What Are You Reading?

It was time to dig into my Jayne Fresina collection and picked The Trouble with His Lordship's Trousers and had a lot of good laughs, gosh she has a lovely way with words. As always with this authors books you need to accept that they are not realistic for that time period but for some fun escapism they are great reads. A slow burn romance between two lovely characters. My only gripe for this book was how the hero's mental health issues seemed to be resolved very quickly and easily at the end. A solid 4/5 for me and a book I will be happy to reread.

Not as happy with the latest by Ali Hazelwood Under One Roof. A good novella is hard to find and this one was lacking in plot. Not much really happened, just a lot of awkward conversations between the h and H who become room mates after she inherits the other half of the house he owns. The dialogue was hard to follow at times, lots of spaces between the words and an overuse of "...." in just about every line of conversation. It was irritating. Not sure about reading the other 2 novellas. A 2.5/5 for me.

bluebear I think Ali Hazelwood's novellas are based on her old fanfics. And as much as I love fanfiction some just don't make good books or novellas. I know her book was a Star Wars fanfic was revised, and somethings added and taken out to make it into the book many love today. I purchased it, but I have not read it, and now it's everywhere in a lot of peoples recommendations.

I started a T.L Swan book which I am not going to continue, Mr. Garcia, I read the first 2 in that series a while back and thought I could push through this, I cannot. I dislike the hero, but I really dislike the heroine. And I just can't go on.

I am thinking of getting the new Chloe Liese it looks like an M/M romance, sports, slow burn enemies to lovers. 

bonnieg I have you to thank for starting me on my love of Jayne Fresina, her humour appeals to me. Looking forward to book 2 in the series.

linviolet Interesting info, might explain why the book wasn't to my liking. It definitely wasn't up to the standard of The Love Hypothesis. Lots of others seem to be liking the novella so it might just be an age thing ie I am too old!

The dukes messenger sounds interesting, I have purchased and will start reading . Thank you for the tips!

I get AQ/JAK books from the library nowadays. That's a good idea to wait for the pb version. I still find comfort in her books but I didn't feel like there was as much romance. The h has lucid dreams but I think she only experienced them once (maybe twice?) in the book. I didn't really like the h which is unusual for AQ books but did like the H. 

I did go ahead & buy it but I also got a sale price & digital credit so it was actually cheaper than pbks are running these days as I keep seeing them at 8.99 or 9.99! Everything's going up---and oh for the days when I bought my first Andre Norton pbk (WITCH WORLD) at .45. Yeah, that was a very long time ago, a bit over 50 years ago...deep sigh... Don't know if I'll read the new AQ soon...

I just finished an AQ reread binge: the Vanza series. I finished Wicked Widow (Vanza #3) last night & opened Lie By Midnight (Vanza #4 about 4 this morning) I have to admit, I got rather annoyed at the heroines in both of them: constantly arguing with the H, not respecting that he knows what he's doing, etc. Usually I like AQ's heroines just fine, but this may be why it was a long time before I reread the Vanza series... Ah well, now, what to read next... Treachery in Death being on sale made me want to reread it, but darn it, I've already got 2 In Death titles in reread mode...Creation ID (almost finished but it's in the car for reading) and Secrets ID (started the pbk & will take it to the car to replace Creation). Oh yeah, the new Jennifer Ashley Shifter's Unbound is out there: Tiger's Daughter Maybe that one...

I just finished reading The Marquess Makes His Move by Diana Quincy.  It was ok.  Nothing too exciting.  It was a simple plot with average characters.  I'm just glad that I got it from the library.  I seem to be doing that a lot lately.  It used to be that I would buy everything but then, sometimes, I wasted money on something I didn't like.  I hate to return a book.  Now I've learned to embrace the library, for the most part.  After all, I spent the last month or so buying a ton of Kat martin books after only reading one I got from paperbackswap.  Luckily, they have been hits for me.