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REVIEW: Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

REVIEW: Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Dear Ms. Smith, When I told some friends I was reading your YA novel, Flygirl, and what it was about, one of them directed me to this article at The New York Times. It’s about the awarding of Congressional Gold Medals to the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), who provided the United States Army with(…)

REVIEW: Arm Candy by Jo Leigh

REVIEW: Arm Candy by Jo Leigh

Dear Ms. Leigh: Arm Candy was one of the first Harlequin Blaze novels I ever read; in fact, it was a book I read early on in my Romance reading (what can I say: I started late). Right away, though, I knew there was something especially fun about the book, from the amusing zingers about(…)

REVIEW: On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

REVIEW: On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

Dear Ms. Andrews, On the Edge was the first of your books that I’ve read, but it will not be the last. Rose Drayton and her two young brothers, Jack and Georgie, live in the Edge, an area where two dimensions known as the Weird and the Broken overlap. In the Weird, people have magical(…)

GUEST REVIEW: Fault Line by Barry Eisler

GUEST REVIEW: Fault Line by Barry Eisler

Dear Mr. Eisler: Fault Line was the first book of yours that I’d read. I’ve since read more, by the way. In the past, I have worked at Intellectual Property law firms as well as in the legal department of a Bio-Tech firm, so I am intimate with the portion of Fault Line that deals(…)

REVIEW: ePistols at Dawn by Z.A. Maxfield

REVIEW: ePistols at Dawn by Z.A. Maxfield

Dear Ms. Maxfield. I listed this book as one or my Top Books of 2009, so I should do a review of it. I had such fun rereading it. I love meta books: books that are enacting the very thing they’re about as they’re relating it. Books about romance authors are a favorite of mine(…)

REVIEW: The Birthday Present by Alison Richardson

REVIEW: The Birthday Present by Alison Richardson

Dear Ms. Richardson, I had a blast reading The Birthday Present, the third and final story in your Countess Trilogy. To readers who have not read the earlier stories, but would like to read this one, I have to suggest reading this series in order. Like The Countess’s Client and An Impolite Seduction, The Birthday(…)

REVIEW: Never After by Laurell K. Hamilton

Okay. So before I begin reviewing the anthology NEVER AFTER I have two warnings. #1: YE OLDE SPOILERS AHOY. Seriously. I am incapable of talking about stories without-talking about stories. #2: This will be disjointed as hell. There are plenty of reviewers who are capable of smooth, cohesive, intelligent reviews. I am not one of(…)

REVIEW: An Impolite Seduction by Alison Richardson

REVIEW: An Impolite Seduction by Alison Richardson

Dear Ms. Richardson, Recently I reviewed The Countess’s Client, the first Spice Brief in your Countess Trilogy. I enjoyed the story, and especially its haughty narrator, Anna, Countess von Esslin, a young widow with a taste for good sex on her own terms. To read more about her, I purchased An Impolite Seduction, the second(…)

REVIEW: Tangle Girls (anthology edited by Nicole Kimberling)

REVIEW: Tangle Girls (anthology edited by Nicole Kimberling)

Dear Readers, Back in July of 2008, I reviewed Tangle XY, an anthology of short speculative m/m stories. Earlier this year, Blind Eye Books, the publisher of Tangle XY, came out with Tangle Girls, an f/f anthology. As with Tangle XY, some (not all) of the stories are multicultural, and many have fairy tale or(…)

REVIEW: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

REVIEW: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Dear Ms. Austen, I will confess right off the bat that I’m one of those readers who never “got” you. I tried to read Pride and Prejudice years ago, but gave up after a few pages because of your writing style. What can I say – I had less patience in those days with long,(…)

CONVERSATIONAL REVIEW: Indiscreet by Carolyn Jewel

PLEASE NOTE: this conversational review does contain some spoilers. Jennie: I was one of many readers mightily impressed with Carolyn Jewel’s previous historical romance Scandal, which I read in January and graded an A-. Janine: Totally with you on that. Scandal was one of the most impressive books I’ve read this year, and it’s stuck(…)

REVIEW: Quatrain by Sharon Shinn

REVIEW: Quatrain by Sharon Shinn

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GUEST REVIEW: Demon Forged by Meljean Brook

GUEST REVIEW: Demon Forged by Meljean Brook

This guest review is brought to you by Jill Myles, author, friend and blogging partner of Meljean Brook. We will have a review of Demon Forged by Janet (aka Robin) next week. **** Dear Meljean Brook: I’ve struggled to write this review a little. In fact, this is the second time I’ve tried to write(…)

REVIEW: Wicked All Day by Liz Carlyle

REVIEW: Wicked All Day by Liz Carlyle

Dear Ms. Carlyle: I have read you since your debut in 1999 with My False Heart. My False Heart remains high of my favorite romances of all time and it is the book against which I measure all of your other titles. The story was so fresh at the time. The heroine, Evie Artevalde, was(…)

REVIEW:  Damned by Blood by Evie Byrne

REVIEW: Damned by Blood by Evie Byrne

WARNING: this review may not be work safe as it includes profanities and sexual situations. Carry on. Dear Ms. Byrne: I hadn’t even realized that this book, the third in the Faustin brothers trilogy, was set for release until I received the Samhain reviewer email. I jumped on the chance to obtain a review copy(…)