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Picking Out 12 Romance Books I Read and Enjoyed in 2006 (no particular order):

1. Edge of Darkness by Cherry Adair
2. Dead Man Rising by Lilith Saintcrow
3. The Red Heart of Jade by Marjorie M. Liu
4. Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward
5. Drop Dead Gorgeous by Linda Howard
6. A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole
7. Cold As Ice by Anne Stuart
8. The Last Warrior by Kylie Brant
9. To Tame a Highland Warrior by Karen Marie Moning
10. Edge of Fear by Cherry Adair
11. Don't Look Down by Jennifer Crusie/Bob Mayer
12. Sleeping With The Agent by Gennita Low (heehee, I did read the book too!)

I think I did well this year, reading-wise. Lots of books in the TBR, but I could actually make conversation about the hot books in the market! For a while there, I was so behind, I had to read the Romantic Times Book Club mag every month just to catch up with the newest books out there, and their premises.

Most of my pickings are in the paranormal category. I really enjoy magic and powerful beings/fantasy if it's done in the action/bad-ass/kick-ass style. I love me some dark gothic vampire-beast-demon/powerful woman couplings. No Tolkien books for me, thank you velly much ;-). We aren't talking about the movie, okay, which thank God, cut down the 50 pages of the droning Hobbits-on-top-of-talking-trees scene to just appear between great action.

On a quick note: why is it that the woman is always the slayer-type and the thing she falls for is the Other Side? Would love to read a story featuring the male slayer after the female vampire/beast/demon. Our gothic tradition runs deep, I tell you.

I don't read many romantic suspense when I'm writing although I can't resist my Howard, Adair and Stuart. Love their heros. Heroines not so much, but that's just personal preference. Each of them are so different too, that I really enjoy comparing their men.

That's my list for today!

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