Finished A Discovery of Witches & Shadow of Night

A Discovery of Witches and The Shadow of  Night were both good. It is a captivating story about the forbidden love between a Witch and a Vampire.  Diana and Mathew are made for one another and fate has brought them together. However it does not come without its set of obstacles.  Diana had denied herself to be the person she was meant to be a True Witch. Mathew had not allowed himself to fall deeply in love for hundreds of years.  Now that the are together they must fight to stay together and with each other.  I  really enjoyed the premises of the story line and thought it very educational as well.  Mathew and Diana are scholars and there relationship revolves around there work.  The more I understood what there work was about then the more I understood there relationship.  It was interesting to see how the past had molded itself into the future even if Diana had not been born yet.  I suppose that is the idea of having a soul mate.  The book ended in quite the cliff hanger. Luckily after reading book 1 I had book 2 to start reading immediately.  But now I have to wait for book 3 which is not out yet.  Please Hurry!!!

Fang Rating VVVV
Carol-

Finished Discovery of Witches!

What a nice breath of fresh air this book was! A lead vampire man, plus real witches and even time travel!! This was a fabulously creative book! So glad to finally know what all the fuss was about! This book really had me going in the beginning, I just could not put it down and was so excitied to get into Diana's head and the beginning of the romance between Diana and Matthew had me coming back for more but soon as the mystery started to unfold and the romance seemed to die down, it was easier for me to put it down. I feel like I have to make sure I got all the information, all the parts of puzzle that is still unfolding that I don't want to miss! I love the mystery, I love the characters, especially Diana's aunts and her house! I would highly recommend this book. It has a little bit of everything for everyone! As I mentioned in a previous post, as I always compare what I read to Twilight and Sookie, I wish the author gave a little more description as to what the main characters looked like physicially! Edward was so real to me because I had such a clear picture in my mind's eye of what he looked like and although I feel like I know Matthew, this was lacking for me with Matthew and Diana as well:( Almost like a tease since I really liked them. Well onto Shadow of the Night to see what awaits our love birds in 1590!!


Fang Rating VVVVV

Who are Diana and Matthew?

Yes! The Discovery of Witches is a great book! Yes, we get it! Thank you! HOWEVER, being a reader of sound mind and a lover of descriptions I wish the author was better at discribing what Matthew and Diana actually look like....For me that is definetly what is missing from this book. I fell in love with Edward Cullen and Big E aka Eric Northman because I had a very clear picture in my head of what they looked like, at this point, even a fuzzy one would do! It is a great love story but I must know who my lovers are and besides a brief description in the beginning of the book of what Matthew and Diana look like, we are left to our imagination. So, here is what I think Diana and Matthew more or less look like. Like always, take what you like and leave the rest!

Finshed VH 12: Incumbus Dreams

Like all Anita Blake books this was a lot of information and sex jammed into one book! So much goes on in these books that it is hard to summarize and since we have been reading them back to back I get a little lost!! Incubus Dreams in a all male strip club across the river in St. Louis where Anita goes to help her drunk friend Ronnie with Micah and Nathanial and ends up finding a body left by the vampire serial killer she and the police and trying to find. Despite the sex, this book was hard to get through, Carol and I started calling these books NyQuil cause they put your ass to sleep!!! It is just too much information and too many positions crammed into one! Therefore, we decided to take a break after this book and hoping maybe a breather will give us renewed interest in Anita, however at this point, I don't know if we will pick up another Anita book again. However, in case we do, the important points of this book to remember, as regards to the series, are, Richard, Anita and JC finally get it on and bring their power to a new level! Anita is getting better controlling the aurdeur and has embraced her love for Nathanial and the fact that she has five boyfriends? No Asher in this book, but a finally a great love scene with Anita and JC ALONE! Towards the end of this book, it sounds like Micah may take the dip, thinking only the auerdeur ties his and Anita's bond together, while Vittoro, the vampire who is serial killing across nation with his band of crazies is still at large. JC has also gained some new vampires, Wicked and Truth and more who are tired of Vittoro's murderous ways, want to come on board.

- Mon

Fang Rating VVV

Finished Incubus Dreams Book 12

The book was filled with details and intimate interaction between Anita and the men in her life.
The adeur has transitioned Anita from a prudish young woman who takes pride  in being celibate to
an almost promiscuous woman. If she does not feed the Adeur then those that belong to her ie. Damian will start to die.  So now she has no choice but to give in and feed the Adeur which mainly means to have crazy mad sex with whom ever is around and willing.  The other aspect of the Aduer is that because it needs to be fed about every 6 hours she can not use the same  people they will not survive all of that loving.  She can literally love a person to death.  In book 11 Anita has accidentally formed another triumvirate between herself, Nathaniel, and Damian.  Nathaniel becomes a little more assertive because he wants to actually have a full relationship with Anita a not just be he Pomedesang.  Michah is still around him and his larger than life better have.   In this book JC, Anita, and Richard finally become a triumvirate.  Although I was excited that Richard came back into the picture, it was not what I would have hoped for, then again I am a romantic at heart.  There is a crime to be solved and vampires to be executed.  Anita continues to battle with herself she doubts that she can continue to help the police and is learning how to let go somewhat.  She is realising that she does not have to fix every problem, cause when one evil person is demolished another comes in to take there place.  With in the series we see Anita experience personal growth,  she begins to go out of her comfort zone for the people in her life she loves.
Fang Rating: V V V V
Carol-

Finished VH 9 Obsidian Butterfly

We are working our way through Anita but I have to say this was one of the hardest books for us to get through. In this book Anita travels to New Mexico to meet up with Edward who has requested her presence to help solve a gruesome monster killing. This is the work of one of the worst serial killers Anita has ever dealt with and it makes her realize that this kind of work is really starting to effect her. She becomes more emotional dealing with the victims and decides that after this she definitely needs a vacation. We got to see Edward's soft side and learn more about the elusive Edward which was interesting at first but them became boring after a while. There was no action what so ever in this book except for her memorable experience with Bernardo which took place in front of a bar full of people... In spite of all of the twists and turns and bloody details I could have lived without, this was an important book in the series for a few reasons. One is that she gained new power from dealing with the Obsidian Butterfly, the Master Vamp of New Mexico who set Anita up in a way to take care of the serial killer who was raining in on the her parade. Anita also meet Olaf in this book, who I think will show up again and who is a definite threat to her safety. And lastly, she realized that she needed a break and sometime to work on herself. Anita taking time out just for her was a big realization that she couldn't "handle" it all.

Fang Rating VV

- Mon

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