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REVIEW: Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin

By Janine • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Giffin,
Exactly one hundred days to her marriage to her husband Andy, Ellen Graham literally crosses paths with her ex-boyfriend Leo. Ellen describes their encounter this way:
From the outside, say if you were a cabdriver watching frantic jaywalkers scramble to cross the street in the final seconds before the light changed, it [...]



REVIEW: Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale

By Janine • May 12th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews

Dear Ms. Hale,
I first heard of your book, Wicked Gentlemen, when it was nominated in the GLBT category of our DA BWAHA March Madness tournament. Wicked Gentlemen made it to the third round of the tournament, which means it was the runner-up in the GLBT category.
At the time we were [...]



REVIEW: Fire and Ice by Anne Stuart

By Janine • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Stuart,
Fire and Ice is the fifth and (if I’m not mistaken) final book in your Ice series, which features the agents of a ruthless spy organization known as the Committee. This one is all about the flamboyant Reno, Taka’s younger cousin.
Back in the third book, Ice Blue, [...]



DUELING REVIEW: Black Ice by Anne Stuart

By Janine • Nov 14th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, B Reviews Category, B- Reviews

Dear Ms. Stuart,
Black Ice is my favorite of all your books — the ones I’ve read, that is. You have a huge backlist and I have not come anywhere near reading them all, but I’ve read several of your most popular titles, including A Rose at Midnight, To Love a Dark Lord, Moonrise, Nightfall, [...]



REVIEW: Ice Storm by Anne Stuart

By Janine • Oct 30th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews

Dear Ms. Stuart,
The latest book in your Ice series, Ice Storm, opens with a bang. Literally. In a prologue set sometime in the past, we are introduced to nineteen-year-old the heroine this way:
Mary Isobel Curwen had never shot a man before. She stood there, numb, unmoving. She’d never fired a gun before, [...]



REVIEW: The Rules of Gentility by Janet Mullany

By Janine • Jul 31st, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category

Dear Ms. Mullany,
Like Jayne (who recently reviewed this book), I read and enjoyed your debut, Dedication, shortly before the Signet Regency line went kaput. I had liked the book enough to hope that you might get a contract before too long. Luckily for me, not one, but two publishers were smart enough to [...]



REVIEW: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

By Janine • Jul 9th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Turner,
Your young adult fantasy novel, The Thief, was named a 1997 Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. After hearing good things about the series that begins with this book from two different friends, I was eager to begin reading it.
Gen, the hero [...]



The Element of Style

By Janine • Mar 27th, 2007 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

Dear Readers and Authors,
There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or [...]



REVIEW: The Dream-Maker’s Magic by Sharon Shinn

By Janine • Oct 5th, 2006 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Shinn,
Although The Dream-Maker’s Magic is the third book in your series of books that began with The Safe-Keeper’s Secret and continued in The Truth-Teller’s Tale, it easily stands on its own. And although, like the two earlier books, it is aimed at young adults, this adult enjoyed the book very much.
Set in [...]