Book lust
I went on kind of a tear on a yahoo group recently and bitched about how I sometimes feel that authors expect all reviewers to look for things to say to trash their books. Obviously, I disagree with this assessment, as evidenced by tonight.
Tonight I was vassilating between two books that I will start tomorrow. Both are paranormals. One is by an author I love. The other is by a new to me author who sent me an E-ARC of her September release. Being a series whore, I need to read the first book before I tackle the second. I was already leaning toward the new to me author, so I went looking for reviews of her first book, which I intend to read in preparation for this one.
The book incidentally, is Dark Thirst by Sarah Reinke. I knew nothing about it, except the fact that Ms. Reinke writes books that all sound very good. So I checked out reviews.
Sadly, the most recent was by Debra Ann MacGilivray, so I ignored that, and went on. And now I am excited to read this book because of the following things that I gleaned from the Amazon reviews:
- Beta hero. Mmm, I lurve me a good beta hero/alpha heroine dynamic. I know, that makes me a freak in the romance world, but anyone here reading this won’t be shocked by that revelation.
- The hero is deaf/mute. After my crush on Nick Andros from The Stand by Stephen King, I am all about the deaf-mute characters, because I think the struggles for communication are fascinating. And I am not deaf or mute, so my disability baggage won’t kick in every time the author does something of which I do not approve.
- Vampire mafia. How awesome is that?
- Did I mention virgin hero? Oh, sign me up.
I also think it’s awesome that this is an interracial romance, but quite honestly that’s just a side benefit. I am looking forward to a darkish paranormal, hoping for a strong heroine, and totally stoked about the virgin hero thing.
Now I just pray that this lives up to my expectations!
I hope it does, too! It sounds like just my cup of tea
I’m loving it so far. I’m a little over halfway through, and I really don’t want it to end. The characters are multi-demensional, the villains are actually scary, and the sequel-baiting so far isn’t so intense that I want to preemptively choke some secondary characters. There’s some violence though, and the heroine actually does use the gun that she, as a cop, gets to carry. That all by itself was pretty amazing, because it seems like romance heroines aren’t ever allowed to kill people–they just hesitate for a long time and whine about how they just don’t know if they can do it.
Why did you have to give me yet another book to read???? Really is it necessary to make me go hungry?
I can’t wait to hear your final verdict on this novel–it sounds like something I’d really love to read.
Okay well thanks to you I bought it and I am ready to kill the grandfather and brother the BASTARDS (wait is this a rated PG blog?) Sorry I don’t like them and I haven’t moved on past the prologue due to anger but I will.