Post-holiday regrouping

Did everyone have a good holiday? I enjoyed it while it lasted but I'm glad it's over!  I've had so much going on that I'm hoping now everything can balance its self out.  

 

I haven't been able to focus on reading as much as I would like, but I did get a chance to read Kresley Cole's THE PROFESSIONAL, the first book in her Game Maker series. I really enjoyed it.  If you like your romance books to have dark, broken heroes & and sweet but not too naive heroines, some BDSM, lots of hot, alpha manliness, and some Transporter/Jason Bourne style action/adventure, then you should  love this book too.

Then I read Elise Sax's YA novel FOREVER NOW the story of Tess and Cruz. Tess's mother and Cruz's father abandon them their senior year of high school and together they find a way to survive. Not all paths are easy, but together they strive to make it. Forging a friendship that should take them into forever.

Here are some of the books I get to choose my next read from...I have NO idea which one I will end up reading first, through eventually they'll all get read. ;)

My July 2008 reads

1.DIE FOR ME-Karen Rose~Suspense -Rating A+
2. SCREAM FOR ME – Karen Rose~Suspense -Rating A+
3. DELICIOUS – Sherry Thomas ~Victorian -Rating B-
~I really liked her writing style, but found the story only mediocre-the last ½ of the book was great.
4. THE LOST DUKE OF WYNDHAM – Julia Quinn~ Regency-Rating A
5. SECRETS OF THE KNIGHT – Julie Latham~Medieval -Rating C
~I had trouble connecting with the characters.
6. TEMPTED BY THE NIGHT(Marlowe #2)– Elizabeth Boyle~Victorian/Paranormal -Rating A+
7. MINE TIL MIDNIGHT (Hathaway #1)– Lisa Kleypas~Victorian -Rating A+
~Love Love Love Cam....
8. SEDUCE ME AT SUNRISE (Hathaway #2)– Lisa Kleypas~Victorian -Rating A+
~Kev (Merripen) & Win's story...this book really focused on the whole Hathaway clan, esp. Cam, with the romance between Kev & Win taking place almost in the background (they are both quieter/privater people, while everyone else are all so boisterous and overpowering), but because I love the whole family, it didn't bother me a bit and was an excellent read
9. IF YOU DARE (McCarrick #1) – Kresley Cole~Victorian -Rating A
10. IF YOU DESIRE (McCarrick #2) – Kresley Cole~Victorian -Rating B-
11. IF YOU DECEIVE ((McCarrick #3) – Kresley Cole~Victorian -Rating A
12. DUCHESS AT NIGHT (Duchess #3) – Eloisa James ~Georgian -Rating A+
13. PROMISES LINGER(Promises #1) – Sarah McCarty~Western -Rating A+
14. PROMISES KEEP (Promises #2) – Sarah McCarty~Western -Rating A
15. PROMISES PREVAIL (Promises #3)– Sarah McCarty~Western -Rating A