[Click here for my 2012 books on GoodReads]

Total: 127

The cover and stepback for Tessa Dare's new novel are out.

They're pretty, but they serve only to taunt me. They cruelly remind me that it is not yet August 28.

:|

God dammit.

I enjoyed this story despite the fact that it was written in 1991, and had no sex scenes (just three kisses). But I don't read romance novels for the sex scenes, anyway, so whatever.

Truth be told, I don't know WHY I read romance novels.

*shrug*

I just do.

But anyway, it was absolutely hilarious.

Cecily and Robin were awesome supporting characters.

So even though I only started this book to close out the first 2/3s of the alphabet in my 2012 Alphabet Challenge, and even though this was written in the early 90s, I'm still really enjoying this story.

I like the main characters, and I love Robert and Cecily, the supporting characters. Poor Robert/Robin never knew what hit him. Hee. So funny.

Something You're Looking Forward To This Year

I am looking forward to getting a job and/or moving out of my parents' house. I'm not sure if I'll be able to move out, but it's my plan. Basically, I need a job. I have loan payments. I want to get one in the city, so I can move into my friend Jen's sweet apartment with a totally furnished, huge bedroom and in-unit washer/dryer. And her three cats. UM HELL YEAH.

I'm SO ready to just move out of my parents' house. Here, I'm constantly treated like a child. They just refuse to treat me any differently than they did ten years ago, and it's been slowly driving me mad. Seriously. I'll probably be drooling in the corner before too long, making strange yelping noises instead of sounding out actual words.

I'm really looking forward to moving out. Nervous, yes, but I won't be on my own or anything. Not right away. I'll be living with Jen, who is a really good friend of mine, and we're quite similar in temperament so it should be fine. Cannot wait.

I want to slap Damon so badly.

:|

I still don't HATE him, but I really do want to slap him.

The hero of this story, that is. I just want to slap him. I mean, in a good way. I find him despicable but not irredeemable. So let's see how this goes. I bet I'll at least enjoy it a little. Even if I want nothing more than for the heroine to slap him, since it's sadly impossible for me to beat up fictional characters.

If it were possible, ugh, I'd get into so many fights.

The book was so immature - in terms of form and content - but I enjoyed it for what it was: really mindless fun. I gave it 2 stars on GoodReads because I'm RIDICULOUSLY generous with ratings there and couldn't bare to rate it 3 stars when I've given 3 stars to, like, Secrets of a Summer Night, which is actually a really well written, enjoyable book.

But like I said, I enjoyed it for the feel of silly, campy fanfic with faux-angst that was written a little too clumsily to be real angst. (Also the sex scenes SUUUUUCKED and were terrible and made me laugh.)

So I'll probably read more Neville, if they're like this. Just mindless fun. I'm particularly hoping that Miss Minerva Montrose will be a heroine in one of the books of this series. I like her. Kind of. I mean, she's kind of a caricature of a bluestocking, in an odd way, but whatever.

I actually really like Sebastian Iverley. I've read so many books about a female ugly duckling who becomes something more - my favorites being Penelope Featherington and Minerva Highwood - that it's actually pretty nice to see a guy in the same role. Poor nerdy, awkward Sebastian. I just love him.

Even though he's kind of juvenile. But EVERYONE is. I think that's more a fault of the writing than anything else. Miranda Neville has a charming style, but, really, when a Regency character says "no thanks," and when a hero says "Ouch!" when the heroine flings herself into his arms ... how can it feel anything BUT juvenile?

So that's kind of annoying, but I'm still enjoying the story.