Kathy, yep, I have read those, and found them fun...which made some of Joy's later works surprisingly...er, awful.
ITA! I really think that the legal conflicts took her writing mojo out of her. Too bad, because those books are great.
For straight historical romance, have you ever read Loretta Chase? She hasn't written too many books, but those she has are really wonderful. I think Lord of Scoundrels is one of the best romances of the past 20 years, and the sequel, The Last Hellion is almost as great.
I know the name, but I haven't read her. I see if she's at the lib.
I like Liu, Kresley Cole, and I laugh but still read Ward.
I have every vinyl album the more-or-less original Kingston Trio made, and I played them so often that I think I wore the grooves into my brain. I don't have enough of them in digital form, although I don't really need them, since I'm pretty much a Kingston Trio playback device. When I was a kid, my best friend's father saw them at a club on a business trip and brought back an album. We became obsessed. This is why I missed the British invasion but can give a stirring rendition of "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm."
Has anyone else read
The Monsters of Templeton?
This is why I missed the British invasion but can give a stirring rendition of "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm."
"Carrier Pigeon" was my favorite from that album.
Oh, Erin (and Kathy! and meara!) I can also rec my friend Gayle Callen's romances. She writes historical for Avon, and they're ... Regency period, I believe.
Has anyone else read The Monsters of Templeton?
No, but I would like to. It's on my list.
Monsters of Templeton
actually fills me with rage! I don't understand why it was on some people's best books of 2008 lists. It was a mess! And not a particularly fun one. And certainly not a well-written one.
Uh, maybe it shouldn't be on my list then ...
Uh, maybe it shouldn't be on my list then ...
haha, well, I'm a pretty critical reader (of novels especially). But, none of the characters felt real to me and there was information withheld that changed the whole story at the end in a really artificial way. It doesn't drag though, I'll give it that, I was compelled to read to the end.
I'd be interested to hear your take on it. And it was on several Best Books list so maybe it's just my taste? My boyfriend also hated it, though. We actually read it for our bookclub (members: me and him!).
A friend pressed it on me, and I did like it, except that the monster made no sense, even metaphorically. It felt like she had this vision of a monster in the lake and she wrote the book around it, but when she was done writing, she should have thrown the monster out. Also, for the end to make sense, we should have known more about the running boys. I couldn't tell them apart.
