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Wed Reading Meme...
Dec. 14th, 2016 10:29 pmStill reading escapist fiction.
What I just finished reading?
I think it was The Raven Prince? No wait, it was His at Night by Sherry Thomas.
I wrote review about it on Good Reads.
( Review of His at Night with vague spoilers )
What I'm reading now?
To Steal a Heart by KC Bateman. I think this may be self-published. It has a few typos here and there, but I'm rather tolerant of typos. ( excuse me while I leap up on my soap box )
The plot? A spy who is allegedly working for Napoleon manipulates a young circus performer into helping him rescue Prince Louis from one of Napolean's prisons. So clearly not entirely working for Napoleon, actually he's a double agent. Half French and Half English. The young circus performer, Marianne Bonnard is French, and she helps him after he buys her and her sister from her wicked uncle.
In return for protecting her sister, she agrees to help him rescue the prince. All she has to do is sneak into the prison and change places with the prince, then escape from the prison herself.
She's a skilled knife thrower and tight-rope walker. The Spy, Nicolas Valette, who despises Napoleon, is skilled at practically everything and from the description looks a bit like Ian Sommerhandler who plays Damon on Vampire Diaries. Amber eyes. Pitch black hair. Lean. Cat like. With a perpetual smirk and a wicked gleam in his eyes. She's somewhat boyish, lean, and smart.
There's a lot of banter. The writing is better than most in this genre. There is implied sexual assault, but she is never really raped and it's off-page and by her impotent uncle. (Hence not really raped so much as molested.) The hero is kind and would never do such a thing. (Which is how you can tell that this book was written in the 21st Century and not the 20th. Most 20th Century historical romances had a twinge of the boddice ripper.)
What I'm reading next?
No clue. Whatever strikes my fancy, I suspect. I'll be on vacation. Finally. So more time. I need a vacation, work has been crazy lately. Considered killing Lando today. His idea of a joke was putting my name on his outgoing out of office email -- as a contact person. I know nothing about what he is doing and taking off myself. The nitwit. I have no idea why he thought this was a good idea. The man has an odd sense of humor.
What I just finished reading?
I think it was The Raven Prince? No wait, it was His at Night by Sherry Thomas.
I wrote review about it on Good Reads.
( Review of His at Night with vague spoilers )
What I'm reading now?
To Steal a Heart by KC Bateman. I think this may be self-published. It has a few typos here and there, but I'm rather tolerant of typos. ( excuse me while I leap up on my soap box )
The plot? A spy who is allegedly working for Napoleon manipulates a young circus performer into helping him rescue Prince Louis from one of Napolean's prisons. So clearly not entirely working for Napoleon, actually he's a double agent. Half French and Half English. The young circus performer, Marianne Bonnard is French, and she helps him after he buys her and her sister from her wicked uncle.
In return for protecting her sister, she agrees to help him rescue the prince. All she has to do is sneak into the prison and change places with the prince, then escape from the prison herself.
She's a skilled knife thrower and tight-rope walker. The Spy, Nicolas Valette, who despises Napoleon, is skilled at practically everything and from the description looks a bit like Ian Sommerhandler who plays Damon on Vampire Diaries. Amber eyes. Pitch black hair. Lean. Cat like. With a perpetual smirk and a wicked gleam in his eyes. She's somewhat boyish, lean, and smart.
There's a lot of banter. The writing is better than most in this genre. There is implied sexual assault, but she is never really raped and it's off-page and by her impotent uncle. (Hence not really raped so much as molested.) The hero is kind and would never do such a thing. (Which is how you can tell that this book was written in the 21st Century and not the 20th. Most 20th Century historical romances had a twinge of the boddice ripper.)
What I'm reading next?
No clue. Whatever strikes my fancy, I suspect. I'll be on vacation. Finally. So more time. I need a vacation, work has been crazy lately. Considered killing Lando today. His idea of a joke was putting my name on his outgoing out of office email -- as a contact person. I know nothing about what he is doing and taking off myself. The nitwit. I have no idea why he thought this was a good idea. The man has an odd sense of humor.