(Also in the "Worst" category -- what's so wrong with the cover of "Kink"? I'm not asking b/c of my own proclivities; it's just -- the book is *about kink*! Wouldn't flowers and bluebirds be a misleading cover? I thought the cover was perfectly appropriate and actually tasteful, given what it *could* have been.)
Yeah, that's not the one I voted for. I voted for "What She Craves," because A) I think it's an ugly image, and B) that book is Regency erotica, and I don't think it should be all that difficult to come up with an image that's both erotic and historical. My imagination is quite good at such combos, f'rinstance.
"Mommy For a Minute" was my second choice. Those smarmy facial expressions, that giant foam finger...
B) that book is Regency erotica
Dude, seriously?? Um, yeah. That cover does not reflect that.
See, I'd pick "It Happened One Wedding" (bad, cheesy airbrushing!) or possibly "Bustin'" (dorky!).
Bustin' was totally the worst! Although the one with the crazy smooshed breast implant almost got me.
Book lovers, I need hospital book reads. I'm looking for mysteries with good plots and interesting characters. Easy reads for my convalescence. To give you a sense of my tastes, I've read and loved all of Elizabeth George, the alphabet mysteries, the Mary Russell and other series by that author, most of Patricia Cornwall, Agatha Christie, and the series that became Bones, though I found the books dry compared to the TV show. Help a girl out?
the series that became Bones, though I found the books dry compared to the TV show
Which seems weirdly appropriate, considering (generalizations derived from TV show only) Brennan-as-author-avatar on her own isn't as interesting as Brennan surrounded by her cronies.
How about the books that became the series Wire In the Blood by Val McDermid? It's got a messed up university psychologist profiler who helps out the local gritty police chief.
Eileen Dreyer writes excellent murder mysteries. The early ones are pretty much all set in hospitals, and the later ones deal more with forensics. (Eileen was a burnt-out trauma nurse when she started writing romances in the mid-'80s, and then went back to school for her certificate in forensics about 7-8 years ago.) My favorite of hers is "Nothing Personal"--very dark humor that kept me giggling throughout and also made it a fave of my nurse mom and her fellow nursing friends.
Also, while on vacation I lent my mom my copy of Caleb Carr's "The Alienist" while I finally got around to reading its sequel, "Angel of Darkness." Both of these are fantastic if you haven't read them already.
In not-mystery recs, if you haven't read "The Time Traveler's Wife," well, why haven't you? Great read if a little dizzying in the different time streams.
Thanks! The Eileen Dreyer books sound good. Yes, I've read The Alienest and TTTW. Both good, though not as fluffy as I'm looking for now.
