Yesterday, I noticed the new Karen Ranney, An Unlikely Governess, is already out. SWEET! Then when I tried to pay for it, I realized I’d accidentally left my wallet at work. NOT SO SWEET! I had to drive back to the office to retrieve it, and then traffic ended up sucking a lot of unwashed monkey ass, and yeah. No Ranney yet, but I’ll hopefully remedy that tonight.
And then in early March, Loretta Chase’s Lord Perfect and Lisa Kleypas’ Devil in Winter are coming out. Yay yay yay yay yay yay YAY!
Speaking of Loretta Chase, they’ve recently re-released The Lion’s Daughter. Most people don’t seem to like it, but me? I LOVE it, especially the somewhat squickish aspects of Varian feeling attracted to Esme-in-drag—but then I love me some sexual ambiguity. It was the book that started me on the long, dark path to Loretta Chase fangirl-dom.
Note that the cover is only a marginal improvement on the original jheri-curled mullet hideousness. This book is just fucked when it comes to covers, I tells ye.
Another book I need to get my mitts on is Shana Abe’s The Smoke Thief. It came out last year, and I keep spacing it out every time I go to the bookstore.
And as I’ve squealed about already, I’m just about peeing my pants in anticipation of the upcoming Jennifer Crusie/Bob Mayer collaboration, Don’t Look Down. Sarah will probably be able to hear my happy shrieks all the way in New Jersey once I get my mitts on that book on April 4.
Now, if only some fool publisher would buy Laura Kinsale’s new book already and put me out of my misery, this will be a banner year for new books.
I am currently reading An Unlikely Governess and it has been very good so far. Before that I read The Handmaiden’s Necklace, which was slower than my grandma in January. I almost stopped reading it, I was so bored.
Thanks for the recommendation on the Ranney! I haven’t read her for a couple years, so getting some upfront notice like this helps.
Isn’t there another J.D. Robb book due out this month? And I’m looking forward to Carey’s Kushiel’s Scion later this year, as well as a new Sharon Shinn.
So many books, so little reading time…
Isn’t there another J.D. Robb book due out this month? And I’m looking forward to Carey’s Kushiel’s Scion later this year
Memory in Death. Or has that already come out in the US and there’s another one in line?
Can’t wait for the next Kushiel fix. And Loretta.
Memory in Death hasn’t come out quite yet. Next week, I think.
I ahve Smoke Thief and have for awhile, but I’ve never gotten around to reading it.
Also still have a bunch of Ranneys to read.
Can’t wait for Dont Look Down, although Amazon says they won’t ship it to me until the middle of April. Cheap bastards.
Can’t wait for Devil in Winter, and how could you forget that Cast’s Goddess of the Rose comes out next month??
And Three Little Lies by Carlyle, and well, too many to name.
Oh…Lilith Saintcrow’s debut from Warner comes out in March. Can’t wait to read that.
And Shadow Touch by Liu…that’s the end of this month. Man, I’m going to go broke. I need a job.
I just finished reading “An Unlikely Governess” last weekend. Loved every minute of it.
I just did this on my own blog. I’m feeling blah about everything on my TBR pile so instead I thought about all the good stuff coming up. I’m really looking forward to the Devil in Winter myself.
And I just read The Lion’s Daughter and I really liked it. The setting was really different as were the hero and heroine. They both had negative qualities, which was a refreshing change from too-good-to-be-true-ness (wha?), but they were still likeable. And the hero was a strong character, but the heroine was tougher. Really, I thought she could kick his butt, if she wanted to. And I liked it. Anyhow, I’m very psyched for the re-issue of Captives of the Night now, as well as Lord Perfect.
Candy, please do a review of The Lion’s Daughter. I can’t decide if I want to get it, and I have no idea what it’s about. I loved loved loved Lord of Scoundrels but thought Mr. Perfect was only pretty good. So I’m on the fence here. Help me down!
I realize this was an oversight on your part, so I’ll just help you along by reminding everybody that my Tied to the Tracks is coming out in June.
So mark your calendars, or start your engines, or pick a silly image of your choice.
Or I could just send you an ARC.
Ooops, forgive my oversight, Sara. Indeed, Tied to the Tracks! Fanfare! Etc. An ARC would rock the house, too—I’m afraid I’ve been putting off the Into the Wildnerness series you sent me because I’m determined to finish Musashi first, and that book is taking me forever to finish like damn.
Give it up on Musashi. I’m concinced that it’s one of those books that everyone claims to love but in fact they only skimmed through it. OK, OK, my stepdad thinks it’s the bee’s knees, but I thought it was crap [I have never been a fan of any novels that involves a lot of wanderings, philosophical rambles and “meaningful” observations]. But, admittedly, it’s a lot more entertaining than Crime and Punishment, which took me approx. five f. years to finish.
There are a lot of books I want coming out soon, some of which you’ve mentioned. I could so use a part-time job just to pay for my book buying.
Hi, I just found your blog through DebR.‘s blogroll. I like you guys! Check out the Jenny Crusie/Bob Mayer blogsite over at He Said, She Said, and Jenny’s blog, for a fix until Don’t Look Down comes out.
I, also, can’t wait for new Jacqueline Carey and Sharon Shinn. Although the other series JC has going on COMPLETELY SUCKS. Shinn’s last book was not my favorite of hers either. However, she is in the same writer’s group as Laurell K. Hamilton of Anita Blake and Merry fame, which I think is so cool! (and how middle school does that sound, sigh)
Marjorie Liu’s latest is on the top of my list. Oh, oh and ANYTHING, I mean ANYTHING by Shelly Laurenston. (Still begging for a fix.)Sigh. And, of course, a guilty secret of waiting for the next Dark book by Christine Feehan.