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Feel so much better today, in part because it is Friday, finally, and in part because it is warmer and brilliantly sunny.

Co-worker (who is in the insurance department of crazy government agency) - recommended some books to read. So I may delve back into urban fantasy and fantasy, since my current genre picks are not quite working for me. I'm halfway through Maya Banks best-selling Rush, and I keep thinking, okay, get to the point already, when is this asshole romantic hero going to cross the line to the point in which he pisses off everyone including a lot of Amazon reviewers, and has to grovel big time to get the heroine back. I swear...the abusive relationship erotica novels are as bad as GRRM. They drag stuff out. Too much sex (or torture, fights) not enough plot. Yet, oddly less sadistic. Co-worker, who is a huge Dresden Files/Harry Potter fan, took pity on me, when I said I hadn't read a fun book in a while, because she also read Dance With Dragons and knows what it is like to get bogged down in GRRM. Her suggestions?

1) Melina Machetta - the Luminerati Chronicles - start with FINNIKIN OF THE ROCK
- this is apparently by an Australian Writer and is a YA novel but amazing.

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She also recommends...Ilona Andrews - Kate Daniels novels starting with Magic Bits and Magic Burns.

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Also looks interesting. Any one know anything?

The other is Patrici Briggs...shape-shifter series.

And G.A. Aiken's Dragon series.

She talked my ear off at work about it. I hope she remembers to approve the vendor's insurance.