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Books purchased new in 2009
Since I do this every month for Eagerly Awaiting (I put this feature together), I thought I'd look back and see what panned out for me out of the books I parted with hard-earned money for. If this seems a meager number, remember we are on a very fixed budget. Also, I didn't really have that much time to read until Max went to school this fall.
| Title and Author | Edition | Purchase Price/Vendor | Worth it? | |
 | Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris | Hardcover | $13.47 Amazon | Yes; I owned the rest of the series, wanted the entire thing. Grade: B |
 | Indiscreet by Carolyn Jewel | Paperback | $7.99 Amazon | Haven't read yet. |
 | A Regency Christmas anthology | Paperback | $4.47 Meijer | Haven't read yet. If it sucks, I figure I can probably sell it in a few years. Carla Kelly books tend to gain in value over time. |
 | Hot Under Pressure by Kathleen O'Reilly | Paperback | $4.99 Amazon | Haven't read yet. |
 | Revenge of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz | Hardcover | $6.80 Half.com (includes $3.99 shipping) | Yes. I have the rest of the series, and as a whole, it's great. |
 | The Surgeon's Lady by Carla Kelly | Paperback | $4.49 Meijer | Haven't read yet. See above comments re: Carla Kelly resale value. |
 | Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas | Paperback | $5.24 Meijer | Yes, worth the money. Better than Delicious, although still not as good as Private Arrangements. The central conflict here was a little thin - either that or the heroine is just too damned sensitive for her own good because this marriage could have been save with one long, painful conversation. Road romances aren't my favorite, but this one, involving as it does a Muslim uprising against the British in India/Pakistan was historically interesting. |
 | True Love and Other Disasters by Rachel Gibson | Paperback | $7.99 Target? | No. I really need to stop buying Gibson. I keep hoping for another Simply Irresistible or Truly, Madly Yours experience. Hasn't happened. |
 | To Beguile a Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt | Paperback | $6.99 Target? | No. The only keeper of this series for me was To Seduce a Sinner. I'm getting To Desire a Devil from the library. |
 | Marrying the Captain by Carla Kelly | Paperback | $4.49 Meijer | Haven't read yet. |
 | Scandal by Carolyn Jewel | Paperback | $7.99 Can't remember | No. Started strong, but petered out and was a DNF. |
 | Too Good to Be True by Kristan Higgins | Paperback | $6.99 Meijer? | Yes. Higgins is a new autobuy. |
I agree that To Seduce a Sinner has been the best one of this series so
far, and the only DIK for me of the three I've read. I haven't read the
latest one yet, but I'm still excited about it from the excerpt I read at
the end of Beast.
I'd call all the Kelly books worth it, including the anthology (although
the only really good story in that one was Kelly's...the Stone wasn't bad,
but the last story (Ranstrom) was dumb. Unfortunately, I have trouble
reading just one story in an anthology. I always read them in order, too.
You know, in case the anthology police pop by.
Wow! Very impressed by the organization. I usually just sell the
forgettable books at the UBS after the plots and characters fallen out of
my memory. If I did something like this, though, I probably wouldn't fall
into the trap of forgetting and then buying an author new when all of her
books end up clocking in as C reads for me.