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After finishing reading three chapters of a bad paranormal book (Dragon Heat by Allyson James) I had to read something ELSE. And since paranormal and fantasy when I was looking at a new author was hit and miss for me, I settled to go for romance. Never mind the fact that I was reading romance novels instead of a solid fantasy, urban fantasy or the like. Brain junk food. Yum. (I really must look for a new good urban fantasy that speaks to my soul)...

The Kitchen witch pleasantly surpsised me. (And I wonder why I've been putting it in my to read pile for almost three years... maybe because I have been reading fantasy lately). The situations are funny and heart warming at the same time.

You get to deal with a single dad, and his next door neighbor slash baby sitter (yeah a common enough occurence in romance novels, like Seventh Heaven by Catherine Anderson). Although I must admit, I adore anything with a baby/children in the story, and Shane was a very dear four-year-old re-learning how to live with his father after being left alone by his mother.

I was a little dubious about Melody and Logan's instant attraction, but it was a romance novel. It was supposed to have instant attraction. (I really need to find more books that have more beta males.)

It's set in Salem, (where else to have a Witch production but in Salem?) and it's not paranormal. It's a production stint, more like a cooking show and a Witch idea, but I love looking into production and TV series (I haven't since Sherryl Wood's Angel Mine which I must remember to re-read someday)

As for Dragon Heat...

I love shifters. I have prejudice against warewolfs and were-cats because EVERYONE writes about them, but I love reading about other shifters. Especially if they shift into something OTHER.

So Dragon wasn't other (other defined as things and humans etc), it was animal... albiet sentient animal... but rare enough. So I sat down to read this.

UGH. My problem with Allyson James' writing, is that it reads like it was meant for thirteen year olds. Or maybe I have problem with sentences that go: because they were old they were very, very smart. Used in narration. When have you used very, very in narration?

Or MAYBE it's because of the fact that she explains everything in DIALOGUE. She let out most of the plot in one dialogue between Caleb and Lisa in chapter three.

OKay after reading more than half of the long dialogue between Caleb and Lisa, I stopped reading. It wasn't worth my time. Chapter check: chapter three. Okay, I'm off to find a better way to procastinate for my pedia exam.

Date: 2008-01-26 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shartyrant.livejournal.com
I'm currently reading THE KITCHEN WITCH. I am about a 3 chapters in and am glad to know it is a nice surprise going by your comments. The cover attracted me as it looks like a kitchen witch in a more contemporary setting and on TV just strucked me as hilarious. It is the first one in a series.

I have only read so far ALLYSON JAMES book from Ellora's Cave Tales of the Shareem: Rees...it is the first book in a erotic sci-fi futuristic story. I liked the idea of having these created guys who are three levels of sexual adventure who were first created as a type of slave but are FREED and considered their own person, but most are afraid of them because of their abilities. I thought it would be a cool thing, but it turned into nothing but straight out erotica (which really should not be a surprise considering the publisher). I kept thinking it could've been a really creepy science fiction if done one way or even just a cool science fiction novel with the idea of theses guys (and one gal in later books) who were created for these and not allowed off the planet because of their abilities. The sex scenes were okay. I was getting irritated with the constant use of "cream" to the point where I was yelling at the book (not a good sign).She did the infodumps when the heroine was using the computer to check out what the shareem really were which is probably why it is so thin of a book and had to have so much sex to fill it out. Again, it is erotica, but I felt a bit cheated on that idea of people being created in a lab with scary abilities in a sexual nature. Her sentences were pretty much the same there in the book as you describe, but I figure it was just because she didn't have a good enough editor to warn her off of it.

I only had read that one book, but was thinking of giving her DRagon series a whirl. I had not had a lot of people I know read them yet so I didn't know what it would be like. Sounds like I should be glad I waited. Does it get ANY better? Or will you finish it later? It kills me because I had some little hope as I adore Dragons. You might give THE SMOKE THIEF by Shane Abe. It is pretty good. I wish the author had not forced the romance so much in it, but the world building and characters are pretty strong. It's a pretty decent romance historical if you are interested in Dragons.


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