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REVIEW: Shaking off the Dust by Rhianna Samuels

By Jayne • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: C Reviews Category, C- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Samuels,
This book has a great beginning with a different plot. In a book world overpopulated with vampires and werewolves, it was something totally new to me. You give us interesting characters - a flawed heroine, a Japanese hero and Tom, who’s a ghost. It starts wonderfully and then, unfortunately, goes totally overboard [...]



REVIEW: Blind Date from Hell by Anne Stuart

By Jayne • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Mrs. Stuart,
The description of this novella at Fictionwise caught my attention and induced me to buy it. Too bad that that description has F-all to do with the actual plot. I don’t blame you for that. But it’s lucky for Fictionwise that I enjoyed the story anyway.
The actual paranormal elements here are [...]



REVIEW: The Huntsmen 2: Bareback by Amber Green

By Jayne • Mar 7th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Green,
I read and enjoyed the first novel in this Hunstmen world last year. And despite being for the most part paranormaled out, when you mentioned that there would be sequels to come, I was excited. Here’s a world that is radically different from most paranormals out there and one which was fairly [...]



REVIEW: Thunder Moon by Lori Handeland

By Jayne • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms Handeland,
Your books are like potato chips or popcorn or anything smothered with chocolate. I can’t stop reading them anymore than I can restrict myself to one serving of a snack that’s bound to go straight to my hips and stick there like superglue. Sigh. Just when I think that you must be running [...]



REVIEW: The Accidental Werewolf by Dakota Cassidy

By Jayne • Feb 7th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms Cassidy,
My bio states that I’m currently sort of paranormaled out but I will make an exception for authors known to me. After reading and enjoying your werewolf series last year, I was happy to try “The Accidental Werewolf” and delighted it gently skewed a few of the standards of the genre.
Some [...]



REVIEW: Demon Night by Meljean Brook

By Jane • Jan 31st, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews

Dear Ms. Brook:
Thank you for sharing your book with me. As you know, I’ve always thought you were a tremendous writer and I appreciate that you bring to the genre an unusual pairing of individuals. In Demon Angel, it was the halfling demon, Lilith, and the honorable knight, Hugh. In Demon Moon, it was the [...]



REVIEW: Blood Brothers by Nora Robert

By Jane • Dec 4th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Roberts:
This is a tough review to write and not because I was unhappy with it but because while good, it reads like one giant prologue.
This book is better suited to be purchased and read with its two other companion books because the plot is one that spans the three books. [...]



REVIEW: The Road to Hell by Jackie Kessler

By Jane • Nov 21st, 2007 • Category: C Reviews Category, C- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Kessler:
I think The Road to Hell suffers from a mistaken identity. It is a book that would be better as a straight urban fantasy rather than trying to shoehorn into the romance genre. The ostensible conflict in this story is the female protagonist trying to maintain her relationship with her boyfriend [...]



Supernatural Boys and the Reason Readers Love Them

By Jane • Nov 16th, 2007 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

A week ago I pounded out an article that I was going to offer up as my guest blog post for the Love of Reading Book Fair. It was all about how tension between print reviewers and bloggers is unnecessary because blogging fills the niches that print reviewers don’t have the space or inclination [...]



REVIEW: Lover Unbound by JR Ward

By Jane • Sep 19th, 2007 • Category: C Reviews Category, C- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Ward:
I’ve referred to you as romance crack before. Your books are addictive, like a pharmaceutical grade narcotic, that makes a reader hot for the next book before the current book is even concluded. Unfortunately, I think I got a bad batch and wonder what I should do about it. On [...]



REVIEW: Your Planet or Mine? by Susan Grant

By Jayne • Sep 13th, 2007 • Category: C Reviews, C Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Grant,
I started reading your books with the first in “The Star King” series. I fell in love. They were fresh and different. The “Banzai Maguire” book didn’t work as well for me though I applauded the risks you took. I had really hoped to enjoy “Your Planet or Mine?” but despite the great [...]