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Taken Beyond Temptation by Cara Summers
by SB Sarah | by SB Sarah | May 18, 2010 | Tuesday at 2:42 pm | 59 CommentsTitle: Taken Beyond Temptation
Author: Cara Summers
Publication Info: Harlequin 2010
ISBN: 978-0373795512
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Since I’m reading on a Kindle I have no idea what page I’m on, but I’m estimating that I’m 1/10th of the way through this book, and I don’t want to continue. The WTFery is piled so high, I can’t see my way to the end.
Jillian Brightman purchased a big ol’ house with her sisters, and they’ve teamed up to turn it into an inn. Jillian, according to the cover synopsis, has a secret fantasy that comes to life when she meets Ian, who isn’t who he says he is. I was curious about this book from the synopsis, but the opening chapters were so completely barmy I had to stop reading. Behold, in convenient list formation, the reasons this book is receiving a DNF - did not finish.
1. Backstory introduction: the main character is talking to a ghost in the opening chapter, and telling the ghost all about herself, her sisters, her new hotel, her toenail fungus… no, not that last one. If you’re ever wondering how to reveal everything about yourself in two pages, try talking to a ghost. It seems to make one very chatty.
2. Ghost introduction: there’s a ghost! And she appears! In a Harlequin Blaze? I thought they were steamy, not steam-like diaphanous apparitions in mirrors.
3. Mystery door: the magic ghost who knows the heroine’s entire backstory because the heroine told her (and me) opens a magic hidden door.
4. But wait there’s more! A secret room with the hidden door contains a linen hatbox that’s full of envelopes. On the top is written, and I quote:
Fantasy Box: Choose carefully. The one you draw out will come true.
So Jillian pulls out an envelope, because, and I quote, “What could be the harm?” and is so freaked out by how close to her own fantasies the fortune in the envelope had been that she asks the ghost out loud what she’s doing with a hatbox full of fortunes in her secret room, and then she runs down the stairs.
If this were made into a movie, I have to ask, is there music that goes with “WTF?” What’s the soundtrack for that?
5. Introduce the hero: Over a year later since the hatbox ghost secret room envelope thingy, Jillian almost wrecks on a tight curve with an oil patch and the hero, Ian, sees her swerve and nearly crush her car. He gets out to make sure she’s ok… and is immediately seized by this crazy desire to kiss her. Dude. Did he hit his head?
6. More about the hero: he’s investigating the hotel that Jillian and her sisters own because someone had been playing potentially deadly pranks on the guests, but, and I quote:
After hearing [the story,] Ian had agreed with the hotel manager on three points. He was right to be concerned, it was too soon to tell if the incidents were related, and, therefore, too soon to worry the sisters.
I can handle ghosts, hidden rooms, secret boxes, and stuff in envelopes that comes true. But a whole mess of potentially damaging “accidents” befalling guests in a hotel, including a WIRE STRUNG ACROSS THE TOP OF THE STAIRCASE, and they don’t want to tell the owners because it might upset them? THAT I am not buying. I can handle any amount of woo-woo paranormal activity, but treating the heroine(s) as if they are too delicate to handle what is clearly a concerted effort to drive up their insurance premiums does not a hero make, nor does it create a romance I wish to read.
This book is available at Amazon.com, Book Depository, and Powells, and where Harlequin novels are sold.
Filed: General Bitching, Reviews, Did Not Finish, Authors, Q-S
Tagged: wtf, make the burning stop, harlequin, dnf, blaze
Mama Nice said on 05.18.10 at 03:55 PM • [link]
Awww man, you should keep reading! I want to know if she ever gets to Narnia to meet Mr. Tumnus.
That, or our hero, Ian, needs to call Fred and the gang to help him solve this mystery.
Chicklet said on 05.18.10 at 04:33 PM • [link]
Yes! Fred and his sassy orange neckerchief will save the day. *g*
Cris said on 05.18.10 at 05:05 PM • [link]
I don’t know if I’ll read this one, but it’s predecessor (about one of the other sisters and her fantasy) was actually kind of cute, ghost and all.
Donna said on 05.18.10 at 05:19 PM • [link]
See, it’s things like this give people the idea anyone can write a book. The overwhelming belief that even they could do better. I’m pretty sure I could do better. Hmm… maybe I should put that manicorn idea on the front burner….
Bianca said on 05.18.10 at 05:37 PM • [link]
Oh, Cara Summers. I read a Blaze by her once about identical twins who swap places… *headdesk* Godawful writing, bad plotting, horrid characters…
She’s definitely an author I tend to stay away from.
Lily said on 05.18.10 at 06:00 PM • [link]
It’s plots/writing like this (including sheiks, pregnesia, billionaires, etc.) that have me steering clear of most of the Harlequin fare. I’m sure this makes me a romance novel snob and as a result I’m likely missing out on some good stories, but I really don’t have enough superfluous brain cells to spare on this kind of stuff.
Donna said on 05.18.10 at 06:51 PM • [link]
Actually hit a WTF/DNF moment this morning wherein the plucky downtrodden heroinne admires the steadfast enlightened hero’s taut white butt as he walks TOWARDS her while simultaneously awestruck by the size of his manly bits. That wild cougar attack left more than facial scars….
Cathy said on 05.18.10 at 08:12 PM • [link]
This actually made me spit tea on my monitor. Wow.
Donna said on 05.18.10 at 08:20 PM • [link]
Cathy, I live to serve.
ocelott said on 05.18.10 at 08:23 PM • [link]
Now this is a romance novel I’d be excited about. Someone get on that, please!
Aliza Mann said on 05.18.10 at 10:44 PM • [link]
she can handle talking to a ghost, but not her business? smh
John J. said on 05.18.10 at 11:02 PM • [link]
This is a shame, as some Harlequin novels are really amazing. It’s craptastic books like these that give the brand a bad name. And the cheesy Presents titles, too, but that’s another dark road entirely…
Either way, I’m disappointed. I want a romance that makes a ghost sexy! I don’t know how that would pan out…but any author that can make it succeed is a genius.
AngelFire said on 05.18.10 at 11:04 PM • [link]
I know exactly how you feel. I just feel assaulted by some of the crap that gets published. You open the book and put your next half hour to an hour into their hands and they just slap you around and call you “Sally”. :-) I especially despise the whole hero who thinks nothing of you or your so called accomplishments or business or intelligence ...etc. I laugh in your face because I find your anger at my insulting everything about you cute and sexy! Okay so this is only mildly about the book in question….BUT STILL!
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AngelFire said on 05.18.10 at 11:20 PM • [link]
I’ve read at least two where the ghost was sexy. One was strictly romantic drama novel called - The Hand I Fan With, where she has this hot steamy affair with a ghost that she accidentally conjures up. The other had more paranormal aspects and he was only stalking her dreams because he was trapped in another realm (blah,blah,blah). That one was one of a series I think can’t remember the name now. Either way he ended up needing her to ‘set him free’ by teh sex.
Kate Hewitt said on 05.18.10 at 11:28 PM • [link]
I couldn’t let the slight on Harlequin Presents titles pass, especially since the titles are changing in the next year, moving away from The Squillionaire’s Xish Y to certainly similar but hopefully more evocative offerings. My upcoming titles are: The Bride’s Awakening, The Undoing of De Luca, and Bound To The Greek, just to give you some idea. Some other interesting titles I’ve come across are: Bride in a Gilded Cage (Abby Green), Passion, Purity & The Prince (Annie West). The Innocent’s Dark Seduction (Jennie Lucas).
CLMoore said on 05.19.10 at 12:41 AM • [link]
There was a Romantic Ghost Story written in the early 70’s.. I seem to remember that the title may have been “Trist” .. Took place right at the end of WWII in England.. Unfortunately I don’t know who the author was.. The Ghost came home from the war not knowing that he had died only to discover that his home had been rented out to a beautiful girl and her father.
EbonyMcKenna said on 05.19.10 at 01:09 AM • [link]
Oh cringe!
As readers, we’re prepared to accept ghosts or whatever else - because we open and book and accept the premise, but from that moment on, everything else needs to ring true.
Sounds like this had an interesting set up but then fell to bits in wtf-alanch.
As a writer, I’m now sh*tscared of sending you my book for review. It’s about a girl and her talking ferret.
Amanda in Baltimore said on 05.19.10 at 01:38 AM • [link]
Since we are feeling free to dis some books we hated and DNF, I’d like to chime in that Home in Carolina, by Sherryl Woods, was a piece o’ crap.
The heroine is a recovering anorexic and everyone in town hounds her about not eating if she doesn’t take every meal they try to shove down her throat. The hero is a pro baseball player, Ms. Anorexia’s ex, who cheated on her with groupies all over the National League until one of them got knocked up.
The parents of the skinny chick and the Baby Daddy are all mixed up and best-friendy with each other, and they all live in Noseyville, SC (and can I just say that I’m from a small town in SC, and no one there was EVAH up in anybody’s business like these people are. I mean it, in this fictional town it’s a city ordinance that if you try to keep a secret or have a private thought, the police beat it out of you.) and I began hating the heroine, because no matter what kind of shit anyone dumped on her, she felt guilty for being selfish, if she didn’t THINK OF HER EX’S feelings, or future, or illegitimate spawn first. “Hey, I feel guilty because Mr. Cheater hurt his arm. If I won’t supervise his rehab, I am a bad person, because I feel mad and betrayed.”
DNF. If anyone would like to read this piece of crap, and re-write the ending a la Hamlet (dead people all over the stage) I would LOVE to read that.
ehoyden said on 05.19.10 at 01:51 AM • [link]
If this were made into a movie, I have to ask, is there music that goes with “WTF?” What’s the soundtrack for that?
That’s easy. “City of Angels”.
Major groan on the writing. Just curious if Shaggy and Scooby Doo showed up. You probably didn’t get to that part. Might have been the additional econtent. And I didn’t realize Kindles didn’t have page numbers. How frustrating.
@EbonyMcKenna: I could deal well with a talking ferrets. Is it a ghost ferret? vampire ferret? wereferret? ;-)
Shae said on 05.19.10 at 02:49 AM • [link]
It sounds like an episode of Scooby Doo! LOL BTW I love WTFery I’m gonna have to add that to my vocabulary.
Shae said on 05.19.10 at 02:50 AM • [link]
I guess I should have read the comments before my post. LOL
EbonyMcKenna said on 05.19.10 at 04:02 AM • [link]
@ehoyden - Shambles is a man-ferret. He’s trapped in a witch’s spell and the girl is trying desperately to break the spell cos she’s falling for him. But, obvs, if he remains a ferret nothing’s gonna happen.
holly said on 05.19.10 at 04:24 AM • [link]
I’m gonna second the “Kindles don’t show page numbers?” sentiment. Oh, and also the ferret intrigue :D
Plus the love for a new term, “wtf-alanche.”
sugarless said on 05.19.10 at 06:17 AM • [link]
The young adult Mediator series by Meg Cabot deals with a Hotty McHothot ghostie. It was one of my favorite series for a long time, actually.
Loved the review. Honestly, why would you tell a ghost your life story? Why would you think the ghost cares?
And “What’s the harm?” In picking out a fortune that could say ANYTHING that will come true? Oh jeez.
Stacia K said on 05.19.10 at 07:04 AM • [link]
@ John J:
If you haven’t seen it, go rent The Ghost and Mrs. Muir immediately. The sexiest damn ghost you’ll ever see, I promise. It’s a fantastic movie.
Anon76 said on 05.19.10 at 07:17 AM • [link]
“Fantasy Box: Choose carefully. The one you draw out will come true. “
What harm could there be in that? Oh, I dunno, how about going back in time and switching bodies with the Clinton era Monica Lewinsky?
henofthewoods said on 05.19.10 at 07:56 AM • [link]
You change font size very easily in ebooks. So sentences take up a different amount of room on the screen, and pagination can be redone according to the new font. Each font change makes the number of total screens necessary change. The screens end up being small pages that the ereader (the person) experiences. Even the addition (and deletion) of a small visible feature that effects the screen size will change the pagination back and forth. The total number of pages in the large-print edition of a novel should be different from the other editions of the same book. So you can never just count on page 42 having a specific scene - as soon as more than one edition exists.
The Adobe pdf reading format really holds to the same numbering system when you switch font size so easily. They end up with multiple screens per page and there are occasionally blank pages (screens) at the end of a page of the original book. (That is, page one has 4 screens of text and one of 1/2 text - page 2 has 3 screens of text and a blank screen - and so on.) This does not flow well, which is probably why Adobe came up with pub files.
When the text is broken up to show the original numbering, the numbering chops into the text. It is more difficult to enjoy reading something that keeps breaking for a number in the center of the screen. (Especially if the author and title are also listed.)
Many ereaders (the devices) do show a bar that fills as you complete the book, or a pie chart. As long as there is not a mountain of extra teaser chapters, that gives you an idea where you are within the file.
But the devices take you back to where you were last reading and you can bookmark any spot without hurting the book or losing the bookmark - so it doesn’t matter what the page number would be.
Cath Bilson said on 05.19.10 at 09:31 AM • [link]
Wow, this sounds seriously terrible. I’m sure I’ve read one of hers but I can’t find it in Mobi Reader so obviously it was so bad I deleted it.
And don’t even mention Kindles to me at the moment. I’m so mad I could spit fire. My Kindle is less than 6 weeks old and has just stopped working (won’t charge up or show anything on the screen other than Critical Battery). Amazon are very kindly sending me another one without waiting for me to send the buggered one back but this is really appalling timing as I have pneumonia and now can’t even read in bed. Have no paper books left (sold them all!) and laptop too heavy and too eye-hurting to read for long. GRRRFFFF.
Keyword: farm85. Yes, I’m so bored I’m even playing Farmville.
Karen said on 05.19.10 at 10:53 AM • [link]
And it turned out, her fantasy was: “You have to finish this book.”
Tina C. said on 05.19.10 at 12:45 PM • [link]
Admittedly, I’m not a big ghost fan and I especially hate “The Sexy Ghost” thing since I’ve never read one that did it well. (However, given I don’t usually read about ghosts, in general, I’ll admit that my sample size is too small for that to be a valid survey.) Even though I’m not a big fan of ghosts, I could have kept reading through the annoying info dump and the WTF “secret room with even more secret-er fantasies” (though I’d be getting close to dumping it at that point). But once I hit the “let’s not worry the little women even though they own this hotel and will be the ones sued into bankruptcy when/if someone is injured or dies” crap, I’d be done, too. Definitely NOT a book I’m picking up.
DS said on 05.19.10 at 03:15 PM • [link]
Tryst was by Elswyth Thane, 1939. I love that book, as well as her Williamsburg series and just about all of her other novels. I’ve read two paperback copies to pieces.
Kilian Metcalf said on 05.19.10 at 03:22 PM • [link]
Since you can change the font size from eentsy-weentsy to OMG where are my glasses, Kindle has location numbers and a progress bar to let you know where you are in the book instead of page numbers. When you open a book, it automatically opens to the last page read.
I hope my Kindle never stops working, I would go into major withdrawal.
Kilian Metcalf said on 05.19.10 at 03:31 PM • [link]
@John J - Try Topper by Thorne Smith. A bit dated, but still witty and fun. Topper thinks Marion Kerby is pretty hot stuff. The TV show didn’t go there, but the book was not so timid.
GoShawdy said on 05.19.10 at 04:02 PM • [link]
At least Smart Bitches seem to be finding a few good romance pulps here and there, it’s hard to find decent ones lately. Going in the Harlequin/Silhouette section at the store depresses me now. Why are there so many bland titles coming out right now? I also sort of miss the trend of every book on the shelf being “Executive’s _____ ____” and “____ Boss’s ____ ____”. I had a lot of fun collecting those back in 05-07 when the Boss/Executive trend was big and every cover had a guy in a suit sitting at his desk doing the Evil Finger Pyramid of Contemplation.
ehoyden said on 05.19.10 at 04:05 PM • [link]
@EbonyMcKenna: Man-ferret sounds doable. Not much on paranormal, but I’d give yours a try. Kind of curious how the spell gets broken now…
@John J: I agree with the othes “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” and “Topper” both are great movies. My fav was Topper. Have you read any Lynn Kurland’s books? I was reading one of her series and she snuck some ghost books in there in the middle of the series. Kind of threw me so I haven’t read them yet. Also threw in contemporary time travel thing. Haven’t read the ghost ones yet. Not sure if I will, but I read good reviews on them. But I can’t be for sure if there’s a top secret room with a fantasy hatbox. Let’s hope the CDC isolated to this one Harlequin incident.
@Cath Bilson: Sorry you’re laid up with no reading material. I’d phone a friend and have them do a library run until Amazon gets you your new Kindle. Nice to know they didn’t yank you around on that.
@Karen: lol. The irony fantasy is fitting for this book.
My Nook has page numbers along with the progress bar. I’d be fussy without both. I also like having the option of different font styles and sizes as well.
GoShawdy said on 05.19.10 at 04:10 PM • [link]
Did I say “A few good novels”? Ugh forget it, even they hated the book (Chronic case of TL;DR today). Only double posting because there’s no edit button.
holly said on 05.19.10 at 04:14 PM • [link]
I’m with ehoyden. Not to turn it into an e-reader conversation. It just threw me off to hear that it’s apparently “different” to have page numbers. They appear to be there whether it’s pdf or epub format, and they’re “true” page numbers, so depending on font size, it could take three or four page turns to get from page 3 to 4, if that makes sense. I guess there is a trade-off in that you get some pages that aren’t quite “full,” but I’d prefer that. Just - weird. And interesting!
donna said on 05.19.10 at 05:25 PM • [link]
Oh, yes “The Ghost & Mrs. Muir”, sigh…
And seriously, no one’s mentioned Susan Krinard’s “Body & Soul”? Great sexy ghostness.
meganb said on 05.19.10 at 05:38 PM • [link]
Ooo, ooo! I know one! In the Midnight Hour by Kimberly Randell (aka Kimberly Raye). V. hard to find tho. Out of print. Sigh.
RebeccaJ said on 05.19.10 at 05:45 PM • [link]
@ Stacia K…I LOVED the series ghost played by Edward Mulhare. Sooooo sexy! and he had great chemistry with Hope Lange. One of my all time favorite tv shows. The movie, not so much.
I just put aside a “DNF” romance myself called “Because of Baby”. An older one from 2004, but in the opening pages a father hires a woman he just met on the plane to take care of his infant. When I read the line, “I’d have to check your references, but I really don’t need to do that. I can tell you’re good and kind…” I threw the book across the room. His child, his most prized possession and he doesn’t even take two minutes to check the stranger’s freaking references!
Scrin said on 05.19.10 at 05:46 PM • [link]
My random thoughts….
1) One of these days, I’d like to the see the DNFs get finished by…someone.
2) That box brings back memories of one of the most retarded things ever to pop up in D&D, a deck of cards which cause a variety of (harmful enough to negate any benefit) things to happen to people who pulled one out.
meganb said on 05.19.10 at 05:50 PM • [link]
@ehoyden Lynn Kurland rocks, ghosts and all. I usually shy away from books with NO sex in them, but I’d read one of hers any day.
When I was stuck in bed for months, a subscription to Netflix saved my sanity. And you don’t have to put your laptop on your lap for that. Crap, half the time you don’t even have to look at the screen. I revisited the 80’s.
Susanna Kearsley said on 05.19.10 at 06:59 PM • [link]
@RebeccaJ
Ditto. I fell completely head over heels for Edward Mulhare in that series—I think that’s where I developed my thing for bearded men. And seafaring captains. And English accents. And… oh, well, anyone who doesn’t know what we’re talking about can just watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdsaJ0vHhbY
For those unfamiliar with the series (spun off from the earlier also-lovely movie with Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney, which was itself based on the book by R.A. Dick a.k.a. Josephine Leslie), Mrs Muir is a widow sharing a house with the ghost of a sea captain. She can see him, but other people can’t.
The scenes in the video where they touch and almost kiss are from dream-sequence/time-shift episodes.
I keep this YouTube link handy for days when I need a little romance in my life :-)
ehoyden said on 05.19.10 at 08:16 PM • [link]
@meganb: I agree. Lynn Kurland does indeed rock. I’ll have to check out her ghost books now. At least I know ahead of time they aren’t DNF’s.
I’ve read numerous books that should have been DNF’s, but I just can’t stop! Read a really, really, bad one a few weeks ago. Should have been a DNF, but now the author is a DNR. (Do Not Read)
Kilian Metcalf said on 05.19.10 at 08:52 PM • [link]
@ Scrin
Hey don’t be hating on the Deck-of-Many-Things. My group loved it, even though it cost us more than it helped us. Sometimes I think some of the books I read use that artifact and a table of random encounters for their plots.
think67 - no, thinking is too hard, I’ll just pull a card at random
EbonyMcKenna said on 05.20.10 at 12:35 AM • [link]
@Karen - this is brilliant!
Kacie said on 05.20.10 at 03:24 AM • [link]
Har-dee-har-har! I laughed so hard I HAD to tell my 10-yr-old daughter why because she wouldn’t let it go. Then I had to tell her she can never say it at school. Good mom, huh. At school, but go ahead and use anywhere else.
Ros said on 05.20.10 at 05:05 PM • [link]
It seems to me that the page number thing is at least partly a question of whether reading is perceived in individualistic or social terms. If you want to be able to talk about books with your friends, then you need page numbers, even if they are somewhat meaningless with respect to the technology you’re using to read the book.
Ben P said on 05.20.10 at 08:26 PM • [link]
GAH…. Just encountered a DNF of my own, a novel killed by two of my own pet peeves:
CONDESCENSION - A condescending hero or heroine, is a major DNF criterion.
AMUSEMENT - In romance novels there are still too many heroes who appear perpetually amused by the heroine, treating whatever she does like a joke.
I have no interest in reading a story based on the obvious lack of respect implied by these attitudes.
In what way does this story enrich my life? Reading about a card carrying member of the mysogynists’ club behaving like condescending ass and disrespectfully treating a woman like a joke is supposed to be enjoyable in some way?
It’s only going to be fun if he is somehow removed from the gene pool at an early stage of the story and replaced by a real man.
Sorry. Some that story pushed all the wrong buttons all at once.
AngelFire said on 05.20.10 at 09:41 PM • [link]
@Ben P
I have just thrown my latest read against the wall for exactly this. You are so right! clap, clap Who thinks this is romantic? I can not even imagine ever feeling kindly to someone who has laughed in my face, no less romantic.
JamiSings said on 05.20.10 at 10:36 PM • [link]
You know, I can’t think of a romance novel I DNF. If only because I often read them so fast. There’s a few I wish I never read, however.
Now there’s a couple of Stephen King books I didn’t even get past the first chapter - The Tommyknockers for one. And there was a novel that was suppose to be a bunch of famous detectives got together to try and figure out who killed Edwin Drood I got halfway through before giving up. Somehow Sherlock Holmes hanging out with Sam Spade just did not work for me. It would be like Harry Potter hanging around Harry Dresden. Both are wizards, both are named Harry, both are orphans, but somehow - they just could never mesh.
Sayuri said on 05.20.10 at 11:49 PM • [link]
I’ve never met a Cara Summers book I have liked. That’s all.
ehoyden said on 05.21.10 at 12:22 AM • [link]
@Ros: It seems to me that the page number thing is at least partly a question of whether reading is perceived in individualistic or social terms. If you want to be able to talk about books with your friends, then you need page numbers, even if they are somewhat meaningless with respect to the technology you’re using to read the book.
Meaningless? Not meaningless to this reader’s ereader. It’s not an either/or situation for me, but both social and individual (and probably anal). I like to know where I am in a book and how many pages I have left. Also like the ability to look up a page if someone says to check out a particular page. Not that it happens very often mind you. I wouldn’t have bought my nook if it didn’t have page functions. I didn’t realize the Kindle didn’t until Sarah mentioned it. I know that sometimes the font size changes the page numbers, meaning it might take you 3 page clicks to get though 1 paper page, but not always so with the epub and pdb formats. The font size I use usually keeps the pages correct.
I’d like a DNF tag for ereaders. Can’t fling it into the trash, or against the wall like paperbacks since that would get rather expensive. But I usually finish the DNF’s anyway. :)
EbonyMcKenna said on 05.21.10 at 02:39 AM • [link]
Maybe we need more categories for those reading non-paper books to take the place of the DNF:
DNWTFBCTAIPG$4IACSNFWIS - Did Not Want To Finish But Compelled Too As I Paid Good Money For It And Can’t Stand Not Finishing What I Started
WTTAWBLiP2M - Wanted To Throw Against Wall But Love iPad Too Much
DNFASAS - Did Not Finish And Screamed At Screen
LWTL - Lost Will To Live
(I think I’m going to hell for saying this but I may as well own it)
WTF-alanch
mary frances said on 05.21.10 at 06:36 AM • [link]
Totaly OT but if eReaders are supposedly great for academics and texts but don’t have page numbers how do you write a citation? Your bibliography would read :
Smith, Jane, “Blah blah”, Nowhere Press, about an inch of black in the read-o-meter on my kindle, 2010.
and that’s not MLA style.
(I do apoligize that my every comment seems to be railing against ereaders I’m just trying to figure them out. Every point in their favour seems to get negated after I hear more about them)
Oh and this book sounds like it sucks, thanks for the warning.
Val said on 05.21.10 at 06:57 AM • [link]
I really like to point out the positives before I flesh out my irritations. I’ll start with the fact that I love hat boxes, they fascinate me almost as much as shoes. And the guy on the cover is super-hot. Meeeow. :) But the part where I would have had to fling it against the wall is item # 4. So she pulls out a fate-card from the ghost’s bag of tricks and upon realizing it matches her fantasy, she runs from the room in disdain? That’s the WTF-alanche for me (thanks for the new term… love it)! Dude, if I found out one of my fantasies was FO SHO gonna come true, I’d be making a Brazilian Wax and a mani-pedi appt, and buying a new pair of CFMs… STAT!
@GoShawdy, your line: Evil Finger Pyramid of Contemplation
Thank you, it made my night.
keyword: bed32 . . . I have not, that’s just rumors.
Silver said on 05.21.10 at 08:41 AM • [link]
I wish this review had come out first before my blogmate bought a Cara Summers Blaze book. I would’ve warned her on authors to watch out for not to buy! LOL The Defender is supposed to be a suspense, but it’s not really very suspenseful. There are other things I find exception to, but I’ll let my blogmate list them out in her review. She’s a much nicer person than I am, so I’m sure she’ll be gentle with her comments.
Anyway, thankfully, the book is a 2-in-1, and the 2nd book, Flyboy by Karen Foley, was actually good. I may have to search out more of her books, because finding any good Harlequin author is like finding a needle in a haystack and when you’ve found one, she’s like a gold mine. (Hope I used my cliches properly. LOL)
@Bianca I think I have that twins book, but haven’t read it yet. I was intrigued by the back summary, but now… I hope I’ve got the guts to pick it up. Thankfully, I got it for only 0.70 in one of the used bookstores.
orangehands said on 05.21.10 at 10:23 AM • [link]
Ben P: Co-signed, seconded, *applause* OMIGOD YES!
Can ya tell I agree?
I don’t want to read a romance when my overwhelming desire is to see the heroine (or really anyone) completely destroy the hero for being a smug, misogynistic asshole. That’s not a romance, that’s the prequel to a murder mystery.
ehoyden said on 05.21.10 at 03:15 PM • [link]
@EbonyMcKenna : DNWTFBCTAIPG$4IACSNFWIS == Perfect for me. Thanks. Almost as long as that volcano name in Iceland. Definitely a cut and paste.
@Mary Frances: I do apoligize that my every comment seems to be railing against ereaders Not my comments about my ereader anyhow. Just surprised the Kindle doesn’t have page numbers. Not dissing it per se. My ereader has page numbers and I’m happy with it. Some people can apparently get by without them, but I can’t.
eReaders are supposedly great for academics and texts OT again, but I think someone is coming out with an ereader geared for academics soon. If you want more info, you can emai me privately so we don’t go off on a tangent. Sorry Sarah!! eferret 1 3 at g mail dot com
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