A Few More New Authors

I’ve continued on my “search and find” mission for new Author’s to read and I’ve found a few gems…and a few not so memorable.

Author: Barbara Colley – Charlotte La Rue series. There are six books in this ongoing series. They are set in New Orleans, the garden district. The characters in the books are well developed. I would recommend reading this series in order as the plots pick up where the last book left off and if you haven’t read that book yet, you won’t have a clue what is going on, which makes for a painful read.
My Personal Rating: ***
List of books available: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/barbara-colley/

Author: Kate Collins – Flower Shop Mysteries. There are six books in this ongoing series. The plots and characters remind me a lot of Janet Evanovich and her character Stephanie Plum. The characters and plots are well developed and get themselves into all sorts of hysterical chaos. The books are faced paced and laugh out loud funny. Reading them in order isn’t totally necessary, but it does help for the steamy character developments.
My Personal Rating: ****
List of books available: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/kate-collins/

Author: Anne George – Southern Sisters series. There are 8 books in this ongoing series. They are set in the south and they rotate around 2 very odd sisters. The characters in the books are well developed and you do not need to read the books in exact order, which helps when trying to secure them from a library. Sometimes they dawdle and get a little pedantic, but over all they are fun reads.
My Personal Rating: ***
List of books available: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/anne-george/

Author: Dorothy Cannel – Ellie Haskell series. There are 12 books in this series and I read 8 of them. I simply couldn’t read another sniveling driveling annoying word that the characters said. I am personally proud that I read 8 of them. I was waiting for other books that I had on hold to come in and they were the only thing I had to read. I HATED these books. The characters have no depth. In true British form they seem to have no emotions either. The story lines are weak and they seem to go absolutely no where until the last 15 pages of the book. If you really want to read these books, save yourself some time and read the first 2 chapters and the last 2 chapters. The rest of the books are filled with babble that has absolutely no meaning to anything other than the author had a word count to hit per book in order to be published.
My personal rating: 0 *’s
List of books available: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/dorothy-cannell/

Author: Sophie Kinsella – Shopaholic series. I have read all 5 books in this ongoing series. I just finished Shopaholic & Baby. I was on the waiting list for it from the library for almost 5 months. This author is a gift. At one point while reading her latest book I was laughing so hard I was crying. Lance has officially banned me from reading these at night. *lol* The books are fast paced, action packed, and completely hysterical. Sophie Kinsella also has 3 other novels and though they aren’t a series, they are must reads too. I would recommend reading the shopaholic series in order because the plot picks up where the last book left off and then the characters are off and running.
My Personal Rating: ****
List of books available: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/sophie-kinsella/

I am now reading the Aunt Dimity series written by Nancy Atherton and I have a series on request from the library from Sparkle Hayter. I've read 29 books in just over 2 months, that's not too bad *lol* I’ll keep ya’ll posted.
Have fun reading!