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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: Reason Enough by Megan Hart

By Janine • May 30th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Hart,
Your Spice Brief, Reason Enough continues the story of Elle and Dan from Dirty. Since I loved Dirty, I was really looking forward to Reason Enough and I am happy to say I enjoyed it.
Elle and Dan have been living in the first home they’ve owned together just a few months when [...]



DUELING REVIEW: Tempted by Megan Hart

By Janine • Jan 31st, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews, Reviews

Janine: My friend Jennie F. and I had so much fun doing a conversational review of Jane Lockwood’s Forbidden Shores that we decided to do it again. Lo and behold, the subject of this discussion is also a novel about an erotic entanglement that involves two men and a woman! This time, it’s Megan [...]



REVIEW: Don’t Forget to Smile by Kathleen Gilles Seidel

By Janine • Jun 30th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews

Dear Ms. Seidel,
I've been slowly going through your backlist and have enjoyed most of what I've read so far. Your books aren't flashy, but down to earth. They take their time to get where they are going. There is however, a welcome realness to the characters, surroundings, and events. At no [...]



REVIEW: Broken by Megan Hart

By Janine • May 16th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Hart,
On the first Friday of each month, Sadie Danning, the narrator of your book, Broken, has lunch on an atrium bench. Joe, whose last name Sadie doesn’t know, sits down with his own lunch next to her and tells her a story, and Sadie imagines herself within that tale.
This month my name [...]



REVIEW: Dirty by Megan Hart

By Janine • Apr 18th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Hart,
Elle Kavanagh wears only black and white. She counts things — not just money at her prestigious accounting job, but also stars, marbles, ceiling tiles. She buys her boss’s wife candy to assuage her guilt for sleeping with him years before. She has been celibate for three years, but before [...]