Book #8 - Devil's Bargain by Rachel Caine

ISBN: 0373513674

Format: Mass Market Paperback, 288pp

Pub. Date: August 1, 2005

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Dates Read: 02/11/07 & 02/15/07-02/18/07 (5 days)

Series: #1 in Red Letter Days series

Recieved as part of a bookring from colebear

From the Publisher

NEVER TRUST A MAN BEARING RED ENVELOPES

Jazz Callender - don't ever call her Jasmine - is an ex-cop with a goal: opening her own private detective agency and proving her former partner is innocent of murder. Too bad no one will lend her the money. Until a sexy lawyer with the devil's own grin appears with an offer she can't refuse...

$100,000. A savvy new partner. And an agreement to make any case arriving via red envelope a top priority. But if Jazz accepts, there's no turning back. Because once she opens that envelope, all hell's gonna break loose...

RED LETTER DAYS

You'll never believe what's inside

My Opinion of the Book

This was a fun read unlike anything I've read before really. The paranormal aspect isn't much, but it is in there with a "psychic". I read where some people thought this book was bad due to the main character being too whiny, but I didn't really see that at all. The book ended with a major cliffhanger so I'm really looking forward to reading "The Devil's Due" which is next in the series. I'll be starting it soon, but have a couple of other bookrings I need to get to first.

Book #6 - In Deep Voodoo by Stephanie Bond

ISBN: 0060820578

Format: Mass Market Paperback, 357pp

Pub. Date: September 27, 2005

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Dates Read: 01/28/07-01/29/07 & 02/04/07-02/11/07 (10 days)

Series: #1 in Mojo/Voodoo Series

Bought at HalfPrice Books in Louisville, KY for $3.50

From the Publisher

Start With Bad Mojo ...

There's something strange afoot in the small town of Mojo, Louisiana. Yet even as the annual voodoo festival gets underway, Penny Francisco, who runs a health food business, refuses to believe in black magic. Her mind is on celebrating her divorce from her lying, cheating husband Deke.

Add a Pinprick of Revenge ...

Fueled by run-ins with her ex-mother-in-law and Deke's busty mistress, Penny is eager for the "emancipation party" her friends plan. When she receives a Deke voodoo doll as a gag gift, she sticks it with a pin as a joke. But when Deke winds up fatally stabbed, the police aren't laughing.

And Watch Things Boil Over ...

A junk-food junkie P.I. offers his services, and although Penny is wary of the sexy Cajun's motives (and his diet), she's desperate. Dodging a media sideshow and a looming murder rap, Penny realizes that somehow she's landed herself In Deep Voodoo.

My Opinion of the Book

This book was a lot of fun to read! I was having trouble putting it down in the end because I wanted to know who the killer was. The books had lots of twists & turns and it all comes out in the end. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in this series, "Finding Your Mojo", which goes on in more detail about one of the other characters.