It's Friday! Time To Hop And Follow!!

I have found another follow that I'll be participating in along with the hop!  That makes 2 for me.  I just love these, you meet so many wonderful book friends :)

This Hop is hosted by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books, and it runs through the weekend, so if you can't today, hop on tomorrow!  Just remember, visit some of the blogs and get to know em, if you start to follow tell em you met them through the hop!

This weeks ? -

Tell us about some of your favorite authors and why they're your favorites!

One of my favorite authors is Stephen King.  I know sounds so cliche, right?  Well I started reading him when I was in my late teens and I just loved how he could scare the pants offa me!!  I guess you could say he was my first author love, I would chomp through his books like a demon.

Who else do I love, Charlaine Harris, without a doubt.  For a long period of time, I'd say about 5 years,  I couldn't sit still enough to read.  It would take me 1-2 months to get through a book because I'd read during my dd's tennis lessons on Saturday and that's it.  When we discovered True Blood on HBO during season 1 my dd said these are books Mama and I want them for Christmas.  Well the 2 of us zooked through them books like a house on fire!!!  I thank Miss Charlaine for bringing my love back full swing.  Oh my, J.R.Ward and dem Brothers, holy moly!!  I just love Vishous, and I read Covet, not to shabby so far.  That gals style is just different, she brands left and right, the Escalades, and the Rolex watches, Kanye blasting on the player.  Her slang is also a bit much, I just don't see Wells saying here's the sitch ; ) but, the woman's got b@lls in her writing and I love it.  Jeanienne Frost, hands down her character Bones is just amazing.  She has crafted a character so real I can hear that vamp's Brit accent whispering in my ear!  For me when an author accomplishes that they are supreme in their talent.  Love Patricia Cornwell, the Scarpetta series never disappoints me.

I could probably go on and on, hhhmmm, are there any authors that any just can't stand?  I can't think of one of the top of my head....






This is my first time jumping into this follow.  The rules are simple -

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Glory In Death

  Glory In Death
  J.D. Robb
  Paperback 320 pgs.
  Berkley






Amazon's Blurb -

In the second of this futuristic mystery series, protagonist New York police Lieutenant Eve Dallas looks for a serial killer of prominent career women. Eve tenaciously follows the clues whether they imperil her romantic relationship with a millionaire or her beloved job. Truth and justice are the goals she works resolutely toward and that lead her finally to solve the case, save the life of a friend, and command the respect of her tall, dark, handsome lover. If the supporting characters are somewhat stereotypical and the ending easy to predict, the humor and imaginative slice of mid-21st-century life provide scope for the reader's talents. 

This is # 2 of the In Death series.  I am loving it!  Robb has crafted a great character in Lt. Eve Dallas.  She is smart, tough, yet has a vulnerable side to her that makes you like her even more.  Her one friend Mavis needs to be developed some more, she has  great funny potential!  I like that Capt. Feeney is easy around her, calling her kid, and being tough with her too. Roarke is priceless.  This man is confident, extremely powerful, smart, tough, and yet she has brought him to his knee's!  He loves her so very much that it scares the crumbs out of him. Watching this relationship is wonderful.

Someone is killing the city's prominent woman, and Eve is put on the job personally by Commander Whitney for her no nonsense, honest police work that she does.  She decides to put herself in the limelight, deducing that the killer will get pissed at her stealing his thunder, making her a target.  Granting and interview about the case, and out on the town. Her relationship with Roarke affords her that luxury since they are fodder for the gossip columnists.   It also affords her his help and his access to info she normally would not be able to get.

Roarke is trying to cope with the fact that she can't let herself fully be with him yet.  She still holds back a piece of herself.  He does accept that her work is important to her, but he wants all of her.  In one scene as he watches her sleep he sees how she hesitates before turning into him and he has a difficult time with that.  To see such a strong man weak over his love is very touching.

Eve is so devoted to the victims, you feel her exhaustion as she doggedly pursues the killer, often at the expense of her own well being both physically and personally.  She is a great cop, pure and simple.  My most favorite part took place between she and Roarke.  All I'll say is she goes busting into his house, they had had a tiff so she was staying away, his butler Sommerset hates her, she threatens to deck him and then she busts in on Roarke.  After arguing back and forth he tells her to get out, as she turns to go, he throws the switch to lock the doors.  You read to see what happens.

I will be continuing without a doubt and give this book 4 cannolis!

New Blog Design

Blogaholic DesignsThis is my new blog!!!  I can't say thank you enough to Emily of Blogaholic Designs She is so very talented, patient and made my blog just beautiful!!

The next thank you goes to Julie of Reading Without Restraint. If it wasn't for her birthday bash contest, I never would have done this.  I am so appreciative!

Please visit both these blogs, and contact Emily.  This girl just rocks!

Teaser Tuesday...In More Ways Than One!(July 6th)

 This is such a fun meme hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading.  Here are the rules -

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share 2 teaser sentences from that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers!  Make sure what you share doesn't give too much away, we don't want to ruin the book for others.
• Share the title and author so that other TT's can add the book to their TBR if they'd like.

 Glory In Death
  J.D. Robb
  Paperback 320 pgs
  Berkley






My Teaser -

"There's going to be blood in that car, Feeney, and on that coat, no matter how much he's scrubbed and sprayed.  I've got to get over to Channel 75."

kindle edition location 3671-74

Lt. Eve Dallas to Capt. Feeney

As with #1 Naked in Death this book is just great.  I'm getting to know the characters better, and Robb is very good at drawing you into them and wanting to learn more.
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Now for the other teaser, keep an eye on my blog, by Thursday there should be some changes around here!!!  I can't wait to share it with all of you!!

Lets Hop!(July 2nd)

I love Hopping!!!  You find some really great blogs out there.  The hop is hosted by Jennifer over at Crazy for Books and it runs the weekend, so if you can't today, hop on tomorrow!  Just remember, visit some of the blogs and get to know em, if you start to follow tell em you met them through the hop!

This week Jennifer is adding a little twist, she will be including a different ? for us to answer in our hop blog post.  This weeks ? -

Your name and why you started blogging

My name is Paula Calvanico.  I started officially blogging in May of 09.  My other blog is dedicated to my scrapbooking and my life doings in general.  I have been an avid book reader and lover since I was a little girl, this post here explains more, Books, Sweet Delicious Glorious Books. I decided to start a blog dedicated just to my passion of reading.  I love pnr, uf, some romance, I can't handle really silly mushy sloppy romance, and some chick lit.  I adore crazy pshyco thrillers, the wackier the baddie the better.  Gretchen Lowell of Chelsea Cain's Heartsick series is just wickedly delish ; ) and the fact that she's a woman, well all the better.  My favorite vamp from a series, Vishous from Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward, the luscious Bones from the Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost, and then last but most certainly not least, Eric from Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire series.

So that's a bit about me, come aboard, I love new friends, say hi, and lets HOP!!!

Oh and a Happy and safe 4th to all!

Whacha Reading Friday(July 2nd)

This is a weekly end of the school/work week wrap-up hosted here by moi at the Tome.  Stop by share what you're reading, what you read, and what you're going to read : )



Glory In Death
J.D Robb
Paperback 320 pgs
Berkley






This is book #2 of the In Death series.  I really enjoyed the 1st, Naked In Death and wish I would've started it sooner since I've had it sitting in e-book form on my puter for several months now.  I am also participating in the In Death Challenge hosted by Christine over at The Happily Ever After.  You can join by clicking on her blog title, or on the In Death Challenge button in my scroll bar to the left.  I'm slightly behind, but I don't care, this is a great challenge!  J.D Robb(Nora Roberts) has really got a great series here, witnessed by the fact that there's like 31 of these suckers ; )

I am looking forward to getting to know the characters better, Eve is wonderful and I want to see her layers peeled back, also seeing Roarke free fall for her is just exquisite.

I will try to read at least # 3 as well, but after this book I will tackle Voyager, #3 in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon for my 500 pg challenge that I host each month.  If you haven't joined give it a shot!

Pleasure Unbound Review (Demonica Series #1)

  Pleasure Unbound
  Larissa Ione
  Paperback 416
  Forever





 This was a good book.  Larissa Ione has done a good job of creating an alter world of demons that move about humans undetected for the most part.  They come and go from their world into ours through passages called Harrowgates.  There are different species of demons and she's trying to show that like humans, not all demons are bad or evil.

 Tayla is an Aegis Guardian.  This is a group of warriors if you will, that hunt and kill the demons so that humans are protected.  In a fight with one of the bad demons, she is brought to a demon hostpital-Underworld General where the head Doc and hospital founder is Eidolon, a gorgeous Seminus Demon who exudes hunky sex appeal.  There are vamps and shifters that work in the hospital as well.  Eidolon's 2 brothers, Shade, a paramedic, and Wraith, a vamp with mucho issues is sort of a gopher that is kept there so he stays out of trouble, or tries to anyway.  The 3 are half brothers with different mom's, and are close for the most part.  When Tayla is brought in all want her done away with since she is a slayer.  Eidolon doesn't allow that to take place.

The story progresses with Tayla learning that the demon world is not so black and white, there is plenty of gray.  Never mind the issues she carries with her from her childhood.  Of course she is immensely attracted to Eidolon, and he to her.  We travel through their trying times, and the matters that keep coming between them.  The love scenes are not over the top, nor raunchy and uncomfortable, just enough to put a nice smile on your face ;)

Ione takes us through learning some of the characters backgrounds, doesn't drag it down with unnecessary  descriptions of her world which is fantastic.  I had a bit of a problem with Dead Witch Walking, #1 in the Hollow Series due to that.  She makes it abundantly clear that there will be another book, but you aren't left dying in suspense, phew!!

I recommend this book and will read the rest in the series as well, I'll give it 3 1/2 cannolis ; )