What are you reading? | May 2012

I'll start this off, I just finished reading Beguiling the Beauty by Sherry Thomas which I loved, first of her new trilogy. Next on my kindle is My Lady Rival by Ashley March.

I'm reading Rose of Rapture by Rebecca Brandewyne

I'm only about 30 or so pages in but so far it seems promising.

I'm almost through Allison Brennan's Love Me to Death, which I am enjoying even though there are definitely sections when I'm pretty sure that I'm missing a lot of backstory from earlier series.

It's not that I'm confused. It's just that there are a lot of things/people/events referenced that clearly happened in more detail elsewhere.

I finished When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James, a book that has been on my TBR list for a long time! I really enjoyed the book and can't believe I left it this long.

I just started Something About Emmaline by Elizabeth Boyle.

I finished My Lady Rival by Ashley March which was so-so, and am now beginning two books, The Rose Garden on audio by Susanna Kearsley and One Good Reason by Sarah Mayberry which I heard was great!

>5, mamalaz

Something About Emmaline was the book that got me into historical romance to begin with. I hope you enjoy it!

>7,caramellunacy

I Thoroughly enoyed it. The premise of a made-up wife and the resulting havoc was hilarious. The h&h were perfect together and the story was great fun. The side issue of the cousin expecting to inherit from such a young bachelor was fairly implausible, but what the hey.

I am about to start This Rake of Mine, which is the next book in the series.

I finished Scandal of the Year by Laura Lee Guhrke and now I'm reading Why Mermaids Sing.

I finished One Good Reason by Sarah Mayberry surprisingly, very, very good! It came highly recommended and I loved it. Now I'm reading Love Once in Passing by Jo Ann Simon.

I also started on the Bachelor Chronicles series. Currently I'm reading Love Letters from a Duke.

Julia

>11, Julia

I am reading the Bachelor Chronicles too. Just finished This Rake of Mine. As usual, I sort of read them out of order and read Love Letters From a Duke first. I liked that book a lot and it sent me off to read the series. Hope you enjoy it.

As for me, I met your heroine Felicity for the first time in This Rake of Mine.

The books are kind of silly and implausible but they are fun.

11 & 12, Julia and mamalaz

I find the Bachelor Chronicles great fun. My favorite so far probably remains the prequel Something about Emmaline but the more recent Mad About the Duke was lovely fun as well. Something about Elizabeth Boyle's plots makes me smile - so often they seem positively Wildean (particularly the end of Something About Emmaline....

All your recommendations about the Bachelor series makes me want to read it pronto!

I just finished an oldie but goodie Love Once in Passing by Jo Ann Simon an early '80's time travel romance with a huge cliffhanger!! Arrgh! Now I'm beginning Sea Change by Darlene Marshall.

Just finished My Dearest Enemy by Connie Brockway. She's a new author for me, but based on this one I'll look for others.

Waiting to start Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

Still in the Bachelor Chronicles and reading Confessions of a Little Black Gown by Elizabeth Boyle.

The Spanish Match by Brennan Purcell
There's elements of romance in the story.

I'm reading Lover Reborn by J. R. Ward. So far, so good.

I finished The Rake by Mary Jo Putney. A nontypical hero and heroine made for a great story.

I finished Sea Change by Darlene Marshall and now I'm beginning Unveiled by Courtney Milan.

I'm now beginning London's Perfect Scoundrel by Suzanne Enoch.

I finished The Demon's Daughter by Emma Holly next is Confessions of a Little Black Gown.

Julia

I finished Klondike Doctor by Kate Bridges last night. Now it's on to my favorite dilema.... what to read next?!

I'm getting excited for the release of "The King's Mistress" by Sandy Blair. Has anyone else read any of her books?

jenniandtony, what's in your tbr?

Well.... I had a lot of books from the Rogue Angel series and the "Tale of the five hundred kingdoms" series, so last night I started reading The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey. I was a bit nervous that this would be a weird supernatural kind of book, but instead I'm falling in love with this gentle fairy tale inspired story that has absolutely captured my imagination. I'm counting down the minutes until I can go home and curl up in my chair with this one!

Reading Breathless by Anne Stuart

Finished Deadlocked - I must say that I am ready for the series to be finished.

I finished The Rules of Engagement: The Reasons for Marriage. Unfortunately most of this anthology (300+ pages) was comprised of a reprint of a Stephanie Laurens book and the other two stories were very small...

I finished two books so far this weekend, Unveiled by Courtney Milan which was just so-so and dull for me, even though everyone raved about it, I seem to be a dissenting voice in regard to it. The other book I finished was London's Perfect Scoundrel by Suzanne Enoch. At first I hated the hero but by the end I loved him! Slow start but had a great wrap up. Now I'm reading The Bridal Season by Connie Brockway and The Perfect Mistress by Victoria Alexander.

I'm halfway through an old Silhouette Shadows called The Haunting of Brier Rose by Patricia Simpson. It's creepy because the heroine's family are incestuous, so her grandfather has been stalking and fondling her while she sleeps.

I finished I want Candy by Susan Donovan and started Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress what a surprise that she continues the series more than 20 years later.

Julia

Just finished Catching Jordan - I didn't like it as much as I liked Dairy Queen.

I finished The Perfect Mistress by Victoria Alexander and really enjoyed it. Now reading Unlocked by Courtney Milan.

>34, sdbookhound,

I felt the same way about Catching Jordan - I liked it well enough, but wasn't nearly as attached to Jordan as I was to DJ in Dairy Queen.

So I started Fifty Shades of Grey. Not the type of book I usually read . . . you know, a contemporary romance. I can see how it started off as Twilight fan fiction.

Anyone else read it? I was surprised it wasn't mentioned in this thread or last month's since it's a bestseller and all. Is no one in this group reading it or are we just not talking about it?

I finished Unlocked and really loved it by Courtney Milan. I normally don't love novella's but this is an exception. Now I'm reading The Indiscretion by Judith Ivory.

ktleyed> I'm glad you liked Unlocked! I feel the same way about novellas but this got me hooked on Courtney Milan. Hope you like The Indiscretion, that was another keeper for me...