February book count

[jmc_bks]

My reading for February was down, way down. Mostly because I spent two weeks miserably ill and not reading much of anything.

1. Dragon Blood by Patricia Briggs. Fantasy. Hurog means dragon. A-, keeper
2. Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan, et al. Graphic Novel. Gorgeous art, well-told story that worked for those characters and as an allegory. A, keeper.
3. Sundial by Carrie Lofty. Time travel, novella. I liked this novella a lot, especially the setting. I need to reread it, because the ending and the time travel mechanism is a bit confused and blurry in my memory (I read it while sick, doped up on NyQuil). B.
4. The Prince’s Forbidden Virgin by Robyn Donald. Category. I found the information on vine disease interesting but was a little bored by the heroine’s juvenile crush on the hero. B-.
5. Price of Passion by Susan Napier. Category. Objectively, this wasn’t a bad category. But the heroine really pissed me off – she established the rules of the relationship, and then, instead of attempting to renegotiate when it wasn’t working for her, she manipulated and schemed and basically harassed the hero. There’s more, but mostly I felt like she was being dishonest through most of the book. D.
6. Working for the Devil by Lilith Saintcrow. Urban fantasy. I liked Danny Valentine and the world established here. B.
7. Strangers in Death by Nora Roberts. Romantic suspense. B+
8. Grimspace by Ann Aguirre. Sci-fi romance. B+/A-.
9. Dead Man Rising by Lilith Saintcrow. Urban fantasy. I liked Danny a little bit less. There’s hard edged and there’s outright bitch without a cause and she was the latter. C+
10. The Devil's Right Hand by Lilith Saintcrow. Urban fantasy. Could Danny whine any more? C.
11. Saint City Sinners by Lilith Saintcrow. Urban fantasy. Apparently Danny was capably of being a bigger, whinier hypocrite. No more for me, thanks. DNF.

Comments

[dogzzz2002.livejournal.com]

Holy Crumb. I was reading and thinking 'why is she talking about February like it's over?' Hell-lo!!

So, Danny could be an even bigger whiner? Good to know.

Now I need to check and see if I ever ordered or bought Grimspace. I can't remember much nowadays and I can't blame it on the wonderousness (yes, it's a word) of NyQuil.

CindyS

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've been thinking about Danny a lot, even though I've given up on the series. Japhrimel put me in mind of the scorpion in the fable of the frog and scorpion. Except he made no promises. And she wasn't like the frog, exactly, but her expectations of her were not realistic. I dunno.