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 >
B 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 >
B 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 >
B 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 >
B 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 >
B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ ReviewsContemporary / conversational review / dysfunctional family / erotica / 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 >