Guilty Pleasure Reads

[AnaKhouri]

I am reading these books called The Captive Prince trilogy by CS Pacat and it's my guiltiest guilty pleasure read ever.

I actually feel seriously kind of guilty reading them.

Just not guilty enough to stop.

What do you read that you don't want to die while reading, so no one knows you read them? I also like the horribly repetitive horror novels of John Saul.

[firecat88]

I don't know if this actually counts, because most of my friends already know I read these. But the books I read that I definitely wouldn't want my parents, grandparents, or younger cousins seeing me read are the Dark-Hunters books. They're by Sherrilyn Kenyon and they're pretty much the only romance novels I read.

[Antisocial_Worker]

I am caught occasionally and extremely furtively reading those mystery novels by Rita Mae Brown in which a cast of talking animals helps solve murders.

Those novels, and any others like them, raises a question: Why is no on ever suspicious that the postmistress (or caterer or reverend or doddering old lady or whatever) has a higher clearance rate than the city, county, and state police, and the FBI combined? And why is no one ever suspicious that the postmistress (or whoever) was connected in some way to enough dead people to fill the New York City potter's field? And why is no one ever concerned that due to those connections, the inevitably charming small town has a higher kill rate than war zone Afghanistan?

Discuss.

[AnaKhouri]

LOL, that is EXACTLY what I always say about cozy mysteries. A detective or maybe a journalist will run into murders a lot...but a chef, interior decorator or B&B operator? Has no one noticed that people die when they turn up? I assume the main characters are all secret serial killers.

I used to read The Cat Who...mysteries myself, by Lillian Jackson Braun. The cats in that were named...dear God, Koko and Yum-Yum.

[Aragarthiel]

The Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton. I normally pride myself on not getting into romance novels but a good friend introduced me to them, telling me that it was a fantasy series. She omitted a rather important bit of information but I forgave her.

[dawnfire]

I don't know if this actually counts, because most of my friends already know I read these. But the books I read that I definitely wouldn't want my parents, grandparents, or younger cousins seeing me read are the Dark-Hunters books. They're by Sherrilyn Kenyon and they're pretty much the only romance novels I read.

I love the series myself.

[firecat88]

I love the series myself.

Which is your favorite book? Favorite character? Have you read Styxx yet?

[MoonCat]

Josh Lanyon M/M romances.

[Sunshine]

I don't consider LKH or Sherrilyn Kenyons series' to be guilty pleasures. I have books I read at a certain time of year... Debbie Macomber's Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy. I can't read them any other time but Christmas. Lol

[dawnfire]

Which is your favorite book? Favorite character? Have you read Styxx yet?

it's a tie between styxx and Acheron. Favorite character would either be Acheron or Simi. I'm looking forward to dragonbane coming out on the 4th.

which is your favorite book? Character

[AnaKhouri]

To clarify, I don't think anyone should feel guilty for reading any particular genre, by 'guilty pleasure' I mean books you know aren't particularly good, but still like.

[firecat88]

it's a tie between styxx and Acheron. Favorite character would either be Acheron or Simi. I'm looking forward to dragonbane coming out on the 4th.

which is your favorite book? Character

Favorite character is definitely Zarek. He's such a snarky little shit. *lol* My favorite book is...it's a toss-up between Night Embrace and Dark Side of the Moon. I have a soft spot for The Dream Hunter, though, as it was the first book of hers I ever read and it led to me slowly trying to acquire all of them.

[Tama]

Personally when I want to read something of a romantic persuasion, I write it myself. I have so many issues with romantic books, so many complaints about certain plot elements.

Maybe I should self publish some of my stuff, after I edit it from the fanfiction it is, and none of this "fifty shades is normal and you should want this guy" crap.

[MoonCat]

To clarify, I don't think anyone should feel guilty for reading any particular genre, by 'guilty pleasure' I mean books you know aren't particularly good, but still like.

In that case I guess I don't have any. Lanyon's books are well written and l'm picky about that. Life is too short to read crap.

[AnaKhouri]

I have no problem with MM romance, I've published it myself! I'm not one of those 'literary' elitists. I love me some genre fiction, and I write it too.