July 25, 2006

REVIEW: In the Groove by Pamela Britton

JaneBook Reviews / C Reviews Category / C- ReviewsContemporary / Nascar7 Comments

Dear Ms. Britton: Here’s some advice. Put this up on your website, rally your author friends, decry the reviewer’s writing credentials (I have none), and your sales numbers will rise. That is the lemonade of out this lemon. The heroine in this story is so frustrating that I wished I ... more >

July 20, 2006

REVIEW: Man Camp by Adrienne Brodeur

JaneBook Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Categorychick-lit / Farmer2 Comments

Dear Ms. Brodeur: Mancamp features two women who have had enough of men in NY City who have had enough of the men in the city. The men no longer know how to fix things, open doors, or be manly enough. Lucy, a biologist, is a long term relationship with ... more >

July 19, 2006

REVIEW: Fateful Deception by Kate Allan

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviews / EbooksMilitary / Regency England2 Comments

Dear Ms Allan, You manage to pack a great deal into your Regency novella, Fateful Deception. I’m grateful that the heroine, Lucinda Handscombe, is neither a silly twit nor a too modern young woman. You have her act as a reader might expect a sheltered young woman of the period ... more >

July 18, 2006

REVIEW: What’s New Pussycat (Wolfmates II) by Dakota Cassidy

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviews / EbooksDakota-Cassidy / shapeshifters / Wolfmates5 Comments

Dear Ms Cassidy, I have to say that you’re taking a typical werewolf romance story and turning it in a different direction that I’ve read before. I mean, how many werewolves are fated to marry/mate with domestic housecats? Not too many. As with “An American Werewolf in Hoboken,” I loved ... more >

July 18, 2006

REVIEW: Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn

JaneBook Reviews / C+ ReviewsAmazon / shapeshifters / Urban-Fantasy3 Comments

Dear Ms. Vaughn: I understand that this is the second in a series which started last year. I am happy to report that it stood alone without any need to read the first book (although I am sure that it adds something). Kitty Norville is a werewolf who has a ... more >

July 12, 2006

REVIEW: Be Mine Tonight by Kathryn Smith

JaneBook Reviews / C- Reviews10 Comments

Dear Ms. Smith: Unfortunately, your book is what inspired my post about the real deal paranormal authors and the posers. Your story features a hero vampire who believes his immortality is a curse and a heroine with cancer who would do anything to live. That’s it. That’s the entire story. ... more >