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Sex and Death – A Rant

Sex and Death – A Rant

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I recently finished reading Linda Howard’s Death Angel. This will not be a review, as I have no idea how to go about reviewing this book. If I were to judge on the usual criteria – plot, characterization, prose – it’d be maybe a B or a B-. But the story made an impression [...]

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REVIEW:  Lessons of Desire by Madeline Hunter

REVIEW: Lessons of Desire by Madeline Hunter

Dear Ms. Hunter:
I really enjoyed Rules of Seduction and was greatly anticipating Lessons of Desire and the story of the independent and unconventional Phaedra Blair. When I began the book, I was even more interested because I could see that the story that was going to unfold was an exploration of a fundamental feminist [...]

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Romance Choices Falsity:  Alone and Miserable or Together and Happy

Romance Choices Falsity: Alone and Miserable or Together and Happy

“One line from “My Brilliant Career” has always haunted me. At one point, Sybylla’s Aunt Gussie tells her, “Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence.” My teenage self thought that was an incredibly pithy observation, and I went right home to record it in my journal. When I hear it now, I think, [...]

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