7/50 books
Mar. 13th, 2008 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltd7) Birthright by Nora Roberts. Not bad. Kind of a romance, kind of a mystery, very well-plotted and tense. Lots of head-hopping. Callie gets called to a dig in western Marylanfd, and starts discovering stuff about her own past as well as the village she's digging up. (audio)
6) Viking Funeral by Stephen J. Cannell. Anyone who watched TV in the 80's remembers Cannell. He still has the ability to write a tightly plotted thriller. When a deep undercover unit goes rogue, it's up to disgraced cop, Shane Scully to stop the Vikings. (audio)
5) "Dress to Impress" by Jodi Payne. From Torquere. Erik likes to play games, and Matt gets sucked in. Very sexy, and very nicely done.
4) Taste Test: Blue Collar from Torquere Press. I'm cheating here. One of the four stories was mine, but the other three were new. We have a trucker and his mechanic lover, a drummer who is rescued late at night by a tow-truck driver and a bike mechanic who falls for the owner of a classic. And my own about Privateer Lines' pressgang tactics for new drivers. All very readable, hot and entertaining.
3) The Fever Tree and Other Stories of Suspense by Ruth Rendell. Oh wow. Murder and other horrors in small town Britain. These are like arsenic-laced bonbons, needing to be savored one at a time, each a small jewel in storytelling. The title story is reminiscent of Bradbury's "The Veldt."
2) The Dr. Fell Series by Syd McGinley: Pet sitting, Samhian & Sol Invictus, from Torquere. Wonderful, wonderful. John Fell is grieving for his lover, bashed to death, when he sort of falls into the role of Top for a group of his friends, who send their boys to him when the boys are troublesome. Written in first person present tense, the style may be off-putting, but they are well-worth persevering.
1) Strange Candy by Laurell K Hamilton. Not bad. Not as dreadful as I feared, but she feels, somehow secondhand and threadbare on several of the stories. My first LKH.
6) Viking Funeral by Stephen J. Cannell. Anyone who watched TV in the 80's remembers Cannell. He still has the ability to write a tightly plotted thriller. When a deep undercover unit goes rogue, it's up to disgraced cop, Shane Scully to stop the Vikings. (audio)
5) "Dress to Impress" by Jodi Payne. From Torquere. Erik likes to play games, and Matt gets sucked in. Very sexy, and very nicely done.
4) Taste Test: Blue Collar from Torquere Press. I'm cheating here. One of the four stories was mine, but the other three were new. We have a trucker and his mechanic lover, a drummer who is rescued late at night by a tow-truck driver and a bike mechanic who falls for the owner of a classic. And my own about Privateer Lines' pressgang tactics for new drivers. All very readable, hot and entertaining.
3) The Fever Tree and Other Stories of Suspense by Ruth Rendell. Oh wow. Murder and other horrors in small town Britain. These are like arsenic-laced bonbons, needing to be savored one at a time, each a small jewel in storytelling. The title story is reminiscent of Bradbury's "The Veldt."
2) The Dr. Fell Series by Syd McGinley: Pet sitting, Samhian & Sol Invictus, from Torquere. Wonderful, wonderful. John Fell is grieving for his lover, bashed to death, when he sort of falls into the role of Top for a group of his friends, who send their boys to him when the boys are troublesome. Written in first person present tense, the style may be off-putting, but they are well-worth persevering.
1) Strange Candy by Laurell K Hamilton. Not bad. Not as dreadful as I feared, but she feels, somehow secondhand and threadbare on several of the stories. My first LKH.
