reading update

[meganbmoore]

All Night Long by Jayne Ann Krentz: Standard JAK-good mystery, strong, intelligent heroine, alpha male hero, great dialogue.  Nothing to make it stand out from her other books, but worlds better than most romantic suspense.

Hayate the Combat Butler Vol 1-2 by Kenjiro Hata:  Very fun series about a teenaged boy with worthless parents who are always in debt who end up selling his organs to the yakuza.  He's "saved" by Nagi, a girl who mistakes his kidnapping attempt as a confession of love and hires him on as her butler-a job that requires him to wrestle with tigers more than it does normal butler activities.  It reminds me a lot-art, characters, humor, story, borderline immortality of hero, etc-of Ken Akamatsu's stuff, only cuter and more innocent and without the fanservice.

La Corda d’Oro Vol 1-3 by Yuki Kure: Apparently based on a videogame, it's about Kahoko, a general education student at a school known for its prominent musical department, who gets a magical violin from a fairy and  finds herself enrolled in the school's famous music competition.  First off?  That Fairy?  Blasted annoying thing that needs to be squashed.  Other than that, I quite liked it.  Picked up volume 1 on a whim and pretty much forgot about it, but it's good.  Limited concept, but hopefully it won't last longer than it should.

Touch the Dark by Karen Chance: Urban fantasy about a psychic raised by the vampire who killed her parents who eventually got her revenge by exposing his black market exploits and ruining him financially, and has been on the run from him ever since, but eventually gets caught up in vampire/human politics.  Preety good first book, but looks like the series might get caught up on the vampires/sex urban fantasy crutch...we'll see.

Tail of the Moon Vol 3-4 by Rinko Ueda:  I had a feeling I'd fall for this one if I stuck with it long enough, and it looks like I was right.  Usagi is still a little too much all about Hanzo for me, but I'm really liking it.  Ultra clutzy heroine + insanely serious hero + ninja antics = fun.

Billionaires Prefer Blondes by Suzanne Enoch:  Book...3? 4?  In her series about an ex-cat burglar obsessed w/ Godzilla and diet coke and a british billionaire obsessed with...well, her, pretty much.  The strongest factor remains the dialogue(what happens when you write regency romances for your first 10 or so books...gives you an edge in that department) but I think the series as a whole is starting to appeal to me more.  This one had elements of Hudson Hawke, To Catch A Thief and How to Steal A Million.

*goes to pass out in front of My Girl*

 

Comments

[kingcrankycat.livejournal.com]

Tail of the Moon? Can't find much info on it in your LJ, please elaborate...

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Hayate the Combat Butler: I want to buy this just for the title.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

you should. it's great cracky fun.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

...about an ex-cat burglar obsessed w/ Godzilla

W-what? Why have I never heard of this series before? :O!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

lol. It's marketted as romantic suspense but is mostly just fun. The heroine is the daughter of a cat burglar who's now a security expert, and she's in love with old Godzilla movies. I want someone to tell her they loved the US one a few years ago just to see her go psycho on them.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I must look up these books!

(Romantic suspense, in general, tends to do nothing for me but these sound interesting.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Romantic suspense in general isn't worth bothering with, but there are some good ones. Enoch's first 10 or so books(and how I started reading her) were Regency historicals and it shows(in the positive way) in the dialogue.