Tome Thursday: Dark Lover

 

Hello everyone!

 

For some reason, I never actually got around to putting this book on my blog.

 

Or, alternately, finishing the series to begin with.

 

I know, I know, BLASPHEMY.

 

Dishonor.

 

All that jazz.

 

Unfortunately, however, once the series sort of stopped being as interconnected as it used to be - I think the author switched publishers and they focused on the newer books being more standalones than grouped together - my interest dropped.

 

I do have plans to finish, since I'm curious to read about the new generation we only meet as babies initially, but for right now, I think it best if we go right back to the beginning, true?

 

After all, what can an end mean if you don't know how it all started?

 

Without further ado, Dark Lover.

 

Tome Thursday: Love Ghost On

 

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This week we're taking a look at a very cute, wholesome short story, that you can get if you join this specific author's newsletter, and I'm telling you it's totally worth it.

 

If nothing else, you get a very cute doggo, a funny ghost cat, and some great poetry to boot!

 

I accidentally found Dina Marie on BookSirens when I thought the cover of her first book looked cute and well done, featuring a red-headed heroine, a ghostly hero, and a dog and cat.

 

It seemed to be drawn rather than a realistic photoshoot, and that's definitely something that's appealing to me in today's day and age of AI covers and whatnot!

 

Overall, her cozy mysteries series has definitely carved its place in my heart, even if I don't necessarily enjoy every single page of what's written.

 

So without further ado, let's hop straight into this novella that takes place between books one and two, and gives us a little more insight into both the heroes, as well as what's possibly to come in the series as a whole!

 

Love Ghost On, everybody.

 

Tome Thursday: Here Ghost Nothing

 

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I'm back with a slightly shorter book to review this week, but that's okay because I'm probably going to drag out some sort of behemoth some other time.

 

I usually do, in any event.

 

But that doesn't mean the book I picked is bad or anything of the sort!

 

Actually, it's the kind of cozy read that I really love during the late autumn/early spring days, when it's still dreary enough outside that you want to just snuggle up under a blanket and not leave your room for the foreseeable future.

 

Anyone else feel that way? No? Just me? Hmm ..

 

Anyway, without further ado, let's hop right back in, because Salem awaits us, and it isn't with the witch trials, either.

 

It's with an amateur sleuth who returns in Here Ghost Nothing!

 

Tome Thursday: Where Winter Finds You

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As I mentioned in last week's book post, I have a few stragglers left from my Christmas reading binge that should have honestly been done in December, but since there's only four Thursdays you have at your disposal then, it's really impossible to fit EVERYTHING in there.

Tonight's topic is one of them.

It probably doesn't seem too Christmas-y though since there really isn't much mention of the holiday, but what it IS is definitely cold and wintry and filled with ice and snow, which is pretty accurate for this time, I suppose.

Or mostly accurate. We all know how the weather is at the moment.

Anyway, if you're lucky you have some snow, but if not then you just have frost overnight and some weird warm temperatures over day. The times when we got to frolic in the fluff are long, long gone, and I don't think they're ever coming back.

But before I get too melancholy about it, let's take a look at Where Winter Finds You, shall we?

Tome Thursday: Talking Sense

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I can finally close the lid on yet another Serenity Woods book trilogy!

I'm feeling quite proud of myself, as this one actually sat on my TBR shelf for a little while because, for some odd reason or another, I just never got around to it.

And then once I sat on my behind and paged over all the leaves, well, I realized why I keep coming back to this author.

It's not that there aren't a couple of glitches along the way, obviously.

Every author has THOSE.

It's how Ms Woods manages those glitches and ends up creating not only perfectly acceptable happily ever afters, but even more perfectly acceptable characters that are flawed but who make my heart just feel all toasty and warm inside.

Without further ado, allow me to review Talking Sense.

Tome Thursday: Dearest Ivie

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If I tell you when I'm typing up this blog post you probably won't believe me, and yet, here I am.

It's 6 in the morning and I'm breathing in the fresh, summer air from outside without melting, because it's said that today is supposed to be the hottest day of the season so far before we get a storm front and it rolls over everything like some sort of bulldozer.

And yes it's bringing lower temperatures right along with it, so there we go.

I got up early because I feel as if I get more things done when I'm not halfway to a melting point, and judging by what I can hear from the city itself I'm not the only one who thinks that.

So without further ado I'm going to stop blabbing and actually start the blog post which will go up about twelve hours from now.

As I'm not in the mood for something complicated, I chose Dearest Ivie.

Tome Thursday: The Thief

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With my book reading situation now resolved, even though it really wasn't that bad, I can now return to catching up on all the new releases which came out in the meantime.

See, the good thing about e-readers is that the light from their screens isn't the same as from a computer or phone or television, it's less damaging to the eyes and therefore you can read more and quicker (unless you read for 24 hours straight, but that's beside the point haha).

So of course once I got my Kobo up and running again I had to load all my favourites and the new releases, which turned out to be a bit of a pile in the end.

And then it was just the task of chewing through what I'd set myself up to read.

Among those waiting on my TBR list was the newest book by J. R. Ward.

So of course, tonight's blog post will be all about The Thief.

Tome Thursday: The Story of Son

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It's time for another book review and, lo and behold, I'm actually doing much better this week than I had the last one. If you'll recall, I had to switch books right before my review because - to my everlasting shame - I hadn't finished the one I wanted to write about, originally.

This one also isn't exactly the one, BUT, and a big but, I've actually wanted to put it up here for a long while and never got to it before.

As you all know, J. R. Ward is one of my all-time favourite authors, and has been ever since I first started reading her Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Despite the fact that the past couple of books involving the Brothers haven't exactly given me much satisfaction (and indeed I don't even mention one anymore!) I still thoroughly enjoy going back and reading the original stories because, well, sentimentality.

Also, the Brothers themselves.

So when I stumbled upon a novella set in the same world but not quite part of it, I figured I should read it.

That's how I nibbled on The Story of Son.

Tome Thursday: Making Sense

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If you're looking at the nifty Goodreads gadget I have here to the side of the blog, you're probably thinking: gee, it's taking her a LONG time (and I mean, super extra long) to read some of these books that aren't even two hundred pages long.

This is also me cheerfully ignoring the fact that I really need to buckle down on the Plantagenet book, too.

But yes, sometimes, you'll see a book on my 'currently reading' list that I add on there so I don't forget, but then I don't actually sit down and read it before some time has passed.

This was what happened with Making Sense.

Serenity Woods still remains my favourite contemporary romance author (even with a supernatural twist!), but somehow I got sidetracked reading everything else except this particular book.

Then again, when I did open it up, I finished it in about two hours. 

Tome Thursday: The Chosen

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So, two weeks ago (almost at this point) another book by author J. R. Ward dropped, aka, it was released to the general public, and in case you don't know by now, I have a lot of respect and appreciation for the Warden, as she's called online.

Basically, her series of vampire warriors have gotten my attention from the moment a very good friend of mine recommended them and I met with HRH Wrath, son of Wrath.

Since then, there have been fifteen books in the main series and two now in the accompanying series, Black Dagger Legacy, which is a spin-off for the training center and the trainees that are becoming warriors under the main characters' tutelage.

Honestly, if you look at me and my love affair with the Black Dagger Brotherhood even on this blog, you'll notice that I've pretty much read and reviewed a whole lot of the books - read more than reviewed, actually, since I have yet to put the final dot on the lot of them. But I do believe it is safe to say that I have passed the halfway mark, especially with this blog I should thing.

So without further ado, allow me to introduce the newest Warden book, titled The Chosen.

Tome Thursday: Lover Reborn

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Time for yet another book blog and, as this spring seems to be in the sign of them, I have been re-reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood novels from the beginning (although yes, I have started them prior to spring; even I can't read that fast!). Right about now I'm at a pause around numbers ten and eleven, which for any book series is a whole lot, actually.

Thinking about it, I need to dig really hard to try and remember any other which would have been so successful with an original series to come to these high numbers and still continue to write.

But that aside, I mostly stick ith these books because they're a very good, entertaining and relaxing read. Do they have drama? Of course. They also have a whole lot of romance and subplots that mean you have to keep your wits about you and keep track of what's happening through the whole four or five hundred pages, but that's the magic of book reading anyway.

I've done quite a number of J. R. Ward reviews at this point and I just keep coming back, which does mean that eventually I'll have them all bagged up nicely, with tags to go along.

I'm definitely looking forward to that day!

In the meantime, let's jump right in to Lover Reborn.

Tome Thursday: Lover Unbound

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Happy World Book Day! I would have wished you a happy first March if I'd been doing this post yesterday, but as it so happens this is even better.

But hey, at least it IS March!

If nothing else, that's something to be very happy about. In my case, it also means tossing out the heavy, furry winter blanket for a thinner one, and pulling the netting down over the window because the bugs are out in force already. How do I know this?

Unfortunately, I found one of their representatives dead on the inside of my window.

SO, the netting got pulled down after winter hibernation, and I shook myself out of my wintry mood as best as I could to sit down and write this review. And I'm still in a Ward mood here so I'm just going to go ahead and type out another one of the Brothers, because what can I say, lord knows that I'm addicted to the lot of them.

It's V's time this round, with Lover Unbound.

Tome Thursday: Lover Revealed

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What can I say ... I'm on a vampire reading binge, yet again.

I would apologise but in all honesty these books are SO good that I don't feel like any apology is even necessary. And if you haven't yet started reading the series, what ARE you waiting for?

Seriously, you're not getting any younger here.

But I digress; I have a few more books in my little sheep ledger to go through, only they've kind of taken a backburner while I move through the first few in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series yet again. Every once in a while, I get literally bit by this urge to go back to where it all started, with the original Brothers, and compare them to where they are now.

It's truly something to see, considering book number ... fifteen, is it? Yeah, book number fifteen in the main series is about to come a-knocking, and I'm still just as much in love with all these vampires as I was when their numbers were fewer.

And so, of course, feeling that irresistible itch, I picked up my trusted electronic copies, and settled on talking about another favourite of mine: Butch O'Neal.

Tome Thursday: Blood Kiss

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So I'm back to reading about vampires, which, really, shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Every once in a while, I'll stumble over some book or book series that will give me my needed bloodsucker dose, although admittedly not everyone does it with as much fanfare as JR Ward, I think.

If anyone has been keeping track of my blog (which I hope you have, but oh well, fingers crossed!), I've been a Ward fan since a very good friend of mine introduced me to the series.

Or, well, the story goes like this: she kept on talking about it, and I sort of kept it in the back of my mind, that I have to read these books, but at the time I didn't have my ereader yet, so it was a bit of a problem until I figured out I could convert the files to PDF, which could then be read on my poor phone (the thing might have died a thousand deaths over one book ... I am still chagrined over that) to my heart's content.

And I was hooked.

Not only are these vampires badass, six-foot-sixers, the lot of them, with black belts in martial arts and zero clue in social behaviour, but they're also sexy as hell.

No surprise to anyone, then, that when the spin-off series was announced, I squealed.

Tome Thursday: The Shadows

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So, okay, I only just realized that I should probably include a SPOILER ALERT somewhere in the description of this blog, or at the beginning of each entry, but since this is kind of a review and recap place for me to express myself and talk about what I've seen or read, I figure that, generally speaking, that should be a given. It's not always the case though so I apologize if anyone has been 'spoiled' by certain facts I state in these posts, especially on just-released movies or books, but there you go, we all learn and are works in progress along the way, right?

Right.

Back to the actual blog post - yes, with spoilers ahead - I'm going to talk about The Shadows today. A little while ago I posted an entry about Lover Avenged, which was book seven in the Black Dagger Brotherhood book series. Well, end of March saw the release of the very latest installment (number thirteen!) and I think I pretty much dropped three other books I'm reading at the moment (yes, I always read multiple books) just so I could get my hands on this one.