Brief booky ruminations

It's been hectically busy at work. But the beat goes on, reading-wise. In no particular order:

1. Jill Sorenson sent me Sea Lord by Virginia Kantra, a selkie shapeshifting book. It was actually ok, but I struggled a little with the whole... turning into a seal thing. Seals aren't quite as, well, sexy as wolves:

Her limbs shortened and fused. Her body thickened. Panic closed her throat. She couldn't.... She must. She struggled forward, wallowing in the surf, ungainly and powerful.

The corn maiden was good though, and sent me to my bookshelf to read Feathertop by Nathaniel Hawthorne again.

2. Following on from my last post, my first Anne Stuart book arrived, a Regency: The Devil's Waltz. It was a very enjoyable B, and has left me keen to read more Stuart. The most notable thing was the hero's cheerful amorality, in fact, downright immorality. He's really quite a bad 'un yet somehow appealing. My one gripe? The heroine confesses her love for the hero in a rather lowering manner and then the hero doesn't really 'make that good' by the end. Funnily enough though, I find as I get older that I am less concerned by these sorts of 'gaps' (perhaps I read more into the text? Perhaps I just see things less in a tit-for-tat way now). This merits a longer post of its own and maybe I'll write it when I have more time.

3. I'm currently reading Penniless and Purchased by Julia James, an author who is like crack for me. It's .... really quite extraordinary. I am going resist the temptation to review it.

4. I've got a whole pile of books I've read first chapters on and got no further. I need to go back to these books. They are not DNFs. For the most part I've enjoyed the first chapters but just felt like reading something else at the time.

5. Janet Webb sent me Something About You by Julie James. Having said on someone's blog (Promantica I think) I had no desire to read it, I'm forced to eat my words. I enjoyed it. It was a good solid read and the misunderstanding between the H/H was rational and believable.

6. Janet also sent me Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare. I've been enjoying it so far, despite finding the heroine a bit irritating (headstrong, heedless, gets into trouble regularly - not my type really). I've put it aside till I'm finished with the roller coaster ride that is Penniless and Purchased.

I hope your reading adventures are going well.