So Many Books... And a Movie

It's been over a month since there's been a post. Oh dear. I have read several books in the last month, but I have been very very busy and haven't posted about any of them. Shame on me. Of course I was reading across the board. It will be evident by just how varied my reading is by the books I've read this month. There was a paperback I was looking forward to being released at the beginning of last month which I read pretty quickly. I didn't have a choice, I promised my friend and fellow blogger the book the next time I saw her. Otherwise, I have been reading on my Kindle. I never thought I would enjoy digital books, but I do even though there is something about paper books that can never be replaced. Plus they don't require batteries. I'm only going to talk about two of the books I read this past month.

Nalini Singh has the Guild Hunter series that I love and it was the paperback I was waiting for. Archangels, vampires, and hunters oh my. Archangel's Enigma is the latest novel in the series where Naasir is the hero. Naasir is a vampire, but he's also something more, something not human. He's on a mission to find his mate and he finds her alright, a scholar angel with secrets. There is mystery, humor, and action. I love how each novel builds onto the next in this world with one all encompassing plot line. Being inside of Naasir's mind was fun. He doesn't have the same thought processes as other characters. He has a very childlike attitude, only he's hundreds of years old and in the service of an archangel. The description was amazing. I don't want to spoil any of the books I read for other readers so I won't go into any of the details. With this being book eight, I would suggest reading books 1-7 along with the book of novellas, unless you are one of the few that can get away with reading books out of order.

After I finished this book, I already had another one lined up. I entered a Facebook giveaway for a new favorite author, Jade West, and won her latest novel Dirty Bad Strangers. It's a dark erotic novel that is defiantly 18+. I loved her first two novels and there are a few points in all the books where I have cringed. It's all good, because that just means the writing sucked me in and engaged me. This novel was about a woman named Gemma who enjoys sex with strangers and she happens to work as a sex chatline operator. It's there she meets a caller named Jason and he is her ultimate fantasy. She does the one thing she isn't supposed to and gives Jason her phone number and it turns into dirty bad stranger sex. Like the title says, its dirty and bad. Not only does Gemma have sex with Jason, she's blindfolded and knows nothing about him other than his first name. There are plenty of sex games between these two and friends of Jason. One of my favorite things about this book is that Gemma meets Cara, a character in the previous books.

Of course this weekend was also the release of The Martian on the big screen. After having read the book, I was looking forward to this movie. The trailers looked good, and Matt Damon seemed to be Mark Watney. Since I read the book, I understood the jokes. This is a drama and not a comedy, but being on a deserted planet without communication to anyone means, one has to keep themselves sane somehow. Comedy only makes sense. I was disappointed in how certain things were explained, but as we all know, movies don't follow books exactly. Other than certain scenes not making their way into the movie, I was happy with the movie. I would suggest watching it and I would say reading the novel makes the experience even better.

On a wacky sidenote, I have noticed that trailers are showing clips or having audio that never makes it into the movie. It's becoming something like a game for me now. I try to place the scenes and in some cases the audio as I watch the movie. Sometimes I'm disappointed in not seeing or hearing what was in the trailer because I want to know where is would have been. Anyone else have thoughts about movies trailers?