Again, I haven't been able to update lately so I've got more than one book. On top of that, I went to the library the other day and I went to the sale rack. I really hit the jackpot. I found twelve books (3 were hard covers and would have normally been about $20 a piece) and only paid $3.00 for the lot. If I had bought all of them individually, it would have cost me about $135. I felt so good about buying them, only to find when I came home that I now have run out of room on my To Be Read shelf and have now had to resort to piling them on the floor in front of my shelf next to my dresser. It's really hard to pass up books when they are 25 cents for a paper back and 50 cents for a hardcover. Half the time they look brand new or in really great condition so its even better! I've really learned the value in buying used and looking for ways to be more thrifty when it comes to movies and music, but most of all books. The value of the library, a good used book store, a library's discard and sale rack, and of websites like Paperbackswap.com. Its a great way to feel not so guilty about spending a lot of money on books :).
So let's start:
Irish Moonlight by Kate Freiman
This is a book in a series called Irish Eyes by various authors. I've finally been able to track down all of the titles included in the series and have started to read them. Before this, I had only read about four of them. This wasn't one of the best in the series (My favorite is To Marry and Irish Rogue) but it was good, some nice fluffy reading which is always good. I don't expect the series to be much more than some light reading to take me away from New Jersey and plant me in Ireland for a little while.
Wicked All Day by Liz Carlyle
I was really excited to finally get a chance to read about Zoe Armstrong's story. She's a character from The Devil You Know, which I already talked about on here. However, once I got to the end of the book I was disappointed. I thought so much more could have been done. Zoe deserved a really good story, and I just don't feel this matched up well with her. I think I have read too many stories recently where the main characters are in love and fight it for as long as they can until the eventually just give up. Irish Moonlight was similar to this. Hopefully my next book won't be like this.
The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison
I picked this up at a library book sale for a quarter and figured I'd give it a try. Well it took me awhile to get through and although it was an interesting story, I was kind of disappointed in the end. It was a new idea for a fairy tale dealing with animal magic. This type of magic allowed a person to speak with an animal in their language and in some cases to even become an animal. The book seemed to have good potential, but just didn't go very far. Very disappointing. And the resolution to the prologue about the kind who was turned into a man was never finished. It is left for another book.
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