Just returned home after two lovely weeks away.  Back to earth with a bump quite literally!  The weather here is awful, we had no wi-fi virtually for the full time – which was a ‘blessing’ and ‘not a blessing’ and tomorrow (dum, dum, dum) back to work!!  The first day back is always a bit surreal for me – part of my brain doesn’t feel like it’s back in the country and the other part is catching up with all the unread emails and I can’t help torturing myself by thinking pointless things like ‘this time last week I was…..’  Oh well, needs must and all that.

The good thing is I managed to fit in a few holiday reads, not as many as I like to do normally but we were trekking about so time was tight.  I don’t think most people I know would consider the books I was reading as typical holiday reads as I was reading books to include in Stainless Steel’s RIP event which are not exactly light and fluffy reads (but who wants light and fluffy?).  It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it.  So, my books were:

Grave Peril by Jim Butcher – this is the third in the Dresden series and it was seriously good!  Not to mention – the name is almost too perfect for this none-challenge so it had to go on the list.

Envy by Elizabeth Miles which is the second in her series about three women who serve their own form of revenge on wrong doers – based on the Greek myth of the Furies.

Shadows by Ilsa Bick which delves into the realm of zombie type post apocalypse storytelling – quite horrifying in this case not to mention scary!

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice – probably doesn’t really need an introduction.

The Duplicate by Helen Fitzgerald – which for me is a horror with a bit of a take on the Frankenstein theme.

There they are.  Just need to write my reviews now.  I will say that I enjoyed them all so that’s definitely the good news.

Check out the RIP event here and sign yourself up now – this is a really great (not to mention massive) book event and Carl is a really cool host.