Lots of sex with a plot wrapped around it. Useful for moving the series forward, but not entirely satisfying as a stand-alone novel.

Fun read. Lots of sex and magic, vampires and lycanthropes. I’ll have to follow up on other books by the authors: Christine Feehan, Maggie Shayne, Emma Holly, Angela Knight.

I’ll have to try this book out again. It’s just the sort of book I normally like, but I couldn’t get into it this time. Maybe later.

I wish I owned this book—I checked it out from the library, and the advice in it is quite good. Unfortunately, the least expensive copy available through Amazon is $50, and I’m not going to pay that much for a 10yo mass market paperback. I hope the library doesn’t lose its copy though.

Great sex scenes with a plot strung around them. Cliffhanger ending. Fun read, but only if you’ve read the others in the series.

Not the best novel in the Company saga, but worth reading nonetheless. I’m definitely hooked on Company stories. Am getting tired of cliffhangers though.

The book was interesting in places. Still don’t know exactly who Johnson is arguing with; he alludes to various anti-pop culture screeds, but nothing he says seems terribly new, either. He did a good job of putting together trends in different media and of finding catchy names for them (e.g., the Sleeper effect = the discovery that much of what we thought was bad for us is actually good for us).

Enjoyable collection of stories—Knight’s and Harris’s were the best, but they all were fun. Four takes on vampires+romance.

This book was fun, as much about reading as about the books being read. e.g., Nelson will write about skipping around in a book, then quote all her friends who perform different variations of skipping around in books, then reflect on why people would or wouldn’t skip around. This book is one of those “I wish I’d thought of that” books (writing a book about reading a book a week? I could have done that! Except that I’m sure it’s much more difficult than it looks). I added to my “books to read” list in the process of reading it.

I’ve been having trouble getting into this book. It seems like the perfect response to a strawman argument (or, as a college text I just saw would put it, a “straw person” argument). My husband started it and found it irritating—he agreed with Johnson that tv is getting better, but insists that movies are getting worse.