Iron and Velvet is October’s Vaginal Fantasy pick, I blew threw it this weekend as I’ve been feeling guilty about not reading the last couple of picks. Anxiety is a hell of a thing you guys, it doesn’t make sense, but there it is. Anyway, even though I finished it on Saturday there isn’t a whole lot of the book that’s sticking with me, it’s evaporated into the ether of mediocre books. The book isn’t terrible taken all together, though if it hadn’t improved half-way through […]
Suspend Historical Knowledge, All Ye Who Enter Here
This was September’s pick for Vaginal Fantasy, and as I finished it before the hangout it totally counts as having been read in time. Yup. Totally. It’s a light, fluffy read that had me crying with laughter in some spots and grimacing in frustration in others, so kind of a mixed bag. The first half of the book was completely and utterly delightful and ridiculous and then somewhere in the second half, it just kind of all fell apart. Part of the reason for the […]
Space! Romance! Murder!
In the Black is the Vaginal Fantasy Pick for August, and as I didn’t read the last two month’s picks and I’ve been missing my local group’s meetings I thought I really needed to pick this one up. Fortunately it’s pretty cheap on kindle, so it wasn’t too much of a bother. This is doubly fortunate because yet again, we’ve got a Vaginal Fantasy pick that has me screaming whyyyyyyyyyy? Not my fave, is what I’m saying. The book starts out well enough, our heroine Sam […]
When making a deal with the Devil, be careful what you wish for
Isobel has grown up in the town of Flood, in the saloon inhabited by the Old Man, the devil himself. It is known to all who live in the Territory, the area west of the Mississippi, that the devil always deals a fair hand. If you make a Bargain with him, he will give you exactly what you want, but you need to be careful you are sure exactly what you ask for. When Isobel turns sixteen, she is free to make her own way […]
There really are a LOT of magpies in this book
Lucien Vaudry, Lord Crane, has returned to England after a twenty year exile in China because he’s inherited an earldom he never wanted. He’s not at all sorry his father and brother are dead, his brother Hector was a particularly nasty character, and their father covered up all his grievous misdeeds. There appears to be a curse on the Crane family, however, and having claimed the lives of his father and brother, it’s Lucien’s turn next. He needs magical assistance, and fast, before he commits […]
Cupcakes, Some False Advertising, and A Heap of Nonsense
I’m new to CBR this year, and you all seem to really like your romances. Outside of the classics and a few mainstreams, I have yet to get the genre to really speak to me. I’m pretty pragmatic by nature, so I’m not easily swept away. My dislike for romance makes me feel like there’s something wrong with me, not that there’s something wrong with romances. So I try and try again. So, here we are. Again. Someone (I’m sorry I can’t remember who), mentioned […]