life is short

Nancy said I should carry my romance novels proudly wherever I go, but I don't go anywhere, so I guess this will have to suffice. I am reading this book for my genre reader's advisory class:



It is... not as terribly written as I thought it would be, but it is complete and utter brain fluff. There is a spunky heroine who speaks her mind and is actually pretty but doesn't think she is, who is cheerfully determined to hook her best friend up with the grumpy bachelor friend of her husband (who she married impulsively and out of convenience), and "terrible" secrets from her past. Despite these things, I am enjoying it. I am not done with the book but I feel like there might be, I don't know, maybe a climactic sequence where everything is revealed and the husband turns out to not care about any of this and they live happily ever after.

And then there's this book, which I saw on the shelf next to the line of Baloghs. After I looked at the back, I knew I had to read it:

After a chaotic marriage and a rough divorce, all Mira Hoskins wants is stability and normality. But when sexy Jack McAllister enters her life, she discovers that what you want isn't always what you need.

Jack is a powerful witch with the ability to command fire and is anything but normal. As the head of a security detail for The Coven, a national organization that governs national witches, Jack has been assigned to watch over Mira. She is a natural born witch with the ability to call the air. And although she is unaware of her talent, a group of renegade witches has discovered her existence and are determined to steal her power--and her life.

Oh paranormal romance. You make me laugh. A lot.

[eta:] Email between me and cow:

Me
While searching for the Amazon link, I found this review:

"(one star) Too much explicit sex. If I wanted porn, I would have
rented an adult movie. I read to expand my mind, not my libido."

I don't think mind expanding is what anybody has in mind when people
read paranormal romances. Snark will be forthcoming.

cow
What, seriously, who picks up an author named "Anya Bast" to expand their mind?!