Just thought I’d share my TBR stack

Please note, this does not include all the books I intend to read somehow. These are just the ones I’ve started and for whatever reason have not finished.

• 1. Cravings - An anthology featuring Laurell K. Hamilton, MaryJanice Davidson and two other authors. The LKH story was godawful, and the MJD one didn’t start out so well, but I am curious to see how her non-Betsy heroine vampire gets herself out of the clusterfuck that is the first section.

• 2. Son of Avonar by Carol Berg: Actually, I really like this story. Its first two chapters start out very well, but I haven’t gotten around to finishing it.
• 3. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley: I’m somewhere in the middle of this one. Jeff, our erstwhile protagonist, is a lot of fun. But I’m not so much feeling it with the telepathic red-haired people everywhere. Still, it’s not a bad book. Eventually, I will find a mood in which to finish it.
• 4. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley: Yay for rereads. But this book is freaking long, and I’m not sure I can deal with every female character pining over Lancelet, who is just… so not my idea of all that hot.
• 5. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher: I loved the first Dresden Files book, but this one totally doesn’t start off all that well.
• 6. Kushiel’s Chosen by Jacqueline Carey: See 6. I loved the other Kushiel books, but Carey always takes a while to grab me.
• 7. King’s Dragon by Kate Elliot: Another book I love. I think I’ve been putting off finishing it because I really don’t want it to be over, even though there are, like, six other books in the series.
• 8. Dark Desire by Christine Feehan: I don’t know why I started this one after my thoughts on the first book in the series. I think I was just in the mood for uncomplicated random sex. And I got pleasantly surprised that there is a little bit more of a story here. Not, like, a whole lot more story, but I like the dynamic between the hero and heroine… at least in the beginning.
• 9. How to Conjure a Man by Nancy Lindquist: I started reading this during the last bit of the tour for the play. I don’t know why I put it down, either. I think I don’t want to be disappointed by how it ends… Because the hero had an ex he can’t seem to get rid of, which is something I don’t see too much of in romance stories.
• 10. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer: I loved the beginning, but now that Bella has caught up with me and figured out that Edward is a vampire, I’m afraid my poor suspension of disbelief is just going to give up and go home.
• 11. Sorceress of Faith by Robin D. Owens: This made it onto the list even though I only maybe read a bit of the first chapter. I loved the first book in this series, though, even though Robin D. Owens uses, like, every cliche in the book and then some.
• 12. Sword Dancer by Jennifer Roberson: I liked the heroine. Not so much our narrator, who is a bit of a dickhead. They haven’t made with the smexing already, and I want them to get it over with so we can get back to the plot kthxbye.
• 13. The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge: The Snow Queen was a great book. World’s End had a lot more BZ emoing than I would have liked, and The Summer Queen has been unfinished for way too long. And unlike most books, when I skimmed to the end just to see what happened, I was not so much intrigued to see how the characters got there. Still, I will one day prevail.
• 14. Dark Lover by J. R. Ward: God, I shouldn’t love a book about urban vampires who have dorky ass names. And yet, unlike some authors on this list, it is obvious that J. R. Ward had fun writing about her vampires. I keep coming back to this book more often than some of the others on this list because of that.