B+ Reviews / Recommended Readscensorship / Fantasy / love triangles / Magic / poets / Recommended Read8 Comments
Dear Ms. Myer, I first heard of your debut fantasy novel, Last Song Before Night, when it was featured on the Tor blog. Among the things that caught my attention were its attractive cover and evocative title. Since you are an author I hadn’t read before, I requested the novel ... more >
B+ Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended ReadsContemporary / domestic violence / erotic / motorcycle club / NA / Recommended Read / romantic-suspense4 Comments
The following review contains spoilers for this novel’s direct prequel, Everything I Left Unsaid, which features the same main characters. If you have not read Everything I Left Unsaid and prefer to avoid spoilers, you may wish to skip this review and read the one of the earlier novel. Dear Ms. ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / domestic violence / erotic / NA / Recommended Read / romantic-suspense21 Comments
Dear Ms. O’Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid is being marketed as New Adult, but reads more like contemporary romance with elements of NA, erotic romance, and suspense. I loved this novel’s freshness, as well as its intelligence. The novel begins shortly after Annie McKay’s arrival at the Flowered Manor Trailer ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsangels / dragons / Fantasy / immortal / Paris / Recommended Read / Vietnam6 Comments
Janine: Aliette de Bodard’s new fantasy novel, The House of Shattered Wings, takes place in an alternate late twentieth century Paris, a city peopled not just by humans but also by fallen angels cast out of Heaven by the Christian God for reasons they themselves do not recall. The Fallen ... more >
B Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / Recommended Read13 Comments
Dear Ms. Keyes: Time Served was a book that surprised me in all the good ways. It featured an uptight lawyer heroine and felon boyfriend who didn’t have more than a few nickels to rub together. A good portion of the story features Rachel, a wrong side of the track girl ... more >
B Reviews / Recommended Readsclass-difference / Contemporary romance / opposites attract / Recommended Read7 Comments
Dear Ms. Keyes: A treat in the form of your book Time Served showed up on my Kindle over the holiday week. I inhaled it, staying up late to finish, and then went hunting for more Keyes’ books. There was a single title–Just Once–and I began it the next day. Just Once is ... more >