Discovered Jaz Parks

I've discovered a new author and have just finished reading the first four books in the series.

The Jaz Parks books by Jennifer Rardin are very entertaining. Jaz is an assassin for the CIA and her partner is a vampire. The majority of their targets have some paranormal connection with one main villain behind the scenes in all of the books I've read so far.

In a way the heroine of the books, Jaz, reminds me Eve Dallas (In Death series by JD Robb.) They are both emotionally wounded and both determined to do what's right, although they have different ideas of how to do that, obviously. Both tend to keep people at arm's length and yet, somehow, find themselves surrounded by a ever widening circle of people to which they are emotionally connected.

I'm eagerly awaiting my copy of the 5th in the Jaz Parks series, One More Bite, along with the 33rd in the Eve Dallas series, Promises in Death.

I haven't been getting as much reading done as I would like. Instead I've been spending time remodeling the Mostly Romance website. I'm very happy with the results.

This is hard to do.

I read - a lot - 350-400 books a year. But I have never really been able to write any kind of a review. I couldn't even do book reports in English, although I always read the book.

I also have a problem blogging because, really, why does anyone care what I have to say.

But since I have decided to do this , as a reader and a bookseller, I'm going to write about books I've read and maybe every once in a while, some thoughts as a bookseller.

Right now I'm really into Urban Fantasy type books. I've always been drawn to Paranormal fiction, from Time Travel romance to Science Fiction from Robert Heinlein. Now it seems that Vamps, Weres and other things that go bump in the night comprise about 75% of my reading.

One of my favorite woo-woo type books, although not really paranormal, are books about psychics. And one of my all time favorite books about a Psychic is Dream Man by Linda Howard.

One of books I've read in the last week was a huge disappointment. It was a book I was looking forward to and one I really liked the premise of as the start of a new series by the author I've really enjoyed in the past. I'm having trouble even finding words so say how bad I found this book. The h/h had no emotional connection and in fact didn't even seem to like each other, let alone be able to find a HEA with each other. The events in the book mostly seemed to come out of nowhere with no logic behind them at all. From a writing standpoint I felt the book's writing was at about a 2nd grade level in the way the sentences were composed and it seemed to be that the author couldn't even keep the tenses straight. Quite frankly, about the best thing I can say was all the words were spelled correctly.

Another book I've read in the last week is Irreversible (sequel to Wired, 2007) by Liz Maverick, from the Shomi line, Dorchester publishing. I really enjoyed this book. It is sort of a time travel but the hero has the ability to manipulate time and takes the job of rescuing the heroine whoi has been trapped in a future time loop. The author does an excellent job of keeping it all straight for both the characters in the book and for the reader.

I also enjoyed Bedeviled by Maureen Child. It's a more lighthearted romance about a woman who discovers she is half-faery and is prophesied to overturn the current faery queen. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Time to get to work. the granddaughters are supposed to visit to since school is out, and I need to finish clearing off my desk. One of their favorite things at grandma's house is working in "our" office, so grandma had better make room.

Sandi

Time to join the 21st Century

After a little nudging from a friend (Thanks, Helen) I've decided to start blogging.

Since I can't imagine anyone being interested in what I do all day, and since I read A LOT (3-400 books a year) I'm going to use this site, at least for now, as a book journal.