books, books and more books

ok, so as anyone who has read this should know by now, i love to read, and i read ALOT. so to continue with my impromptu book reviews, i thought i would share some on the two newest books i have read.

first is Flirt the new Anita book by LKH. So short, wow, like that book needed more meat to it. but it was a good story, and the situation which she describes at the end of the book, man so fun because i have had that happen. i would love to meet the man who pulled it off, would definately be something to see him, especially if her description of him rings true. but onto the book, well, sorta, i dont want to give it away, i mean it just came out yesterday and not everyone reads like me. so i will say that it is so good, and that the way the characters intermingle is definately interesting, it always is. and that i am a little sad, because (WARNING: SPOILER) there was no vampires, i have missed jean claude and asher, its been a few books since we really got to see them. bring me back to the first reason i strated reading this series, i've always had a thing for vampires.

LKH, at the end of the book says something about how people see the same thing, but yet it is still different, how she always sees it dark, but a friend of hers always see it light and funny. i have to agree, i see the world through a very dark set of glasses, different experiences lead to different ways of seeing things, and LKH and i seem to see things in a similar way, seems interesting that. if i could ever figure out how to truly write what is in my head down i wonder if i could create a world with as many people who are loved as she has. i doubt that we will ever know for sure.

sorry for the aside, now on to the next book, it is a young adult novel, by two new authors, Kami Garcia, and Margaret Stohl. I always wonder how two people can write a book, but maybe one is the ideas and the other is the words, maybe i just need a word person, someone who can navigate my mind and pull out the things that need to go together, and figure it all out. hmmm, something to look into.

anyways, it is called Beautiful Creatures, the title sorta tells you about the book, and yet is oddly lacking, anyways, this book was released in december, and is about a world just like ours, except that in this tiny southern town there is a family of, i don't want to say witches because they are and aren't, lets say magical beings, some good and some bad, or light and dark as they say in the book, and how they end up being exposed to one high school kid, a love story ensues, and a mystery from the past or two. all and all it was a good book, i could put it down unlike others, but its one i will reread. which is going to be a must because they left it way to open, there is going to be another one. now don't get me wrong, i enjoy my series, i love reading about the same characters, and how their lifes progress, but i also like to see the end of a story, to know that life s good, and let it go. this book i wished would have ended, it was good, but i do not know if the characters are strong enough for more, and the only one that is died, so i guess we will see where it goes from here.

lets see, on the subject of series that should have ended, or that need to get sorta towards the end. My first would be Merry Gentry, i love the first 7-8 books, when they are going after the crown of fairy and such, but this lastest one Divine Misdemeanors, i am so not sure about that one. the other onwe ended so strong for me, i would have left the series their, don't misunderstand me, i really want to know more about the characters and such, but it just seemed so perfect, and DM just didn't do it for me. now as for Anita, i don't think you could ever really end Anita, there is just to much going on there, and i am good with that, i know basically the blueprint of the different books, and some are alot alike, but i still enjoy them, its not really the stories there, its the characters, that world is totally alive for me, and because of that i could read it indefinately.

on to a different author, Iris Johansen, good books, like LKH many ise the same blueprint alot, but its fine because it works, she has strong characters, many who you get to see again, and many who you don't, i once tried mapping her characters and how they tangled together, let me tell you not easy but it showed different things, things that i had not noticed before, so it works. now her Eve Duncan story, great characters, but they are strarting to get up there in age, and i would love to see the end of that set. I also would love to see more on Jane and Trevor, i did not like that Jane may be getting a new beau, i liked Trevor, he was one of my faves when it came o her men, though Galen is still number 1.

Ok, to finish off today's insight into different books/authors we are going to bring up Kay Hooper, she is a good author, and her Special Crime Unit has some great stories, they all follow a similar blueprint as well, but hey as i said earlier if it works why change it. which is sorta what she did, she decided to be challenging, and now her latest trilogy blends not only individual stories, but also brings together one big one woven through the others, and so far it works, her newest one was released last month, but i have yet to read it. sad. but i am sure it will be good, what i would really like to see is more to her thief stories, Quinn and his brothers stole my heart as quickly as they did Morgannas, and I want more, on her website she has been saying for years that there will be more to this story, but it just is not happening. this blood trilogy has taken up tons of time i guess, but i have to beg, please, please write more about Quinn.

so i know i said i was going to finish, but it seems i still have more to say, James Rollins and his Sigma team, oh how much I want to read more on them, those are some good books, they make you think, and they teach you things that you may not have known about before. And he is always so good about telling where he gets this and that from, he's amazing. I crave more from him.

And then remember Harry Potter, how we were promised an encyclopedia about the characters, and where they went in the world, what ever happened to that, i want to know the details, anfter the years that were put into that series i need more, i need the end, the same thing goes to twilight's stephanie meyer, even if edward's version never gets written, which would be sad because he is far more interesting a thinker than bella, i still would like to see that encyclopedia for her work as well. they finish things, and such.

oh well, on that note the baby is upset, so now i must really go. May your day be eventful, and your life full of good cheer.