The author's been kicking around the romance world for a while. Which is fine, but I'm not sure the writing is necessarily going to be your thing. That said, I've not read her, so take that with a grain of salt. You'd probably think the series was pretty similar to Vampire Diaries, in entertainment value.
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Nov 24, 2011 8:17:08 am PST #16905 of 28286
Because books.
sj - Nov 24, 2011 8:23:23 am PST #16906 of 28286
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I think Deena recommended that author to me at one point, but I haven't read them myself.
P.M. Marc - Nov 24, 2011 9:44:07 am PST #16907 of 28286
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My mom is now reading The Hunger Games. She finished the first book, and actually made my dad come out in the rain last night to get Catching Fire. Heh.
I high-five your mom.
Oh! Hey! Guess what I bought for my Kindle yesterday, Amy, and then was REALLY GLAD I HAD when I got stuck in the world's longest pedicure wait (mmm, prunetoes). Yes, I now have Cold Kiss in book AND electronic format.
Amy - Nov 24, 2011 9:53:32 am PST #16908 of 28286
Because books.
Aw! Yay!
Not the prunetoes, though.
Atropa - Nov 24, 2011 9:54:20 am PST #16909 of 28286
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Has anyone read Dante Valentine?
I read them. They're fun but I didn't feel the need to keep the books, y'know? Also, it is NOTHING like Vampire Diaries. The Dante Valentine series has more in common with the Kim Harrison books, with some SF thrown in. The worldbuilding is fun, but the characters didn't set up house in my brain.
P.M. Marc - Nov 24, 2011 9:57:22 am PST #16910 of 28286
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Amy, I was there long enough to re-read the WHOLE BOOK.
But, you know, the massage was nice, and I have no objections to soaking my feet in hot water for an extended period.
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2011 10:48:29 am PST #16911 of 28286
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They're fun but I didn't feel the need to keep the books, y'know?
1-5 are for sale in Nook format for $9.99 total. Worth it, you think? For a chronic TBRer? God, I'm awful.
The Dante Valentine series has more in common with the Kim Harrison books
Okay, so now I have to ask--what are the Kim Harrison books?
Why am I in this thread again? I swear, if it weren't for The Hunger Games I'd have nothing in common with y'all.
Atropa - Nov 24, 2011 10:58:09 am PST #16912 of 28286
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, that price is worth it. They're good popcorn books.
Okay, so now I have to ask--what are the Kim Harrison books?
The Dead Witch Walking series. Which are my usual go-to popcorn paranormal urban fantasy books.
Oh, I know how to explain the Dante Valentine books! Early Anita Blake (when there was a plot), but grittier and more violent, and in a vaguely SF/near future setting.
Strix - Nov 25, 2011 2:17:46 pm PST #16913 of 28286
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think you'd like the Dante Valentine books, ita ! Popcorn with grit.
I also like Harrison, quite a lot. She gets stuck sometime.
DavidS - Nov 28, 2011 6:35:27 am PST #16914 of 28286
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You know what's good reading?
The syllabus for the literature class that David Foster Wallace taught.
I particularly like the bits on class participation, Presentation of the papers (I'm not sure why I like that part except that I sense a writer's satisfaction with a finished MS along with a professor's need to be able to read it easily), the actual works to be read (he liked to teach Silence of the Lambs) and the Caveat Emptor at the end:
"If you are used to whipping off papers the night before they’re due, running them quickly through the computer’s Spellchecker, handing them in full of high-school errors and sentences that make no sense and having the professor accept them ‘because the ideas are good’ or something, please be informed that I draw no distinction between the quality of one’s ideas and the quality of those ideas’ verbal expression, and I will not accept sloppy, rough-draftish, or semiliterate college writing. Again, I am absolutely not kidding.”"