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This week I'm starting with The Raft by S.A. Bodeen

I am about a quarter of the way through Dreamless by Josephine Angelini. It is really good, but I have been busy all weekend, so I haven't had much time to read. I have also started The Ask and the Answer book by Patrick Ness. Both of them are the second books in a series and each series is really good, so I have a hard time figuring out which one to read!

I'm all over the place this week--switching between a romantic suspense (Intimate Enemies) and a fun contemporary (Tall Tales and Wedding Veils) depending on mood. This is the first book I've ready by Jane Graves, and I really like it. Have any of you read her others? Which should I read next?

Theresa, I like Jane Graves too! I can't remember if I read TTAWV first or the duo BLACK TIES AND LULLABIES and HEARTSTRINGS AND DIAMOND RINGS. I liked them all. The duo of BTAL and HADR are cute - the heroines in each story are friends. I have a few of her others on my TBR pile but haven't gotten to them yet.

I'm in the middle of Tessa Dare's A LADY BY MIDNIGHT. I was at B&N with my daughter over the weekend getting her some books she needs for school and this one popped right out at me. I didn't realize when I bought it that it doesn't come out officially until tomorrow! I haven't been following the release dates as closely as I used to. I started it yesterday and am enjoying it.

I also got my hands on MAD DOG AND ANNIE by Virginia Kantra last week. It was a good read but the first in the series is still my favorite, THE PASSION OF PATRICK MACNEILL.

Irisheyes wrote: "Theresa, I like Jane Graves too! I can't remember if I read TTAWV first or the duo BLACK TIES AND LULLABIES and HEARTSTRINGS AND DIAMOND RINGS. I liked them all. The duo of BTAL and HADR are cut..."

Cool, thanks! Sounds like I can't go wrong diving into her backlist.

Of course, Graves might be on hold for a while--tomorrow we get new books from EJ, Tessa Dare, and Kieran Kramer, plus the Midnight Scandals anthology. WOW.

Tall Tales and Wedding Veils was the first Jane Graves book I read, and it's still my favorite. But I haven't missed one since, and I've liked them all.

Caroline Linden's The Way to a Duke's Heart releases August 28 too. I liked it a lot, especially the heroine. And I loved the Dare, James, and Kramer all. I also liked debut author Nina Rowan's A Study in Seduction, another August 28 release. The hero's background is different and interesting, and the heroine is a math prodigy (I liked her anyway).

There are also some great August 28 contemporary releases: Nightingale Way, Eternity Springs #5, Emily March; When Lightning Strikes, Whiskey Creek #1, Brenda Novak, and Return to Willow Lake, Lakeshore Chronicles #10, Susan Wiggs.

Janga, thanks for letting me know how you liked the Graves books! And for adding so many more out-today books to my TBR. :) I read Brenda Novak's Whiskey Creek novella when she was offering it for free a few weeks ago--great intro to the series.

Theresa, the Novak series is an interesting one. I liked the novella and thought the marriage of convenience in When Lighning Strikes was a great take on that popular trope. But Book #2, When Snow Falls has some really unusual elements. I think this is going to be one of the most interesting of the small town series.

Starting on Host by Faith Hunter.

Just finished The Ugly Duchess. Will write more in the monthly read section. I had very mixed feelings--thought the hero should have apologized and explained before he got so high handed with her. Also the first chapter --specifically his feelings about her--seem wildly inconsistent with the rest of the book.
Reading the midnight scandal short stories. I liked the first two. Still working on the third

Read and loved Tami Hoag's Deeper Than the Dead. I know she's been around for a while but it's my first by her. Gonna pick up the next one now.