I miss reading Nancy Warren's..

The first book I read by Nancy Warren is Drive Me Crazy, starring a sexy librarian as the heroine. Wish to be one. A sexy librarian who captures the hearts of sexy hot alpha males.

Anyway, since I enjoyed reading Drive Me Crazy, I started to look out for her other works published by Brava. So, yeah, I like her writing style. Her novella in Jingle Bell Rock, rocks. Have I mentioned before that I love that novella of hers? I really, really love it. Hell, it's the best novella I've ever read so far. I love it more than many full-length novels.

The last Nancy Warren book I've read is Turn Left at Sanity. I thought the back cover and the excerpt for it aren't really interesting at all, but it's Nancy Warren so I still got my hands on it. Luckily, I wasn't disappointed at all. Yay for wackiness.☺

Nancy Warren's upcoming book The One I Want is to be out in May, so here's the cover stolen from her website:

I totally dig this cover. Love the red. Wish I was the babe.

Read the excerpt for it here.

Man Candy.

To celebrate my new blog design, I've chosen five delicious hunks to grace this post. I wanted to say "five book covers" instead of "five delicious hunks", but com'on let's admit it: it's the man that make the covers. So let's start the ball rolling with Jennifer Apodaca's Extremely Hot:

I went phwoarr when I saw this cover on Amazon. Those eyes those eyes those eyes those eyes were sliently being chanted in my head over and over again. How can one resist them? He current holds the no.1 spot in my "Hottest Dude on a Book Cover" List. Ranked no.2 is Donna Kauffman's The Great Scot:

Yes, he used to hold the no.1 spot. I thought nothing can beat this, but guess I was wrong. And then this guy is stolen from HelenKay Dimon's blog:

It's the cleft on the chin. The manly cleft. Hot as hell. Someone told me that clefts and dimples are actually facial defects, but they ended up making the face look good, therefore nobody cared. Sooo, if you have a friend with pretty dimples and you are jealous of him/her, you can actually go up to him/her and say, "EEEwww! There's something wrong with the bones in your face!" Hahaha, but I digress. Back to the male-ogling.

Hot As Hell's blue cover reminds me of Charlotte Mede's Explosive. I've posted the cover before, but what the heck, it deserves to be posted again. And I just realised the hotties on both covers are looking in the same direction:

Lastly is Sylvia Day's A Passion For Him starring Nathan Kamp:

Nathan Kamp is the only romance cover model who's name I know, because I remember coming across his name on a reader's blog, and that reader is a big fan of him. I guess the name got stuck then. Based on his portfolio here, he IS hot. Nice to see him on more than one cover, but then I'd love to see fresh faces too.

Not surprisingly, all five books are Brava books, which always have the best covers out there. Great marketing. My poor piggy-bank.

All that time spent in design school...

... have not gone to waste afterall. ☺

I love my new blog design. It's simple, it's pink, and it's pretty. And I will be forever working on adding new stuff to it.

Adios to the old look!

In love with the story...

Can one be in love with a story? I think I'm in love with one. Christie Ridgway's Must Love Mistletoe. Actually I'm in love with all her novels. Or maybe I should be in love with Christie Ridgway instead?

You know, usually after reading a romance, I'd say I'm in love with the hero. Oh I love Christie Ridgway's hero dearly, but always after reading her books, I feel that I'm more in love with the whole story.

Hmm... what I've just type sounds weird after I read it.

Anyway, Must Love Mistletoe made me cry at the end, which is not surprising. All the books by Christie Ridgway made me cry. I still have one more book of hers in my TBR, Not Another New Years.

I don't know if I should wait till her new book is released or just dig in to this now.

Anyway, her coming book in June has a cute title and cover:

Thank you Christie Ridgway, for writing. ☺

And here's my butt-awesome-kick-ass collection of her books:

Click click click!

Distraction.

*Sigh... I can't never get anything ELSE done.

Deep voice + sexy accent = Me love love love

I'd never thought I'd post a video on my blog. I'm not that a big fan of watching YouTube vids on blogs because I'm just too lazy to wait for it to load (well, most of the time they load fast yes, but still I have no patience.)

Anyway, I was just clicking around YouTube (which I seldom do actually), because I have a sudden urge to listen to historical men speak.

North & South
(Extended Proposal Scene)

The lady in the video needs a hearing aid. I swear the sexy gentleman said "I love you". Twice. Once along the lines of "I wish to marry you because I love you". Oh baybeh.

Extreme Danger.

I love it.

Nick is everything I wish he'd be, alpha, alpha, alpha. Sexy. Hot. Possesive. Protective (damn fiercely). Stupid (oh, this is not what I wish him to be, but he is anyway). Male. Very male. Virile. Can 'do it' many times. Hmm did I just also describe the McCloud brothers & gang? Plus perhaps a hundred other romance novel heroes? What the heck. Pardon my limited vocab.

There is a part in the story where I want to smack Nick silly. Oh wait, he's already being silly (understatement, really). I wish I could smack him enough to come to his senses. Thinking back to the other novels.. no I don't remember wanting to smack Seth Mackey. Connor? Yes *smack *smack. Sean? Yup *smack *smack *smack. Davy? Only at the end *one small smack.

Becca? What's there to be said about her other than wishing that I can replace her place in Nick's bed? (Or any other places where one can woo-hoo with him?)

Tamara has been an interesting character in the previous novels, but I never had more interest in her than the men (duh). But my point of interest definately changed at the end of the book. If there're actually five or ten more hot, sexy, & brooding McCloud brothers (which would be heaven) lined up waiting to have their stories written, I'd still want to read Tam's first. Let's just say, I do love stories with babies in them. ☺

I can't for my life imagine how will Tam's hero be like. He definately has to exude even more sexiness than the McCloud brothers and gang. Alot more sexiness. Seriously. I want Tamara to have the second best (of course I get to have the best), because she's officially my favorite female character in a romance novel ever since reading the end of Extreme Danger. And I'm soo eagerly awaiting her hero. *Sigh.

♥ Little Spoilers ♥

I love the Connor-and-baby-son moment at the beginning. Aww..

I love every moment with Davy (my favorite McCloud) in it. Especially the little part about the 'passionate kiss with lots of tongue' with his pregnant wife Margot on.. page two. Love it. And it's a baby girl for them! Aww.. I want to read a scene where Davy is cuddling and coo-ing his baby daughter. But no, there's none. WHHYY?!

And thank you thank you thank you to the great Ms McKenna for the 'I love you' and 'Marry me' all out way, way, way before the ending. I love reading them. Davy had problems with this, and I thought it was the biggest problem in Out of Control. *smack.

-McCouldMcCouldMcCouldMcCouldMcCouldMcCould-

Just Stunning.

Seen the awsome / beautiful / oh-my-god-nothing-can-beat-this cover of Pam Rosenthal's up coming novel?

Click click on the screenshot to go to The Spiced Tea Party blog post.

To quote Pam Rosenthal herself, it is devilish pretty. I conclude that this is the best cover of the year 2008. Somebody just try to beat that.

Unread Books.

No time to read.

Definately no time to blog.

And no time to sleep. (Argh)

Thus, no erotic dreams. (Hur hur)