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REVIEW: The Bellini Bride by Michelle Reid

REVIEW: The Bellini Bride by Michelle Reid

Dear Ms. Reid: I was introduced to your work through the Blogger Bundle Volume II: WeWriteRomance.com Selects Presents that was released by Harlequin at the start of the year.   I really enjoyed your work and after exhausting your digital backlist (which, at the time, was about 4 titles) I proceeded to hunt down most of(…)

‘Can't Buy Me Love,' or how the independent heroine challenges Romance

Over the past couple of months I have read a handful of books in which the heroine resists a relationship with the hero. I’m not talking about the "Oh, I really shouldn’t’ women, or the "no means yes’ girls, the females who are just playing coy so as not to appear desperate, or even the(…)

Kresley Cole and Her Innocent Men

There is a host of reasons to like Kresley Cole’s works. My top two are they are relentlessly fun and deliciously subversive. The fun is probably readily apparent, but this article is about her subversivity. Cole takes very traditional tropes and reverses them completely. For example, Cole’s books are female-centric with the female myths playing(…)