I hate it when I mention something  I want and then find out it doesn’t happen…ah well…it’s only a book by one author….I guess I was hoping for a really good, steamy, historical for May. I’ll have to see what else is out there.

That’s usually the phrase I have going in my head after I read a book by an author  I like, but maybe don’t like as much as I used to. A good sign that an author is fading in my mind is when I read her latest book and forget the title.

Case in point, the recent Gaelen Foley ( who I often get the spelling of her name wrong, but I made the extra effort to look up for this post since I’m feeling a little guilty). See, I usually like Foley books, but the last few have been a little too purple prose for me, a little too overly dramatic in places that shouldn’t be. Her latest, and unfortunately I’m too lazy to look up the book name, was just….okay. (for me anyway).

Georgiana Knight was sometimes a bit TSTL in the first half of the book, but I liked the setting. I was a bit put off when the author changed the setting and went to England. What was a bit ironic to me what that I wasn’t a big fan of the heroine in the first half, and liked the hero more, but then when they got to England, I liked Georgiana more than I liked Ian.

Another little quip I have is the sex in the book. The author goes in to plenty of detail for almost there but not quite all the way sex scenes, but when it comes down to the actual deed it’s barely there, and not even worked up to, and where’s the fun in that?Then it’s towards the way end (which isn’t really unusual for this author anyway, but I was hoping for something a little different).

It’s a readable book, but not one that I would say stands out over her others. I’d remember  the title better if it did. I think it would have been kind of fun if she’d had Georgi be a little edgier, and flirty. For someone who has read the Kama Sutra and liked it, you think she would have had some experimentation in her past. In the end, she wasn’t much different than her previous heroines, and neither was Ian as a hero.

 Looking forward to Lisa Valdez, supposedly in May. Her website isn’t updated, but Amazon still has the book set for May….and I don’t want to hear it if she’s pushed off the date again….don’t spoil my party.

I’m back and forth on Ice Blue, the latest in the Ice themed books by Anne Stuart. I like many parts of it, but dislike many others. I kind of get the feeling that she likes to put her heroines through hell in all her books.lol. Taka is definitely a hero to remember. Not so sure if Summer is anyone I would remember though. She’s kind of blagh.

I read the latest Nalini Singh (sp?). I liked it, she’s a new to me author, so I may look up her back list.

 Other than that, nothing. My life is one big boring mass of boringhoodness.

I did re-read Ride the Fire by Pamela Clare. I have to say, though, I liked Surrender better. But, I do seem to like RtF more each time I read it. I’m not a huge fan of her contemporaries. I tried them, and just didn’t find them very interesting. I’ll have to wait patiently for her next historical, since judging from her website, that could be some time.

Still waiting for Lisa Valdez…I know she had some personal stuff going on in the middle of writing Patience, but I’m looking forward to that one coming out. Last I heard was May…..maybe.

Went to the bar down the road from where I live last night. It’s a little place called Cowboys out in the middle of nowhere, and used to be a barn. I like to think of it as a redneck cheers. Did a little Karaoke. Didn’t drink though, so I was probably more of a downer than my friends wanted me to be. Hey, I’m saving money, I can’t afford to buy a bunch of drinks. Though, the bartender likes me and gave me a free mixed drink with peach schnapps and sprite. (jackpot).

What struck me as funny was when my friend told me I sang “Love Can Build a Bridge” wrong. ….This from a girl who when she sings “Amarillo by Morning” where it’s supposed to be “Bucking At the County Fair” makes it sound like “Fucking At the County Fair” when she’s drunk. Hm.