Book ReviewsB Reviews / Richelle-Mead / vampires / Young-Adult15 Comments
Dear Ms. Mead, I’ll admit that the first time I saw your book series was when Twilight came out. I was recently getting into YA at the time, but after having read Twilight, I felt like your series was just a pretender. Vampire Academy. You have to admit it’s a ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsforbidden-love / Richelle-Mead / vampires / Young-Adult8 Comments
Dear Ms. Mead, While it’s true I’m not a fan of your succubus novels, I do enjoy your young adult books. In fact, I vastly prefer your voice in that genre. When Jane linked the Publishers Weekly article about how well your Vampire Academy series was doing in this post-Twilight ... more >
Publishing Newscensorship / iPhone / Richelle-Mead / Sony Reader9 Comments
Is Richelle Mead and her Vampire Academy series the next Twilight phenomena? PW reports that the three books have a totle of 600,000 in print. Jia has read these books and likes them. Maybe she’ll do an omnibus review for us. David Carnoy, a journalist/editor at CNet, wrote a fiction book ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C- ReviewsRichelle-Mead / succubus5 Comments
Dear Ms. Mead, I don’t share Jane’s reservations about the succubus story, even in novels billed as romances. These days I take the romance label on spines with a grain of salt since there are an increasing number of books shelved in the romance section that are anything but. So ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C- ReviewsRichelle-Mead / succubus9 Comments
Dear Ms. Mead: Thank you for sending us a copy of this book. I know that Jia will be reading it sometime so you may get a different review from her than from me and won’t regret sending it. Overall I think that I am not well suited for the ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews CategoryFirst-Person / Richelle-Mead / Seattle / succubus13 Comments
Dear Ms. Mead: When I pulled up your book out of the stack to read, I thought that if I had to read one more female first person narrated paranormal that I I may poke out my eyes and never read again. Then I began to read and remembered why ... more >