eviltammy | April books

Nonfiction:
And I Alone Survived by Lauren Elder & Shirley Streshinsky

Teen:
The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci - very good

Romance:
Making Waves by Julie Elizabeth Leto
The River Knows by Amanda Quick

Science fiction:
Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon - newest in the Vatta's War series
Blind Waves by Steven Gould - alternate history - except for the change in planetary situations - melted polar ice caps, flooded planet - fairly straight-up mystery

Chicklit/mystery:
Love You To Death by Melissa Senate
Size 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot
Rumble on the Bayou by Jana DeLeon

Mystery/thriller:
Shiver by Lisa Jackson
Inferno by Karen Harper
Obsession by Karen Robards
Fresh Disasters by Stuart Woods
Dead Past by Beverly Connor
When Darkness Falls by James Grippando
The Matchmaker by Jamie Denton
Hide by Lisa Gardner

Crime fiction:
What's So Funny by Donald E. Westlake
Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston
Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston
A Dangerous Man by Charlie Huston
The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
Stay by Nicola Griffith

The Charlie Huston books are a trilogy - kind of noir-ish, violent stories about a guy who stumbles into a life of crime because of a cat.

The Nicola Griffith books are kind of similar - Norwegian noir - a female former cop who finds violence very easy, but who falls in love with a female art dealer who's in danger.

Both are stark stories, and very character-driven. Huston is much more terse - Griffith has some excellent descriptive passages, but I came away feeling the same way - both felt to the point and explosive.

Huston has a second series with a vampire detective - I didn't get into it at first, but now having read these, I'll give it another try. Griffith is better known for her award-winning science fiction, but the third in this series is coming out - well, actually it's coming out this month - cool.

23 for the month, 67 for the year.