Shades of Gray by Katie MacAlister2 starsObviously the title is a rift of the popular erotic novel 'Fifty Shades of Gray'. Use a little imagination already. Gray was annoying and grouchy while Noelle was overly chipper and talked too damn much. The conversations were strange and mostly stupid. I'...
Ugh! What an awful book! I only finished it because I have a compulsion to finish books once I start them. The characters are ridiculous - even for a romance novel. The main character reminds me of a dim-witted Kathy Griffin and if you think that's sexy, well... who am I to tell you different, bu...
I was soooo happy to get a new Dark Ones novel. And yet I had forgotten just how much fun this series is. Katie MacAlister infuses her novels with a unique sense of humor and wit that I absolutely adore. It's been just long enough that I didn't really remember Ben & Fran's story and I wish I had ...
I've always enjoyed Katie's books when I'm in the mood for something funny with little drama, and this book fit the bill. The dialogue, name mispronounciations, and situations Harry sometimes found herself in were hilarious. I loved both the main characters. Iakovos was endearingly sweet and ca...
Continued saga of a great dragon series. I nominate this book for the best funniest cliffhanger ending of all time. One of the dragons got the crap beat out of him and fell into a foyer table with several wooden legs. He was so wrapped up in the table legs that he couldn't get up. So here's this ...
Love in the Time of Dragons is book one in the Light Dragons series. This is a very enjoyable laugh out loud funny paranormal romance. (I listened to the audible version of the book.) This story bounces in between Tullys (Ysolde)past. She keeps being told information and history that she is reluc...
soooooooo funnnnnny Guess I am going to have to give up on this series. Couldn't get into this one
This review is about the novella, Unleashed, by Katie MacAlister. I will add to it as I read the other stories. A great novella to tell the story of Moravian, Avery Scott, brother of Dark One Paen Scott, and how he gets his Beloved even though he has his soul. Avery is (as all Dark Ones and Morav...
This is a really good story with a well developed plot. The story contains many characters that readers have met previously in other MacAlister books (I love how connected and intertwined MacAlister's books are) and a few new characters. By the end of the story readers experience closure for m...
I liked this book, but I still feel like it's a little bit unfinished, somehow I don't think that the feud between the brotherhood and the dark ones is over just yet, and there's still a couple of loose ends in this whole Ilargi business. I hope the next book is the third part of this, even if th...
Kurzer Einblick:Kiya Mortenson ist ein Pechvogel wie er im Buche steht, dennoch steht sie mit beiden Beiden im Leben und weiß sich mit ihrer humorvollen & schlagfertigen Art zu Helfen. Als Eloise ( ihr Auto ) mal wieder streikt, naht schnell Hilfe in Modelgestalt. Gregory Faa bietet ihr nicht nur...
This is the first book in Katie MacAlister's new series and it is fantastic!!!! I love all of Katie's books because they're romantic with a twist and have non-graphic, steamy sex. The men in her books are to die for and make me drool. lol All of the characters in her books pop right off the pag...
I don't usually quit on a novel but I just can't bring myself to finish it. Not even half of it! There's complicated and there's confusing this is just confusing. The story keeps adding new terms, new events, new beings without even explaining the ones it just mentioned. The information keeps fil...
I enjoyed the first story Unleashed a lot, but I like the paranormal werewolves and shapeshifters generally in my paranormal romance novels. As crazy as the story seemed initially I was able to get into the story and the romance between the main characters. I love how her sister was a very annoy...
Pia sounds like a much more believable character than previous heroines, even if some times the humor takes precedence over the verisimilitude and logic of the story. I won't give details, but the story continues on the next book, so it kinds of becomes something in-between romance and something ...
*Meinung:*Als erst einmal muss ich sagen, ich bin mit gemischten Gefühlen an das Buch gegangen. Ich hatte bereits eine Rezension im LoveLetter (Literaturzeitschrift) gelesen, die davon sprach, dass in diesem Band kaum etwas passiert. Also ich kann das nicht bestätigen und frage mich ob die Rezens...
I always have fun when reading Ms. MacAlister's vamp books! Not as fun as the YA novels that preceded it, but still a decent read.
I did not care for this series. much of the same if you've got this far in the series than you know what to expect..
Cora arbeitet als Sekretärin in der Immobilienfirma ihres Ex-Ehemannes. Dessen zweite Frau, Diamond, nimmt Cora mit zu einer Immobilie, die von der Firma verkauft werden soll. Cora soll mit Diamond zusammen Fotos von dem Gebäude machen. Doch sie läuft dort dem Lich Ulfur und einem „bösen Englände...
Not as good as the first of the two-part arc, but still good, trashy fun. Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang: A Dark Ones Novel by Katie MacAlister (2009)
I loved this book! So much in fact that, I read it three years ago and still remember the names of the characters! Pia takes a singles cruise to Europe and can suddenly see ghosts. She does not know why or how but this just started. She also encounters two very good looking vampires. One who kee...
Not as good as the Aisling books, but a fun read. I love Katie MacAlister's books. This is one of the Silver Dragon books. It's a fun read.
As much as i adore Katie and her witty writing, this just didnt do it for me :( The first time traveller novel was decent, however i couldnt even finish this one. The characters didnt grab me, the storyline felt all over the place (yes i know irs a time travel novel), and i just couldnt get into ...
(I'm reviewing the audio version of the story)This book was difficult to listen to. Dagmar Marie Sophie is a princess who is about to be out on her own when her cousin demands he is tired of being responsible for her and insists she find family to care for her. Dagmar along with her companion ...
Physicist Portia Harding’s life is grounded in facts. There’s nothing that can’t be explained by logic and science. Until she travels with her best friend to England—and accidentally summons an ethereal Virtue who bequeaths her gift of weather control to Portia…Now Portia’s walking around with a ...
Aisling Grey is back-and in more trouble than ever. She thought being a courier would be easy. It's not. She thought being a Guardian would come naturally. It doesn't. She thought she could get out of being a wyvern's mate. She can't. And she never thought she'd be irresistible to men. But she is.
I've been wanting to read YOU SLAY ME, the first in the Aisling Grey, Guardian Series, for quite awhile, and was supremely happy when it reared it's head in my never-ending "to-be-read" pile. And I'm so glad I did! Aisling, on her first outing as a courier for her uncle's business, has traveled t...
The award-winning, laugh-out-loud Regency romance that launched the career of New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister. Take one infamous earl... Noble Britton, Lord Weston, has come to London intending to revisit old friends, enjoy a modicum of society, and-oh, yes-find a mild, bidd...
1. He is Plum's new husband. Not normally a problem, but when you consider that Harry advertised for a wife, and Plum was set to marry his secretary, there was cause for a bit of confusion. 2. He has a title. Plum has spent the last twenty years hiding from the ton, and now Harry wants her to shi...
Dear Worthy Reader: I take quill in hand to warn you of the inaccurate picture hinted at in this very tome of my modest self. A poor widow, I returned to England eager to take my place in the ton, only to find myself shunned by all. My one choice was to marry again, and who can chastise me for p...
I’m glad I was persistent with this series. It’s getting better and better. The characters and plot were interesting. I don’t know why MacAlister insists on giving the main female character a clueless best friend, but this one was one of the least annoying. I liked how MacAlister is connectin...
I've given up all hope of having a normal life. As if things aren't freaky enough traveling around Europe with a group of witches, mediums, and magicians who make up my home-away-from-home (aka the GothFaire), now I also have to cope with a mysterious man who wants to steal my horse, and a time-t...
Blow Me Down, Katie MacAlister Pirates and prosthetics...what's not to love?This high seas adventure stars, Amy Stewart, a financial analyst with a repressed sense of fun and an overdeveloped sense of organization. So to save her from imminent death by work and boredom, and as only a teen can do...
If Allie doesn't find a ghost soon, her short career as a "Summoner" with United Psychical Research Association will be a thing of the past, so naturally she is delighted to find what she thinks is the tortured spirit of a gorgeous, naked, wounded man. But the cranky spirit, who looks exactly lik...
It is wrong for her to call her cousin a fat-headed ignorant son of a puss-filled weasel. —Princess Christian of Sonderburg-Beck’s Guide for Her Daughter’s Illumination and Betterment Leo’s shoulder was on fire, his chest ached, and his head felt hot, all of which contribu...
Oh, she knew she had no right to be unhappy—everything she’d ever wanted had been handed to her: she had a husband, a kind man with whom she suspected she had fallen in love; five children who, if they weren’t exactly what she’d imagined when she thought of her ideal family, were at heart good ch...
You would like a ride, yes?”We stopped at the top of the stairs that led down into the tube station. Next to us, blithely parked in a tow-away zone, a man sat smiling at us from the confines of a black taxi.I wasn’t surprised to see him any more than I was to see he’d acquired a new taxi. “Hi, Re...
Ding-dong, the bells are gonna riiiiiiiing!’” “Will you stop that!” I whapped Jim on its furry black shoulder, sending a quick glance across the small room to make sure no one had heard my demon in doggy form singing. “So help me god, Jim, if you let anyone catch you talki...
I felt his presence before I saw it, a warm glow of lightness filling me as I huddled in a dark corner of what was, in the mortal world, the hotel lobby. Faint, vague shadows passed in and around me, echoes of human reality, visible in my world, but not really tangible. Nothing was. Nothing touch...
Like my life isn’t hell enough, now I have to play cozy family with you? I don’t even know you!” I slammed shut the car door, giving the dog crate inside another quick glance to make sure it was escape-proof before turning to my surly companion. “Listen, Pixie—” “I told you, my name is Desdemona!...
She hiccupped, then dabbed at her running nose with the hem of her gown. “Oh, please, my dearest darlingest beloved! You cannot abandon me and marry the bastard daughter of a duke!” Lord Raoul turned his back to the sight of the damp woman and looked out upon the velvety green lawns at Firthstone...
Don’t snap at your food, don’t talk with your mouth full, and don’t go potty while we’re eating! There’s nothing less conducive to romance than the smell of poop wafting everywhere.” Moth, sitting on the cooler next to my sleeping bag, gave me one of his indignant looks, as if the last thing he w...
I have no memory of this purchase. “This day,” Elliott said to a gull that sat on the railing of the cabin’s minuscule deck and pecked in a desultory manner at a bit of bread it had scavenged up somewhere, “is one of the longest I’ve ever known. It should most definitely b...
the TV show producer was saying, waving his clipboard at everyone as they emerged from the shuttles. “Your bags will be taken to your rooms. Ballroom inside and to the left. Move along, please. We have a schedule to keep.” Adam retrieved Jesus from the Englishwoman, thanking her politely for watc...
Before I could do more than swing around to face the men that loomed up out of a dark doorway Octavia and I were passing, one of them grabbed me in a choke hold, and pressed a cloth across my face. Two others held my arms as the sickly-sweet scent of something I knew must be an anesthetic seeped ...
“We could go out for dinner,” I told Alden after we got dressed again. “Go to that pub you mentioned yesterday.” “We could, but I’d feel bad about leaving Lisa at the mercy of Vandal.” “Oh, I meant that we’d take her, too,” I lied, feeling immediate...
I can’t . . . oooph . . . urgh . . . can’t get in . . . ow! Stop pulling my hair; that’s not going to do any good!’’ ‘‘Sorry. I was just trying to help.’’ Cyrene stood in the open doorway and frowned at me as I struggled to enter. ‘‘I didn’t have any problem walking through it. What do you think ...
“What the—” I stopped dead in my tracks, looking around wildly until I noticed Roger sitting in the shadow of his RV, tweaking his tie and brushing off a suit jacket. “Oh, hello.” “I had a thought, and I know you will like it. Rather than simply having the wedding at the e...
After my success with the Scheherazade costume of the past evening, I was convinced I could manage to look like something less than a rag-picker next to her, so I wore a new white suit with a blue and white striped vest, and a white bolero jacket trimmed with blue braid. I felt very proud of my s...
Greg? Selling animals? But . . . how? Why? He’s always been . . .” I paused, unsure of how to go on. It was true that I had never liked Greg, not trusting that smooth demeanor, and the ruthless way he cut jobs and programs in order to pad the budget, but that was a far cry from being a part of a ...