Somebody talk me out of reading this one!
This is amazon's description for Dearly Beloved, a.k.a. 'even good authors like Putney occasionally lose their minds:'In 1799 Scotland, Gervase Brandelin, the victim of a sexually abusive mother, is...
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All of Lisa Kleypas books outside of her Wallflowers and Hathaways series usually leave me cold. Until now. Because I've just read Worth Any Price and I fell so so so in love with that book and its...
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There have been no posts lately because we are in Chile (currently in the Ataca desert) but I promise I am not dead.Posting will resume shortly. :)
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Hero, I know you have understandable issues related to your OTP, whom you loved angstily for 13 years.BUT.If you are making love to a woman who asked you to, and she tells you "I love you," I believe...
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Seeing that I am currently stuck in Santiago while the airline tries to hustle a new plane instead of the one which they had to cancel due to the pilot being sick, I have (sadly) plenty of time for...
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I normally confine my Spartacus flailing to tumblr, but just wanted to say that I have a brand-new, obsessive OTP, Gannicus/Sybil...They hit every shippy kink I didn't even know I had and I am sure...
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After a series of disappointments, I have finally found one I am loving to bits - Jo Beverley’s To Rescue a Rogue. Beverley is a hugely hit-or-miss author for me (My Lady Notorious is one of my...
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Lindsay Buroker, The Emperor's Edge - someone on my flist recced this and I cannot remember who, but thank you! This was a delight from beginning to end. A steampunk fantasy adventure, this is a mix of...
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I am currently reading Mary Jo Putney's Dancing In the Wind, which is set in 1814 and involves a spymaster with (unsurprising) trust issues and a heroine who is a master of manipulation and disguise...
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I am currently reading Jo Beverley's An Arranged Marriage and am loving it but OMG do I want to stab hero's brother's in the face! He rapes the heroine without realizing it (she is drugged and...
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I am about halfway into An Arranged Marriage and it is such an utter delight. I think it's going to be my favorite Beverley book by far. But then I often find that the author's earliest books are the...
View ArticleA duo of romance novels in which heroes (maybe?) kill their fathers - ummmm...
Those books have nothing in common except that one rather disturbing plot point. Well, that and the fact that I enjoyed both.Jackson Rule by Dinah McCall - I am not big on contemporary romances (gimme...
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I am reading the second book of The Emperor's Edge series and I want Amaranthe and Sicarius to hook up so badly it hurts. I mean, you know anyone else in the Universe would find either one of them too...
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Ok, so if Sicarius was 15 when Sespian was conceived, that makes him 34-35 now. One mystery solved.Though except in the unlikely event that the Empress was 16 or similar, the fact that she picked a...
View ArticleA bunch of awesomeness - Lee Min Ho and The Emperor's Edge, two topics with...
First off, Lee Min Ho is going to be in a new drama! Written by the writer of Secret Garden and A Gentleman's Dignity, two of my ultimate faves. EEEE!Have a MV for one of my all-time favorite secondary...
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OMG, Book3 was shipper heaven! When Sicarius told Amaranthe that "You're the only person who's ever wanted to give me happiness," I think I may have died!!!!And teasing and OMFG hugging. AND...
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"When you have recovered, and you are ready, come to me. I'll be waiting."- Sicarius to Amaranthe in Blood and Betrayal. !!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEE! I may or may not have screamed.OK, reading about...
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So, I went to see The Host because I am fond of both post-apocalyptic set ups and cheesy make outs. OMFG was this movie boring. It was so boring that at one point I started counting the light fixtures....
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Yes, I realize that by now my flist collectively groans when I talk about The Emperor's Edge but...The novella set after Book 5 = love love love love!!!!* Yara/Maldynado = total love. They are so...
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I am talking about Laura Kinsale's Shadowheart. Set in the High Middle Ages, the book revolves around Elena, the heiress presumptive to the rule of Monteverde, a fictional Italian principality, and...
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