Friday, December 31, 2021

Nine Crapola/Not So Important Books Read

At the "rear end" of 2021, I read a number of crappy books that I don't want to spend a lot of time adding to my blog, so I'm just going to bulk-drop them here.

109.  Dragon's Thief by Zoe Chant, finished 12/2/21  Kindle.  Repetitive and trite, just lovey dovey stuff with very little description. (Girl has been on the run for years for a really hazy reason, and is rescued by a guy that turns into a dragon who's looking for someone in her family that stole the key that allows him to turn...) (1)

108.  Cavalier - T. L. Smith, finished11/30/2021.  Audible.  First in a series about four guys who run a company together, a sex club for executives that is highly secretive called Crimson Elite..  These guys are extremely rich, and really tight.  If one of the club's members even breathe a hint of it, they are maimed/harmed.  Although this is not the premise of the actual story, the male protagonist, Creed, is the one who kills and maims.  They just skim over this!!!  So stupid!!!  The relationship between he and Isha is very strange.  The inner and outer Creed do not match at all.  The next three books are about his three buddies.  I think I'll be passing on them.  (1)  

104.  Sexy by J. A. Huss, finished 11/11/21.  Audible.  Extremely steamy with a bit of mystery concerning the male protagonist, what kids of secrets was he keeping?  Female protagonist was never fully rendered, I couldn't picture her and could not empathize with her.  Quite a bit of story mixed in with the steam.  Loved him.  A lot. (NR)

99.  Wrapped in Ink by Carrie Ann Ryan, finished10/8/2021.  This is a Montgomery family/Boulder book, I think I've read some of the other Montgomery family books.  Too many brothers!  Liam has three and a baby sister; Arden is the baby sister to four older brothers.  It's absolutely ridiculous and stupid.  Arden has lupus and is constantly sick.  Liam is an ex-model turned successful author.  There's no reality at all in this book.  A bit of steam but mostly story, that part works so-so.  (2)

92.  The Deal by Elle Kennedy.  Finished around 9/3/21.  Audible.  Yep, another romance.  This one includes a pretty decent storyline, but unrelatable characters.  The male protagonist is the hottest ivy league hockey captain ever.  (Lol!)  And he falls for our female protagonist, of course, even though he's a complete and total man-wh...(you know what I'm talkin' about).  But I've got say I totally enjoyed the story, set in rural Massachusetts featuring quite a bit of hockey, singing, and romping, lol!  I did enjoy this one.  (4)

93.  Devi's Distraction by Ruby Dixen. Ice Home #7.   Finished 9/6/21.  Audible.  Devi and N'dek.  She is an anthropologist and loves digging apart creatures to see how they work and he is a hunter who has lost one of his legs below the knee.  She helps him by making a prosthetic so that he can walk and they are pretty much instantly attracted to each other, although they don't resonate until near the end of the book.  Hugely high steam factor, but quite a bit of story as well.  The male reader used quite a bit of an accent at the beginning of the story and lessened it somewhat by the end, which I liked better.  There were lots of references to other couples, a few too many!

91.  Without Her Consent - Kindle.  Finished 8/30/21.  Slow going and boring with quite a predictable outcome (Long-time comatose victim in a hospital gives birth to a baby boy.)  (2)

86.  The Dispatcher by John Scalzi. Finished 8/21/21.  Audible Short.  I guess you'd probably consider this science fiction a bit more than fantasy, though it doesn't take place in outer space, lol.  And interesting addition to the norms of contemporary world in that when people die they are now given the opportunity to return to a point in their life 12 hours before their demise.  There are people that are specifically trained to do this "work," and they are called dispatchers.  This novella is about one dispatcher and the help he give a police detective in finding a fellow dispatcher that has disappeared.  Quite interesting, actually. (4)

88.  Hold Me Today by Maria Luis.  Finished 8/16/2021.  Set in Boston, a full blown romance that had very little of the stupid things that usually get me perturbed.  Very steamy in places.  Good storytelling.  Fun read.  (4)

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