Booking Through Thursday
This week's Booking Through Thursday:
I have to go back to the Kushiel saga by Jacqueline Carey. Specifically, the story of Phedre and Joscelin, although the Imriel/Sidonie love story is incredibly romantic, too. The book has explicit sex in it, yes, but it's so much more than that. It's a spy novel. An historical fantasy. An alternate reality. An epic. A romance. From the description, I was expecting a fantasy with some sex in it, but I got so very much more than I bargained for. The whole series is right up at the top of my "Best Books I've Ever Read" list.
Start with Kushiel's Dart. You won't regret it.
I wish I could forget that I had read them, and then read them for the first time all over again. They're that good.
What’s the most romantic book you’ve ever read?
(Mind you, I don’t mean the hard-core stuff you hide in plain wrappers under your mattress. I mean True Love, Romance, deeply emotional, heart-tugging, and all that stuff.)
And, secondly, did you like it? Is it your usual kind of reading, or did it take you by surprise?
(Mind you, I don’t mean the hard-core stuff you hide in plain wrappers under your mattress. I mean True Love, Romance, deeply emotional, heart-tugging, and all that stuff.)
And, secondly, did you like it? Is it your usual kind of reading, or did it take you by surprise?
I have to go back to the Kushiel saga by Jacqueline Carey. Specifically, the story of Phedre and Joscelin, although the Imriel/Sidonie love story is incredibly romantic, too. The book has explicit sex in it, yes, but it's so much more than that. It's a spy novel. An historical fantasy. An alternate reality. An epic. A romance. From the description, I was expecting a fantasy with some sex in it, but I got so very much more than I bargained for. The whole series is right up at the top of my "Best Books I've Ever Read" list.
Start with Kushiel's Dart. You won't regret it.
I wish I could forget that I had read them, and then read them for the first time all over again. They're that good.