And one not so favorite, plus created a bc wishlist and linked it from my profile. My bookshelf at bc.com is pretty big now.
I added the four following books as favorites. These won't be available for adoption by anyone or ever released (well, unless I get replacements copies), and the asterisks I put next to the titles at bc are to show that they are my recommended keepers. While I listed only one book, most of these represent at least one trilogy.
I also added this book, A Kiss of Shadows, but I haven't advertised that it's up for adoption yet. It's another one of those books i don't feel comfortable releasing to the wild because of the adult content. There's supposed to be a plot with the main character, Merry, being chased by the people from her home, but it's so thin it might as well not be in there at all.
The primary "plot" (and that's using the word very loosely) seems to be one of perverse sexual encounter after another intemixed with graphic violence and the constant mentioning of what lacy undergarments Merry chooses to wear that day. Not that the garments matter; with the amount of bed hopping she likes to do, they don't stay on very long anyway. There's no real story here, and S&M and violence just aren't enough to give a book a plot. (And I bet the majority of those positive reviews at amazon.com are written by men!)
I think this series is the one that started bleeding into the Anita Blake series and why we saw such an about face on Anita's characterization. This series doesn't impress me at all and I have no plans to buy more of it. The sad thing is a lot of people probably bought this one based on the early Blake books, so she and the publisher will probably see this as quite popular rather than as a case of author association only.
