Brenna's 2011 Booklist

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Tue May 17th, 2011, 12:28 pm

So I just noticed that the comments I tried to submit from my husband's iphone, didn't all come through. Alas, while in New York, I also read Anya Seton's The Mistletoe and Sword and Susanna Kearsley's The Winter Sea. I have to say, Susanna's book was amazing and I was completely hooked from the beginning. I wonder if her other books are like that!

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Tue May 17th, 2011, 1:06 pm

I loved the Winter Sea as well, even the parts in the present, which is unusual for me.

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Tue May 17th, 2011, 6:28 pm

I saw your review (now that I know I should actually look at the names associated with them). I completely disagree with whoever posted this book was predictable! It was nail biting, but not in a suspensionful way, but in a "I have to know what happens next way." Oh well, to each their own. Have you read any of her others?

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Tue May 17th, 2011, 7:46 pm

[quote=""Brenna""]I saw your review (now that I know I should actually look at the names associated with them). I completely disagree with whoever posted this book was predictable! It was nail biting, but not in a suspensionful way, but in a "I have to know what happens next way." Oh well, to each their own. Have you read any of her others?[/quote]

How could anyone call that predictable. To each their own as they say. No I haven't read any others. I did have one out from the library once upon a time (The Shadowy Horses I think?), but M. Dumas was calling me and I didn't get far. They don't have Marianna so I'd have to ILL it.

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Tue May 24th, 2011, 10:32 pm

I finished Barbara Erskine's Lady of Hay. To say it was sick and twisted and forced me to lose sleep many a night is an understatemet! Almost a little too much for me, but addicting at the same time!

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Tue May 31st, 2011, 12:00 am

Finished Bernard Cornwell's Lords of the North, the third in his Saxon series and Exit the Actress by Priya Parmar. Both very well done. 4/5

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Thu June 2nd, 2011, 1:01 pm

Finished C. W Gortner's Confessions of Catherine de Medici and loved it! The story had me from the first line (which I thought was damn creative). 5/5

Michy · Post by **Michy** » Mon June 6th, 2011, 2:49 pm

[quote=""Brenna""]Susanna Kearsley's The Winter Sea. I have to say, Susanna's book was amazing and I was completely hooked from the beginning. I wonder if her other books are like that![/quote] I just read The Winter Sea and really enjoyed it, also. Having read several of Kearsley's books, I can say that the only other one so far that I thought quite as good as The Winter Sea was The Shadowy Horses. I've enjoyed all of her books, but the others less so than those two. There are still a few of hers I haven't read yet.

Brenna · Post by **Brenna** » Tue June 7th, 2011, 1:11 pm

Thanks Michy! I'll have to add Shadowy Horses to my TBR! Keep me posted on her other books as you read them.

Michy · Post by **Michy** » Tue June 7th, 2011, 2:39 pm

The others I've read are (I rate these all as 3-star):

Mariana
Season of Storms
Named of the Dragon

and The Gemini Game (I think this must have been a very early work and aimed at YA, because it was *ugh* 2 stars at the most)