Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is the first novel in a series written about a vampire called le Comte de Saint Germaine. While the Comte is a vampire, he is also a very good guy who spends the novel doing his best to defeat a bunch of nobly born Satan worshippers in Paris. A great adventure story, and a whole lot of fun to read. Someday I hope to track down more books in this series. And it was refreshing to read about a vampire who is a hero and who is not oversexed and angsty.
Crewel World by Monica Ferris is the first book in a mystery series. Unemployed and freshly divorced, middle aged Betsy Devonshire leaves California to live with her widowed sister in a small town in Minnesota. Margot owns and operates a very nice little needle work store named Crewel World. Everything is going really well until one night Margot, a true sweetheart who does not have an enemy in the world, is murdered in her store. Betsy frantically tries to find out who killed her kind sister...
The Spy Wore Silk by Andrea Pickens was an impulse buy. I loved the premise, where orphaned girl London street urchins in the Napoleonic War period, are brought to a special boarding school by a noble born British spy master. There the girls are raised safely and well, and given the skills of noble born ladies, assassins, courtesans, and spies. These young ladies are Britain's greatest secret weapon in the wars against Napoleon. In this novel, projected first of a series of historical romances, Siena must find a highly placed and wealthy traitor who is thought to belong to a group of wealthy book collectors. The prime suspect is a very sexy Lord. Will her duty towards England beat out her love for Lord Kirtland? Well written and fun romance novel, and a great premise.
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown is another of his thrillers about an ancient conspiracy theory. Lightning paced, it keeps you glued to the page, even while keeping your eyes off the wildly implausible plot and improbable characters. Pure popcorn beach read with no real literary or historic value, but still fast paced and engrossing.
Tall, Dark, and Hungry by Lynsay Sands is one of her fantasy romances about the Argeneau vampire family. These books are the literary equivalent of a chick flick. They are fast paced and fun. This one featured a romance that begins between the best man and maid of honor at an NYC wedding. The girl is a human and the guy is a very sexy vampire. the girl has already been through a lot in her life, and she is not sure she can go through more. While I enjoyed the story, the book was unfortunately marred by some pretty serious editing errors. And they have to be serious for me to notice them! While there were no obvious spelling errors, a lot of words were substituted for words that would have made a lot more sense (such as though for thou). And at one point, the names of two of the characters are mixed up!
Tigers Essential by George Cantor is a book about the Detroit Tigers baseball team, through the decades, and especially in he year 2006 where they came from nowhere to win the American League Pennant. Lots of good historical trivia for fans of the team.
The Sharing Knife Volume Two Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold is the second half of a romance/fantasy duology. Dag belongs to a race of sorcerers called Lakewalkers. Fawn belongs to regular humans, called Farmers. The two races are usually not allowed to intermarry, but these two greatly love each other and do so anyway, with the reluctant blessing of Fawn's family. Now they must face the much harder task of gaining acceptance by Dag's family and people. A touching romance between two very different but very likable characters, set on a rich fantasy world with the most unique form of necromancy I have ever encountered. The necromancy involves sharing, sacrifice, and the affirmation of both life and death.
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