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REVIEW: One Bite with a Stranger by Christine Warren

By Jane • Oct 9th, 2008 • Category: C Reviews Category, C- Reviews, Reviews

Note: “This book is an expanded version of the title originally released by Ellora’s Cave as Fantasy Fix. It contains new content and can be considered the First Novel of the Others.” Source: Author’s Website
Dear Ms. Warren:
I recall reading one of your St. Martin’s books before which I thought had good ideas [...]



REVIEW: Key to Conspiracy by Talia Gryphon

By Jane • May 5th, 2008 • Category: F Reviews, Reviews

Warning: This F review may contain language that is offensive to Sensitive Readers.
Dear Ms. Gryphon:
The cover quote for the book is by Laurell K Hamilton and it says “A unique idea in the paranormal genre.” I have to agree. It was unique. Unique like I’ve never read anything so bizarre in [...]



REVIEW: One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost

By Jane • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: C Reviews Category, C- Reviews

Dear Ms. Frost
I think this is one book where I wish I hadn’t read the first one because while some of the vampire world building was better explained in Halfway to the Grave, the heroine read so differently it was like she had a lobotomy. One Foot in the Grave takes place [...]



REVIEW: Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole

By Janet • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Cole:
Somewhere in the middle of Dark Needs at Night’s Edge I felt that this book occupies a very important moment in the Immortals After Dark series. As Jane said previously, this is a series one can pick up at any point and not be completely confused. But for those of us [...]



REVIEW: Midnight Rising by Lara Adrian

By Jane • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews, Reviews

Midnight Rising by Lara Adian
Dylan Alexander is a talented journalist who is overseas enjoying a vacation with friends of her mothers. During a walk, she wanders away from the group and encounters a cave with strange markings. She has photographed these and a homeless man she observed in the caves before said homeless [...]



Harlequin Lightning Reviews

By Jane • Mar 28th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, C Reviews Category, C- Reviews, Reviews

Drop Dead Gorgeous by Kimberly Raye. The premise was that geek girl saw her geek boy bestfriend get super hot, super confident, and super sexy and she wanted that too. Except the reason that the geek boy bestfriend got super everything was because he got bit by a vampire and now he too [...]



REVIEW: The Bleeding Dusk by Colleen Gleason

By Jia • Feb 2nd, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Gleason,
I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer religiously when it was still on the air. So when I heard your Gardella Chronicles described as Buffy in Regency England, I knew I had to read it. I think that’s one of this series’s strengths, as well as a weakness. If you [...]



REVIEW: Blood Drive by Jeanne C. Stein

By Jia • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Stein,

I love urban fantasy but lately I’ve found myself getting tired of the genre. Too many books feature the usual suspects (vampires) and the same plot conflicts (love triangles). So when Jane sent me a copy of your book, I admit I sighed. A vampire bounty hunter? And a comparison to Anita Blake [...]



REVIEW: Eternal by V.K. Forrest

By Jia • Nov 28th, 2007 • Category: C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Forrest,
I don’t think it’s inaccurate to say that there are a lot of vampire series to be found in the paranormal subgenre. While there seems to be growing weariness about their prevalence, vampires have many loyal readers and as long as that continues, vampire books will continue getting published. But I also think [...]



REVIEW: Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost

By Jane • Oct 27th, 2007 • Category: C Reviews, C Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Frost:
The back of your book reads “If Buffy and Angel had a daughter, she’d be just like Cat Crawfield.” What wasn’t included was that Buffy’s daughter would then end up dating and falling in love with Spike, her mother’s boyfriend.
Cat Crawfield is a half vampire/half human woman. She was created violently [...]