Romance Lovers for the Challenge-Impaired discussion

Did you read many books in August? Were they Great ? Bad? Epic ? Tell us all about them!

I loved . Great characters and lots and lots of action! Fun read..blow those bad vamps to smithereens.
In second place but still very good was . Lots of tension and storyline.

Oh... looks sounds good, Oleander. And my library has it...yay!

Wow, this is tough but isn't that a good thing? I read, like many of you hundreds of books a year and enjoy most. But sometimes you just hit a dry spell. Well not this month. A favorite is hard but I'm going to go with Voyager though Shadowfever is pretty neck and neck. LOL the only thing in common is they are in the romance genre.

I still have time fo finish one more. I don't think the one I'm reading would be anything special tho. I'll be with my favorite in a couple of days

My favorite was The Secret Sister by Brenda NovakBrenda Novak.

Nicci wrote: "My favorite was The Secret Sister by Brenda NovakBrenda Novak."

I've never tried anything by her and I have 2 of her books as freebies. I should read them soon.

My 4 and 5 star reads




I had a very good reading month not a very peachy RL month though! They even each other out!

I only had 3 books that I didn't like.
DNF
very boring
meh

ShoSho wrote: "I've never tried anything by her and I have 2 of her books as freebies. I should read t..."

Novak is one of those rare romance writers who has successfully written in multiple sub genres: historical romance, contemporary romance and romantic suspense. I'm a fan.

I had a good month and here are some that stood out:

ShoSho wrote: "My 4 and 5 star reads


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That Lynsay Sands book was good on audio.

My favorite reads for August were:

1.
2.
3. <-- love the cover, also I want to read more by this author. keeps popping up in my recommendations so it's going to the top of Mt. TBR.

4. - I read books 2 and 3 also. Wish I'd skipped book 2 it was the worst read of the month for me. Luckily book 3 is much better. But I'm wary of picking up book 4...

Worst read:
<---Don't touch with a stick!

Gisela wrote: "
3. <-- love the cover, also I want to read more by this au..."

Well I just bought the whole series from KOBO for $5.80 :D

Gisela wrote: "4. Warprize (Chronicles of the Warlands, #1) by Elizabeth Vaughan- I read books 2 and 3 also. Wish I'd skipped book 2 it was the worst read of the month for me. Luckily book 3 is much better.

Worst read:
Warsworn (Chronicles of the Warlands, #2) by Elizabeth Vaughan <---Don't touch with a stick! "

Wow book 1 your best read of the month and #2 your worst!

ShoSho wrote: "Nicci wrote: "My favorite was The Secret Sister by Brenda NovakBrenda Novak."

I've never tried anything by her and I have 2 of her books as freebies. I should read t..."

I love her. I'll be interested to see what you think!

Jonetta wrote: "I had a good month and here are some that stood out:

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Jonetta wrote: "ShoSho wrote: "I've never tried anything by her and I have 2 of her books as freebies. I should read t..."

Novak is one of those rare romance writers who has successfully written in multiple sub ..."

I've been hearing If You Only Knew is good. It's on my TBR. Hope I get to it soon.

Nicci wrote: "I've been hearing If You Only Knew is good. It's on my TBR. Hope I get to it soon...."

I think it's her best work yet, even though it reads more like contemporary fiction.

Jonetta wrote: "I had a good month and here are some that stood out:

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Three Fates was a favorite of mine, blended history (Lusitania sinking), intrigue and romance. A former thief survives with one of the three fates (small statue) he turns a new leaf after surviving but kept the statue as a keepsake. Then 3/4 of a century later, it's stolen again. I read it years and years ago, one day I'll get the audio and enjoy it again.

Sue wrote: "Three Fates was a favorite of mine, blended history (Lusitania sinking), intrigue and romance. A former thief survives with one of the three fates (small statue) he turns a new leaf after surviving but kept the statue as a keepsake. Then 3/4 of a century later, it's stolen again. I read it years and years ago, one day I'll get the audio and enjoy it again. ..."

Sue, I was SO pleasantly surprised and loved all the things you point out. No one ever talks about this title when listing their favorite NR books and I wonder why. It's in my top five of her standalone titles.

Jonetta wrote: "Sue wrote: "Three Fates was a favorite of mine, ... Sue, I was SO pleasantly surprised and loved all the things you point out. No one ever talks about this title when listing their favorite NR books and I wonder why. It's in my top five of her standalone titles. "

I think folks got sucked into her trilogy work myself included, but forget she could write a great standalone book... this one and the The Witness are excellent. If I remember right Hot Ice was quite good too.

the Witness is one of the few NR books that I LOVED. the rest were like "ugh, is it over yet?"

I have to get my hands on Three fates then :D

I love most of her book. Both trilogies and stand-alones.

I think you'll love it, ShoSho.

My favorite read for the month was without a doubt .

A few others that I really enjoyed

Nichole wrote: "
A few others that I really enjoyed
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Oh LOTHAIRE....

Yeah, I really liked it but I think I was too rushed with other challenges to fully enjoy it. Or not. Who knows but I didn't looooove it like I was hoping. I put too much pressure on him, lol.

Nichole wrote: "Yeah, I really liked it but I think I was too rushed with other challenges to fully enjoy it. Or not. Who knows but I didn't looooove it like I was hoping. I put too much pressure on him, lol."

I did a re-listen in August so it's very fresh in my mind. The sex scenes on audio is the funniest thing ever! The narrator gets really into it and shouts "Oh LOTHAIRE.... " I LOL every time I listen to it.

ShoSho wrote: "Nichole wrote: "Yeah, I really liked it but I think I was too rushed with other challenges to fully enjoy it. Or not. Who knows but I didn't looooove it like I was hoping. I put too much pressure o..."

The sex scenes make me LOL, I don't know if that was the author's intention but you can tell the narrator was having fun.

Gisela wrote: "The sex scenes make me LOL, I don't know if that was the author's intention but you can tell the narrator was having fun. "

I've read all of them and listened to only a couple on audio so no the sex scenes are not that funny when you read them. I love the narrator he's one of the best.

I thoroughly enjoyed J.A. Templeton's Young Adult Paranormal Romance called The Deepest Cut. It was well-done, and I will definitely be reading the next one in the series soon!

Margaret wrote: "I thoroughly enjoyed J.A. Templeton's Young Adult Paranormal Romance called The Deepest Cut. It was well-done, and I will definitely be reading the next one in the series soon!"

Good to know, I got that one as a freebie.