This book was so much fun to read. I was smitten by the fact that Mona’s physical appearance is pretty normal. She’s attractive, sure, but also unfashionably plump, and rarely perfectly groomed. I am so tired of thin, beautifully perfect heroines and gorgeous, domineering (alpha) males that s...
Especially when I have to do it or die.People who run for fun are mental. There are very few times humans should run, like when they’re being chased through the Everglades by a basilisk. Only reason I am right now. And the longer I run, the more I begin to think death is preferable.Panting harder...
I count thirty police officers on my security monitors, including SWAT, all armed to the gills led by him. I always knew this day would come. It has been almost twenty years in the making, but now it’s here…this must have been how Nero felt as he played that fiddle. My Rome is burning. Soon my fr...
I came up with nothing but a headache. The alarm buzzes at seven and my eyes fly open. I pull my body out of bed and into the bathroom. After taking great pains to put on makeup and tame my hair, I guess for the werewolf who loves me, I go to wake up the girls but they’re not in their room and ne...
This time, instead of being stuck in a huge tube with lots of people, I am in a freakishly small plane, a Cessna sixteen-seater. Luckily, Nancy plopped down in the seat next to me before anyone else—i.e., a certain undead jerk—could. But the second her butt was in the seat, her mouth began to mov...
No note, nothing. So I climbed into bed, shut off the lights, and fell asleep ten minutes later. Who knew anger and embarrassment were such good narcoleptics? I didn’t wake whenever he came in, but he must have, because when I woke up at ten this morning, his casket was locked. He probably stayed...
Concrete, that’s where it was at. So standing at the bank of a river, being eaten alive by all manner of insects, surrounded three ways by trees with large branches and a million little leaves, was not really how I would normally choose to spend my day. But there I was, watching two men in black ...
I’m alive. This is a surprise. Once again the light from a window stings my eyes as I open them. Maybe this is heaven. Nope, my neck and ankles wouldn’t be torturing me if I was in heaven. And Nina Simone isn’t around to greet me. When my eyes focus, I check my surrounding...
Why do superheroes always leave me abandoned and alone? Dozens of messages to Lexie and Jem left unanswered. Everyone else on the planet has phoned, reporters mostly. I can't even leave the house anymore without them following. They've been parked on the street and inundating me with calls for da...
After checking into our hotel in Piccadilly and phoning Kansas, we fall asleep the moment our heads hit the pillow. Five far too short hours later, I force myself awake and Nathan along with me. We order room service—tea, lots of strong tea—then deal with the multiple messages that racked up whil...