Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The Laughing Corpse ~ Laurell Hamilton

More in my 'comfort reading' kick. Hopefully I will find something new to read soon.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Guilty Pleasures ~ Laurell Hamilton

I have been really busy, and kinda stressful, I was really just in the mood for a 'comfort read' and The Anita Blake series is one of my favorites.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Force of Nature ~ Suzanne Brockmann

This is the eleventh book in the Troubleshooters series. Jules Cassidy is an FBI agent in the Anti terrorism unit, and one of the unit has disappeared on assignment, Jules is headed to Florida to investigate. Rick Alverado is an ex-Sarasota police officer, now private investigator, he and his new receptionist / assistant, Annie, become involved with the investigation that Jules is on. At the same time, Robin Chadwick, who Jules has been avoiding for the last two years, happens to be in town, and runs into Jules, and manages to become involved in the investigation also. Can they all manage to survive the trouble headed their way?

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Dark Highlander ~ Karen Marie Moning

This is the fifth book in the Highlander series. Deagus McKelter broke the compact with the fearie, he used the standing stones to go back in time and save his brother's life, and now the spirits of thirteen evil druids are trying to take him over. One day Chloe Zanders walks into his New York penthouse to deliver an ancient text to him, and he knows he can never let her go, but also can not offer her a future unless he figures out how to rid himself of the evil druids.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

Kiss of the Highlander ~ Karen Marie Moning

This is the fourth book in the Highlander series. Gwen is on a Scotland vacation when circumstances lead her to fall into a cave, where what should she find, but a highlander who appears to be sleeping. The sleeping highlander is Drusten McKelter, who was enchanted, and has been asleep in the cave for 500 years. Now he must figure out exactly how to get back to his time and safe his family and the secrets they guard.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Highlanders Touch ~ Karen Marie Moning

This is the third book in the Highlander series. Circenn Brodie is a highland laird, who has been entrusted by the faerie to guard the hallows. One of them goes missing, and Circenn curses it so that the first human hand to touch it will bring it, and the person who touched it, back to him. Lisa is a young woman who is working hard to take care of her dying mother, when one day she comes across a silver flask, which she was compelled to touch, and it instantly transported her over 600 years into the past. To Scotland in the time of Robert the Bruce. Can Lisa find her way home to her mother? Will she ever forgive Circenn for dragging her from her mother?

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Tame a Highland Warrior ~ Karen Marie Moning

This is book two in the Highlander series. Grimm has been summoned by his foster father to take care of Jillian in his foster father's absence. Jillian was thrilled to see Grimm, though she couldnt let him see that, or she would only be in for more nasty treatment. But Jillian decides that Grimm is the man for her, and pursues him as such...

Friday, September 21, 2007

Beyond the Highland Mist ~ Karen Marie Moning

This is the first book in the Highlander series. Adrienne is a modern woman, living in 1997, when suddenly she finds herself sitting in the lap of a man in 1513. She is soon informed that she will be married the next day. Sidheach Douglas is Laird of the Douglas clan... in 1513, and is known far and wide, as a ladies man. Can the two of them come to terms?

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Tanner's Scheme ~ Lora Leigh

This is the seventh book in the Breed's series. ** Warning, this book is Erotica, and is very explicit in language and content. **Scheme Tallent is the daughter of the man in charge of the Genetics Counsel, who is responsible for the creation, and subsequent torture and deaths of many Breed's. Tanner is the Public Relations Op. for the Breed's. and has been watching Scheme for years. Now he finally has an opportunity to make a move on her!

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The White Dragon ~ Anne McCaffrey

This is the fifth book in the Pern series. This book takes place at the same time as the previous four books together, plus more. It tells the story of Jaxom, the baby who was born to rule Ruatha, Lessa's home hold. How he grew, and accidentally impressed a dragon, trained and flew his dragon and what the two went on to do until Jaxom was confirmed the Lord Holder of Ruatha.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Dragon Singer ~ Anne McCaffrey

This is the fourth in the Pern series. This book takes up exactly where the last one left off. With Menolly going to the Harper Hall. In the Hall, Menolly is tested, and treated as though she is welcomed, Menolly is not used to this type of treatment and is somewhat lost at first. She soon learns that not only is her music and 'tunings' accepted, but expected and praised. Soon Menolly finds friends, and her place in the Harper Hall.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

DragonSong ~ Anne McCaffrey

this is the third book in the Pern series. It takes place during Dragon Quest, just from a different perspective. Menolly is a girl who was raised in a conservative sea hold, who wants nothing more than to make music. Unfortunately, the rest of her hold believes that harpering is for men, not women, and are afraid she will disgrace the hold. Then Menolly is injured, and it appears she will never be able to play an instrument again. not all that long after her injury heals, Menolly leaves the hold, and the hold is reluctant to raise a search for a girl who may or may not have survived Thread fall, and is a disgrace anyway. Menolly learns to live on her own, evading thread, and thriving, until she is found by a dragon man, and taken to Bendon Wyer.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Dragon Quest ~ Anne McCaffrey

This is the second book in the Pern series. It has been several years since Lessa went back in time to bring forward the wyers of dragons to fight thread. Now there are troubles with those dragonmen. They are having a hard time adjusting to modern times and practices. And on top of that, even more seems to be changing, and Thread is not keeping to the pattern that had been worked out. Now F'lar and Lessa need to determine what must be done now.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Dragon Flight ~ Anne McCaffrey

This is the first book in the Pern series. Lessa is the last of the Ruathan blood. She has spent the last ten years hiding from the man who invaded her home, and killed all her family in a plot to take over their hold. F'lar is a dragonman, he is on search, looking for youngwomen who are likely to bond with the queen egg that is now sitting on the hatching grounds. Through a twist of fate, and with some pushing from Lessa, she has lost her family home, but has gained an entirely new life... but now Thread are coming, and they have no where near enough dragons to fight. There has to be some solution to the problem, but will they find it in time?

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Dark Possession ~ Christine Feehan

this is the eighteenth book in the Carpathian series. Manuel De La Cruz is a Carpathian, who has lived for a millennium never really believing that he would find his life mate. Now he has been gravely injured saving a woman, and he finally finds her. MaryAnn Delaney is a counselor who treats traumatized women, who has agreed to come to South America to treat Jasmine, a Jaguar who has been abused by the men of her species. Believing Manuel to be dead she has fallen into depression, and really can't figure out why. Once Manuel rises and is reunited with MaryAnn, they determine that there are other forces behind what is going on.

No Humans Involved ~ Kelley Armstrong

this is the sixth book in the Women of the Underworld Series. Jaime Vegas is a spiritualist, at least to the general public, to the preternatural world, and in reality, she is a Necromancer, she is able to communicate with and raise the dead. Now she has moved into a house in Brentwood, planning on making a television special about what she does, publicly, when suddenly there is more to the situation than there appears to be!

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Innocent as Sin ~ Elizabeth Lowell

This is the second book in the St. Kilda's series. Kayla has been framed for money laundering and is trying to figure out how to get her life back. Rand is hiding in his art from a past that haunts him, and Joe Faroe comes to him to convince him to work for St. Kilda in an effort to capture the man responsible for what is haunting Rand. Can Rand manage to keep Kayla alive, and get them both out of the mess that has developed?

Undead and Uneasy ~ Maryjanice Davidson

This is the sixth book in the Queen Betsy series. Betsy is planning her wedding, and less than two weeks before she is to be married, her father and his wife are killed in a car accident, and her fiance, as well as all her house mates, disappear. she is left to deal with some very strange happenings, and can't figure out where everyone has gone, and why she is having to go through everything alone.

Sunday, September 02, 2007

The Devil who Tamed Her ~ Johanna Lindsey

Ophelia is the most beautiful woman in London, and the meanest as well. And she makes the most out of both. Until Rafael comes along and is determined to make her see how miserable she is making herself, and to teach her how to be happy.