Not only is she a wonderful storyteller with likeable characters and interesting plots, but there was a surprise in her latest release from Liquid Silver Books. A dedication to ME. I am so incredibly flattered. Thank you so much, Sandra!

Like hot blond men who shapeshift? Even if you don't read the book anyway. LMAO



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I just fought off yet another cold. I have a bit of a cough still, but the cold is done with finally.

As if that wasn't dramatic enough, the dude I met on Zoosk and went on a date with and fell promptly out of touch with tried to contact me tonight on facebook. I was on my way offline to go to the bookstore to pick up a copy of Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole, so I didn't respond to him. I don't know what my feelings are. He didn't seem to be quick on the uptake and I felt no spark so while I feel bad about the avoidiness, I don't feel bad enough to deal with whatever he has to say right now. Considering it is the day after Valentine's Day (V'lane Day!) when he is trying to contact me, it kinda is pretty obvious he is feeling a bit lonely and I am not in the mood to play understanding potential girlfriend. I am not happy that I am single, but I am happy in my singleness...if that makes sense. I don't feel like I need a boyfriend just to have one, and I am not going to settle just to say I have one.

But whatever. Call me a cold hearted bitch, if you want. I don't like being forced to be or feel what I don't want to be or don't feel. Ya feel me?

Sooooo I have a bad habit of not checking my inboxes at sites I don't use very often. I haven't checked my Youtube inbox since July 2009. In August "Warchild," Sherrilyn Kenyon's brother, contacted me wanting to know if I wanted to work with him in brainstorming an idea for a video for the song he did for "Bad Moon Rising." I see it...today. 6 Months later. I am sooooooooooo upset with myself over that one.

Not to mention I was accused of stealing my own video. WTF?

I have two days off from work, thank God. I got a new book to edit in my time off and I find myself procrastinating. I am going to try to get through my read through tonight and start the edits tomorrow and finish this weekend. That is the plan, doesn't mean it will happen the way that I want it to.

I finished Master My Viking. It was cute, but incredibly cheesy. If you want to be humored read it. If you can't take cliched cheesefactors, skip it. It is a good escape for however long it takes to read it. It is a rather short one.

I am also about to start reading book 4 in the Atlantis series by Gena Showalter. I just finished the reread of The Nymph King (aka V'lane of the Sea) before reading the Viking one. LOL Showalter never ceases to amuse me greatly with her writing.

A completely random note to end on.... my roomie and I watched The Power Rangers movie today. We were appalled by how super cheesy it was, despite the fact that we both LOVED it when we were children. LOL ah, how things change when we grow older. I remember being scared shitless by IT as a child, and watched it for the first time since about 6 years ago and was like....pffft. really? LOL

When a book makes you say to yourself, "Oh my God, are you serious?!" on nearly every page, you don't know if you are reading an awesomely funny book or if it is just so outrageously cheesy that just when you think nothing else could make you blink to reread what you just said, there is a cow pooing in the bedroom to show you that, yes...it did go there. Again.

Angel Lynn's Master My Viking is a book I bought for my Kindle at Christmas time. I haven't finished it yet, but I couldn't NOT blog about this book. And yes, I will be finishing it. Cheesiness aside, it is an enjoyable cheese and not the kind that is just untolerable.

I think the only real issues I have with the book is that, A. all the Vikings seem to be complete idiots. And B. it is a historical Viking romance, yet there are modern slang terms and phrases mixed into both the narritive and the dialogue. Even though "Hel in a hand basket" made me giggle like a school girl because it was a clever way to insert the Norse Hel into a modern phrase, but still...some of the sayings should have been more consistent with the time in which the speakers are speaking.

On the otherhand the quirkiness and humor is what makes reading this book sooo worth it. Cows in a bedroom, the mother and mother-in-law pulling up a chair to "witness" the wedding night between the hero and heroine...yeah, that's funny. The constant use of "humping." Made me laugh because my good friend, Hailey Edwards, uses it to describe the act of sex in online chats.

I think one of the parts that really had me near tears laughing, while being slightly appalled, is when the hero, Sigurd is told by his father that he is to marry a woman that the bride price for was only 2 silver coins. He freaks out trying to figure out what is wrong with the wench. The kicker is the dad tells her she is a bit old, twenty-three, and Sigurd's reaction is, "Siguard slumped low on the bench, convinced now that the woman was defective, else she would've been married off long ago."

Story of my life. *sigh*

I will tell you my thoughts on the book as a whole once I finish reading it. I just had to share this book with you guys. It isn't great writing, no. But if you want some light reading to amuse you, you'll enjoy it.

Today has just been a morning of "wow, really?" My car is still messed up beyond repair, I joined Zoosk on facebook to try to fix my dating-challenged part of my life, but considering the men in Savannah have the idea that women should be curvy in that they have large breasts, but not look like a whale kinda kills that hope for me. There are men on there that think good sex is what an ideal first date should end. Not to mention my job is blah and now my land lord discovered that she we are paying $100 dollars less than we are supposed to, but she wrote the rent into the lease that way. So technically, we are not required to pay more than that until after the lease is up. But I hate drama.

On a less dreary note, or more dreary considering how you look at it.... Georgia Power is having a power outage on early Friday morning. Um....If you have read the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning, you may recall from Dreamfever that Savannah was made into a Dark Zone until V'lane saved us from the Shades and the rest of the Unseelie by having the Seelie help the humans in the city restore the power. As much as it amuses me that this is happening now... I have to open the store that morning, so I hope the power is back on by then.

Those of you who have not read anything by Sandra Sookoo, be prepared for a lovely historical...with a hot pirate! It will be available through Liquid Silver Books at 7pm tonight. You know you wanna read it. Really, you know you do. ;)

http://liquidsilverbooks.com/