I started out the year devouring a bunch of uber dominant, male paranormal novels until I had to switch gears and clean my palette. It’s not that I don’t enjoy a powerful male, but after that run I had the desperate desire for just one suby or switch guy who wasn’t a ‘true dom’. (Alpha, whatever...)
Rated from higher to lesser Dom rather than order of reading (Or book order).
Jax - Kym Grosso @KymGrosso
Léopold’s Wicked Embrace - Kym Grosso
Kade's Dark Embrace - Kym Grosso
Luca's Magic Embrace - Kym Grosso
Tristan's Lyceum Wolves - Kym Grosso
Logan's Acadian Wolves - Kym Grosso
Dimitri - Kym Grosso
Lost Embrace - Kym Grosso
Jake - Kym Grosso
Solstice Burn - Kym Grosso
Carnal Risk - Kym Grosso
Blood Rising - Amber Anthony @WriteAmberA
No disrespect for the authors in this group, I enjoyed the heck out of these, but I needed a different flavor after all that.
So, I read some other romance books:
Forbidden Nights - Lauren Blakely @LaurenBlakely3
The Thrill of It - Lauren Blakely
Called Out - Jen Doyle @jendoyleink
And then heard about this ‘Cinnamon Roll’ hero and I wanted to see an example.
Beary Christmas, Baby - Sasha Devlin @SashaDevlin
That was a shorter book, but much more my speed in regards to toning down that ‘true alpha’ thing. (Clearly I’m into the Cinnamon Roll heroes. Extra sugar, please.)
Then I went back to my beloved Sci-Fi
Voice of Mars - Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart
Alien Arcana - Glynn Stewart
Judgment of Mars - Glynn Stewart
Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan @quellist1
Neogenesis - Sharon Lee & Steve Miller @ClanKorval
(Do yourself a favor and go pick up one of their books. I suggest THIS. Read. Report back.)
The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
Then, I switched to some real classics and went to Jane Austen, as one does.
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
I know you’re asking, “Where is Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice?” Well, I read P&P last year and I haven’t gotten around to S&S yet. I really enjoyed Northanger Abbey.
Up next:
Ride Hard - Laura Kaye @laurakayeauthor
I got this last year at the RWA conference and started reading it in January. Nothing against the writing or the book, it’s just not fully in my wheelhouse. I thought I’d like a book about bikers, but somehow other stories keep leap-frogging over this one. I’m about a quarters into it. I really should give it my full attention. Maybe this weekend I’ll biker up.
(Oh! --As I'm writing this, I see on her twitter: My Dear Hamilton. Stephanie Dray @stephaniehdray . That's on my list now too. :O )
Dawn on a Distant Shore - Sara Donati
I’m not so far into this one. I enjoyed the first book so much that I jumped into the sequel. Then I got to the sex bit and she’s lactating and he…well… I just couldn’t. Yeah, yeah, natural and all that, but not my kink. I put it aside to cool and other books jumped ahead. Still in my ‘in progress’ list.
Hope's Folly - Linnea Sinclair
This one I haven’t even started but I read the first two books after meeting Linnea Sinclair at RWA. I really enjoyed the world she’d created and I’m looking forward to tearing through this one.
Wanderlust - Lauren Blakely
Just started
Meet Me at the Cupcake Café - Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan
Just started
Have some suggestions for me? Want me to read something you have? I’d love to see some Sci-Fi romance in whatever heat-flavor you’ve got, or you love. <3
