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REVIEW: The Darkest Kiss by Gena Showalter

By Jia • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Showalter,
Even though the prequel and first book of your Lords of the Underworld series failed to impress me, I wasn’t ready to give up on such a great premise. I hoped one of the later installments would work better for me. With this second book in the series, I have to [...]



Virgin/Cheek Line No Longer Accepting Submissions

By Jane • May 24th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

I received my RWR this month and the news that jumped out at me was the Virgin Cheek line is no longer accepting submissions. The words are “The Virgin/Cheek line is suspended after February 2009.” Michelle Pillow, a recommended read by Jayne, is a Cheek author (I think she also has published with some [...]



Harlequin Lightning Reviews

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

Billionaire’s Virgin Bride by Helen Brooks – Brooks is becoming my favorite HP author but this one disappointed me. It sounded dated and didn’t have the smoothness in storytelling as her past ones. Zeke Russell and Melody Taylor were engaged to be married until Melody’s mother took photographs of Zeke with [...]



Re Virginization Is the New Nose Job?

By Jane • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

There is an article in MSNBC this morning about re-virginization. For the low low sum of $5,000 you can have your hymen “repaired” so that you can give the “gift” of virginity.

“Have you already unwrapped the priceless gift of virginity and given it away?” asks the Web site for the Pregnancy Resource Center of [...]



REVIEW: Virgin’s Wedding Night by Sara Craven

By Jane • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Craven:
I’ve not read alot of Harlequin Presents but during the eHarlequin 50% off sale, I purchased six of them and yours was the first one I read. I was thinking about your book as I read the debate over Mills & Boon’s books being patriarchal propaganda.
Harriet must marry by her next birthday [...]



REVIEW: The Sheik and The Virgin Secretary by Susan Mallery

By Jane • Oct 6th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Mallery:
In an effort to broaden my horizons and understand the appeal of the category romance and to support Harlequin’s phenomenal digital effort, I’ve taken to buying two or three series books a month. A while back I purchased The Sheik and The Virgin Secretary because the title exemplified two of the most [...]



REVIEW: The Secret to Seduction by Julie Anne Long

By Janine • Sep 17th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Long,
For me, reading The Secret to Seduction, was like having a glass of champagne. First the effervescent joy of being introduced to your characters through the liquid clarity of your voice, then the warmth of being immersed in the sensations and emotions that those characters grow to feel, and finally the blissful [...]



REVIEW: Just About Sex by Ann Christopher

By Jane • Apr 12th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category

The cute cover and good word of mouth encouraged me to pick up this book. This is my first Ann Christopher novel, and while not perfect, it won’t be my last. The main characters were appealing: the hero with his cluelessness about women and the heroine who struggles with her mother’s relationships [...]



REVIEW: Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas

By Janine • Jan 2nd, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Kleypas,
I realize I’m probably the last person in the solar system to read this book, but read it I did. It took me a while to get to it because I was disappointed in the previous entry in your Wallflowers series, It Happened One Autumn, so I am happy to say that I [...]