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For readers who enjoy romance novels that have lots of action and adventure.

Street of the Five Moons By Elizabeth Peters. It's a pretty good mystery suspence novel too, but it reads like a romance novel.

John Smythe might qualify for an anti-hero, Danielle
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Adding it to my obscenely large list of books to read, Hugh.


I'd vote for the Ghostwalker series by Christine Feehan. The action in this series is well-plotted and very intense. The first book is Shadow Game.

Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "Adding it to my obscenely large list of books to read, Hugh.


I'd vote for the Ghostwalker series by Christine Feehan. The action in this series is well-plotted and very intense. The first boo..."

tell me about it, I'm passing 250. If the number was reprsented by a gauge, it'd look like my gas gauge in the mini-van when I pull away from a stoplight. It sometimes moves faster than the speedometer... in different directions.

I need to figure out a way to double my reading speed!

I use kindle's text to speech function. I listen in the car on the way to and from work and while I get ready in the morning (ironing clothes etc.) It works for me and I don't have to pay for an audio book that way.

Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter books have warrior type action (and alot of romance)

Hugh, doesn't that robot voice bother you?

I've heard other people using the Kindle text to speech function, but I'm not sure I could do it.

I heard that it was robotic, and I haven't tried using it. I check audiobooks out from my library.

Well, I have had some arguments with my GPS before, but I've gotten used to the audio voice Before they came out with the Kindle 2 (and now 3) versions, they had to settle with the Narrators Union because of the speech to text function. You can find it on line for a sample. It's really not bad, and I tend to use the female voice if it's a female lead and the male voice if it's a male lead. There still kind of androginous.

I think it takes getting used to, but I was already used to audio books. That helped me step down (it's okay, but it's no Narrator) to the kindle voice. I also still read the kindle a lot too.

THe books make a difference to. I don't think a romance would work too well, ut the Forever War worked out great.

I might have to try it one day.

I recommend starting with small bits at a time and work up. It does take some getting used to. I gues translating spoken words into story (in the mind) and written words requires two different skills.

I'll give it a try the next time I'm reading a thousand page book! lol

You also have to put up with missed pronunciations. In Event, one of the characters is a Frenchman named Farbeaux... the Kindle reader makes it sound like Furblogs. I had to stop the car and read to find out who it was talking about the first time I heard it.

I've noticed some interesting variations in how the narrators pronounce words in my audiobook odyssey. It certainly makes things interesting!

It keeps me mentally sharp (:{)> What was that this thing just said?

And focused on the story. I like doing audiobooks in the car, because it keeps me awake. I am too busy listening to the story to get sleepy.

I debated about this one - but I'll put The Parasol Protectorate series here by Gail Carriger - starting with Soulless. It has elements of Steampunk, fantasy and action - but I tend to think of it primarily as a PNR sort of book.

I would agree with you about the romance elements being pretty substantial, but also the fantasy. I would say that some people who want more romance won't like it, and those who don't like romance might not like it either. :)

True. It's not "romance" in the sense of being all-consuming in the romance. It is a book I'd be leery of forcing on the hubbie, though, 'cause it certainly seems more a girl book than a guy book. (I do sort of want to make him read it, though. As you say, there's a lot more to it besides the romance and I think he might actually like it, if he can get past the romance bits.)

Maybe I shoulda put it in the genre-crossing thread. :-\

I think it can go here or there. I know one of my friends on GRs who doesn't like romance enjoyed it. He's into tough guy lit too.

Walking The Edge is a really good book for fans of Bourne and La Femme Nikita. The heroine is pretty tough!

Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "Walking The Edge is a really good book for fans of Bourne and La Femme Nikita. The heroine is pretty tough!"

I might add Demon Girl by Penelope Fletcher to this list. Demon Girl is more of a PNR/UMF (ultra-modern Fantasy), but there's plenty of action to it. The Fantasy world is actualy very interesting. The concept is a little too much twilight with a dash of Under-World overkill. (I still liked it though).