I am no longer backlogged! I have completed all the reviews for the books I’ve read so far. So now I can relax and finish reading the two I have going right now so I have more books to review for you.

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What do you get when you mix four super intelligent dogs, one trainer who has no idea how truly special they are, an old friend who is part of an elite and highly top secret Naval team, and a rogue agent from that team who is after the dogs? You get Code Name: Baby!

This was my first Christina Skye novel, and I have to say it will not be my last. I am desperate to get my hands on the other Code Name series titles. When a rogue agent from the Foxfire team goes after Kit O’ Halloran and the special dogs she’s training, they send in Wolfe Houston, and old friend of hers. But not to protect her. No, they want him to use her and the dogs as bait to lure the rogue agent to where he can be captured. But Wolfe has other ideas about what should be done, and when it comes to the Foxfire principals of never letting anything get personal, Wolfe finds that where Kit is concerned, that just isn’t a possibility.

If you’re looking for a great read with a little sex, a little romance budding, and a lot of action and suspense, Code Name: Baby is what you’re looking for!

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Well, a couple of weeks ago, I finished The Tunnels by Michelle Gagnon. This was another book obtained through Harlequin’s Suspense club and frankly, I was surprised to note that although there was a hint of attraction between two of the characters, there was no flat out romance. Kind of disappointing when the genre of book that eHarlequin.com is famous for is romance, but this particular club doesn’t promise specifically romance books, so I guess it’s not that bad after all.

When a serial killer strikes a college, the students become terrified and rightly so. Gruesome pictures are painted in blood, and each victim is being taken quicker than the last. Add in a mental case, a priest with a frightening connection to the killer, and you’ve got an awesome story. I definitely recommend this one.

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All I can say when it comes to Wizard’s Daughter by Catherine Coulter is WOW! You have to understand, all I’ve ever seen from Catherine Coulter are FBI romantic suspense novels and historical romance novels that are a bit on the generic side. Same old, same old. Not this one!

Yes, it’s a historical romance novel, but it’s not dealing so much with the romance as it is with a fantasy story. It comes under the guise of another Sherbrooke Family book, but let me tell you, it’s anything but. Rosalind and Nicholas are destined to meet, destined to be together. But why? Well, frankly, because Rosalind is the debt that Nicholas Vail’s family owes.

This book was delightful and so very difficult to put down, what with a girl (Rosalind) who was found half beaten to death and unable to remember her past, a book with a strange code that ONLY Rosalind can read, and a fantastical world called The Pale which is a place that exists, even if it seems far too silly for it to be true. Add in Nicholas’ step mother and half brothers who hate his guts, and you’ve got one hell of a great book.

I highly recommend this book to any Catherine Coulter fan who has fallen by the wayside after reading so many of her other books. You will surely be impressed and fall in love with this book.

Ok, here is the first of the three book reviews I need to catch up on. This one is for Revenant by Carolyn Haines. I finished this book in January which tells you how behind I am.

This one was a great thriller. Just enough romance to keep things going, but not enough to make me want to barf because of it. No, I am not too fond of sappy books. This one had some romance, but not the sappy stuff. For this, I am entirely grateful.

On the flip side, it’s an awesome book to read, and I had a very difficult time putting it down. A reporter who spends most of her time drunk gets caught up in a mystery when a serial killer starts killing again after a twenty-five year break. You have to read this one to believe it. I was skeptical at first, but a few pages in, I was hooked. It’s on my list to pass along on paperbackswap, and I happen to have a second copy as well, so if you want it, I’d look for it. My nickname at PBS is Charli.

Just to let you know, I’m backlogged with 2 3 books finished but not reviewed yet. I still have a BTT question to answer from last week with this week’s looming on the horizon. I will prevail however, so look for a couple of book reviews and a BTT answer, even if it is a week late, sometime tonight or tomorrow.

I’m a vampire book lover. So when I discovered the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series, I decided to give it a whirl. Mind you, I own 3 of the books but had only read a portion of one. So I sat down this month and read Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 1). I have to say so far I like it. There isn’t as much sex or reference to sex so far as there is in her Meredith Gentry series, but that hasn’t detracted me from wishing to read more of the series.

I personally liked this book, liked the way Anita handled herself. When you first read Vampire Hunter, you automatically think of bits of fluff like Buffy who get tough for a few seconds and then return to being a fluff ball a few minutes later, and who would get along great with the teenybopper crowd. That is definitely not what this book is all about. It’s adult oriented and a great read.

I give this one 3 of 5 stars.

I finished Perfect Nightmare: A Novel by John Saul about a week ago. It was an excellent read, as are the majority of John Saul’s offerings. I’m not sure, but I don’t think I’ve ever read a bad book by this man.

Perfect Nightmare involves what is every parent’s perfect nightmare - the abduction of their child. Couple this with the fact that in the midst of all this the parents were attempting to sell their home and move to a new city, and you have what can only be described as an absolute nightmare. The book takes more twists and turns and I actually didn’t figure out who was doing the kidnapping until the very end of the book.

This one was a real page turner and I am so glad that I read it. I give it 4 of 5 stars.

I just finished reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight, and I have to say I loved this book. I was told to read this book first before all the others in the Dragonlance series, although frankly, I’d already read The Legend of Huma a few years ago. And since Dragons of Autumn Twilight makes mention of events in that book, to me it would have made sense if that book had already been read.

You have several main characters - Tanis a half-elf/half-human warrior type, Flint - a dwarf, Tasslehoff Burrfoot - a kender, Raistlin - a mage, Caramon - a warrior and Raistlin’s twin brother, and Sturm Brightblade - a Solamnic Knight. Other characters get added to the mix as time goes on, such as Goldmoon & Riverwind who are Plainsmen. Goldmoon is the keeper of a blue crystal staff which has healing powers. Their first quest is to find out the origins of the blue crystal staff. Other quests follow with much danger coming with them.

All in all the book was quite captivating and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes to read the fantasy genre of fiction. You’ll be amazed at this one. Now it’s on to read Dragons of Winter Night,  the second book in the trilogy.

I give this 5 stars out of 5.