Monday, February 14, 2011

Early February

Viehl, S.L
A Plague of Memory (reread)
Omega Games
2/6/11
Rereading Plague of Memory clarified some of Rebel Ice.  Resa was a friend of Cherijo and they both crashed on the Ice Planet.  Cherijo suppressed her memory and ended up with the Dead Handlers -- outcast women.  Resa was cared for by the tigers of the world, came to be in one of the Iisleg camps, and eventually ended up with the Dead Handlers.  When she comes to the Dead Handlers, Cherijo starts speaking and is given the name Jarn.
Omega Games has Jarn and Reever leaving Marel on Joren and taking off in a two person scout ship.  They are forced down on Trellus, a very sparsely populated planet, by one of Reevers "friends" so that they can recapture a creature that lays a spore in people and eats them from the inside out.  They have a close encounter with the Black Crystal that Maggie has been trying to get them to fight.

Hoyt, Sarah A.
Draw One in the Dark (Baen ebook)
Gentleman Takes a Chance
2/9/11
Kyrie is a panther shifter, her boyfriend (at least by the end) Tom is a dragon shifter.  They are drawn to Goldport, Co by a beetle shifter looking for a mate.  In the first book, the beetles kill a bunch of people, Kyrie and Tom deal with the Lord of the Dragons, and Tom reconciles sort of with his father.
In Gentleman Takes a Chance, they deal with another shifter who has decided to eat people, and an ancient shifter who wants to kill them because they killed the beetles babies.
Very good, deals with practical aspects of shape shifting -- such as what happens to their clothes, and relative size between a under 6 foot man and a much larger dragon.

Harris, Charlaine
A Bone to Pick
2/11/11
Second in Aurora Teagarden series
Better than the first in the series.  Ro inherits a house and lots of money from a former member of the Murder club in the first book.  She also inherits a mystery which she solves.

I am currently reading three books: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, God Stalker Chronicles by P.C. Hodgell (both on the iPad), and To Play the Fool by Laurie King.  I have to have at least one on paper, so I can read it in the bathtub.  I will finish the Laurie King tonight and probably the Ishiguro book club book tomorrow.

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