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Posts Tagged ‘Aphrodisia’

REVIEW: After Hours by Jodi Copeland

By Jane • Nov 8th, 2006 • Category: C Reviews, C Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Copeland:
Here’s the deal. At the end of Undressing Mercy, there was an excerpt from “after hours”. It looked kind of interesting. Unfortunately, it wasn’t until the end of the first story that I realized this was an anthology. Fuckity fuck.
Night Moves. Brendan Jordan is normally the guy who [...]



REVIEW: Sin by Sharon Page

By Jane • Oct 10th, 2006 • Category: C Reviews Category, C- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Page:
Let me start out by giving you the good news. My neighbor bought and read this book and liked it and so did Tara Marie. Yours was the only Aphrodisia that Bookseller Jolie has been able to finish to date.
While this is not the worst erotic romance, it is [...]



Romance Publishers Promises to Romance Readers Part 1: False Promises

By Jane • Sep 25th, 2006 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

Stay tuned for some exciting features at Dear Author (exciting for us at least). The week of October 2nd through October 8th we will be featuring an interview and several reviews of an author that the Two Ja(y)nes and Janine love. Today marks the first of a three part series on Romance Publishers Promises [...]



REVIEW: Passion by PF Kozak

By Jane • Sep 21st, 2006 • Category: D Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Kozak:
This book. Well, let’s just say that words are not sufficient to describe my feelings about this book. So I resorted to pictures. You have my permission to use this is an ad for your book, if you like. Just wondered if your book was James Frey inspired or [...]



REVIEW: Night Spell by Lucinda Betts

By Jane • Sep 20th, 2006 • Category: C Reviews Category, C- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Betts:

What to say. Your contribution to the Pure Sex anthology featured a contemporary heroine whose work/relationship dilemna was spot on. Your three story collection here featured heroines in different states of sexual abuse. Oh sure, I get what you were trying for: forced sex fantasies are supposedly the hallmark of the [...]



REVIEW: Undressing Mercy by Deanna Lee

By Jane • Sep 12th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Lee:
This was the first book that I read by you and the writing was good enough to get me to hunt down and purchase some of your backlist titles. I only wish that you or your publisher had told buyers that this book had already been released as an ebook with LooseID [...]



REVIEW: Pure Sex by Lucinda Betts, B. Edwards, Sasha White

By Jane • Jun 29th, 2006 • Category: B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Authors:
I’ll be straight up and cut to the chase. This is the first anthology I have liked in a . . . . well, I can’t remember the last time I really enjoyed an anthology. Even though there were some quibbles I had with each story, overall, I felt that they [...]



Misinformation or Affirmation - You be the judge

By Jane • May 26th, 2006 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

Dear Readers:
A couple of days ago, I blogged about Aphrodisia and its attempts to have its Erotica line pimped as romance despite the line editor’s statements in an interview which seems to suggest that no HEA is required for these stories. Kate Douglas came over concerned that we were spreading some misinformation about the [...]