forbidden-love

REVIEW:  Brother’s Keeper by Elizabeth Finn

REVIEW: Brother’s Keeper by Elizabeth Finn

Dear Elizabeth Finn: This book came up on a list recommending New Adult books.  It features a young female protagonist on the cusp of her majority and a young male protagonist attending law school.  Rowan has won a prestigious ballet scholarship to the University of Michigan which will free her from her abusive and poverty(…)

REVIEW:  Losing It by Cora Carmack

REVIEW: Losing It by Cora Carmack

Dear Ms. Carmack: After reading this book, I am starting believe that the professor/student kink is a real and popular thing. Not having any professors at my school that I thought were particularly lust worthy, it’s not one I understand  given that the consequences to discovery of such an action basically ruination for the professor.(…)

REVIEW:  Craving the Forbidden by India Grey

REVIEW: Craving the Forbidden by India Grey

Dear Ms. Grey: Right before I received your book for review, a friend of mine told me she had a “meet cute” on a train. She ran into a guy who dropped a tux he was carrying. She later found out he was the best man and the tux was for the wedding. I joked(…)

REVIEW: Season for Temptation by Theresa Romain

REVIEW: Season for Temptation by Theresa Romain

Dear Ms. Romain: You received a glowing endorsement from Courtney Milan and I had to try this book out. While I am not sorry I read it, perhaps heightened expectations left me with a disappointed feeling during the book. I think, too, the book was a bit too lighthearted for me. I seem to be(…)

REVIEW: Bone Deep by Janice Kay Johnson

REVIEW: Bone Deep by Janice Kay Johnson

Dear Ms. Johnson: I’ve always meant to read you. Your books are often recommended by category lovers and non category lovers alike. Now I know why. Kathryn Riley has always felt like an outsider at Sauk River. She wondered if the community’s cold shoulder arises not just from the fact that she wasn’t born in(…)

REVIEW: Sheikh’s Forbidden Virgin by Kate Hewitt

REVIEW: Sheikh’s Forbidden Virgin by Kate Hewitt

Dear Ms. Hewitt: Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. The thing that stuck out most in my mind at the end of the story was how apt the title was. The story really was about the sheikh’s forbidden virgin. This is part of The Royal House of Karedes miniseries.   These series(…)

OMNIBUS REVIEW: Vampire Academy, Frostbite and Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead

OMNIBUS REVIEW: Vampire Academy, Frostbite and Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead

Dear Ms. Mead, While it’s true I’m not a fan of your succubus novels, I do enjoy your young adult books.   In fact, I vastly prefer your voice in that genre.   When Jane linked the Publishers Weekly article about how well your Vampire Academy series was doing in this post-Twilight world, she suggested I review(…)

REVIEW: A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson

REVIEW: A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson

Dear Ms. Ibbotson, When Azteclady asked me to review one of your romances, I was both excited and challenged. You pack so many irresistible characters into less than three hundred pages that it is difficult to do justice to these delightful folk. And how would I explain the magic by which you can take me(…)

REVIEW: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

Dear Ms. Rosoff, When a book has won a slew of awards including ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005 and Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year, and has even been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, it hardly needs more accolades from me. Here I am regardless, writing this open(…)