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1. Larissa Ione - Immortal Rider

Too much characters as its a transition for the third book so Limos and Arik doesn't really do major thing in this book and whats interesting was when Thanatos was introduced with a femme fatale... hope the third book will be much better. Pregnant demon slayer, seethingly mad Horseman of Death on rampage, apocalypse coming with half Malaysia in hell dimension... what not to like...

except the third book will be out in June... hmph

2. Cassandra Clare - Clockwork Prince

gorgeous cover. Did you know, it was one of those 50% off with purchase in Borders. Yep, the book was published just barely a month ago.

Made me want to write some steampunk madness.

3. Richelle Mead - Shadow Heir

Always did like this series than the rest of her YA and Succubus series.

4. Rae Carson - The Girl of Fire and Thorns

The best girl-centric book I've read for the YA fantasy genre. Doesn't bleed out twilight romance accordingly to the YA trends. A tale of one very self-conscious girl who despite all odds, suddenly became a thing of legend. When you start reading this book, you can't stop.

5. Cinda Williams Chima - The Demon King

Very changeable book.. kinda enjoyed it although it was predictable because of its archetypical sorts and lengthy... or is it because its a heavy book, oh well..

6. Cinda Williams Chima - The Exiled Queen

asthmatic while finishing this... review later...
UPDATE: Imagine the combo of Earthsea and Harry Potter except you are constantly at risk of dying everytime you step in a school corridor, and tom riddle's book is something slash of wand.... exactly like that. But more interesting I guess. Less study, more school politics

7. Cinda Williams Chima - The Gray Wolf Throne

This book series is definitely like a lovechild of The Borgias and Earthsea. Monarch politics. Poverty. Warring thanes. The Dark Brotherhood. Nords vs Elves vs Forsworn... okay, its definitely like playing Skyrim's quests except you're reading it

not going to read the other chima's Heir chronicles series (contemporary fantasy... not YuGiOh again...) maybe until the fourth book got out..

8. David Hodgson - Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Prima Official Game Guide

melampau tersangat2 la, tapi fiction jugak kan...? hahaha.... masuk2!

9. Jeniri Amir - Buat Duit Dengan Menulis

Been rereading this on and off this month. Yes, I've finished it but I still feel I hadn't read it all.. the review tells a lot about how I felt about the book anyway.

Syahira wrote: "9. Jeniri Amir - Buat Duit Dengan Menulis

Been rereading this on and off this month. Yes, I've finished it but I still feel I hadn't read it all.. the r..."

lepas ni syahira buat duit!

Mohd Nazmi wrote: "Syahira wrote: "9. Jeniri Amir - Buat Duit Dengan Menulis

Been rereading this on and off this month. Yes, I've finished it but I still feel I hadn't rea..."

Insya'Allah

10. Sarah Morgan - Once a Ferrara Wife...

I need something that wasnt that depressing, lengthy and NOT a series of books.... okay la, for a light reading.

11. Ilona Andrews - Fate's Edge

Its out-of-genre-version of 'Mission Impossible' . The husband obviously do all the idea survival adventure spy stuff here... guns, gore, and more gore... The premise sounded like a romance novel but honestly, nah.. its not. The romance part is patchy. Its a good stuff for men to read but some parts are trashy enough for the women. *cough*

12. Paula Detmer Riggs - Her Secret, His Child

no review. kinda like that Nora Elena book last year but wasnt that twisted like Nora Elena. ok, the book is in my ebooks folder. I end up reading through it. Too many football references, probably for those American footballs lovers. (yeah, still pissed with Fringe's 'Football Happened')

13. Kresley Cole - Lothaire

Absolutely adore this book. The supervillian is none other than someone who is misunderstood. *pat pat* I always love what Kresley did to her characters.

14. Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd - A Monster Calls

Its a level under Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book and Anna Dressed In Blood category. Didnt realize the book is short and its a pre-teen book for boys. Kinda have a deep dissatisfaction about the structure of the writing. I'm quite fine with the ending but still... considering its posthumous work, its quite fine

15. Christine Feehan - Spirit Bound

Christine Feehan is my habit.... my bad reading habit. Thats what happen when you read her books half of your life. The first book of this series (about an autistic girl who found a drowning man under the sea) is much better, but second book? jeez... its extension of her Drake sisters novels... I'm giving up this series of hers. Gonna stick to borneo werepanthers since its more stand-alone type...

16. Amanda Stevens - The Abandoned

quite a short story... I like Amelia more.

Syahira wrote: "16. Amanda Stevens - The Abandoned

quite a short story... I like Amelia more."

Target 10, dah capai 16..hebat..

Nor Azzah wrote: "Target 10, dah capai 16..hebat.."

genre novels.. boleh la. hehe

17. Sherrilyn Kenyon - The Guardian

Tame.. tame tame.... all the tortured soul and no proper payback? I want to sic someone...

18. Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

This book is a very funny memoir slash writing guide... I'm surprised the author was a christian-genre writer since this book doesn't really talk about his belief (hence the awful ratings some of the reviewers put in this book)

19. Saifullizan Tahir - Kasino

yay... one Fixi book thats twisted enough for me! Hope wasn't that lost.... after twice disappointed. *touchwood!*

20. Sherrilyn Kenyon - Bad Moon Rising

I like the fact that whenever I read this series out of series, it always bounce back along with the timeline. The book is too Kresley Cole. At least, it keep me going.

21. Sherrilyn Kenyon - No Mercy

doesn't bring me headache much since I know where the book left off.... I had reservation to hardbacks..... SK's blownup picture on the back are eerie....her eyes followed you...wherever you may go

22. Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

All these years, I thought the book was steampunk. But its not. Quite appealing too. Its not quite a hard read after you replaced all those messy repeating words into english. Honestly, I think the violence is very moderate even with a first person point of view. I found the movie is much more sicker than the literature.

since its already february... target : 20>

23. Sherrilyn Kenyon - Infinity

24. Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

I think I rant enough in the review.... gah... I don't even feel I want to watch the last 30 minutes of Blade Runner (which until a couple of days ago, I thought Blade Runner was THAT vampire Blade movies)

Save the drama... just watch S03E04 of Fringe and you'll find that one episode is more enjoyable than this novel... right, Sebastian Roché?
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25. Lynne Graham - Ruthless Magnate, Convenient Wife

dunno why.. I just found a review about this book and curious enough to read it... meh... meh.. meh.. meh.. meh... combo of La Usurpadora and lame youtube romance tvrip... Gabriella Spanic did have a twin... (and I was back with 90s spanish telemundo reference... im getting old)

26. Thea Harrison - Dragon Bound

one of a better dragon PNR fantasy I read... more wittier than most comedy shows.

27. Thea Harrison - Storm's Heart

less drama, more politics.. I dont mind, but it waste pages.... good thing about serials, the story never end that neatly.

28. Thea Harrison - Serpent's Kiss

I really love this book. Much a better read than the previous one.

29. Thea Harrison - True Colors

a decent novella for the Elder Races series.

30. Gretchen Davis - The Makeup Artist Handbook: Techniques for Film, Television, Photography, and Theatre

Internet is much better

31. Lynne Graham - The Pregnancy Shock

the book been sitting in my folder.. finishing the rest

32. Lynne Graham - A Stormy Greek Marriage

finally, the better part of the story... why made it into two parts?

33. Lynne Graham - Desert Prince, Bride of Innocence

cheesy giler... okay. dah clear Lynne Graham dah dalam folder. no more, bye2

some of the things about Harlequins... racy cover but boring contents... do they copy paste the outline to one another?

34. Sherrilyn Kenyon - Invincible

this book gave me several WTF moment..


and made me miss happy non-DarkHunter Kyrian. I'm gonna reread Night Embrace again... hmmph

35. Jaci Burton - Legend's Passion
......i havent been reading much ECs lately.. tch2

36. Unknown - Origins

I hate this book. The only thing I like was Damon in it. Its like a parody of the series. Bad accompaniment, just milking the franchise. The producers need a proper writer, not a screenwriter for this. Made me afraid to read Richard Castle's...

37. Samantha James - One Moonlit Night

I read through this like a movie. I remember reading this daily during my PMR years. LOL

38. Nina Bruhns - Warrior's Bride

My current YA reads bores me, so I check up my to-reads and notice this book 'unread'. But I think I read this two years ago as while I read this, I was like "Have I read this before?" so I do my chores while reading this on and off yesterday.

Honestly, I like Nina Bruhns. She did vampire ancient egyptian animal-shapeshifting sheikhs in 'The Mummy' smut setting. How many harlequins or YA authors who even does that mash up in one go? But considering this is her reprint of earlier work, so I give it a pass.

39, Patricia Briggs - Alpha & Omega

I'm surprised the novella has actual plots in it. Something that should be in the first book of the series but I guess the editors think it should be left out. How can you start a love story without the story of when the two first meet?

BTW, this is another unintentional reread (means: I've read it before I rajin-sgt to record it via GR). I was browsing at the book list on "best shapeshifters" and saw Patricia Briggs that are highly rated especially with "Mercy Thompson" series but I like werewolves better. Apparently, a few pages in "Cry Wolf" I recognize the story like reminiscent from an old dream. But its a good book about something went awry and high death rates, its not a traditional romance, but we'll get on to it.

Besides, any stories with animalistic angsty fight scenes deserved to be reread on regular basis when CGIs no longer look nice on screen.

I might read "On The Prowl" next, seems interesting.

40. Patricia Briggs - Cry Wolf

If you forgive the cover which was auspiciously like my smutty PNR reads (which this book actually lacks) this is actually a very good story. Kinda like Mononoke Hime slash Supernatural slash Being Human. I think I only read the first few page of this since I dont remember the ending -at all, so this is not a reread.

Honestly, the story is about a man who had lost his love and found the ghost of his love trapped in an eternal hell by a psychotic immortal witch.

41. Patricia Briggs - Hunting Ground

quite a heavy read for a paranormal fiction. I like that the stories sets out in small puzzle-like pieces with things come neatly into closure. Kinda like Underworld mixed with Max Payne.

42. Ilona Andrews - Magic Gifts

I guess this is the only Kate Daniels I'm gonna read for 2012... well there's Curran and Andrea's book but hell... 2013? oh well.. open season for other authors.

43. Elizabeth Vaughan - Warprize

known about this book from an author's reading list, kinda enjoyed it. truth to be told, 90% of it was about politics between one country and an invading army (assassinations, deaths, prisoner of war, insane monarch..) while 10% of it was a sort of unconventional harlequin romance. I've been reading a lot of fake romance these days.. lol.

44. Elizabeth Vaughan - Warsworn

my house punya internet got kong!! proper review later la.... will update grmy's rc when internet get better

45. Elizabeth Vaughan - Warlord

End of the series for Lara and Keir. Very enjoyable end though. If you like politics with fantasy with romance substories, you'll love it. Like I say, this is one fake romance book. Yes, there's romance and all, but most of the story is about Lara being dragged to the heart of the plains by warrior-priest who don't want her to change the lives of the firelanders with her Xyian ways.

Oh.. if you like the romance bit about Daenerys and Kal Drogo, you'll like this book too. Except Kal Drogo is more a jerk than Keir.

46. Elizabeth Vaughan - Warcry

In the Warlord series, there's warrior-woman Atira who had broken her leg in the first book and then there's Lara's foster-brother, Heath who fallen in love with Atira in the series. Problem is that Atira had confusion with her feelings and then there's political rife in Xyian Castle with a lot assassinations, Queen's pregnancy, plots and such. Again, a fake romance, I did warn you.

47. Patricia Briggs - Moon Called

This a sort of a pre-series for Alpha and Omega. Its a paranormal fiction. A lot of politics too, concerning the werewolves, vampires and fae. The story starts moving with a kidnapping attempt, then murder then more kidnapping. I think its a good paranormal mystery fiction if you consider the length.