Archive | September, 2009
REVIEW: No Greater Pleasure by Megan Hart

REVIEW: No Greater Pleasure by Megan Hart

Dear Ms. Hart,
I’ve enjoyed several of your books, and three of them, the novels Dirty and Broken, and the novella collection Pleasure and Purpose, are among the best books I’ve read in recent years. I was thrilled by Pleasure and Purpose and greatly looking forward to No Greater Pleasure, its sequel, so I’m genuinely [...]

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Wednesday Midday Links RoundUp: Big Changes at Simon & Schuster

I woke up and Twitter was alive with the news that Simon & Schuster was making a huge change to its organizational structure. Simon Spotlight Entertainment and Pocket Books will be reconfigured. All the hardcovers and trade books that were once Pocket Books or SSE will now be Gallery Books. Pocket Books will [...]

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REVIEW: Samantha’s Cowboy by Marin Thomas

REVIEW: Samantha’s Cowboy by Marin Thomas

Dear Ms. Thomas,
This is the last book in a trilogy that doesn’t read that way. Which is a relief to me as I hate jumping into a series and feeling over my head with past characters and situations. After reading the middle book, The Cowboy’s Promise, I knew the book on the hero’s brain [...]

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REVIEW: Can’t Stand the Heat by Louisa Edwards

REVIEW: Can’t Stand the Heat by Louisa Edwards

Dear Ms. Edwards:
Thank you for sending me this book. I confess I tried to read this book many times, never making it out of the first few chapters. The heroine, Miranda Wake, a food critic, gets drunk at a restauraent premiere and makes some very loud and rude remarks. She then insults [...]

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REVIEW: Make Her Pay by Roxanne St. Claire

Dear Ms. St. Claire:
I read your new book, Make Her Pay, with a bittersweet sensibility, because while the end is still open for the series, it appears that this will be the last Bullet Catcher book for a while. Which made me want to love this book, even though we only met Constantine Xenakis in [...]

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Tuesday Midday Links

Maili is guesting over at Victoria Janssen’s blog home about her favorite category books. Sadly so many of them are out of print. I’ve read all but one of the stories recommended by Maili and they are worth hunting down and not just because Jane is the heroine in one of the books. Really.
You [...]

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Who is afraid of Big Bad Wolf?

Who is afraid of Big Bad Wolf?

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Last week, I posted an “If You Like” query looking for good werewolf romances. I commented that the Urban Fantasy genre is replete with werewolves but that the werewolf is much rarer in mass market romances. Indeed, in the comments, many a reader referenced popular urban fantasy series [...]

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