April's Affections and Intrigues: Love and Mystery Bloom

Carol Cobun

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Re: Every Breath She Takes (4:09pm September 3, 2012):

Glad that the book has another chance. I like paranormal elements in my reading. Not too many psychics left in the genre. Most are doing more, like werewolves and elves and such.

Re: The Viking's Captive (2:34pm December 20, 2010):

I have quite a few keepers, about four boxes worth just for romance. Those are mostly the non-paranormals from in the 90s. The more recent stuff is about 70% paranormal and on two bookcases in the living room. When I get in a slump with the paranormals I get out some of those older ones and reread them. Marie Ferrarella, Lori Foster, Debbie Macomber and others. Yep, I realize they have new stuff but I still like the older stuff that they did while with Harlequin and shortly after that.

Re: Wolf Fever (9:58pm December 15, 2010):

I drink lots of juice and hot cocoa, and nap whenever my body says to. Hate taking any extra meds but will take sinus meds if needed.
Went to Borders today with a list of four books to buy. Wolf Fever was one of them. I could only get one of the books on my list. Wolf Fever wasn't that one. None of the Borders within a hundred miles of me have it in stock. I guess I'll have to order it from Amazon.

Re: Icecapade (4:46pm December 13, 2010):

Great post. Loved reading it. A little mystery can be very good. Sounds like an interesting book. Will have to add it to my list.

Re: Guarding Grace (4:25am August 31, 2010):

I prefer shifters for my paranormal reads, if I can't get a mix of them with in a book. I mean if one kinds exists, logically the others do too. My all time fave though are are dragon shifters. Have loved dragons since I was a kid. I love reading about dragons(as long as they are the good guys)whether or not they are shifters. But as shifters, there is usually an HEA.
I do like some of the more unusual vampires, like Lynsay Sands' Argeneau series and Angela Knight's Mageverse books.

Re: Home is Where the Bark is (2:54pm July 4, 2010):

I have two dogs in the house. Love them a lot.
I love reading books with pets in them.

Re: Dark Embers (2:49pm July 4, 2010):

I like shifters, Fae, and witches. I also like when an author uses more that one kind of paranormal being within the same story.

Re: Hidden Wives (6:31pm June 26, 2010):

I've been in reading funks. But I don't let it get to me. If I'm not reading then I work on organizing my books. I find that reading all the blurbs and researching to see if I have all the books in a series will usually renew my interest in reading.
Currently reading Dragon Kin series by G.A. Aiken. Next up will probably be either Dakota Cassidy's Accidental series or Judi Fennell's Mer books.

Re: Dragon Unmasked (6:20am June 17, 2010):

The only time my reading got shunted aside it was for monetary reasons. I became a single mom on welfare at 19. That money didn't even let me buy the necessary stuff without help from my mom, books were an impossible dream. Mom took pity on me and gave me some of her older Harlequin and Silhouette books after my second pregnancy at 24. The used book store became my best friend in those days. When I could finally start buying new books in places like Waldenbooks again, I fell in love with paranormal romace since it combined my early love of sci-fi/fantasy with my newer addiction to the HEA of romance.
Now if I get tired of one genre/sub-genre or reading, I can switch to something else entirely to give myself a break.

Re: Dead in the Family (11:07am May 30, 2010):

I don't really read a lot of urban fantasy yet. the budget screams in agony if I even think of starting a new series recently. The two series that I am getting behind on and would like to catch up are Hunter's Kiss series by Marjorie M. Liu and Yasemine Galenorn's series Sisters of the Moon.

Re: Blown Away (10:56am May 30, 2010):

If I know that it is a trilogy(and they are going to be released close enough together, I will wait and read them all at once. If they are going to be released over a period of time(like a couple years)then I usually read them as they come out and reread when each new one arrives.
The trilogy that caused me the most problems though, the first two books were released in the US and then the idiots released book 3 only in the UK. I still have not been able to get that third book even though it was released more than two years ago.
And trilogies don't always stay trilogies. Got a what I though was a trilogy recently. They made it to the top on my TBR mountain. I was about halfway through book one and the author announced via newsletter that book four would be out early next year. GRRR!!

Re: The Jaguar Prince (8:13pm May 7, 2010):

What a cute post. Love it.
Just goes to show that inspiration can come from some very unlikely sources.

Re: Blood Of The Demon (4:18am May 1, 2010):

I sorta understand the 'getting tired of' syndrome. I got burnt out on vamps when paranormal romance only had the two creatures, vampires and werewolves. Nowadays there are a lot of different kinds of shifters to read but there is only so many ways to make new vampires interesting. But I haven't given up on the genre because of that. I still read the blurbs for vampire books, but there has to be something really unique about the story or it has to be part on one of the series that I follow.
Everyone has times when they just read less because the books just aren't grabbing you, but it isn't usually the books fault(unless it was poorly written-but then it will be only that book). It's usually caused by some sort of emotional change in the reader. I see this in exaggerated form in my daughter who suffers from depression. When she is down she reads something totally different than when she is happy.

Re: The Teaberry Strangler (2:22am April 26, 2010):

I haven't started a new series for over a year now, except for the couple where I won one of the books. And even then, getting the rest of the series has to wait til the budget quits screaming in agony.

Re: Silent Truth (11:37pm April 19, 2010):

My passions, in order, are my daughter(and soon to be born granddaughter), reading, crafting, video games, and baking/cooking.

Re: Building Iphone Apps With Html, CSS, And Javascript (4:44am April 18, 2010):

I can totally understand where you're coming from. I recently had two romance books to read for judging purposes. I normally love reading books. These two were more stressful as I "had" to read them, and by a certain date.
In the end, I liked one. But the second one, if it had been a paid for book or a library book, would have gone back after the first two or three chapters. I forced myself to get through it so as to be able to give honest opinions about the work but it took me three days.
And I'm a book-a-day person usually. And after those two, I had to take a day away from books totally, and then read a few of my sci-fi books to give my mind a total break from that second book.

Re: Demonkeepers (5:45am April 14, 2010):

I don't have one favorite hero from any book that lasts past the reading of the next book. My fave hero(or heroine)is usually the one I'm reading at the time I'm asked the question.

Re: Big Bad Wolf (5:36am April 10, 2010):

PS: I managed to get the 4th, 5th, and 6th ebooks before they disappeared off the original publishers site(as well as the first one in print) so I'm not as bad off as some other people while reading these books. From what I can tell, mostly what has been done is to add elements that tie the earlier books more closely to the plot elements in the later books. When she reworked Fantasy Fix into One Bite With a Stranger she added more interaction with the secondary characters who get their stories in the other books and more elements about the council and the interaction of the Others to bring it more into line with the depth of the newer books.
The original books(at least the four I have)all range from about a 125 pages to about 170 pages. The new books are over 300.
The problem with the timeline and being published out of order(or seeming to be)is a result of the change of publisher in the middle of the series. I saw someone mention Shiloh Walker's Hunters series. That's a good part of what happened to that series too. There are at least three(but I think actually four)different publishers for those books.

Re: Big Bad Wolf (5:11am April 10, 2010):

This is off Christine Warren's Faqs page of her website(which appears not to have been updated for a few months. But it is the proper reading order.

Fantasy Fix (now expanded and retitled One Bite with a Stranger, SMP)
Fur Factor (now expanded and retitled Big, Bad Wolf, coming from SMP, Fall/Winter 2009)
Faer Fetched (novella, coming from SMP, date TBD)
Fighting Faer (coming from SMP, date TBD)
Fur For All (coming from SMP, date TBD)
Fur Play (coming from SMP, date TBD)
Wolf at the Door (SMP)
She’s No Faerie Princess (SMP)
The Demon You Know (SMP)
Any Witch Way She Can (in the anthology No Rest for the Witches, SMP)
Howl at the Moon (SMP)
Walk on the Wild Side (SMP)
You’re So Vein (SMP)

Her newest, Born To Be Wild, is not a rewrite of an earlier one so it would be at the bottom of this list. She has another one coming out later this year, Prince Charming Doesn't Live Here, but there is no info on her site other than that, so I don't kno if it will be a rewrite of the third book or another new one.

Hope this helps.

Re: A Certain Wolfish Charm (4:33am March 31, 2010):

Sounds like a good book to read. Love shifters. And I love HEAs.

Re: Small Change (4:01am March 25, 2010):

Great post. And good things to ask yourself before you buy anything, much less stuff on sale. But the first one Should be "Will I really use this within the next six months?" I have bought several things(like home decor stuff, thinking to myself that "this(whatever it was)will work great for(whatever)". Then it has just sat there for a couple years waiting for me to do the project but, by the time I actually get to that project, my thoughts have usually changed and the item no longer fits with what I want to do.
Thank god I've never been a shoe, purse or clothes hoarder. I just get what I need there. For me it's just crafting stuff, and sometimes books, I have trouble not buying.

Re: Almost Home (3:50am March 25, 2010):

I prefer mass market paperback because they take up less space, but will get trade size if that's what comes out first. There are only three authors I read that I will buy in hardcover. And that's only because they changed to hardcover well into the series and I don't want to wait the extra year to get the story.

Re: On The Steamy Side (3:49am March 23, 2010):

In Kerrelyn Sparks' Love at Stake series, several of the books have children in them. In at least one case the child of one of the characters from a previous relationship, ones born to the happy couples in later books, and even some orphans/outcasts taken in by a couple of the secondary characters.
Quite a few of the Harlequin and Silhouette romances I used to read a lot had children in them. In fact those were the ones I liked better, but that may be because I still had young ones in the house at the time.
Then there's Sandra Hill's The Very Virile Viking. Definitely kids in that one. Quite a few kids.

Re: The You I Never Knew (9:14pm March 14, 2010):

I much prefer reading books that have humor in them, but they don't necessarily have to be all funny. The ones with a good blend of serious and humor are great. I don't care for a book that make me cry if the crying is caused by a beloved character dies, but crying over the emotional battle the characters fight and win is allowed(and sometimes a great stress relief).
For a great ROTFLMAO read, the best I've found so far is Shelly Laurenston's Magnus/Pride books.

Re: The Edge of Winter (11:24am February 21, 2010):

My favorite series of books that involve the seasons is by author Jaci Burton. It's a four book series called A storm For All Season. It's about the four Storm siblings who each have magical powers to match one of the seasons of the year.
Otherwise the only ones I can think of this early in the morning are the Christmas ones.

Re: Accidentally Demonic (1:08am February 18, 2010):

Love the Accidental series. Can't wait to read this newest one.

Re: Come Hell Or High Water (6:40pm January 7, 2010):

My best mistake ever--both my children. I was on the pill both times but I guess life didn't care about that.