I’ve noticed a lot of talk lately around the ‘net about rereading favorite books. Which got me thinking, how many of us reread our favorite books?


I know I’d love to keep all the books I read, but I only keep the ones that I know I would reread again. Do I? Well, sometimes. Not as often as I would like because there are so many books released every week that I want. Already my TBR pile is getting way out of hand. I need a couple of weeks were I do nothing but read.


So, tell me, do you reread books? What makes them a reread?


hugs,
D

I love reading books in a series. There’s something magical about returning to a setting and characters that you’ve come to know and love. My TBR pile is growing by the day (literally), but there was no way I was going to pass up reading books four and five, Married by Morning and Love in the Afternoon in the Hathaway series by Lisa Kleypas.

I had been looking forward to Cat and Leo’s book from the moment of their first argument. I knew they would have a fiery story, and Lisa did not disappoint. To add to their intense attraction, Cat has a past she’s been running from. And a man that will do whatever it takes to have her as his own.


Leo through all his sarcastic comments and quick wit was a perfect hero for Cat. He was strong, clever, and refused to let her fall through his hands. Despite Leo’s attention on discovering Cat’s secrets, he must find a wife and produce an heir within a year or lose Hathaway House.


With so many twists and turns and villains attacking you begin to wonder if Cat and Leo can find the happiness they deserve. Yet, in the end, it is their love that gets them through it all.

I was very curious as to how the youngest Hathaway, Beatrix, would find her hero. Beatrix lived life differently. Nature and animals were her loves. No one but her familiy understood her which made it difficult for her in society. Her family had all but regulated her to a spinster, made worse by the fact that men found her attractive and easy to talk to, but never moved things further along.


It isn’t until Beatrix’s friend, Pru, gets a letter from a beau while he’s fighting abroad that Beatrix decides to answer Christopher when Pru refuses. After all, Christopher is putting his life on the line, and its clear by his letters he won’t return home the same man he had left. It doesn’t take long for the correspodence between Beatrix and Christopher to become something more, something deep.


When Beatrix learns that Christopher will soon return home, she ends their letters, but the damage is already done. She’s already fallen in love with him.


Christopher returns home determined to claim Pru as his wife. Their exchange of letters confirms that she is the one for him. Or is she? After spending time with Pru he soon realizes she wasn’t the one who wrote the letters. He sets out to find who deceived him and why.


The agony of seeing Christopher with Pru is too much for Beatrix. Her heart shatters again and again. The deception she was part of only makes things more difficult to bear. Yet, she cannot turn away when she realizes Christopher might be a war hero, but he is suffering from his time in the war. Nightmares and seemingly unending fury ride Christopher and keep him locked in his home. The only one who can help him is Beatrix. But does she dare? Her secret could be revealed, and then the man she loved would turn away from her forever.


Christopher soon discovers it is Beatrix who wrote the letters, but their time together has proved one thing – he needs her. In his life and in his bed. But does he dare take the chance of bringing such an innocent into his life of hell?


When love and a Hathaway are involved, nothing will stand in the way.

If there is one author I know I can pick up and never be disappointed in, its Lisa Kleypas. Her writing is so vivid and sensual, and it pulls you in immediately.


From the moment I picked up Mine Till Midnight, the first in the Hathaway series, I was hooked. Seduce me at Sunrise only helped to whet my appetite for Tempt me at Twilight.





I couldn’t wait for Poppy’s story. With her quirky family, I found it charming that Poppy wanted “normalcy”. She certainly doesn’t get it when she meets Harry Rutledge. The passion between them ignites the pages, and Harry’s dangerous and hidden past only fueled my need to know more of him. He wants Poppy and will do anything to get her. And I do mean anything.


At times, I thought he might have done too much and it would push her away. And at times, it nearly did. Yet, Poppy is drawn to Harry in ways she doesn’t understand. When her reputation is compromised, she shocks her family by accepting Harry’s proposal. Poppy believes she’ll have the union her two sisters have.


Harry, on the other hand, has no problem giving Poppy passion – just not his heart or his trust. Their wills clash, and though they battle each other, an enemy lurks waiting to strike.


The culmination is perfect, and the dark, dangerous Harry Rutledge cannot hold out against Poppy and the love that has grown.


I’ve got the next two books in the Hathaway series, Married by Morning and Love in the Afternoon that I’m just dying to dive into. If you’re looking for a wonderful historical series to jump into – this is the one! Lisa Kleypas never disappoints!


hugs,
D

Well, I don’t have a review this week. With it being a holiday, a death in the family, and deadlines, I wasn’t able to finish the book I’m reading. And I just hate to talk about a book until I’m done with it. I know, I know, bad Donna. I’ll do better next week.


So, today, instead of *me* doing a review, I wanted to see what book(s) *you’d* like to talk about.


What book or books have you read recently that you can’t stop talking about or can’t stop thinking about. You know those characters, the ones that latch onto your soul, and years later, you still think about them?


Have you found a new series or new author that you’ve fallen in love with?


I’m dying to know! I like to add to my list of “must buys” when I go to B&N. So please share.


hugs,
D

I love when its my turn to blog because I get to talk about books I love!


I’ve always adored Christina Dodd’s historicals. I was lucky enough to a part of the same RWA chapter when she lived in Houston. If you are a “friend” of Christina’s on Facebook or Twitter, the wonderful humor you read there is just part of what makes her such a delight.


As a lover of things paranormal, I was giddy when she branched out into paranormal a couple of years ago with her Darkness Chosen series. It was such a great concept, and the books kept me enthralled. Needless to say, when I learned she was doing a spin off series, I was beyond delighted.


The Chosen Ones is seven people, abandoned at birth and given special gifts to be used for good or evil. Every seven years, a new group are chosen to use their skills to save other children like themselves from The Others. Yet they do so much more, and the newest Chosen face dramatic challenges.


It’s another great series – one you shouldn’t miss!





The second book in the series is STORM OF SHADOWS. This books is about Aaron Eagle, a man introduced in the first book, and one I couldn’t wait to read about. He’s mysterious, handsome, and all too alluring. He’s an accomplished thief…with a very special talent.


His heroine is Rosamund Hill. Proper and predictable, she has lived her life buried in libraries. She believes the legend of the Chosen is a myth, but it doesn’t take long after she meets Aaron and he sweeps her into a world of dangerous secrets that she begins to doubt that belief. She’s unable to resist Aaron’s offers of visits to private museums or to hunt for a mysterious prophecy.


I love how with every moment they are together she begins to let loose the woman she has kept locked deep inside herself. It’s not easy for her to trust all that she sees and learns, but with Aaron, she knows she is safe from the dangers that would harm her. Aaron carries a great burden, one that he cannot let go of. It will take Rosamund’s love for him to release a past that has haunted him since he was a child. And their adventure gives them a love that will defy fate itself.


The third book, CHAINS OF ICE releases July 6th. I’ve already got my book pre-ordered, and it cannot get here fast enough! I highly recommend the Darkness Chosen and The Chosen Ones. You won’t be disappointed!


hugs,
D

I have the very great pleasure of knowing Kim Lenox, and I can say with all honesty that she is one of the nicest people. Ever! On top of that, she’s an incredible writer.


I have completely fallen in love with her Shadow Guards series. I’ve devoured each and every one of the books. I just finished reading Darker than Night and I was *blown away*.





I love historical and paranormal romance and Kim blends them both seamlessly. She takes us to the majesty of Victorian England and delivers pure evil in the form of some of history’s most atrocious villains.


The Shadow Guards are a mysterious order of immortals entrusted with the destiny of the living. Selene, the heroine and daughter of Cleopatra, is a Reclaimer. She finds the souls of the most wicked and depraved of earth’s mortals and ends them.

Lord Rourke Avenage, the Ravenmaster, is head of the Ravens, warriors who are entrusted to guard England’s monarchy.

Both have been immortal for centuries, and both have hardened their hearts over time. Yet, when cut off from the ranks of the other Shadow Guards, the two have only each other to trust when an ancient enemy comes to call.


I was rivited with every page. Kim does a superb job of building the sexual tension until I was begging for Selene and Rourke to give in to each other. I found Selene quite interesting when I first met her in book one Night Falls Darkly and then again when her twin brother, Marcus’ book, So Still the Night.

I knew Selene would get her own book, and being such a powerful woman, she needed a certain type of man to stand beside her. Kim gave us that with Avenage.

Kim, I have two things to say:

1. I want my own Ravenmaster, please.
2. There had better be more Shadow Guard books or I’m going to come hunt you down.


hugs,
D

Wednesday is my day here at the DWW blog. Each week I’m going to be talking books. Who doesn’t like to talk books, right?


Despite my deadlines and “mom” duties, I make time to read. It isn’t always as much as I’d like to, but I make sure its there. Of course, it makes it a little easier because hubby, my daughter (11), and son (7) all read as well. I spend a small fortune every month at Barnes and Noble when we all go to get our books.


This past week I was deliriously happy to be able to continue Alexandra Ivy’s Guardians of Eternity series with book three, DARKNESS EVERLASTING. (note, I’m behind on the series!)


I was really hoping she would write Styx’s book. I got to meet him in the second book, EMBRACE THE DARKNESS, and just knew he would make an awesome hero.


Well, I wasn’t disappointed!


I really like Alexandra’s take on vampires and their world, as well as all the other paranormal entities that inhabit it. Another neat aspect of the story was that we didn’t find out what kind of demon the heroine, Darcy, was until the last half of the book. I loved trying to figure it out myself. I was wrong every time. lol.


If you’re looking for another contemporary/paranormal series to sink your teeth into, then you will love New York Time’s Bestseller Alexandra Ivy’s Guardians of Eternity!


hugs,
D

I still remember that day in November of 2005 when I opened an email with the offer to publish HIGHLAND MIST

A lot of firsts followed that email. My first contract, my first edits. My first cover. It was all so thrilling and overwhelming at times. All authors that I know worry about how their books will be received by readers. I had no idea how much loved my Druids Glen series was until the contract ended and I pulled the books.

I got so many wonderful emails from people who had begun to read the series and hadn’t finished, and others who had tried to buy them and couldn’t get them any longer. After several months of emails asking when/how they could get the books again, I decided to have the series reissued.

Its my delight to announce the first Druids Glen book, HIGHLAND MIST is now available again!

An honorable laird…

Conall MacInnes was born to a clan that for centuries has been charged with the guarding of the sacred Druids. It’s a duty he has always met with a willing heart, until the day his sister, a Druid priestess, goes missing and the very Druids he has protected refuse to help him find the last remaining member of his family. Then a three-hundred-year-old prophecy places a Druid in his hands for safekeeping. It’s the chance at revenge he’s been waiting for, but is he willing to pay the cost his revenge will demand—the loss of his mate and the future of Scotland?

A willing lass…

Glenna MacNeil wants only to be free, to find the purpose of her life. When she is told to look for the dark laird who would free her, she eagerly goes with the powerful Highlander who fights her clan, not realizing she has set in motion events that will change the course of history.

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hugs,
D
www.DonnaGrant.com

I was raised in a house of readers. There were always books at my disposel, and it was no surprise to my parents that I won awards at school for reading the most books, ect… Books are a passion. I love to walk into a bookstore and see the different covers. I love the smell of a book. There’s just something glorious about it.

I love opening a new book and being sucked into a new world. Sometimes the first sentence will grab me and not let go. Sometimes it takes a page or two, but in the end, the author’s do their job. There have even been some books where I was sad they ended. I wasn’t ready to part with the characters, and I wanted more adventures, more of everything. Have you ever read a book like that?

But my favorite part of a book is when the hero and heroine meet. That first scene when they notice each other, and I mean *really* notice each other always gets my heart pounding. The hair, the eyes, the body, the strength and power of the man, the elegance and beauty of a women – how each character notices something different about the other.

That one scene usually sets up the entire book for the h/h. There have been authors that have captured this scene so well that I’ll read it again and again because I cannot resist. It is *that* good.

So what is your favorite part of a book?

hugs,
D
www.DonnaGrant.com

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