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reluctant nude Meg Maguire
July 27, 2011

REVIEW: The Reluctant Nude by Meg Maguire

JanineBook Reviews / C Reviews / C+ ReviewsCanada / real-people / scarred-people77 Comments

Readers please note: I found it difficult to discuss what did and didn’t work for me in this book without revealing SPOILERS. While the biggest spoiler is hidden, there are other spoilers visible in the review. — Janine Dear Ms. Maguire, Last year, after Jane reviewed it, I read and ... more >

September 27, 2009

REVIEW: The Same Last Name by Kathleen Gilles Seidel

JanineB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviews20th century / attorney / class-difference / divorce / Kathleen-Gilles-Seidel / real-people / reunited-lovers / Virginia33 Comments

Dear Ms. Seidel, Your 1983 category, The Same Last Name, begins when three cars arrive at New York State’s Frank Lake State Park. One of the park’s forest rangers, twenty-five year old April Ramsey, greets the man who registers this group of six visitors. April directs the tourist to the ... more >

July 1, 2009

REVIEW: Deeper by Megan Hart

JanineB Reviews / B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / across the tracks / class-difference / Contemporary / erotica / Ghost / loss / Older-Woman-/-Younger-Man / real-people19 Comments

Dear Ms. Hart, Bess Walsh needs time away from her unhappy marriage. She finds it at the beach house she inherited from her parents. There, in the water, Bess fantasizes about Nick, the boy she loved and lost twenty years before. She touches herself and soon she feels Nick touching ... more >

June 9, 2008

REVIEW: Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin

JanineB Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsAtlanta / attorney / chick-lit / Contemporary / good characterization / good-narration / journalist / Love-Triangle / New York City / Photographer / psychological insights / real-people29 Comments

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 ... more >

May 30, 2008

REVIEW: Reason Enough by Megan Hart

JanineB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsbabies / Contemporary / erotica / Harlequin Spice / Megan-Hart / real-people / traumatic-past11 Comments

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 ... more >

January 31, 2008

CONVERSATIONAL REVIEW: Tempted by Megan Hart

JanineB Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ ReviewsContemporary / dysfunctional family / erotica / joint review / Marriage-in-Trouble / Megan-Hart / real-people / sexual-encounters / Threesome / traumatic-past46 Comments

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! ... more >

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