My Ruthless Prince (Inferno Club Series #4)
there could be kinda mild spoilers below
The latest book in the inferno series is amazing! i Love her books. the characters are so realistic, you can really see their fears, and hopes, and what makes them vulnerable. The writing is clever and sucks you right in. The plot is incredibly clever- the order and prometheans are something i would never think of, but the rules, and regulations, and other parts of this plot are so well thought it, its like its real.
Emily is a strong and resourceful, and could not imagine her life without drake. She would do anything for him. But she is no simpering miss.
Drake. Wow. I always knew, had to believe that he was for the Order. But there were times( especially towards the end) that i was in serious doubt. He was so strong. I was a little puzzled about his relationship with falkirk, why he remained so attached even after the bit with emily.
Then the scence with james and drake after the Major Event.
This was a great book. and everyone should read the first three in addition
A long time back one of the romantic readers started a thread about a book calledToil and Trouble, A Paranormal Romance / Urban Fantasy (Jolie Wilkins Series #2) which was a follow-up to this book:
Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble, A Paranormal Romance / Urban Fantasy (Jolie Wilkins Series #1)
At the time, I hadn't heard of them - to this day I'm a late-blooming e-book reader and these two books were self-published digital books that became so popular the author, H.P. Mallory, signed a multi-book deal with Random House for the rest of the Jolie Wilkins saga.
Jolie Wilkins is new to the witch business, but that doesn't mean business hasn't been good. Over the course of the previous two books Jolie acquired relationships with a warlock named Rand and an attractive vampire bad boy named Sinjin. Plus she's suddenly been crowned Queen of the Underworld, meaning all doings involving faeries, vamps, demons, etc are her business.
H.P. Mallory's new book Witchful Thinking (Jolie Wilkins Series #3) was the first in the series to me, meaning, I still haven't read the other two books. The author does a terrific job of making the book easy to follow for readers who are jumping into the story mid-series. Jolie is an incredibly likable character and who wouldn't want to be caught up in romantic, magical intrigue. There's time travel and mystical battles and spells and paranormal beings aplenty. I highly recommend this one!
I can't say enough about Barbara O'Neal's The Garden of Happy Endings but I tried to at Heart to Heart today:Nature’s easy to predict; vibrantly colorful months are followed by chillingly spare ones. The knowledge that a green season is around the corner makes the long, dark days of winter easier to bear. The expectation of spring, the certainty that it’s coming, is what hope is.
But what if you can’t see around the corner? What if the barren landscape of your feelings and spirit is so consuming that you forget the saying about darkness and dawn? This is the central question of Barbara O’Neal’s stirring, thoughtful new book The Garden of Happy Endings.
As in any good garden, O’Neal’s novel is populated by a variety of specimens. There’s Tamsin Corsi, an empty-nester struggling with how to make the new phase of her life meaningful. Her daughter Alexa is a bud of girl, a twenty-something who has struck off on her own half a world away from Tamsin’s home in Colorado. And there’s Elsa, Tamsin’s sister and Alexa’s aunt, a woman who has known pain and devastating loss, and has grown stronger and sturdier because of it.
But Elsa is in the middle of a crisis. She is a woman of faith, a minister whose relationship with God has given her life purpose and her job inspiration. Elsa came to her understanding with the Man Upstairs after a shattering event: years earlier, her fiancé and childhood love Joaquin left her…for God. His calling to the priesthood sent Elsa on a wandering journey through Europe, and her own faith. What she was left with was a commitment to the ministry, to her own unflappable connection to the spiritual world. And now, after so many tests and joys and tribulations and successes, Elsa’s belief has been snuffed out. The shocking, sudden death of one of her congregants shatters Elsa so much that she leaves her church.
At home in Colorado, in the embrace of her sister Tamsin and her former boyfriend, now known as
Father Jack, Elsa embarks on a community project: planting a garden. It’s an action that has a quietly healing effect. No longer able to seek comfort and answers from God, Elsa turns to her family and new friends like Deacon McCoy, a recovering alchoholic making amends for past mistakes by volunteering in Father Jack’s church. Love, gardening, and community, going through these motions while not hearing her guiding spirit, is a test of faith for Elsa. She can’t remember that spring is coming, but the blooms in the new garden and the fizz of flirtation with Deacon begin to whisper in her soul, and soon Elsa is on the road to reconnection with her inner voice, the belief system that has informed so many of her life choices.
The Garden of Happy Endings is quite possibly the perfect springtime novel. It’s about reawakening, connecting, and flowering; about the bonds of friendship and sisterhood; the beauty in everyday rituals like walking, and gardening, and eating. The sadness of this story is counterbalanced by the joy; in that way Barbara O’neal captures a slice of life, wraps it in a warm embrace of spring and spirit, and presents it to her readers as an offering of hope.
I was inspired to read more, to walk more, and to - yes - pull out my dusty terra cotta planters after finishing this book. That's the mark of a memorable read, right? Not only do the characters remain with me, but I feel a little bit of inspiration.
No Such Thing As a Good Blind Date
No Such Thing As a Secret I so enjoyed these books! The first is No such thing as a secret. If you like Stephanie Plum series I think you'll like this series. I think is better than the Plum series IMO. This series had me LOL alot!
Iron Sights Virginia Frazier's Dance for Revenge is the sequel to her Iron Sights series. Like the first book, it is not only dark and mysterious, but funny and sexy. However this time the book does focus more on the sniper's love interest. The author does well balancing the plot and the relationships. Instead of stagnant characters, there is a lot of character building and growth, which I think leads to an overall feeling that somewhere these characters are alive & breathing. The ending was definitely heartfelt and surprising.
I just read Melanie Gideon's debut novel, Wife 22 and highly recommend it. Here's the story description, plus a link to my Heart to Heart review.Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.
But when the anonymous online study called “Marriage in the 21st Century” showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn’t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101).
And, just like that, I found myself answering questions.
7. Sometimes I tell him he’s snoring when he’s not snoring so he’ll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.
61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought, I am going to have this man’s children.
67. To not want what you don’t have. What you can’t have. What you shouldn’t have.
32. That if we weren’t careful, it was possible to forget one another.
Before the study, my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctor’s appointments, family dinners, budgets, and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice Buckle: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter, drama teacher and Facebook chatter, downloader of memories and Googler of solutions.
But these days, I’m also Wife 22. And somehow, my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon, I’ll have to make a decision—one that will affect my family, my marriage, my whole life. But at the moment, I’m too busy answering questions.
As it turns out, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.
Melanie_Murray wrote:
For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.
Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.
But when the anonymous online study called “Marriage in the 21st Century” showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn’t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101).
And, just like that, I found myself answering questions.
7. Sometimes I tell him he’s snoring when he’s not snoring so he’ll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.
61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought, I am going to have this man’s children.
67. To not want what you don’t have. What you can’t have. What you shouldn’t have.
32. That if we weren’t careful, it was possible to forget one another.
Before the study, my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctor’s appointments, family dinners, budgets, and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice Buckle: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter, drama teacher and Facebook chatter, downloader of memories and Googler of solutions.
But these days, I’m also Wife 22. And somehow, my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon, I’ll have to make a decision—one that will affect my family, my marriage, my whole life. But at the moment, I’m too busy answering questions.
As it turns out, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.
Melanie, what a great premise
thanks for the great revew on HtoH
will go on my list
Melanie_Murray wrote:For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.
Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.
But when the anonymous online study called “Marriage in the 21st Century” showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn’t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101).
And, just like that, I found myself answering questions.
7. Sometimes I tell him he’s snoring when he’s not snoring so he’ll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.
61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought, I am going to have this man’s children.
67. To not want what you don’t have. What you can’t have. What you shouldn’t have.
32. That if we weren’t careful, it was possible to forget one another.
Before the study, my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctor’s appointments, family dinners, budgets, and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice Buckle: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter, drama teacher and Facebook chatter, downloader of memories and Googler of solutions.
But these days, I’m also Wife 22. And somehow, my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon, I’ll have to make a decision—one that will affect my family, my marriage, my whole life. But at the moment, I’m too busy answering questions.
As it turns out, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.
Hi Melanie - Thanks for the interesting review - it sounds like a very intriguing book (coming from another "seasoned" reader) It almost sounds like the heroine is in therapy.........and trying to find herself. I'll have to read it and find out.
Anne
Now Alma Katsu delivers the highly anticipated follow-up to her haunting novel about an immortal woman learning firsthand that the heart wants what the heart wants...no matter how high the stakes. Fans of The Taker can finally indulge in their next juicy fix with the second book of the trilogy, The Reckoning. In this gripping, pulse-pounding supernatural sequel, discover what happens to Lanny, Luke, Adair--and Jonathan. The Reckoning picks up where The Taker leaves off, following Lanny on her path to redemption--and creating a whole new level of suspense.
