Teaser Tuesday: Crystal Gardens

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Irene would have been nothing short of ravishing at the marriageable age of eighteen or nineteen, Evangeline thought. But looks and intelligence were not always sufficient when it came to the business of marriage, because marriage was a business transaction and everyone knew it.

- Crystal Gardens by Amanda Quick

No New Books for April

I keep a page of new releases for each month. I keep it to make sure I don’t forget any books, any series. Plus, it’s just a way to keep track of release dates from favorite writers and series.

I still get lots of books from the library, and if you don’t get bestsellers the day of release from them, it will months before they became available. So release dates are a good thing to keep track of.

Mind, I find books during the month that never showed up on the list. So it’s not a to be read list. (The TBR list is much much bigger.)

April’s list has 7 books:

1. The Lingering Dead by J.N. Duncan: April 1, 2012
2. The Shape of Desire by Sharon Shinn: April 3, 2012
3. The Calling by Kelley Armstrong: April 10, 2012
4. Royal Street, by Suzanne Johnson: April 10 2012
5. Beauty by LKH: April 24 2012
6. Crystal Gardens by Amanda Quick: April 24, 2012
7. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King: April 24, 2012
8. Lies & Omens by Lyn Benedict: April 24, 2012

I didn’t get any of these. None. It I thought I would, at least Crystal Gardens and maybe The Shape of Desire, too. But I didn’t. I mean, I want to read them, but I don’t feel motivated to actually get any of them.

The only new book I got this April is Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear and it came out in March. Right at the moment, I am reading Intruder by C. J. Cherryh. It came out in March, too, and that’s when I got it.

Usually I get one or two out of the whole month’s list. It’s a new record for me.

Teaser Tuesday: Copper Beach, part 2

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR

Lists if they like your teasers!

I think this is a new series.

Still reading this. Been a busy week, me not being finished yet with Copper Beach is not a reflection on the book.

My Teasers:

Coppersmiths are all real smart, and Sam is probably the smartest of the bunch. If he had killed that woman, there would have nothing at all to link her death to him. He sure as hell wouldn’t have left her body in his own lab. She would have flat-out disappeared. No problem making that happen here in the islands. Lot of deep water around these parts.

- Copper Beach by Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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Harmony Series: Marriage of Convenience

I have read all of the novels Harmony novels (nearly all. got one left) by Jayne Castle and I am still a bit confused.

At some point a Curtain (a portal) opened on Earth to other worlds. One of these worlds is Harmony. People went there and colonized it. They brought their pets and gadgets and what not. Than the Curtain closed, trapping everyone on Harmony and leaving them with no way to get supplies. Their very survival was in question.

At this point, from what I understand, the colonists made two types of marriages: convent and convenient.

Convent Marriages are nearly unbreakable. At least not without sever legal and financial consequences. I am guessing there are social consequences, too. Marriages of Convenience are, well, convenient. Easy come, easy go. Unless you have children, in which case you end up automatically in a Convent Marriage.

Me, I don’t get it. Even the characters call Marriages of Convenience a short-term affair, only respectable. Which seems kind of silly to me.

Why not just move in? It’s before you decide you want to spend forever and ever with your SO. It’s while you are deciding your SO is the one you are meant to be with forever and ever.

Why even bother with a short-term marriage? (Also does short-term marriage feel like an oxymoron to anyone else?)

Creating a world with two different types of marriages seems excessively complicated to me. I don’t understand why she did it at all. What is the point? Really, I don’t get it.

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Teaser Tuesday: Copper Beach

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I think this is a new series.

My Teasers:

It figured that she had chosen a career path that was fated to go the way of the buggy-whip manufacturing, Abby thought. But she hadn’t been able to help herself. The old books filled with ancient paranormal secrets called to her senses. And those wrapped in psi-encryption were irresistible.

- Copper Beach by Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Teaser Tuesday: Canyons of Night

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teasers:

If it was murder it was by paranormal means and there’s a special department within the FBPI that investigates those kinds of crimes. As it happens, that’s the department I worked for when I was with the Bureau. Yes, sir. I have investigated this kind of thing before.

- Canyons of Night by Jayne Castle/Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick

IMO, Ms. Krentz has too many alter egos. Also, in case it isn’t clear, the above quote is a bit of dialogue from the book.

Teaser Tuesday: Quicksilver

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

He kept walking, waiting for his quarry to leap out of the shadows. He heard the faint rush of movement from the yawning darkness of the crypt a few heartbeats before the figure swept toward him. The preternatural speed and the certainty with which the attacker moved in the darkness told him everything he needed to know. He was dealing with a strong hunter-talent.

- Quicksilver by Amanda Quick