Ok, I finished Youth Without Age and Life without Death by Goldenmeadow.    The last 3 chapters were really good.     I do feel like I need a bit of help with it though.     I feel like I missed the direct connection between the fairy tale and the Edward story.   I think I understood the fairy tale part...   well, I wasn't entirely sure what came out of that chest at the end but I think it was

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.     And I get that with the Edward story that

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I wasn't a fan of the Rock Chick series, but I'm not really into that genre... not sure what you call it, but with detective work and all that.   I didn't like the Stephanie Plum books either that everybody loves (similar genre).     I did however LOVE KA's fantastical series.  Did you read those?  If you like the fantasy genre you should really check them out.

Nope, I never read those, fantasy isn't a favorite of mine. Her other series all have a hint of mystery to it, but not to the extent of the Rock Chick books, and they don't have so much of that off the wall humor. And I said from the get go the RC series was just like the Stephanie Plum books, lol!

Motorcycle Man CAN be read alone and you won't be really LOST, but you will miss out on meeting some other characters and wonder why they act the way they do. (Gwen, for instance! She's the heroine of Mystery Man, but pops up all concerned with Tack's love life).

I've loved all KA's earlier work, but she's gone stale for me lately. I think the last book I read of hers was the last Rock Chick, which was good, not great. My favorite remains Sweet Dreams, Tate is my boo, love him! But Tack was good too. And Hawk. Lee. Mitch Lawson. Damn, she DOES write good men.

 
She REALLY REALLY DOES write good men. 
I floooved her Dream Man series! My OCD doesn't make me read a series out of sequence and i know references will be made about other characters' situation. Matron is right, you won't get lost but i hate not fully understanding a situation/character, like you know there must be an inside joke somewhere but you missed it. Sorta prevents you from getting the full experience 

Haven't read her fantastical series, am not a fan of sci-fi/fantasy so am highly unlikely to do so despite my knowing i love her work. 

Haven't read the Stephanie Plum series either. For some reason, i also didn't bother watching the movie... But if that were Catherine Coulter's Savich and Sherlock, i would definitely be watching that! That's the only series of that genre (FBI thriller) i religiously follow. 

Am trying to avoid the In Death series...48 books?!  I may never surface if i start reading that!  Don't hate me ruth and demaris! 

She REALLY REALLY DOES write good men. 
I floooved her Dream Man series! My OCD doesn't make me read a series out of sequence and i know references will be made about other characters' situation. Matron is right, you won't get lost but i hate not fully understanding a situation/character, like you know there must be an inside joke somewhere but you missed it. Sorta prevents you from getting the full experience 

Haven't read her fantastical series, am not a fan of sci-fi/fantasy so am highly unlikely to do so despite my knowing i love her work. 

Haven't read the Stephanie Plum series either. For some reason, i also didn't bother watching the movie... But if that were Catherine Coulter's Savich and Sherlock, i would definitely be watching that! That's the only series of that genre (FBI thriller) i religiously follow. 

Am trying to avoid the In Death series...48 books?!  I may never surface if i start reading that!  Don't hate me ruth and demaris! 

OH I used to love the Sherlock and Savich series, but it's been a few years. When I got my Kindle, my reading tastes changed so much, a lot of my old standby authors got kinda...forgotten. One of these days I need to go back and catch up on old favorites like Coulter.

I enjoyed Stephanie Plum at the beginning, but quit a few years ago. The character plot never moved forward, and fart jokes and burnt up cars and buildings are only funny for so long before a person starts to want actual character growth. Twenty something books in, and Stephanie still bumbles around, solving things accidentally, and waffling between the same two men. (Ranger all the way, babe!)

I totally get what you mean hun, I read a fic sometime ago that Edward had his (right) hand in plaster but apparently he used that hand to finger Bella only days afterwards. 
Knowing what it's like to have my hand in plaster (several times), it's bloody difficult to wash it properly, pick things up (like a tooth brush etc) etc, so to be able to do that just is a bit ewwww.

Besides the eww factor (and thats a big one), I can't imagine this being comfortable for either party.

She REALLY REALLY DOES write good men. 
I floooved her Dream Man series! My OCD doesn't make me read a series out of sequence and i know references will be made about other characters' situation. Matron is right, you won't get lost but i hate not fully understanding a situation/character, like you know there must be an inside joke somewhere but you missed it. Sorta prevents you from getting the full experience 

Haven't read her fantastical series, am not a fan of sci-fi/fantasy so am highly unlikely to do so despite my knowing i love her work. 

Started reading Mystery Man and oh boy do I like Hawk!   The two main characters remind me a lot of the characters in Rock Chick but for some reason I like this one much better so far.  (20% in).

I just realized that the series is actually called Fantasyland and Fantastical is one of the books in the series. If you really like KA you should try Wildest Dreams some time.   Goodreads lists it as paranormal romance in addition to "fantasy".   It is seriously SO good.    KA transports you to a completely different world.

Woo~ I might have to look into the Kristen Ashley series you all are referring to. I read a few of her books and tried to start the Rock Chick series, but the main character seriously drove me nuts. I flounced before getting to the end. I don't feel bad for mentioning that, because there are several GoodReads reviews that label her as "Too Stupid To Live" 

BTW I'm still on a motorcycle book kick and finished the Signal Bend series by Susan Fanetti. I loved them! I also just finished reading Under Locke by Mariana Zapata, who happens to be the fabulous twific author, walkingwithgiants!! I also loved that book. I initially skipped it because some of the reviews were nasty and compared it to a couple other books, and even got the author of another series leaving a comment about how she was soooo upset that her ideas were being copied  After reading on here that certain authors get catty and send their fans to leave nasty reviews I felt like I needed to make my own opinions, and I'm so glad I did. I really enjoyed it and the only similarities I got was that in this book there's a tattoo shop called Pins and Needles, and in Sins and Needles (The Artists Trilogy) by Karina Halle there's a tattoo shop called Sins and Needles. WOW what a great pun. Not. 

I also put off on reading it, because in the summary it mentioned that one of the characters was a Widow, and I wasn't about to get involved with any dramatic heavy angst love story. Then I read the summary again, and he's actually a Widowmaker Motorcycle Club Member. Thankfully there was no heavy angst 

I loved Hawk, but I have to question Gwen letting some strange guy sneak into her bed for a YEAR!

I kinda want to reread some of her older books, but I'm afraid they won't hold up. I also guess I should read the latest in the Burg series, but after getting bored and putting aside the one with Ham (WTF kind of name is HAM anyway?), I haven't tried any more.

I loved all the Dream Man series and all the Colorado Mountain series , The 'Burg was pretty good, and I even loved the Rock Chick books. It's just her more recent ones I haven't enjoyed. Hated Knight, didn't read the next one in that series.

I was wondering about the Colorado Mountain series...   I have that one on my TBR list too.   

And yes...  him sneaking into her bed for that long was a little weird, but I've read crazier things.   I was just glad to finally find out that she had met him before.  At first I thought he was a totally random stranger.   

I was wondering about the Colorado Mountain series...   I have that one on my TBR list too.   

And yes...  him sneaking into her bed for that long was a little weird, but I've read crazier things.   I was just glad to finally find out that she had met him before.  At first I thought he was a totally random stranger.   

I think the Colorado Mountain series is my favorite. You can totally skip book 1 if you want to, it has NOTHING to do with the rest of the series, different people, different town. It's still good, it just feels more like a stand alone book. Hell, her Rock Chick people cross over to other series more than the characters of The Gamble did in it's own series. I think the heroine shows up for about 5 seconds as a lawyer in one book.

RANT! 

Why?! Why?! Why?! Do author's do this?!

"NO! Don't you ever say that. You have every part of my heart, honey. It's yours, I swear. Baby, please don't leave me. I'll die, Bella. (A/N: I'm one major drama queen. Lol.)"

OK, forget the god awful writing for a moment, it's done, I can't rant about that, all I can do is flounce, which isn't an option; but for f*ck sake! An AN smack in the middle of dialogue? Are these people retard! I read another fic today where the AN popped up in the middle of a 'scene' to say 'Lemons left to your imagination" Really?! There should be a law! 

RANT OVER

RANT! 

Why?! Why?! Why?! Do author's do this?!

"NO! Don't you ever say that. You have every part of my heart, honey. It's yours, I swear. Baby, please don't leave me. I'll die, Bella. (A/N: I'm one major drama queen. Lol.)"

OK, forget the god awful writing for a moment, it's done, I can't rant about that, all I can do is flounce, which isn't an option; but for f*ck sake! An AN smack in the middle of dialogue? Are these people retard! I read another fic today where the AN popped up in the middle of a 'scene' to say 'Lemons left to your imagination" Really?! There should be a law! 

RANT OVER

I HATE author notes in the middle of the story.  It ruins everything immediately before it and for quite a ways after, too.