My reading habits are notoriously random. One week I will decide to read only Urban Fantasy and the next week I will shun that genre. There will be times where every book I read stinks and times where I love everything and everyone. One thing that also holds true is my love of the glom. Merriam-Webster defines glom as: to take or get (something), glom on to: to grab hold of : appropriate to oneself.
My gloms almost always revolve around an author. I find an author that is new to me and I go buy their entire backlist and spend a week or two reading it. Nothing can stop me until I am fully glutted on that author’s work. I decided to share my monthly glom will y’all in hopes that:
1) you might find a new to you author like I did and you can glom also
2) you can share your glom habits so I don’t feel so lonely and cray-cray
3) maybe you can steer me towards my next new-to-me author that I will glom on
January- Carolyn Crane
Right now everyone is thinking, who hasn’t read Carolyn Crane? Well, I hadn’t and that was a gross oversight on my part. Back in mid-December Off the Edge was offered for review and I knew that was my chance. I loved the story. Loved it so much that I went out and bought book 1 of the series, Against the Dark. The new series by Ms. Crane is called The Associates and is about a bunch of yummy, alpha, badass men (and some women) and how they save the day. I can’t wait for more.
I wasn’t done with Ms. Crane though. Two books can never satisfy a glom. From there I went on to the shining star of the month for me, Ms. Crane’s Disillusionists series. This is an Urban Fantasy series with the much-dreaded-by-me, love triangle. I can honestly say I have never looked at a love triangle quite like I viewed this one. To use the word conflicted would be putting it mildly.
I listened to the books on audio and there might have been times where I took the long way to work because I couldn’t stop listening. The books are narrated by Rebecca Wisocky and she does an excellent job. Between the sheer uniqueness and quirkiness of the storyline and the wonderful narration, I was hooked mere pages into book 1, Mind Games.
Books 2 and 3, Double Cross and Head Rush only served to suck me further under Ms. Crane’s hypnotic writing spell. The concept of her Disillusionists series is a fascinating one and unlike any other story I have read. UF fans will devour the series and likely end up just as confused as I was about certain resolutions and how they made you feel.
My reading binge of Carolyn Crane ended at 5 books for the month of January. I have one more, Mr. Real, sitting on my kindle and then two from her alter ego, Annika Martin, waiting also. I have been told the Annika Martin books are funky and super sexy so I am anxious to get to those also. Plus is seems there is a Disillusionists short story and some other anthologies I cannot miss.
January’s monthly glom ended up giving me an author that I will happily follow (stalk) for a long time. If you are looking for excellent romantic suspense or Urban Fantasy, go forth and glom with me on Carolyn Crane.
Wow you do some serious book binging…
Don’t judge me!! lol I have a seriously addictive personality. Don’t ever go to a casino with me. You will need physical force to drag me out.
Carolyn Crane’s Disillusionists Trilogy was the first UF series I ever read and I loved, loved it! As you know I’m glomming on Estep’s Elemental Assassin series at the moment but then I’m hitting Crane’s, The Associates!