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Apr 13th 2011 - Christina Dodd'south Simply the Way You Are
Synopsis: When Hope Prescott's parents disappeared, her carefree 
teenage life vanished forever. She and her three siblings were separated and sent to dissimilar foster homes around the country. At present, seven years afterwards, Hope is nonetheless searching for them. To support herself, she works for an answering service, and cares for her clients every bit if they were family. When wealthy man of affairs Zachariah Givens hires Promise's service, Hope initially mistakes Zack for his butler. Tired of being coddled and flattered because of his money, Zack is charmed past Hope's candor, not to mention her sexy voice, and keeps upward the charade. As their friendship turns into passion, Zack is determined to have her, even if that means the unthinkable - marriage. But when Hope discovers his deception, Zack knows he must solve the mystery that haunts Promise's past in order to convince her that their futures prevarication together....
: The magnate with moolah looking for true love while in disguise is non a new plot device, however this is an entertaining, well written story. Dodd is always splendid at developing secondary characters which is the instance here. Ina assures us that this series (yeah this is the get-go in a series) is one of her weakest, possibly because it was Dodd'due south first attempt at gimmicky romance only to stick with her equally the follow on series featuring four brothers (Fortune Hunters) - one of them Gabriel - is everything you could wish it to be - funny, swell plots, well written and characters you but want to keep reading about. Leonie, Madeline and I, all new to Dodd, volition carry on with the series. For those of you lot who like a light easy read that raises the occasional chuckle, then this is or yous.
Attended By: Ina, Leonie, Debra, Tanya - and Madeline in spirit if not trunk, thank y'all for your review.
March 23rd 2011 - Katia Lief's You Are Adjacent
Synopsis: He took everything . . . so came dorsum for more.
Former Detective Karin Schaeffer has goose egg left to live for after serial killer Martin Toll destroys all she holds dear. Known as The Domino Killer because he leaves dominoes as a clue to his adjacent victim, Toll doesn't cease until an entire family is destroyed. Even when he's locked away in prison, the shadow he casts over Karin'south life keeps her in constant darkness.
And so a policeman brings news to her door: Cost has escaped. Karin knows where he's headed considering of the message he left behind last fourth dimension, scrawled in blood, on her bathroom mirror - You lot are adjacent.
Merely Karin Schaeffer refuses to run and hide. She feels no fear and has nothing left to lose. So she waits. She won't stand by and permit Cost harm whatsoever more than of her family. And she won't rest until she'due south put him dorsum backside bars forever . . . or until ane of them is expressionless.
: This book was a slight deviation for the grouping as information technology is not a romance and information technology was in the first person which some of the group dislike. This book is very much the story of Karin, the central protagonist, and her journey back from the grief she has allowed to isolate her from everyone and everything effectually her. The early scene of suicide by series killer seemed to badger some every bit information technology made Karin's graphic symbol appear weak. The grapheme appeared often to be self-indulgent and the story-line seemed to be more about Karin's emotional upheaval with a plot loosely thrown in to hold everything together. This was not a scary thriller, the center of the volume seemed to wander and we had struggled to finish it. The plot seemed to get a bit lose and so the author quickly pulled the loose strings togetehr - the killer is in jail but the volume isn't finished, quick get an accomplice, autumn in dear, and solve the criminal offense. The end was a bit not bad and trite and none of us feel inclined to try another book by this writer.
Attended By: Ina, Leonie, Debra, Madeline and Tanya
February 16th 2011 - Christina Henry'due south Black Wings
Synopsis: As an Agent of Death, Madeline Black is responsible for 
escorting the souls of the dearly departed to the afterlife. Information technology'due south a 24/7 task with a lousy benefits package.
Maddy'southward position may come with magical powers and an impressive wingspan, only it doesn't pay the bills. And then at that place are her infuriating dominate, tenant woes, and a cranky, popcorn-loving gargoyle to contend with.
Things showtime looking up, though, when tall, night, and handsome Gabriel Angeloscuro agrees to rent the empty apartment in Maddy'south building. It'southward probably merely a coincidence that every bit before long every bit he moves in demons announced on the front lawn. But when an unholy monster is unleashed upon the streets of Chicago, Maddy discovers powers she never knew she possessed. Powers linked to a family legacy of tarnished halos.
Powers that place her direct between the light of Heaven and the fires of Hell...
: This book engages from the first and holds you lot. Who cannot relate to a heroine that may have magical powers but faces mountains of paperwork - in triplicate - with each death and has a pain of a boss. I always knew that life - or rather decease - would exist invaded past bureaucracy. Leonie says "No sexual practice, great. She writes fantastically nigh an everyday person that holds you from beginning to end". Tanya says "This actually flows. It's not as in depth every bit Nalini Singh's Affections serial but I read it and enjoyed it so much I immediately wanted to read it again". Equally for the lack of sex (which made for a great story instead of sex scenes with a bit of plot holding them together) there was one scene that bought a snigger when Gabriel gets his happy while Madeline blacks out. Bummer. JB, the boss, who may exist proficient looking just the whole control freak bureaucrat is enough to turn any sane adult female off, including our heroine Maddy. But then who needs a man when you have Beezle - we all want one. Every girl should have a gargoyle. So when a gargoyle says he's a handsome devil - become literal babe!
The more than we discussed this volume the more it became apparent Christina Harris is touching on some pretty deep problems - the perception of a simply and forgiving god - or perhaps we had just had as well much bubbly! However it was universally agreed (Madeline is away in Thailand this month) that this was an enjoyable read from start to end. As this is Ms Henry's first book we hold high hopes for her and we have all ordered the 2d book due at the terminate of July 2011.
Attended By: First in that location were 6 - but Madeline ran off to Thailand for a wedding, then we were 5 - but then Beverley went to the picture palace, then nosotros were iv - just Debra was struck down with a stomach bug, so we were three - Ina, Leonie and Tanya Rock.
Location: We met for the first time at Leonie's workplace in the new St Botolph building. Well I thought my new office was nice only this was pure luxury - which is why we're going back next month. Food, drink, girlish chatter, our own meeting room with biscuits, coffee and orange juice. What more could yous ask for? A big thank yous Leonie, we'll be seeing you once more in March.
January 19th 2011No volume to talk over this time as we decided just to run across for a drink and gather. Nosotros met at The Betjeman Arms, Unit of measurement 53, St. Pancras International Station, Pancras Route, London, N1C 4QL. Information technology was like shooting fish in a barrel to notice, the dining room was lovely and quiet (the vibration from the trains every now and again was entertaining), comfy and they didn't mind if but some of you lot had something to eat. The nutrient was tasty and I tin can recommend the lemon curd tart although the combination of a strawberry sauce (which luckily Madeline had asked to exist kept separate) I didn't similar at all. I didn't like the service charge being added to the bill either, I recollect this is something you as the customer should determine. Would nosotros become back - yes we would.
15th December 2010 - Laura Bickle's Embers
Synopsis: Truth burns. Unemployment, despair, anger - visible and 
invisible unrest feed the undercurrent of Detroit's unease. A city increasingly invaded by phantoms at present faces a malevolent forcefulness that further stokes fear and chaos throughout the urban center. Anya Kalinczyk spends her days as an arson investigator with the Detroit Fire Department, and her nights pursuing malicious spirits with a team of eccentric ghost hunters. Anya - who is the rarest type of psychic medium, a Lantern - suspects a supernatural arsonist is setting blazes to summon a peppery ancient entity that will leave the city in cinders. By Devil's Night, the spell volition exist complete, unless Anya - with the assist of her salamander familiar and the paranormal investigating team - can stop information technology. Anya's accustomed to danger and believes herself inured to loneliness and loss. Merely this time she'due south risking everything: her city, her soul, and a human who sees and accepts her for everything she is. Keeping all three condom volition be the biggest challenge she'south ever faced.
: We chose Laura Bickles Embers because the main character had what we considered a 'real' task and we thought she might be an ordinary person that we could chronicle to. However, little did we know she needed counselling because of intimacy and commitment issues. So far then Anita Blake. Virtually of us have plenty of these in existent life - why do nosotros demand to read about it (disallowment those in good relationships)?
Some of us are tempted to buy volume ii while some members of the volume lodge who had read the book in November struggled to remember the main plot points. It was agreed that in that location had to be a volume two due to the hanging ending.
We all agreed that nosotros would similar a salamander - one of the better rounded characters - to proceed us warm. This was a story with lots going on but no cohesive plot.
Attended By:Ina, Madeline, Debra, Leonie, Beverley and Tanya Rock
Location: Nosotros met for the get-go time at a pub in Wells Street which is merely off Oxford Street chosen the Adam and Eve. Ina, Madeline & I (Tanya S) visited the pub final Saturday and it was quiet, lovely bar staff and surprisingly not very busy. Talk virtually the Jekyll and Hyde of pubs. It was heaving with people, so many people you had to program a detailed expedition earlier you tried going to the loo, it was baking hot, information technology was soooo loud - and really information technology had nothing to practise with our age - you had to shout to make yourself heard, the drink was overpriced, the nutrient not only overpriced only mediocre, the just positive thing to say about the experience - the bar staff were still lovely. As our first feel meeting in a pub, it was off-putting to say the least but nosotros still managed to have a good time and thats what counts. We will continue on in our search for the ideal meeting place - pubs, peoples places of work, coffee shops - anywhere we can find and any suggestions anyone has would be welcomed with open arms.
17th November 2010 - Dee Henderson'southward True Devotion
: Kelly Jacobs has already paid the ultimate price of loving a warrior; she has the folded flag and the grateful thank you of a nation to prove it. Navy SEAL Joe "Bear" Bakery can't enquire her to accept that risk once more - even though he loves her. Simply the man responsible for her husband'south death is back; closer than either of them realize. Kelly is in danger, and Joe may non go there in time. Uncommon Heroes: Welcome to a world where friendships go deep, loyalties stand strong, and uncommon heroes perform the toughest jobs in the globe. Dee Henderson'southward military romance series provides a detailed passage into the world of the military and homeland heroes, and those they love.
And Wanda Brunstetter's A Sister's Secret
Synopsis: Grace is the oldest sister in the Hostettler family unit. Having put
her rumschpringe (running around years) backside her, she has returned to Holmes County, joined the Amish church, and begun a new life. For the past four years, everything has been going adequately well, until the solar day she sees an English language human who knows plenty of her past to jeopardize her future. Will Gary Walker's passion for Grace destroy more than one life? Amish man Cleon Schrock is planning to marry Grace, but ignorant of her past. Will love and religion triumph over shame and deception in Holmes County?
: This calendar month we were inspired - yes that is considering we had the choice of i of 2 inspirational novels in our quest to cover all genres of romance. Dee Henderson's Truthful Devotion (NAVY) and Wanda Due east. Brunstetter's A Sisters Secret (AMISH). In that location was a flake of a poll with Ina and Madeline being the nigh vocal (no surprise at that place!) with Ina coming out with very inspired feelings, Madeline not then much. So lets hear it for the Amish over the Navy. Distressing, Wanda actually made God seem like it was part of the characters life as opposed to a stuck on afterthought. However what was universal was that all of us constitute them charming to read, stories that focused on people who were not about designer handbags, the latest fad or how they looked. Very uplifting stories that actually made yous feel good about the world. On a sorry notation - someone has displayed less than Christian behaviour past retaining the Amish volume. Oh dear!
3th October 2010 - Leslie Esdaile's Sister Got Game
Synopsis: Philadelphia newcomer Darien Jackson may be young, gifted, 
and beautiful, but she'south also maxed out on her credit cards, behind on her car payments, and unable to make the rent on her swanky flat. Worse, her older (less flashy) sisters turn down to bond her out fifty-fifty ane concluding fourth dimension. On the brilliant side - if you could telephone call it that - a yr-long dating dry spell has kept one expanse of her life drama gratuitous. And then a repo man arrives to tow abroad her Diamante - and Darien suddenly faces the tall, hard-body chocolate Adonis who'southward nigh to bulldoze away with her machine...and her center. Successful entrepreneur Maxwell Ferguson has came up the hard way via a large Georgia family and a life that is all business organisation and no pleasure...until one wait at foxy Darien knocks him on his fine backside. A flirty spendthrift, she'due south simply what he - and his disapproving family – don't desire for his wife. But Darien may just be what too-serious Maxwell needs to bring laughter to his days and passion to his nights. Practice they have a chance? But if love can change the odds, his kin, and her credit rating...
: Sister own't got game should be the name of Leslie Esdaile's atrocious work overloaded with clichés. Is this only reverse racism, not a unmarried white person in the volume - couldn't the waiter have been white. The central grapheme reels from being a tease that doesn't put out to being overcome with morals and simply soooo misunderstood but soooo brave in the face of lesser mortals who could non possibly sympathize how wonderful she really is. I feel a tour of Madeline's nephew projectile vomiting coming on simply rice cakes won't sort this one out. The only matter going for information technology is that Esdaile is even handed, as all her characters are galling. Madeline's pennyworth: I of the sub-plots evaporates without resolution. In such a short volume, keeping runway of the storylines shouldn't be such a problem. The simply positive detail nosotros could find to say about this volume is condom sex is mentioned and being caught naked by your housekeeper or any other member of the family did sound believable. Don't do it dear reader at the end you will be turned forever from blackness contemporary romance.
15th September 2010 - Alice Kimberly'south The Ghost and Mrs McClure
Synopsis: The beginning book in the Haunted Bookshop series, Penelope 
Thornton-McClure manages a Rhode Island bookshop rumoured to be haunted. When a bestselling author drops dead signing books, the first clue of foul play comes from the shop'south full-time ghost - a PI murdered on the very spot more than than 50 years agone. Is he a figment of Pen'southward overactive imagination? Or is the likable, fedora-wearing specter the simply hope Pen has to solve the crime?
: This calendar month's volume had united states of america torn. Some of us (Ina, Debra and the two Tanya'south) enjoyed information technology - others (Madeline) felt that the loose ends were frustrating. We enjoyed dissecting the technique used for the murder of injecting into a plastic bottle. Research revealed the following: A diabetic needle volition bend before it goes through the plastic; The nut extract is an oil and will therefore float and is a brown colour and therefore will crusade discolouration!!! The cat on the comprehend should exist GINGER not grey – why do publishers not ensure the artwork is correct on the cover?. There was a certain poignancy to the knowledge that the two main protagonists can never really be together. Ina carried on and read the other four books in the serial (at present) and said the characters develop nicely and the stories become meliorate and better.
18th August 2010 - Teresa Medeiros'due south Breath of Magic
Synopsis: Precocious Puritan and aspiring witch Arian Whitewood spends 
her lonely nights dreaming of magic and excitement. She gets more excitement than she bargains for when she crash lands straight out of a witch hunt into the 20th century and the arms of Tristan Lennox, a reclusive billionaire. Arian blows through Tristan'south climate-controlled existence like a jiff of magic, only to discover that the spell he weaves effectually her eye is more than compelling than any enchantment.
: This months choice was an oldie but a goody. Teresa Medeiros's Breath of Magic is a time travelling romance with several twists - and no I'm not going to tell you what they are, buy the book! But the real secret of fourth dimension travel is via computer technology in case you wonder but many of the twists relate to the characters and here is ane of Medeiros strengths, her characters even the secondary ones are likeable and you lot are really interested in what is going to happen to them. As for the honey scenes the general consensus is that this is deftly handled, suitable to the story and yay does not contain lessons in anatomy. But for all of you that think this sounds to good to be true and we have gone soft (nosotros oasis't slaughtered a book in months), Madeline didn't like information technology!
21 July 2010 - Nalini Singh'south Angel's Claret
Synopsis: Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she's the best - simply she 
doesn't know if she's good enough for this job. Hired by the dangerously cute Archangel Raphael, a beingness so lethal that no mortal wants his attending, only one thing is articulate - failure is not an option...even if the task is impossible.
Because this time, it's not a wayward vamp she has to track. It's an archangel gone bad.
The chore will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other - and pull her to the razor'south border of passion. Fifty-fifty if the hunt doesn't destroy her, succumbing to Raphael'southward seductive bear upon but may. For when archangels play, mortals break…
: For all you fans of stroppy blondes with snappy comebacks this is the i for you. Nalini Singh'southward Angels' Blood is a new twist on the flood and quickly becoming hackneyed sub genre of paranormal romance. Here she presents angels as an instance of absolute power corrupts absolutely. These are not cosy characters and I don't remember yous would want to take them habitation to mum but the story is complex plenty not to insult you while maintaining your interest to the end. Madeleine was amused by the snide play against Buffy - believe me Elena is tougher and smarter. Nigh of us (movement it Tanya) have already bought and read the next Elena and Raphael (what else would he be chosen) and eagerly await the supporting characters stories. Congratulations Nalini on an innovative and entertaining story.
16th June 2010 - Cindy Gerard's Show No Mercy
Synopsis: The sexy heroes of Black Ops, Inc., a covert private security 
team, sizzle in New York Times's bestselling author Cindy Gerard's electrifying new romantic suspense series.
THE SULTRY Heat... Just two things can compel journalist Jenna McMillan back to Buenos Aires afterwards terrorists held her captive at that place just months before: a rare interview with a shadowy billionaire and the retentivity of the dark and dangerous homo who saved her....
HIDES THE DEADLIEST THREATS... Bad guys, bombs, and bullets are Gabriel Jones's style of life. But he'll never forget the brash redhead he rescued non so long ago...or the passionate kiss they shared before he sent her packing....
AND EXPOSES THE DEEPEST DESIRES. Now, forced together past a bombing at the National Congress, Jenna and Gabe face up the urgent longings that simmer between them. But this surprise meeting is no coincidence. A ruthless enemy stalks them with deadly precision. The question is... if they go far out live, will Gabe turn his dorsum on Jenna...again?
Review: This month'south book was a special ops book, Cindy Gerard's Show No Mercy. Are we getting more than mellow in the group!!! We all enjoyed this; she seemed to have done her homework. Ina could verify the medical stuff, yep antibiotics do not gear up everything if yous are running effectually and not taking care of the wound, as for the weapons none of us could claim an expertise there but it all seemed pretty legit. It was agreed that it drove you to buy more of her books, which is always a good omen. We noted with interest that her sentences were quite short in contrast to Georgette Heyer who terminal month assumed that readers have a longer attention span than the average goldfish.
12th May 2010 - Any Georgette Heyer title
Review: This calendar month we were all tasked with reading whatever thing we wanted 
of the redoubtable Ms Heyer. The volume of work alone is daunting but no matter what nosotros read (except for Tanya who kept falling asleep on the train) we found them mannerly and enjoyable. Leonie is getting back into historicals subsequently reading hers! Then some other winner all around. Not a surprise every bit generations of readers continue coming back to her. Truthfully both Ina, and the 2 Tanyas initially struggled with the language but one time into the catamenia could not put them downwards (except for sleeping beauty). At piece of work Ina attempted to ameliorate her vocabulary thank you to Georgette and got the 'Ugh' look, the word vexed apparently no longer being in common employ. The lack of any discernable sex scenes was institute to be refreshing and the focus on plot equally opposed to being interrupted mid plot by tonsil hockey et.al was acclaimed by all to be a bonus and non missed at all. Please take note all authors – we want great stories, characters you think almost weeks if non months later, books you stop and immediately want the next one - non porn!
14th April 2010 - Lisa Kleypas's Smooth Talking Stranger
Synopsis: HE'S I Smooth TALKER
A billionaire playboy, and all-around ladies man, Jake Travis has a reputation equally large as the state of Texas. He drives besides fast, lives too difficult, and loves as well many women to count.
SHE'Due south ALL BUSINESS
In her advice cavalcade, and her love life, Ella Varner is e'er practical. And so when she's left holding her reckless sister'due south baby, she decides to ask Jake Travis to have a paternity test.
THE TIME FOR TALKING IS OVER. . . .
Ella is instantly struck by Jake'south bold good looks and easy charm - just she's non falling for his sweet talk. This big sexy tomcat needs to take responsibleness for his deportment, and Ella's making him stick to his give-and-take. Now if she can but ignore the unspoken attraction that smoulders betwixt them…
: Well the days are longer and bright and so is this book, brighter that is. Non a bad word to be said about this volume we all really enjoyed it. If you are looking for something that is a joy to read and a great de-stressor this is the one for yous. Ina and Madeline were already committed fans of this author (of class there had to be an statement of her historical vs. gimmicky but both dear all her stuff (except for the dodgy time travel one). The rest of the group all expressed a desire to read more of her works. A resounding success congratulations Lisa the outset book in the clubs history that got a unanimous thumbs up.
March 2010 - Linnea Sinclair's Gabriel's Ghost
Synopsis: After a decade of piloting interstellar patrol ships, one-time 
helm Chasidah Bergren, onetime pride of the Sixth Fleet, finds herself courtroom-martialed for a law-breaking she didn't commit - and shipped off to a remote prison house planet from which no one ever escapes. Merely when she kills a brutal guard in an act of self-defense, someone even more unsafe emerges from the shadows.
Gabriel Sullivan - blastoff mercenary, smuggler, and rogue -is supposed to be expressionless. Yet at present this seductive ghost from Chaz's past is offering her a ticket to freedom - for a price. Someone in the Empire is secretly breeding jukors: cruel and uncontrollable killing machines that accept long been outlawed. Gabriel needs Chaz to assistance him stop the practise earlier it decimates Imperial space. The mission ways putting their lives on the line - but the tensions that heat up between them may be the riskiest part of all.
: It was a relief to notice that on this St Patrick'due south 24-hour interval we had managed to option a book with a green embrace and more than cleverness yes, prepared to be shocked folks we quite liked this one! Most of us struggled to get through the first capacity just having finished it we all felt that information technology was worth the endeavour. Rather a lot of time on spaceship mechanics (not something we felt nosotros would ever use but hey who knows) and could do with more character development. We spent the entire book getting told how tortured Sully is and that he is very obviously hiding something. Then in a rather rushed end information technology all comes out and there is talk of the bonding between Sully and Chas that could mean his death if broken?
It is also very evident that Linnea is attempting to suck us into buying all the remainder of the series. Sorry Linnea most of usa merely find that annoying. Please take annotation of this authors you are just exasperating us. You can write a series and have each stand lone equally good stories. Overall a positive result for Linnea and regardless of what is written higher up at least two of usa will be purchasing more than of her books.
February 2010 - Sarah McCarty'southward Caine's Reckoning
Synopsis: The Hell'south Viii is the only family he's e'er needed, until he 
meets the merely adult female he's ever wanted . . . Caine Allen is a hardened Texas Ranger, definitely not the marrying kind. But when he rescues a kidnapped woman and returns her to boondocks, the preacher calls in a favour. I Caine'southward laurels won't let him pass up. From the moment he beds Desi, Caine knows turmoil will follow. Desi might accept the face of a temptress, but she also has a volition of iron and while she needs his protection, she's determined that no man will command her again. They institute an uneasy bond, but information technology isn't enough for Caine. He wants all Desi has to offering. He wants her screams, her moans, her demands . . . everything. Yet there's still a bounty on Desi's head, and keeping her sexually satisfied is proving easier than keeping her alive.
: Even so another delightful trot downwardly the path of improbability. For gods sake nosotros have a heroine who has been imprisoned, raped and tortured for a year but don't worry within hours of meeting the hero she's having sex (anal and anyway he can go it). Some of the positions and so odd equally to defy the physical skills of a yogi. The group seemed to particularly savour the fact that in an effort to understand the physics of it all Ina was on the ground, on hands and knees trying to figure out where all the bits were. We're still in the night! It doesn't even piece of work as a western and every bit for the time spent on the industry of hair conditioner in the 1800s, um yes, that time might have been better spent on character evolution because the full general feeling was that at the stop of the volume you activeness disliked him and she inspired no sympathy. Please send us some ideas for Adept books.
Jan 2010 - Karen MacInerey'south Howling at the Moon
Synopsis: Romance is nearly to go a little hairy. Sophie Garou seems to 
take it all: a corking job at a prestigious accounting firm, a closet that rivals a Nordstrom exhibit, and a terrific boyfriend who isn't afraid to utilise the "M" word. There's just ane little itty-bitty problem: Sophie is a werewolf – and her fourth dimension of month has a whole new meaning. Needless to say, life among yummy flesh-and-blood humans is no piece of steak . . . er, cake!, but regular doses of wolfsbane tea and a mother who runs a magic shop take helped Sophie keep her paranormal full-blooded under wraps. Still, when a sexy, golden-eyed werewolf prowls into boondocks, Sophie finds herself struggling to keep her animate being impulses in check – not to mention trying to keep things on rail with her super hot (and super human) lawyer boyfriend. What's more, someone is threatening to betrayal Sophie for what she really is. And when her mother is accused of selling a poisonous substance-laced potion, Sophie must sniff out a culprit before the fur hits the fan.
: Members of the book club have bought all iii books in the series due to a combination of curiosity and being left hanging after the end of the commencement book. It was articulate to members of the guild that Ms MacInerney had planned all three books in such a style that to feel you had finished the story all books had to exist read. Other members of the book society didn't care plenty about the characters to requite a monkeys.
While an interesting marketing ploy, every bit noted above, this could leave readers frustrated or bellyaching. Or indifferent. An enjoyable read - candyfloss for the eyes - with agreeable notes. A blank-arsed werewolf running through the streets was memorable. However, the werewolf is i of the virtually hapless and accident-prone werewolves ever written virtually. The style focus on handbags and BMWs was considered by all to be a limp-wristed following of 'fashion Romance' drivel. None of the book club care enough about shoes and handbags to care if these accessories get lost. Loss of credit cards and phones and keys were non mentioned. This is a book full of potential plot additions that don't get adult - even across all iii books.
December 2009 - Cathy Maxwell'south A Seduction at Christmas
Synopsis: She never expected it would come to this… Desperation and an
empty breadbasket forced Fiona Lachlan to hold to a plan that concluded upwards luring the wickedly notorious Knuckles of Holburn into trouble. Everything went terribly wrong, and now she has found herself posing as his ward! And while she swore nothing could make her desire a scoundrel, even if he was a knuckles, she is now drawing ever closer to the one man she cannot have . . Beware of innocence!
The Duke of Holburn had spent years heeding this warning, and in doing so, managed to avoid the virginal immature ladies who had been put in his path. But now his wild means have gotten him into existent danger. At that place are killers at the door and a temptingly beautiful adult female in his artillery. He is about to find himself seduced . . . and he isn't quite sure he wants to resist this time.
: A light simple read is the most beneficial comment made during the meeting. The more negative comments ranged from characters that yous didn't care well-nigh, forgettable storylines, to offensive treatment of ther corruption of women. The details were shoddy too no reader was able to determine which twelvemonth this story was set in or even the decade. Apparently the corruption of the heroine was dealt with in more than seriousness in a sometime book merely the mode it was mentioned in this volume has about prompted a protest to the Romance Writers of America. The plot was multi-stranded just no strand was idea out properly, presented clearly or resolved with annihilation similar a logical terminate. This felt like a book written over the weekend during a party past Cathy and all her friends while indulging in the seasonal cheer of mulled vino every bit after all this was set at Christmas time. Bah Humbug, to be so predictable. However not all was lost. We liked the fight between the two dogs, go Tad I think he deserves his own fan club. Certainly he was the simply one who showed whatsoever mutual sense.
November 2009 - Charlaine Harris's Sweet and Deadly
Synopsis: At present best known for her New York Times-bestselling Sookie 
Stackhouse novels, Charlaine Harris garnered an unusual degree of acclaim with her showtime novel - the story of a murder that embroils a modest-town reporter in a mystery that hits close to home.
Catherine Linton came domicile to Lowfield, Mississippi convinced that the untimely deaths of her parents in a car blow was no accident - only nobody believed her. So she stayed, taking a job at the local newspaper, to endeavour to both convince the sheriff that she was correct - and perchance convince herself she was wrong. After all, her father had been the town physician, loved (she e'er thought) by all. To think he was killed was to recollect that one of her friends or neighbours has harboured some deep resentment toward him. And so she finds the dead torso of the women who had been her father'south nurse for many years. Obviously murdered. Now Catherine knows that she was not wrong most her parent'south death. Someone in Lowfield has a terrible surreptitious, a secret worth killing for. Not once, not twice, but - when another body is found - three times. And the killer won't hesitate to add more victims to the list, as Catherine gets closer and closer to the truth.
: A very mixed reaction to our volume of the month - Sugariness and Deadly by Charlaine Harris. It was one of Charlaine's before novels, written in 1981 & her writing skills have quite obviously developed since she wrote this. Her array of characters including the heroine came beyond as very flat and no one had whatsoever sympathy or really cared what happened to any of them. Her skill in setting the scene is very evident though - concise and informative, she keeps the plot going without getting bogged down in endless descriptions. It was interesting to see how Harris has developed equally an author, every bit some of us take read her later work,and to run into that authors can get better instead of striking the large time early on in their careers and then churning out drivel because they know fans volition still purchase it in the never catastrophe hope that the next 1 must be better and then the terminal i!
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