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On this Valentine's Day I find myself with a craving to watc h one of my favorite Hitchcock movies, one I haven't seen in years-- Notorious . Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant team up to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring. Complete with lots of uber-creepy Hitchcock goodness and a particularly smooth, particularly sinister Claude Rains. Alicia : This is a very strange love affair. Devlin : Why? Alicia : Maybe the fact that you don't love me. Devlin : ...When I don't love you, I'll let you know. Alicia : You haven't said anything. Devlin (kissing her): Actions speak louder than words. Sigh. And lastly. My favorite movie kiss for your Valentine's Day viewing pleasure. Now it's hard to single out just one. For instance, while I am very partial to this one: This one is also lovely: And there's always: But in the end, I think I'll have to go with this one. For the sheer hotness of it all.

Wow. So this series just keeps getting more and more intense. And in such unexpected ways. I love it when an author has the ability (and the guts) to slip in a real shocker without compromising her characters or the story as a whole. In a series, that's particularly hard to do without making it seem like a gratuitous plot twist inserted merely to keep the series going. Patricia Briggs has a 7-book deal for her Mercy Thompson series and book three has shown that not only does she know exactly what she's doing, but that we can trust her. To keep her characters and her world consistent. To take them down the right paths and introduce them to the right people...or werewolves and vampires in this case. Mercy lives in a world where werewolves, vampires, and the fae exist side by side with humans. The first book, Moon Called , focuses on the werewolves. The second, Blood Bound , centers on the vampires, including Mercy's quirky Scooby Doo loving friend Stefan. In this third instal...