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REVIEW: After the Kiss by Suzanne Enoch

By Jane • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews

Dear Ms. Enoch:
Like commenter Corrine, I had admittedly had some issues with the past few historicals. I had enjoyed England’s Perfect Hero so much (as Corrine says “hands-down favorite SE title”) that it may have affected my opinion of the books that followed.
Needless to say, I adored After the [...]



REVIEW: Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase

By Jane • May 8th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, Reviews

Jane:
At the beginning of Lord of Scoundrels, a book that has been in print since its first publication in 1995, Lord Dain meets Jessica Trent for the first time
She was not classic English perfection, but she was some sort of perfection and, being neither blind nor ignorant, Lord Dain generally recognized quality when he [...]



REVIEW: The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

By Janine • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Turner,
Since in reality, our reviews are at least as much for readers as they are for authors, let me begin this letter with a warning to readers who haven’t embarked on your YA fantasy series beginning with The Thief. The book I am about to review here is The Queen of Attolia, [...]



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 [...]



REVIEW: Harlequin Manga Reviews Take 2: The Good, and the Bad and Ugly

By ジェーン(Jān) • Mar 21st, 2007 • Category: B+ Reviews, D Reviews, Manga, Reviews

Never Kiss a Stranger by Madeleine Kerr and Mayu Kasumi. Retail: $7.99. Rated T for Teen, 12 and up, lots of sweet kisses only. 1 of 1 volumes. D.
 
Three Wishes by Darlene Scalera and Matsuri Akino. [...]



REVIEW: The Smoke Thief by Shana Abé

By Janine • Nov 20th, 2006 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Abé,
Imagine a place so ripe and thick with the promise of magic that the very air breathes in plumes of pearl and gray and smoky blue; that the trees bow with the weight of their heavy branches, dipping low to the ground, dropping needles and leaves into beds of perfume. A place [...]



REVIEW: Dream Thief by Shana Abé

By Jane • Oct 13th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Abé:
The Dream Thief is a sequel to The Smoke Thief. Lia Langford, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Chasen/Marquess of Langford (one of the two), is a dreamer. She dreams of future events and many of those events involve her lover being pitted against her family, against her friends.
Zane, former [...]