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REVIEW: Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot

By Jane • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Cabot:
This is the third in the Queen of Babble series featuring Lizzie Nichols, a wedding dress restorer and designer. I’ve read the first one but not the second (I have no explanation for not reading the second). The book begins with Lizzie confused about an encounter with her good [...]



REVIEW: I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming

By Jane • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Spencer-Fleming
As I blogged a couple of days ago, this series has been a long time favorite of friend and fellow reader, Keishon. I trust Keishon’s judgment quite a bit. She’s led me to read some wonderful mystery authors. However, I long held back from reading this series because [...]



Amazon Sues New York for the Sales Tax

By Jane • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

I hate online sales tax so I am totally biased against New York’s decision to start charging online retailers to collect state tax. Amazon has decided to challenge this in court arguing that the State of New York lacks jurisdiction to collect sales tax from Amazon on the basis that because of its lack [...]



REVIEW: Shaken and Stirred by Kathleen O’Reilly

By Jayne • Mar 5th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. O’Reilly,
As with the first book of your last trilogy, this one is a winner for me. Straight from the beginning and all the way through. I enjoyed all the characters in this book, the plot, the setting…in fact everything. At first I was a little leery about the setting. I mean, an [...]



REVIEW: Along for the Ride by Michelle M Pillow

By Jayne • Dec 10th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms Pillow,
I’d seen your name while browsing through ebook sites but since most of the books appeared to be paranormals I usually kept right on scrolling. Then Jane sent me a batch of arcs and review books and I saw one was yours. “Oh,” I thought, “I wonder why Jane sent me a paranormal?” [...]



REVIEW: Billionaire Next Door by Jessica Bird

By Jane • Aug 2nd, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Bird:
One thing that seems a lost art in the new crop of romances is its failure to focus on the development of the actual relationship. Romance, at its best, is character driven with the central plot being the intersecting of two individuals to mesh into one stronger, better unit. A great [...]



REVIEW: Beyond Breathless by Kathleen O’Reilly

By Jayne • Jan 19th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. O’Reilly,
When Jane sent me this arc I have to admit that I wasn’t that thrilled. Oh look, another series about three siblings. And my, it’s set in New York City so it’ll read like a “Sex in the City” clone book. It’s a Harlequin Blaze, we’ll get tons of inappropriately timed lust/sex scenes. [...]



REVIEW: Fate and Ms. Fortune by Saralee Rosenberg

By Jayne • Aug 23rd, 2006 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Mrs. Rosenberg,
I adore a good chick lit book but it’s got to have more than just a series of funny events linked together. It also needs to make me laugh and not cringe at the heroine making a prat of herself, some depth to the characters, enough grounding in reality that I can [...]