Note:

In the interest of being better able to keep this list up to date, I'm no longer going to be posting my own synopsis/comments about the books I've been reading. Instead, I'm just going to post the blurb from the cover. To be honest, it takes a lot for me to not like a book, so you can pretty well bet that only the keepers make it to my booklist.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Katie MacAlister

I cannot believe that I have yet to dedicate a post to Katie MacAlister!

I started with her Vampire series:

A Girl's Guide to Vampires
Sex and the Single Vampire
Sex, Lies, and Vampires
Even Vampires Get the Blues
Just One Sip
the Last of the Red Hot Vampires

It's not just the hot vampires and steamy sex - okay alot of it is the hot vampires and steamy sex - but they're adventuresome and funny as well. They're so well written that I even hooked one of my co-workers on them, and she didn't think she liked vampire books!

Then I figured that if I enjoyed her vampire books so much I just might enjoy her contemporaries:

Improper English
Men in Kilts
The Corset Diaries
Hard Day's Knight
Blow Me Down

Boy was I right! These books were every bit as funny and well done. One of the things I enjoy the most about her books is the heroines are far from perfect. They're sassy and out-spoken, one's had a stroke, one's overweight . . . They're real people.

I've just finished her dragon series:

You Slay Me
Fire Me UP
Light My Fire
Holy Smokes

I don't know why I put off reading this series so long. I think I enjoyed it even more because it was pretty much one story continued over four books. Or I guess a better description would be several stories about the same characters spread over four books. One of my big complaints about books in general is that they're too short. I guess that's what comes from reading so fast.