IN BED WITH HER ITALIAN BOSS by Kate Hardy (HP Extra #2)

I'm the opposite from you...  I love Presents books for the most parts (steamy and fast paced).  I'm not such a fan of medical romance though, I just don't find the medical profession and medical disasters an appealing setting for romance and passion. 

I am interested in this book, I read the excerpt from it on the website.  The hero seems like a nice approachable family guy.  And I like that the public kisses start happening in private too (I believe they pretend to be lovers if I remember correctly).  I'll keep an eye out for this book. 

Love me some Paranormal books (like you Debbie).  I just picked up three more Angela Knights and one Amanda Ashley (that won't keep me busy long).

Yeah, different strokes for different folks.  I like that HPs are pretty much guaranteed happy light passionate reads.  With medicals, they can be life and death.. which can get depressing!  Seeing women and children have medical emergencies... sad.  Sadness = badness to me.

I'm going to bite into the Angela Knight books this weekend.  I'm going to make sure I read these Angela Knight books in order.  I've got Master of the Moon, Master of Swords, Master of Dragons.  And I think that's the order they should be read in cuz the hero's backstories are built up to introduce the next novel's hero.  Smoking stories.... 

I love the medicals and they have their HEA and save lives along the way. Plus all the medical techniques and interesting things I've learned along the way. I like a few Presents but most now are too arrogant for me to swallow. I used to read a lot more of them but now I'm more into the SRS, Nocturnes, and Medicals. I have some more Luna's to try, love the Snyder books and need to blog Fire Study. I think that's part of my problem I like reading so many different genres that I just can't read everything I want to.

Will have to give this author a try as I haven't read hers yet but I do have two in the piles. So now after your review I'm really looking forward to them.  

Start with Stray and Rogue by Rachel Vincent. Patricia Briggs Moon Called, Blood Bound, and Iron Kissed. Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur is great and then of course you really should read J.R. Ward starting with Dark Lover. Oh there are so many out there that are good. I could recommend more but don't want to overwhelm you.

Love this book of Kate's. And her meds are just as fab.

Just thought I'd comment on Janet's comments and guess ask her from the bottom of my heart to at least try a medical or two first. I think you'll find that there are several people that hang around these blogs that would never have thought to pick up a medical either but are now converts.

Myself, I'm not a huge paranormal fan - as in, if there was a stack of books in front of me and I was allowed to take home a few, the paranormals wouldn't be my first choice. BUT nearly every single paranormal I've read, I've enjoyed. Keri Arthur is unreal and I read Emily Gee for the RITA and her book Thief Without A Shadow is amazing and that RITA is soooo hers!

I guess I'm saying please don't judge the line before giving us a whirl. If you'd like to email me I'll send you one of mine - I'll even make sure it's a happy one

Amy

when I was trying to describe medicals. (This is mostly in resonse to Janet's comments -- and any lurkers who might be out there ;) ).

I think of all the series romance books, the medicals have the most variety. I think that you have to learn the authors. If you have time and like a variety of action and sensuality, then by all means, explore on your own. Read them all for a year and that will pretty much give you several examples of each author.

There are no sensuality rules in the medicals, so you have everything from no sex, not even behind closed doors, to a Blaze/Desire/Presents level.  Most of the authors tend to stay in a range there (comparing their own books -- e.g. a Kate Hardy to a Kate Hardy), so you know picking up say Olivia Gates, that you'll get steamy. Amy Andrews steamy but less than Olivia. Gill Sanderson, some sex but sweet scenes and usually only one or two per book. Josie Metcalf you might not get any sex at all.

The intensity or sweetness level is also from one end of the spectrum to the other. I think (rightly or wrongly) that you get more variety here from individual authors (comparing between their own books -- an Amy Andrews compared to an Amy Andrews). An example might be Jennifer Taylor. If her books are set in a hospital in the UK, they're going to be a lot less action/adventure than the ones she sets in her aid organization. A Marion Lennox or Meredith Webber is going to be closer to a sweet and tender read than a Kate Hardy.

Those are things you need to learn either on your own or by asking for help in selecting your medical romance reads if your time and or money are limited and you have to choose just one or two.

They are all also reasons why some of us love the med roms. If you were forced to have only one set of series romance books to read each month, I would say to get the med roms b/c you could probably find something to suit your mood in that line. I think that b/c the med rom line encompasses bits of all the other lines. You just need to know which one to pick up when you want your action/adventure, which to choose for when you want to read something with high sensuality (read: hot sex) mood and which to choose for your sweet and tender read.

FWIW,

Penn 

Hi Janet - sweetness back at ya, babe

I posted another comment recently on someone's elses blog - I think it was sabdh's - about the medical alpha. I think this is another area where meds really rock because you have an absolute Alpha make - gorgeous, successful, risen to the top of his field, determined, more often than not arrogant and doesn't suffer fools gladly - BUT being doctors or some kind of health care provider, there is a heart of gold underneath it all.

Thanks Penn for bringing up what I think is one of  the most misunderstood things about meds - the level of sensuality. You want  sex Janet - I give good sex  (even if I do say so myself). I love to read steamy and that's most definitely what I write.

Not likely to be turning to a Steeple Hill either....

Amy