More for the TBR piles!

Blue Diablo

Blue Diablo
by Ann Aguirre

I have the tendency to stick to writers that I already know that I like. It sometimes takes me a bit to warm up to a new writer (new to me, not necessarily new to writing).

Sometimes I find myself wanting to give up on a new book if I’m not in love with it within the first few pages. I tell myself I don’t have to read it, no one is making me…I could just put it down and read something that I know that I will like.

Usually I do push through though. It isn’t often that I give up on a book. Sometimes I might set a book aside for when I’m in the mood for it, but I rarely give up entirely.

When I started Blue Diablo I was tempted to give up. Not because it was bad, it wasn’t. I just wasn’t sure how I felt about the characters right away. It wasn’t love at first sight for me.

It would have been a shame had I given up though because within a few chapters I ended up loving it. Really. The main character Corine Solomon is a “handler” she can touch things and know its history and sometimes even a bit of its future. She’s living (and hiding out) in Mexico when her ex. Chance shows up asking for her help.

Corine doesn’t really want to help him considering that things weren’t all wine and roses when they were together but his mother has gone missing and Corine liked his mom and Chance agrees to help Corine later after they’ve resolved the issue with his mom.

It’s a wild ride back and forth between Mexico and Texas. It’s a dark world here with black magic, demons, evil sorcerers and danger at every corner. This is urban fantasy with a good side helping of romance.

It’s a good story and I really enjoyed the side characters as well as the main ones. I’m really interested in seeing more from them. Luckily it seems there will be more to this series!

Another recent read

Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews
Book 3 of the Kate Daniels Novels.

The funny thing is, I bought the first book of this series (Magic Bites) Back in July of 2007 and it stayed in my TBR pile until this past June and now I just finished the third in the series. Why did I wait so long?

I loved this book. I am so loving this series. The characters are awesome, even the minor characters are well developed and I love so many of them.

In this book the danger heats up for Kate, and it looks like it will continue to heat up as her secret becomes less and less secret.

I love the chemistry and banter between Curran and Kate. So very awesome!

I really like the world setting and how magic plays in this world.

I love all the different shifters and the unconventional way the vampires are portrayed (no romance happening with these vamps!)

Each book in the series has left me wanting more!

I really liked Raphael in this book, and I'm worried for Kate, and I'm in so deep with this series! I really care about the characters.

Hmm...I'm gushing aren't I?

Let me just say that I highly recommend this series :)