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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.
Here's the blurb:
Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But then Finnikin is summoned to meet Evanjalin, a young woman with an incredible claim: the heir to the throne of Lumatere, Prince Balthazar, is alive.
Evanjalin is determined to return home and she is the only one who can lead them to the heir. As they journey together, Finnikin is affected by her arrogance . . . and her hope. He begins to believe he will see his childhood friend, Prince Balthazar, again. And that their cursed people will be able to enter Lumatere and be reunited with those trapped inside. He even believes he will find his imprisoned father.
But Evanjalin is not what she seems. And the truth will test not only Finnikin's faith in her . . . but in himself.
[I don't know - it actually looks interesting.]
She also recommends...Ilona Andrews - Kate Daniels novels starting with Magic Bits and Magic Burns.
Blurb: When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake.
Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these magical problems. But when Kate's guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta's magic circles.
The Masters of the Dead, necromancers who can control vampires, and the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, blame each other for a series of bizarre killings—and the death of Kate's guardian may be part of the same mystery. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she's way out of her league—but she wouldn't have it any other way…
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.
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.
Here's the blurb:
Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But then Finnikin is summoned to meet Evanjalin, a young woman with an incredible claim: the heir to the throne of Lumatere, Prince Balthazar, is alive.
Evanjalin is determined to return home and she is the only one who can lead them to the heir. As they journey together, Finnikin is affected by her arrogance . . . and her hope. He begins to believe he will see his childhood friend, Prince Balthazar, again. And that their cursed people will be able to enter Lumatere and be reunited with those trapped inside. He even believes he will find his imprisoned father.
But Evanjalin is not what she seems. And the truth will test not only Finnikin's faith in her . . . but in himself.
[I don't know - it actually looks interesting.]
She also recommends...Ilona Andrews - Kate Daniels novels starting with Magic Bits and Magic Burns.
Blurb: When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake.
Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these magical problems. But when Kate's guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta's magic circles.
The Masters of the Dead, necromancers who can control vampires, and the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, blame each other for a series of bizarre killings—and the death of Kate's guardian may be part of the same mystery. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she's way out of her league—but she wouldn't have it any other way…
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.
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I have a friend in San Francisco who has burn out on dystopian novels (they are getting her depressed) and looking for something more cheerful. Of course the first thing I'm doing is returning all of her Georgette Heyer novels (they are always good for a laugh).
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She almost spoiled me on the ending of Dance With Dragons...seriously no where is safe. I should just skip ahead and spoil myself, but then I'll never finish that book.
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There. :)
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