Her entry begins:When I'm in the middle of a project, as I am now, I like to read out of the genre I write in. Getting lost in very different voices and stories seems to refresh and renew my creativity. Lately I've been on a young adult binge. And as I have a teenage daughter who's also an avid reader, from time to time we like to read the same books and discuss them when we're both finished. Right now we're reading the latest books in two different YA series and a Christmas book, which is not YA.About The Spy Who Left Me, from the publisher:
First, I'm reading The Iron Knight, the final book in Julie Kagawa's excellent Iron Fey series. I received the first book, The Iron King, in my goodie bag at the Romance Writers of America conference in New York this past summer. It won Romance Writers of America's RITA award for best YA novel. I'm not much of a fantasy reader, so I was surprised by how much I love this series. The general premise of the books is that the faerie world is being overrun and overtaken by a new breed of faerie, the Iron Fey, who feed off of...[read on]
If there’s one thing that can ruin a vacation, it’s running into your ex. Just ask Treflee Miller. If she’d only known that her husband Ty would be here in Hawaii—muscular,Learn more about the book and author at Gina Robinson's website and blog.sun-bronzed, and infuriatingly gorgeous—she would have brought the divorce papers for him to sign. But life is full of surprises when you’re married to a world-class spy…
Ty Miller can understand why his wife is tired of playing Mrs. James Bond. He’s never home, he’s always on a mission, and he’s usually surrounded by exotic informants. He has to admit that the perfect spy makes a pretty lousy husband. But for the sake of Ty’s security and Treflee’s safety, they can’t blow his cover. Not here. Not now. Not when his longing is so strong, her lips so tempting—and his enemies so close…
The Page 69 Test: The Spy Who Left Me.
Writers Read: Gina Robinson.
--Marshal Zeringue
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