Let Him Tell Me!

I finished Linda Howard's Up Close and Dangerous this weekend. Many of those who read it said that the plot reminded them of Midnight Rainbow, especially the heroine's bag of "stuff." For me, I saw echos of her novella, White Out, in which the heroine warmed the hero, who was close to hypothermia. Remember? ;-) Of course, the novella being a short format, the hero got into another kind of body heat remarkably quickly! LOL.

Up Close and Dangerous was enjoyable, more a survival adventure than "suspense." I figured out the bad guy way early because it was that obvious, so no suspense there. Although the romance was definitely a return to the old Howard that I love so much, I still feel the distancing of emotion so prevalent in her latter novels.

Do you know what I mean? Something is missing--La Linda used to love to strip emotional needs to the bare essentials, right to the point where need, desire, possession, love all come together in some kind of urgent primitive ritual. The male recognizing his mate, that sorta thing. For me, I notice La Linda no longer delve into that. The closest she came to doing it was in Kiss Me While I Sleep, but even then she held back by not giving too many scenes with the hero's Point-of-View (POV).

I so miss her male POVs. Simply the best in the romance department.

Talking about stripping down to the bare essentials and showing emotional need, ahem....



;-)

Now how come I never get models like that at art class in college, dammit?

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READING UPDATE

Thank you to the many of you who dropped by at Romance By The Blog and participated in the guestblog! It was fun...lots of sighing over the Bad Boy ;-).

I'm still trying to catch up with email and work, so please excuse the tardiness if you emailed me the last ten days and still haven't heard back. I really appreciate all the feedback you've been sending me about my new series. AND it's good to know you find the hero sexy ;-). And bad. Bad is important, yes?

While I try to get back to roofing, why don't you tell me what you're reading these days?

I picked up Mario Acevedo's X-RATED BLOOD SUCKERS at the CRW Conference. Isn't that an intriguing title?! He told me it's not exactly a romance but I was totally taken in by the title ;-P.

I loved La Linda Howard's newest Silhouette, INFERNO. It was really good, with the kind of Alpha Hero that she used to write. There is a controversial scene in it that everyone is calling "mind-rape." I didn't find it so, and I have a feeling that the term is used because the heroine herself accused the hero of "mind-rape." Which, being an Alpha, he denied, of course.

It was a bit too short but it's a categorical, so within its limits, I think La Linda did an excellent job setting up the background and universe as well as weave a romance through it. It's too bad categories have been cut back another 5,000-10,000 words. It's been a while since La Linda's last category for Silhouette, so I'm sure this new shorter length affected the story-telling in the editing stage. That said, the heroine was strong and certainly was a good match to the King of the Raintrees.

Has any of you read INFERNO?

Any other hot books in your hands right now?

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