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Okay, as promised, here’s my reaction to Julia Ross’s Clandestine…
The first thing to know is that I’ve always loved Ross’s prose. I adore the way she uses language, and I always have. The thing is, I’ve never been able to finish one of her books. Most of the time, I’ll read 30-50 pages and then stop, loving the prose but not captured by the story. It’s a very curious reaction, one that puzzles and fascinates me. I’m not entirely sure what it is that makes me love the sentences but not the paragraphs, the details but not the larger picture. Even after Clandestine, I don’t know. Read the rest of this entry »
I got the feedback I was waiting for and made some adjustments. I tried to read the first three chapters again to make sure the changes I made were small, bringing Ilsabet’s goal into slightly sharper relief, and didn’t pull things out of shape. But I couldn’t get through it — I’ve reached the point I can’t see things any more. So I decided I was just going to send it off as it is. It’s the best I can make it now.
And then I didn’t send it out. [Sigh.] Read the rest of this entry »
We all know what that’s paved with — I could pave a superhighway there and back.
As I said before, you know I’ve been reading because I can’t not read. I’ve been reading some good stuff, too. I’m about 40 pages from the end of Jessica Andersen’s debut single-title, Nightkeepers. I can’t better the description provided on Jess’s website, “According to the Mayan doomsday prophecy, time ends on December 21, 2012. In Nightkeepers, the last king of an ancient race of magi must team up with a sexy Miami-Dade narcotics detective in order to reunite his scattered warriors and fight the gods of the Mayan underworld. Wielding ancestral blood magic, the king must choose between his duty to avert the 2012 apocalypse and his love for the woman who is the gods’ destined sacrifice.” It’s been very hard to put down, and it’s made lengthy bus rides fly by. The next book in the series comes out in six months; I can’t wait.
Another book I’m waiting six months for is the final volume in Nora Roberts’ Sign of Seven trilogy, The Pagan Stone. On impulse, I borrowed the first volume, Blood Brothers, from the library, and then I liked it and the story so much that I couldn’t wait to borrow the second volume — I went right out and bought it the next day.
Between Andersen and Roberts, I read Loretta Chase’s newest book, Your Scandalous Ways. I love it, but of course I would: there isn’t a Loretta Chase romance that I don’t love.
I had an interesting experience reading Julia Ross’s Clandestine, another impulse check-out from the library, but I want to talk about that in a separate post once my thoughts settle a little more. And later I’ll also post what I have out from the library.
