Does anyone want my copy of Obsidian Butterfly? Paperback? I tried to re-read it, and even that one is unreadable to me. There's too much good fic out there to waste time on that stuff.

From the sounds of things, I'd better get my eye-rolling exercises underway so I don't sprain anything when the time comes.

Definitely. Though I'm *almost* looking forward to the next one, given how ridiculously bad the preview chapter was.

Though I'm *almost* looking forward to the next one, given how ridiculously bad the preview chapter was.

That's what keeps me reading (ok, skip and skimming). Well, that and my fondness for Jason. It's kind of telling that the emotionally healthiest character in the series is a porn-star/stripper werewolf.

Micah was sitting on the new book display at the library last night - and it was a rough night at the library. I wanted some light reading. But I wanted to get lost in the book , not role my eyes. So I picked up Forever by jude Devereaux ( or howevr you spell her name). guess who is trapped in an eye-rolling book. I think I was lied to about the nature of our heroine. That pisses me off.

I have to confess that probably my biggest guilty pleasure romance is Sweet Liar by Deveraux. It has one of the more annoying heroines possible, hits just about every cliche that would drive me up the wall if it was reality, but I just love the makeover scene when she gets dragged kicking and screaming into Saks Fifth Avenue and comes out absolutely fabulous. If I were thinking objectively, I'd give it 1 1/2 to 2 stars (out of 5), but I keep it on my bookshelf and reread it occasionally.

The best Deveraux is A Knight in Shining Armor, a great time travel to Elizabethan England.

Sweet Liar is my favorite and I even tried writing a musical based on the Maxie part of the book.

BWAH!

I love the scene where the hero condescendingly tells the heroine that she can buy whatever she wants in Barnes and Noble for the nursing home, expecting her to pick up a few books and magazines. Instead, she ends up recruiting everyone in the store to help her drag just about the entire contents of the store up to the registers and smiles at his flabbergasted face smugly.

I love the whole damn book.

Every stupid line of it.

I need a new copy.

Hee! I was reading the entry for Sweet Liar at Amazon, and boy do the official reviewers have a hate-on for the book (Kirkus calls "super-dumb and super-tedious, and Publishers Weekly says its "highly improbable story line, overloaded with convoluted plots and subplots, will discourage even the most die-hard romance fan"). But, it has an overall customer rating of 4 1/2 stars!

I think Sweet Liar was the first romance I read. (I "borrowed" it from my older sister -- I was maybe 11 or so.)

If I were thinking objectively, I'd give it 1 1/2 to 2 stars (out of 5), but I keep it on my bookshelf and reread it occasionally.

Same here. (Actually, I'm nearly certain the copy I have on my bookshelf is my sister's copy, which I still haven't returned. I think that, after 15 years, I can claim it as mine.)