And now for the final book I read in 2008: Take Me Tonight by Roxanne St. Claire. This is the third title in her popular Bullet Catchers romantic suspense series. In this one, freelance reporter Sage Valentine is determined to prove her friend’s death wasn’t a suicide. Unbeknownst to Sage, her aunt Lucy Monroe (the head of the BC organization) →

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Finished His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik. This is the first book in her popular Temeraire series about a dragon aerial corp during the Napoleonic Wars. Bristish captain Will Laurence is perfectly happy with his seafaring life. But a twist of fate has Laurence leaving his ship behind to be the handler of Temeraire, a very exceptional, intelligent dragon. Laurence is →

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Finished Warsworn by Elizabeth Vaughn. This is the second book in her Chronicles of the Warlands paranormal romance trilogy. In this one, healer and queen Xylara must stop a deadly disease from decimating the ranks of her adopted people, the Firelanders. But things look grim when Lara and her lover Kier both fall sick, especially since there are warriors among the Firelanders →

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Finished The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook. This is a James Bond-related book, focusing on M’s famous secretary, Miss Moneypenny. Basically, the book is a year of journal entries from Moneypenny’s point of view during 1962, when she became involved in the Cuban missile crisis, among other adventures. The book manages to weave in quite a bit of the Bond lore →

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Finished A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison. This is the fourth book in her Rachel Morgan/Hollows urban fantasy series. In this one, witch/bounty hunter Rachel Morgan has to leave the comfort of her Cincinnati home behind to journey up to Michigan to bail her ex-boyfriend Nick out of trouble. Nick is hiding an artifact from several groups of werewolves, →

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