Friday Book Club!
Let’s talk about books today! It’s Friday Book Club, and we’ve missed a couple with the holidays. What are you reading?
I’m reading proofs of ONCE UPON A ROSE, to be honest. I’m enjoying that, so that’s a good sign, right? I find this couple so sweet.
Also, our Romance Novel course at Duke has started! And for the first week I have them reading Susan Napier’s IN BED WITH THE BOSS, so I’m re-reading that to prep my class. (The title has already gotten some discussion going in class! It will be fun to see how discussion goes Monday.) Have any of you read it? This must be one of my favorite Harlequin Presents, and I routinely contact any writers I know in New Zealand and beg them to tell me when Susan Napier is going to publish another book. And this is probably the reader favorite of all her books.
Have you ever read category romances like Harlequin Presents? (Do you have favorite authors, if so?)
Next up for me, I have WHEN BOOKS WENT TO WAR waiting for me at the library desk, and I’m hoping I’ll get a chance to start it this weekend, because it sounds really fascinating.
What about you? What are you reading? Anything you recommend? Anything you’re looking forward to?
Colleen
I binge read all of Ilona Andrews’s Kate Daniels.
They were so good. The world building was a little weak in the beginning, but it got better without becoming a lecture on that world. I really liked Kate as a character, because she was a little hard-headed, but took suggestions. She wasn’t impossible.
Laura Florand
I love their books. I found the first Kate Daniels a little too brutal for my taste, which was more a problem for me than the world-building, but it was still such a compelling story that I kept reading and am so glad I did. Kate and Curran, and indeed all the secondary characters, are just fantastic.
Bronte
I love Susan Napier’s books. I wish she would write again. I do like in bed with the boss but I think Winter of Dreams or Phantom Lover might be my favourite.
Laura Florand
One of her writer friends in New Zealand posted on my Facebook that she has two more coming! “Probably not until later this year”, she said. I’m very excited.