Romance Book Week Part II:

What romance book do you secretly love?

Hmmmm. OK. I admit that I love, love, love Reap the Wind by Iris Johansen. Why? I love the story. It’s an adven­ture story with plenty of hot, hot, hot love scenes, excel­lent chem­istry, has a mys­ti­cal statue called the Wind Dancer that is most sought after and of course there’s plenty of sus­pense and mys­tery. Johansen has revised this story some­what most recently to cap­ture more sus­pense fans but beneath all the bul­lets, gore and mystery/suspense, there’s a lovestory and a damn good one at that. [light­ning in the back­ground] Must hurry and get off this com­puter. BTW: the link to Reap the Wind — that’s the cover you want if your inter­ested in read­ing this book. It’s not revised.

Name a hero that had you at “hello”.

Hard one to call. It would have to be Alex Kara­zov from Reap the Wind. He’s vul­ner­a­ble, attrac­tive and sexy as hell whose lost his best friend and feels that he can trust no one. The author does an excel­lent job of show­ing the tran­si­tion from lust to love between Caitlin and Alex and there is a scene where he tells Caitlin that he trust her — a big step for him. Love this book.

Name your favorite 80’s bodice rip­per.

Do you mean where the hero­ine is such a tease say­ing no, no,no and the hero says, yes, yes, yes, between a lot of kiss­ing and grop­ing? That type of bodice ripper?

Never read them. ::blink,blink:: Who are you star­ing at?

What kind of hero­ine do you wish can be erad­i­cated from the earth?

The one who inher­its more money than God but decides to “work for a liv­ing” any­way, to prove some­thing, who knows what. She has the most suc­cess­ful busi­ness in the entire world and makes even more money than God. And to add insult to injury: she’s sin­gle and can’t find a decent man. One who loves her for her­self and not her money [cha-ching]. Next would be the 32 year-old vir­gin who lives in a small town called Clue­less with the pop­u­la­tion of males equal­ing ZERO.

Can you name a book or scene that you loved even though you know in real life you’d be telling the guy in a real dan­ger­ous voice that if he didn’t move his hand pronto his ball­court was going to take a beating.

OK, many read­ers have said that the hero in Kiss an Angel by Susan Eliz­a­beth Phillips was a real asshole/jerk and he prob­a­bly was but I just loved, loved, loved him and his exhanges with the hero­ine. I really did. In real life — yeah, I’d kicked him in the you-know-where and tell him to go to hell. Also, here is a cus­tomer image of Kiss Angel by Susan Eliz­a­beth Phillips. Isn’t it awful? All I have to say is thank good­ness I don’t own that copy.