What The Wenches Are Reading

By -



Click through to see what we're reading! 



Angela:  I’ve been a reading machine this week.  Although that is in part because I’ve been delaying starting some longer books. This week I read Cork O’Connor #4 Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger, and this series just gets better and better. Easily a five-star read. Contemporary mystery lovers. This is a great series and you won’t be disappointed giving it a go. I then read the last Graveyard Queen book, The Awakening (#6) by Amanda Stevens. Satisfying ending to a much loved series of mine. Amelia Gray was exactly where she wanted to be. Lastly, I read Lady Julia Grey #4, Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn, and it was my favourite in the series to date. The ending was deeply saddening and I look forward to reading the final book in the series next month.

 Anne: I finally got the fanfiction bug out of my system. I started to read the last Night Prince book by Jeaniene Frost, Into the Fire, but I realized after one chapter I didn't remember the last book. So, I went back to the beginning and I'm reading Once Burned. In the audio world, I finished Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and started the next Mercy Thompson book, Bone Crossed.

 Barb: I finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. That book is still my favorite of the series, leaving me as awed after finishing as I was the first time I read it. I've moved right on to Half-Blood Prince. I'm enjoying the hell out of this reread and formulating ideas for posts as I go. Look for some Harry Potter talk in the coming weeks. 

 Donna: This week, my attention has been claimed by Claire North’s Touch, the story of a “ghost” who is able to jump from host to host. I’m still trying to figure out who all the players are, since they are being slowly revealed. The main character, Kepler, is trying to find out why and how an assassin is after both him and his latest host. Things get very interesting when he jumps into the body of the assassin.

 Kathi: I enjoyed Big Little Lies so much on TV that I decided to read the book. So far, I’m picking up a lot of clues that weren’t in the show or I missed. Plus there’s an Erotic Fiction Book Club! Really enjoying the book so far! 

 Merit: I am still reading The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay. This epic fantasy is mesmerizing. The medieval world is engaging, the emotional pull of the main characters is really strong. The useless, futile and cruel wars. It's a captivating tale.

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 »