ruthless Need Catherine Cookson - The Obsession Catherine Cookson - The Solace of Sin Catherine Cookson - Kate Hannigan's Girl Catherine Cookson - The Silent Lady Sheila O'Flanagan - Bad Behaviour Clive Cussier - Lost City The Classics Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda Bram Stoker - Dracula Captain Marryat - The Children of the New Forest Charles Dickens - The Christmas Books (A Christmas Carol|The Chimes|The Cricket on the Hearth) Charles Dickens - Hard Times Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities Charles & Mary Lamb - Tales from Shakespeare E. Nesbit - The Railway Children Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden George Eliot - Silas Marner Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen - Persuasion Kate Douglas Wiggin - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island Total = 57

Previous reading lists: 2009 Books bought in 2010: 13 Currently reading: Silhouette in Scarlet ~ Elizabeth Peters / Heretic's Daughter December (2) 38. Heretic's Daughter ~ Kathleen Kent 3/5 37. Dead in the Family ~ Charlaine Harris November (4) 36. Undead and Uneasy ~ Mary Janice Davidson 35. Undead and Unpopluar ~ Mary Janice Davidson 34. Undead and Unreturnable ~ Mary Janice Davidson 33. Undead and Unappreciated ~ Mary Janice Davidson October (2) 32. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella ~Stephenie Meyer 31. Visions of Sugar Plum ~ Janet Evanovich September (2) 30. Sleeping with the Fishes ~ MaryJanice Davidson 29. Jack and Jill ~ James Patterson August (2) 28. Best Laid Plans ~ Mary Larkin 4/5 27. Broken ~ Karin Slaughter 5/5 July (2) 26. Genesis ~ Karin Slaughter 4.5/5 25. Undead and Unemployed ~Mary Janice Davidson 4/5 June (4) 24. The Birthing House ~ Christopher Ransom 3/5 23. Undead and Unwed ~ Mary Janice Davidson 4/5 22. Kiss The Girls ~ James Patterson 5/5 21. Bitten ~ Kelley Armstrong 4/5 May (4) 20. Dead and Gone ~ Charlaine Harris 4.5/5 19. Skin Privilege ~ Karin Slaughter 5/5 18. From Dead to Worse ~ Charlaine Harris 4/5 17. Midnight Alley ~ Rachel Caine 4/5 April(2) 16. All Together Dead ~ Charlaine Harris 4/5 15. Faithless ~ Karin Slaughter 5/5 March(5) 14. Definitely Dead ~ Charlaine Harris 4/5 13. Dead as a Doornail ~ Charlaine Harris 2.5/5 12. Dead to the World ~ Charlaine Harris 3.5/5 11. Indelible ~ Karin Slaughter 5/5 10. A Faint Cold Fear ~ Karin Slaughter 5/5 February (7) 9. The Eyre Affair ~ Jasper Fforde 5/5 8. The Lovely Bones ~ Alice Sebold 4/5 7. The Five People You Meet in Heaven ~ Mitch Albom 5/5 6. My Sister's Keeper ~ Jodi Picoult 5/5 5. Finger Lickin' Fifteen ~ Janet Evanovich 3/5 4. Fearless Fourteen ~ Janet Evanovich 5/5 3. Norwegian Wood ~ Haruki Murakami 2/5 January (2) 2. Untamed ~ PC & Kristin Cast 4.5/5 1. Chosen ~ PC & Kristin Cast 4/5 Abandoned Books (1) A Scanner Darkly ~ Philip K Dick

I see you are reading Amanda Grange's Mr Darcy Vampyre! I read Mr Darcy's Diary by the same author and found out she had one with him being a vampire. I couldn't believe it! So I am really looking forward to your review on this one CW.

I have heard about these books and I heard they are better than the Sookie books...will put them in my Wishlist...thx for the review CW.

Well, I haven't been around in the passed month or so but I have read 5 books since and I will have a review done on all of them this weekend.

Synopsis: During the last few months, former bounty-hunter Rachel Morgan has been rather busy. Having escaped relatively unscathed from her corrupt former employers, she's not only acquired a vampiric room-mate called Ivy, faced werewolf assassins and battled shape-shifting demons, but has also found the time to pick up a boyfriend (even if he is only human) and open her very own runner agency. But, cohabiting with a vampire, however reformed, has its dangers. Ivy's evil vampire ex-boyfriend has decided that he wants her back, and views Rachel as a tasty side-dish. To make matters worse, Rachel's demon mark is the ultimate vamp-aphrodisiac; one that works both ways. The stakes are high, and if Rachel is to save herself and her room mate she must challenge the master vampire and confront the dark secrets she's kept hidden even from herself. I thought it was just the first book that took a while to get into but I found it hard to get into this book aswell. But again, 200 pages in and I was off, couldn't put the book down. In the second installment of the Hollow series, Rachel has to deal with Ivy's problems and also go a murder investigation for the FIB. I really enjoyed more than the first and is just because we get to know the characters more and how all there relationships mesh together. As I have said in my review of the first book, that there were questions unanswered. Well, we get some of those answers in the second book. Yet again, there is still a few more unanswered questions and I just can't wait to read the next book to see how all the relationships develop. I really hope that the third book I can get into quite quickly. Rating: 9/10

Synopsis: Rachel Morgan is a white witch and runner working for Inderland Security, in an alternate world where a bioengineered virus wiped out a great deal of the world's human population - exposing the existence of the supernatural communities that had long lived alongside humanity. For the last five years Rachel has been tracking down law-breaking Inderlanders in modern-day Cincinnati, but now she wants to leave and start her own agency. Her only problem is that no one quits the I.S. Marked for death, Rachel will have to fend off fairy assassins and homicidal weres armed with an assortment of nasty curses. She's a dead witch walking unless she can appease her former employers by exposing the city's most prominent citizen as a drug lord. But, making an enemy of the ambiguous Trent Kalamack is just as deadly as leaving the I.S. This is the first book in the Hollows series and as it says in the synopsis, this book involves a world of humans, vampires, witches, pixies, fairies, weres, troll, you name it, living among each other after the Turn forty years earlier. The Turn, is when a virus, carried via tomatoes wiped out most of humanity and then supernatural beings crawled out of the woodwork and lived openly with humans. This book was very hard to get into and for me it wasn't the first few chapters but it was for about 200 pages. I am glad I stuck with it though and the story picked up and I couldn't put the book down. The main character, Rachel Morgan is a white witch and is a runner for the I.S. When she decides to leave taking with her, her backup Jenks (a pixy) and the I.S. best runner Ivy (vampire), the I.S. put a price on her head for breaking her contract. Rachel runs into many troubles and it not only the I.S. wants her head on a plate. Rachel decides to prove that a well respect council man, Trent Kalamack is a bio drug lord to get the I.S. to pay off her contract. She also has the added pressure of living with a living blood sucker. Rachel is unlike her cool, sexy and sleek roomie, Ivy. Rachel is more careless and not as smooth when doing her runs but she also has Jenks as backup. Jenks is such a funny little character and I warmed to him instantly. Ok, besides the slow start, I really enjoyed this book. After reading I just couldn't wait to read the next one. The story doesn't just end at the end of this book. You know there is unanswered questions and you know you just have to read the series to find out more. Rating: 8.5/10 (I may have rated this higher if it wasn't a slow beginning)

I have just finished Kim Harrison's The Good, The Bad and The Undead and now I am going to start Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay.

Glad you liked New Moon CW, if you loved the "something that came out to jump at you" thing then you will definitely love the last book Breaking Dawn. I really can't remember much of Eclipse...does that say something? No, I seriously can't remember because Breaking Dawn was great and what a read!!!

Well, I got all 3 today and those 3 books from the library and that is not including the 5 library books I already have but I have read 2 of them. I have now to put them in number order of when I have to read them. :eek2:

Oh and a girl in work is lending me her Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who played with Fire and The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest. So I think I will have plenty to keep me going for a while...including my TBR list. Oh, it just gets bigger. :eek2:

I don't have much hardback to be honest. I know my library has Triptych and Fractured on shelf so might get them so that I am ready for...is it Genesis that has the Grant County characters and the characters in these books together? Well, I want to read those before I get there so I know a bit about them. After searching around on Fantasy Fiction, I have came across another author Natsuo Kirino who is another crime writer and my library has her "One" book so might get that too while waiting for Kisscut.

It's on loan out of my local library..going to have to wait until 21st!!! :eek2:

Thanks, as you know I don't see myself as a great reviewer and it was hard to give a review to this one without giving anything away. I just wanted to write about everything. :eek2: I know I didn't say much about the actual murders and the murderer but I hope that "everything clicking together" covered that. I get want you are saying with the characters staying with you. I have had that with other books and that to me only says its a good book. I am going to finish my other three library books then order Kisscut...actually I think I will just order it now.

Simply brillant! Now I know what all your fussing was about. Remember my lost mojo...it came back after I read that 4th page!! :eek2: By the way...I've done my review.

Well now I can say that I am a fan after reading my first book Karin Slaughter book, Blindsighted recommeded by CW. Thank you CW. I am now itching to read Kisscut!

Finished Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter yesterday and now reading Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison.