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REVIEW: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

REVIEW: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

Dear Ms. Pearson, I first heard about your YA novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, last December during the Smugglivus event on The Book Smugglers blog. Author Nalini Singh did a guest post recapping her favorite books read in 2009. Her description of the book was brief but, combined with the hardcover's eyecatching cover and [...]

REVIEW: The Cage Match by Bonnie Dee

REVIEW: The Cage Match by Bonnie Dee

Dear Ms. Dee: I have seen your writing described in many places in such high terms and with such delight (comparisons to Laura Kinsale have been made) that maybe I expected a little — or even a lot — too much from this book. I found it when I was looking through your backlist. The [...]

REVIEW: Strangers in Death by JD Robb

Dear Ms. Roberts: I discovered the In Death series almost 20 books in (at the publication of Portrait in Death), so I had the opportunity to read a big chunk of Eve and Roarke’s story all at once. I was immediately and completely caught up in the fictional futuristic world, from the tumultuous adventure of [...]

REVIEW:  How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

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 [...]