What the Wenches Are Reading

By -
I love reading like Marilyn sometimes!

Click through to see what the Wenches Are Reading this week, and share your list in the comments below! Seriously, what are you reading? Barb doesn't know what to read next!


 
Amanda:  I'm still reading Archangel's Shadows by Nalini Singh. I'm really not very happy with it, but I'm forging on.

Angela: This week I read the fantastic The Winter Long (October Daye #8) by Seanan McGuire. It was brilliant and might just be my favourite of the whole series. October Daye kicks butt as usual even though some of the blood reviving scenes were a little gruesome for me. Also read Angelfall by Susan Ee and yes Zee is right again!!!!!!! Merit originally discovered this gem and what a wonder read and a great WTF moment near the end. Can't wait to read the next book.

Barb: This week I decided to revisit one of my favorite PNR heroes, Dageus MacKeltar, and reread The Dark Highlander. I first read KMM's Highlander books about three years ago while in the thrall of the Fever world. They were a wonderful foundation for events that happen in the Fever books, and I loved the stand-alone romances back then. Fast forward a few years, and I probably didn't love it quite as much. I'm glad I revisited though. Dageus is still my favorite MacKeltar. Yes, including Christian. I also read Fool's Gold, a Sabina Kane prequel novella, about Sabina's first assignment. I really enjoyed seeing green Sabina and getting more insight into how she became the broken assassin we know and love. I have no idea where I'm going next. Any suggestions?

Donna: This week I read Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews. It wasn't quite my cup of tea, and I moved on to Written in Red by Anne Bishop. I am just loving it! This is the first book in a really different series. The world building is complex, fraught with danger, mystery and intrigue. It took me a couple of chapters to get into it, though. I have about a third of the book to read, and I'm annoyed that I have to go to work instead of staying home to finish it.

Kathi: I hopped on the bandwagon and read Burn For Me! To repeat what several other Wenches have said, for me this was an irresistible and thoroughly engrossing read. It was perfectly paced, funny, and fun, and I loved the characters! Hope we don’t have to wait too long for the next book.

Merit: Sorry, didn’t have much time to read this week. I’m still reading Susanna Kearsley’s book, The Winter Sea. It is a haunting, compelling story. The title’s subject - the winter sea - plays an integral part in this tale, substantially and mentally.

Zee: After Burn For Me, I wanted to pick up Stephen King's Revival, but didn't get a chance to sit there undisturbed and just give it all my attention for however long I wanted. So I picked up Thea Harrison's Dragon Bound (Elder Races #1) and Storm's Heart (Elder Races #2). I didn't enjoy them as much as I'd hoped, there were things I liked and things I really didn't. While I found the world fascinating, the female lead in the first book fell a little flat. And I really wanted to like her (because her name was Pia, like the friend who recommended it and who is awesome.) Ended up not caring about her. Didn't hate her, but didn't like her either. The second book I liked the female lead, but the male lead put me off a wee bit. The first book also had a lot of tropes I find very problematic, but despite it all, not a bad read when you're bored. Second one was better for me. (Also SO ecstatic Ange enjoyed Angelfall!!!)  

Comments

Post a Comment

You Might Want to Read...

Black Dagger Brotherhood: Scenes That Left us Begging for More

By -
Image
Created by Olga Daniels What better way to prepare for the impending release of the next Black Dagger Brotherhood novel, Lover at Last by J. R. Ward, than to relive some of our favourite scenes in the previous books?! Some of these scenes were selected by multiple Wenches, others are just personal favourites. One is. Clearly. The. Wench. Favourite. It won't be hard to tell which one! After the jump, see which scenes made us ooh, ahh, and pant for more.
Keep reading »

A Tribute to The Fiery Cross

By -
Image
Or How I Learned to Stop, Smell the Pig Shite, and Fall in Love with the Fifth Book in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Series A young White Sow dreams of all the food she’ll be eating to grow into her role in this book As the wait for the new Outlander book and television series drags on (and oooooonnnnnnnnaaaarrrggghhh), many fans have been rereading the first seven books in the series. Fascinating online discussions abound as to the motivations of the characters, the nuances of meaning within various scenes, and future possibilities and foreshadowing. Amongst enthusiastic effusions about all things even remotely associated with our beloved series, I’ve seen one recurring subject of complaint. People like to pick on The Fiery Cross . “It’s too slow.” “It doesn’t have enough action.” “Where’s the mystery?” So during my recent reread, I set out to take a few notes about memorable moments. But I gave that up early on. There were far too many. Because the book was like a beautifu...
Keep reading »

When The Music's Over

By -
Image
A SUPER Spoilery Discussion of Feversong by Karen Marie Moning by: Zee the Terrible and Barbara Bones By Olga. It's now been two weeks since we got our hot little hands on Feversong , the final book in the Mac & Barrons part of Karen Marie Moning's Fever series. It's almost all we can talk about in the Saucy Wenches hallways (which is really online, but you get the drift) and we have lots of thoughts and opinions so we aren't putting off our Super Spoilery Recap Extravaganza any longer!  Zee told you about how much she loved it in her Wench review, here , and it will surprise exactly no one that Barb did, too. Loved it to pieces. Thought it was pretty much perfect, exactly the kind of conclusion KMM has been promising us since she gave us Iced , leaving everyone precisely where they need to be. That said, we have lots and lots and LOTS of thoughts. So come with us through the jump where we're dishing all the dirt, in filthy, spoilery detail. We menti...
Keep reading »

Dani Mega O'Malley: Superstar

By -
Image
Giddy with anticipation for the release of Karen Marie Moning's Iced , a lot of the Wenches have been thinking about Dani "Mega" O'Malley, the young sidhe -seer we first met in Bloodfever , who is poised to step out of the shadows behind Mac and Rowena and take center stage. Though Moning has recently said the three books she is writing for Dani will continue the story we've been following in the Fever books, the POV will shift to reveal the next chapters through Dani's eyes. With our heads firmly buried in Shadowfever in a frenzied effort to finish our rereads before the new release, we Wenches have been wondering what's in store for Dani. But no one has wanted to stop reading long enough to write a proper tribute to our young heroine as she prepares to take the leap to leading lady. Though we all think she's pretty awesome and deserves a big ticker-tape parade to show our support. So a sneaky Wench tried the stealth approach and asked us...
Keep reading »

Review: Annihilation (Book and Movie)

By -
Image
When I read Annihilation last fall, I was intrigued, repulsed, mystified, enchanted, horrified, compelled, absorbed, and ultimately so unable to articulate what had happened that I didn’t attempt a review. But it has never stopped growing on me, new insights twining around in my brain. It’s insidious. Then the movie happened. I. Had. To. Go. I didn’t think anyone could film the book, and I was on Cloud 9 when I saw the abundance of rave critical reviews. It got compared to Apocalypse Now and 2001: A Space Odyssey ! It got called “stunning” and the “Best Sci-Fi Film in Years” that “ranks among great philosophical sci-fi”! And though there were many differences from the book, it sounded almost as batshitcrazybrilliant as the book!! Which means there are now two equally haunting versions of this story for me to wonder WTF happened. I might not have all the answers, but I’ve certainly enjoyed replaying scenes in my mind and pondering the possibilities. And I suspect that’s...
Keep reading »