The Lover's Knot by Erin Satie is criminal mystery (sometimes) with a lover's quarrel (most of the time), misunderstandings and not communicating. TheThe Lover's Knot by Erin Satie is criminal mystery (sometimes) with a lover's quarrel (most of the time), misunderstandings and not communicating. There are two young people, two guardians, jilted and not satisfied lovers and a lot of 'what?!?!?' moments.
Sophie is a girl, who forgets easily (like all the rest of us remember everything perfectly?) and selectively a lot of things and her passion is ink. Julian is new duke (seventh son who never thought he would be the duke) who was once engaged to Sophie, but then she broke up their engagement, without explanation and he flee to London ten years ago. Now Julian is back and Sophie is still reluctant to tell why.
But the Ninth duke's death/suicide/murder is the the thing that connects and also separates those two. Everybody could be the culprit and Julian accuses Sophie first. Sophie has her own reasons to believe that Julian wishes to hurt her, so they dance around each other and about this murder mystery and sometimes forget it and each other and ...
Mai Tai'd Up by Alice Clayton is another wonderful book of Cocktail series. It's not non stop comedy as Screwdrivered was, but it's still a wonderful Mai Tai'd Up by Alice Clayton is another wonderful book of Cocktail series. It's not non stop comedy as Screwdrivered was, but it's still a wonderful love story about two people, who meet shortly after their previous relationships crashed.
Jason is extreme couple's and sex therapy by Laurell K. Hamilton, practiced by Dr. Anita Blake with her lovely assistants Nathaniel Graison, Jason SchJason is extreme couple's and sex therapy by Laurell K. Hamilton, practiced by Dr. Anita Blake with her lovely assistants Nathaniel Graison, Jason Schuyler and Domino, practiced on their subjects - Jason's girlfriend J.J and Anita's girlfriend Jade. Or you could also say it's Masers of Sex: Paranormal version :).
Unfortunately there is no evil mastermind who Anita must fight and there is no criminal mystery, it's just pure sex therapy and that makes the story a bit boring. Looking forward to the next book, where the U.S.Marshal Blake is back again....more
Since Gentleman's Wager finished so suddenly and Bella's, Vaughan's and Lucerne's story is so interesting I just had to keep reading.
Indiscretions is Since Gentleman's Wager finished so suddenly and Bella's, Vaughan's and Lucerne's story is so interesting I just had to keep reading.
Indiscretions is about the three of them, after they have lived in London together already for more than a year and half, but they still have not found their happy together. Lucerne is in a middle of Bella's and Vaughan's constant fighting, since neither of them does not want to really share Lucerne with the other or want to admit that they can't let the "not wanted" party go. So when one night Lucerne leaves those two on their own, they still try to hide their real feelings for each other, but they end up in each others arms anyway. And when Lucerne returns they will do their best to find the happy middle that will satisfy all of them.
It's just a novella, so into just so many pages are compressed together hot MM, FM and MFM sex scenes. It could be too much, but if you not expecting more and if you can see the story behind the heaving and thrusting bodies then its a good story....more
A Gentleman's Wager is a strange story about Bella, who lives with her brother Joshua in Yorkshire and her brother has let her do what ever she wants. When their neighbor Lucerne returns to his estate, Bella stumbles on him when he is pleasuring himself, and Bella sets her eyes on him. But Lucerne did not return alone, with him game his long time friends Vaughan, Frederick and Charles. Bella also has a visitor - her childhood friend Louisa. Louisa met Frederic already on a way there and she is head over heels for him. But Bella is not the only one who has his mind set on Lucerne. Vaughan is bitter with everybody around him and when he is offered a wager to seduce Bella and Louisa before the other men, he takes it and starts to follow his prey. But same time Vaughan is more interested in rekindling his relationship with Lucerne and in keeping Bella from him than in bedding Bella or Louisa. So he starts his diabolic dance with all of them. But it's a known fact, that the more you try to keep somebody away the more they want to return and love and hate tend to work hand in hand if there is strong sexual chemistry involved.
So Bella is hunting Lucerne, Louisa is mooning over Frederic, Frederic scratches Bella's itch, Bella is fighting with Vaughan, Vaughan finds his way again to Lucerne, Lucerne wants Bella and Vaughan both, Vaughan seduces Bella, Frederic is fighting with Lucerne over Louisa, Louisa finds Frederic with somebody else, Vaughan comforts Louisa, Vaughan and Lucerne have a unforgettable night with Bella, Bella refuses to share Lucerne with Vaughan, Frederic proposes to Louisa and Vaughan, Lucerne and Bella go to London together.
So a lot is happening, much of emotional drama, lot of hot sex scenes - both FM, MM, FF and MFM scenes - and in the end it's just wonderful Vibrator Bookclub book :) ...more
The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose was a good story. Unfortunately this story did not speak to me as the previous books that I had read by M.J.The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose was a good story. Unfortunately this story did not speak to me as the previous books that I had read by M.J. Rose. My problem probably is that i read recently Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris and that's why I could not enjoy the story as I should, since I inadvertently compared the information.
But the story itself is interesting. It's not like the usual overpowering spirit stories. Sandrine Salome is a descendant of long road of ladies of demimonde and artists. Most of those ladies have met with sad ending and according to legend the very first of them - La Lune - is responsible for their tragic love stories and their grisly ends, since she was the first to lose her love, to turn to witch for help and to become witch herself. As long as the woman of Verlaine family did not fall in love, they were safe, but if they did ...
When Sandrine meets Julian in her grandmothers house she does not understand what she has awakened, since nobody has told her the legend, but the legend gets more and more power day by day and at the end Sandrine has to make a choice - to lose the one she loves or to save her love, her dreams and to share her life with the one who will help her to save her love.
This story is filled with art and literature and love and myths. It's a good story! ...more
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade is another wonderful example of Diana Gabaldon's writing.
This time Grey doesn't have to solve some criminalLord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade is another wonderful example of Diana Gabaldon's writing.
This time Grey doesn't have to solve some criminal mystery but the mystery of his father death. And besides doing his best to understand why his father did allegedly committed suicide and was a Jacobite and rumors made him also be an sodomite, he meets once again his half brother Percy Wainwright and now the Outlander series readers can find out why he is very reserved and untrustworthy toward him.
So the story goes between search for the truth, Grey's feelings toward Percy - which at the beginning where very sweet - and Grey's moving step by step closer to Jamie Fraser and also William (although he does not know his name yet).
There are places where I wanted to take Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager, find the right places and read the story from Claire's or Jamie's point of view :).
Yes this book is very much MM book, but its not MM erotic book, but still you should be warned to read it carefully if you not comfortable with it.
Good book, full of exiting situations, interesting secrets and pure feelings and a good book to give extra information about the characters that you already know from Outlander series....more
A Thing of Beauty by Lisa Samson is a good book. Yes, at the beginning it was confusing and strange, but the more I read it the more I liked it. I gotA Thing of Beauty by Lisa Samson is a good book. Yes, at the beginning it was confusing and strange, but the more I read it the more I liked it. I got the feeling like I have seen a story almost like this already in TV and the further I got the more it reminded me a classic Hallmark story, but it's not, not really. Yes, it has a unhappy and stuck heroine and there are some unexpected heroes, who come to her "rescue", but Hallmark movies always end in cuddles and tears and with wedding bells in background, A Thing of Beauty on contrary ends with every possibility to all of that, but no cheesy kissing and professing of eternal love and tears soaked apologies, it just ends in positive place.
It's a good story how somebody who has lost her way is yanked back to the world of living by little things that start to happen around her - some unexpected meetings, confessions, injuries, revelations, opportunities and unexpected friends and lots of healthy talking about things the way they are, without any first class acting.
Kathleene McGyrl's The Emerald Comb is an interesting book.
At the beginning it reminded me a lot Barbara Erskine's House of Echoes - old inherited houKathleene McGyrl's The Emerald Comb is an interesting book.
At the beginning it reminded me a lot Barbara Erskine's House of Echoes - old inherited house, with it's mysterious history, ghosts that start to communicate with children. But the ghost isn't hostile, she just wants them to know her story.
Then at one point it was very much like Philippa Carr's The Witch from the Sea - maid servant is jealous of her mistress and takes steps that eliminate her obstacle on her way to the master of the house and becoming a mistress of the house herself. Only the servant isn't really diabolical to the core, she's just jealous and jealous woman do unpredictable things that they regret later and they do not enjoy their triumph for long.
But at the end the secret that the tree and the house are hiding is revealed only to the readers and not to the main characters of the book. The readers probably guessed the truth already within couple of first chapters (as I did), so they just get the confirmation, but Kate and her family will go on believing their version of truth.
It was a good story, maybe too predictable but a good story, just the ending ... I did not like it, it felt like ... I do not know, unfinished, too "original", curt and empty....more
Beyond Possession by Kit Rocha is another good addition to Beyond series. The heroes of this story are Tatiana and Zan - daughter of former leader of SBeyond Possession by Kit Rocha is another good addition to Beyond series. The heroes of this story are Tatiana and Zan - daughter of former leader of Sector Four and one of O'Kane's long time members. Their romance isn't as hot as the usual whirlwind sexcapades in Beyond books, but its still strong and healthy and enjoyable (for the readers to read :)). Once again the O'Kane woman show to their men that they are a force to reckon with, but after they have done their fighting they are willing to let their men to care for them ... they pick their fights right.
Good, short and enlightening novella about life in Sector Four. ...more
It was a long time ago when I first saw The Princess Bride and since then this is one of my favorite films. Even tough I saw Lady Jane before The PrinIt was a long time ago when I first saw The Princess Bride and since then this is one of my favorite films. Even tough I saw Lady Jane before The Princess Bride and I was also familiar with Santa Barbara soap-opera, Cary Elwes and Robin Wright associate for me first always with The Princess Bride and then with all the others - Hot Shots, Robin Hood, Men in Tights and Adore.
It's really heart warming to read about how the book, The Princess Bride, got started, how the idea of making it into a movie was in the air for thirteen years, how the cast was found, how they become one big happy family, how the movie made the classical iconic movie move - did relatively poorly at the box office but once it was released to home movies it become a well loved and well known classic.
At the same time, when I ask people here, in Estonia, do you know the movie - well so far nobody has answered, yes I do :(. But I know the movie, I love the story, I love the characters, love the actors and I will spread the word.
Thank you for such a wonderful narrative about how the movie become to be. It's really treat to read for a movie puff, like me :)...more
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson is another book that will be coming to the movie theaters at the end of this month. Am I scared to go to see the mBefore I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson is another book that will be coming to the movie theaters at the end of this month. Am I scared to go to see the movie - yes, I am. And not because the story is spooky, no, 'cause I dread to see what they have made with the story.
Years ago when the book was popular and everybody was reading it I declined since it seemed to me to be too much like movie Memento, but now when enough time has passed, and movie is just couple of weeks to go, I read it.
It's the kind of book you start to read, you have tons of other stuff to do (go to work, go to sleep, cook dinner .. what ever) and you keep telling to yourself ''Just one more chapter and then ... and then its four in a morning and you have finished the book, you thoughts are all over the place, you want to cry, throw something, get up and do all the things you have not done in your life yet, tell people you love them ... all of it before you go to sleep, since you do not know what will happen tomorrow IF you have tomorrow.
And while you were reading you had many different theories what was happening, who could have been playing what game, who was impersonating whom, what was real and what was fake ... and at the end ... everything is possible.
It was a wonderful read that left me deeply depressed but at least I was not afraid not to go to sleep as I was after I finished Insomnia by Stephen King :)...more
Wisher and Sorrows by Cindy Lynn Speer reminds me so much Grimm Brothers stories - the stories in Wishes and Sorrows are also nice fairy tales with grWisher and Sorrows by Cindy Lynn Speer reminds me so much Grimm Brothers stories - the stories in Wishes and Sorrows are also nice fairy tales with grisly and savage twists and not so very happy endings. There are stories about what happened after "happily ever after", re-wrights of classic stories and absolutely new interesting stories. But non of them are happy, happy stories, they are all "happy" in a way, but at the end they still are cautionary tales to make sure you know exactly what you want and to be very specific when you make a wish and to be wary when accepting gifts from fairies.
It's a good collection of "fairy tales" and fairy tale re-wrights. Thoroughly enjoyable read....more
Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers starts where Grave Mercy ended - Sybella has signaled Ismae to be careful of the trap and Beast has hauled into a castlDark Triumph by Robin LaFevers starts where Grave Mercy ended - Sybella has signaled Ismae to be careful of the trap and Beast has hauled into a castle after the attack.
Sybella, another seventeen years old novice from Saint Mortain's convent was sent six months earlier back to her family, to the family she has initially escaped from before she ended up in Saint Mortain's convent. Her father d'Albert is one of the suitors to Anne of Brittain, but since Anne rejected his claim to her hand he is ready to use any power available to get his will. D'Albert does not know his daughter is a spy for Saint Mortain, nor does he know that she is Mortain's daughter. But he has had many wives so he has many children and some has taken after him some try to stay away from him. But Sybella could not stay away, she was ordered to go back, with promise, that she can finally kill the ones who have made her life a living hell.
But her newest assignment is to rescue Beast and send him back to Anne. Sybella's plan is to rescue Beast and then fulfill her hearts desire, but ...
Once again this wonderful story is based on actual historical characters and actual historical events, even if they are moving along a "bit" quicker than they did in real life, but at the same time its still just fiction, but what a fascinating and compelling fiction it is. From time to time the story is so brutal and bloody, but it's from the time when human life was worth nothing unless you were royal so the life was brutal and bloody. It was just a wonderful read....more
Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon is just the book to read while waiting for the new Outlander series book to be published and the OuLord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon is just the book to read while waiting for the new Outlander series book to be published and the Outlander TV series to continue.
It's a really good criminal mystery with a lot of information about gay and transvestite life in London in 18th century. But same time the readers can not forget, that it is still part of Outlander world, so Jamie Fraser is not too far from John's thoughts.
I adore the way that Ms Gabaldon is presenting the intimate scenes to the readers - there is no need for graphic description what goes where and who is how and what kind of sounds they make ... there is no need for that, she just creates the right atmosphere, gives her readers enough clues that our own imagination does the rest. Just brilliant. Even if it is a scene between two men, it does not creep me out, it's just sensual.
The Shocking Secret of a Guest at the Wedding by Victoria Alexander is a good, easy and entertaining read.
The protagonists of the story are Jack and TThe Shocking Secret of a Guest at the Wedding by Victoria Alexander is a good, easy and entertaining read.
The protagonists of the story are Jack and Teddy - Jack is a banker, who finds out his father is not dead as his mother as always said and so Jack travels with his father to England to meet his family there; Teddy is best friend of one of Jack's recently discovered cousins and since her fathers death she has pretended to organize social events just for fun, but at the same time she is paying his fathers depths with the profits that she makes from those events.
Those two meet at the wedding that Teddy has organized for Jack other cousin. They meet, they dance ... and the rest is history, although it takes time for both of them to realize that they had no way out of each other arms after that first dance. Well there are those who try to pry them apart - Teddy's mother, Jack's mother, Teddy's once-dead-then-resurrected fiancée, their own pride and stubbornness. But even if it takes time (not thirty years like Jack mother and father needed) but they will come to their senses.
Both of the characters are strong and intelligent, no moping or misunderstandings or mistrust or plain childishness - their story is just delight to read, although some thing were mentioned one too many times.
John Cleese's So, Anyway ... is about his childhood, schools, how he got into acting, how he become a comedian, how he started writing comedies, how hJohn Cleese's So, Anyway ... is about his childhood, schools, how he got into acting, how he become a comedian, how he started writing comedies, how he met his first wife, how he met his fellows from Monty Python, how they started ... and how they ended with the big show this year.
All of it is dark and sarcastic and funny and extremely interesting and entertaining. I just wish there could be more about Fawlty Towers and Monty Python and Fish called Wanda and Bond ... but all that there is is very good.
The Vines by Christopher Rice was an fairly good horror story but not so good of an horror story that you'd be afraid to stick your toes out from undeThe Vines by Christopher Rice was an fairly good horror story but not so good of an horror story that you'd be afraid to stick your toes out from under covers.
The story is about broken trust, tested friendship, evil machinations, restless spirits, hungry vines and bugs, masters and mistresses and understanding/misunderstanding cultural heritages.
It was interesting story but there were some things that I personally didn't like or didn't understand, but that's my problem.
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