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My Scandalous Bride is uneven – seriously, dangerously uneven. You’ve got a solid entry by a veteran author, a predictable entry by another, a truly bad story featuring a nincompoop heroine and a really unpleasant hero, and (by this time you’re really, really grateful, believe me) a fabulous and sexy novella to wrap it all…
This book was featured in Pandora’s Box for February 2004 Irresistible Forces is an anthology of SF/Fantasy romances from six authors. I am reading this as a bit of a newbie since I have not read any book by three of the authors and only one by another. Based on these stories, it looks like…
There is a staff review of this book as well Irresistible Forces is an Alternate Reality Romance anthology comprised of stories from several noted SF and Romance authors. Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold features characters from her Miles Vorkosigan saga, and involves two bodyguards who fall in love during the celebration of Miles’s wedding….
Reading Christmas anthologies is always a nice way to prepare for the holidays. But while Frontier Christmas, featuring authors Ana Leigh, Carolyn Davidson and Kate Bridges, managed to set a pleasant tone with its homespun traditions of Christmases past, the stories themselves were pretty average.
New Year’s Eve is one of my favorite occasions, and when I heard what Stroke of Midnight was about, I ordered the book before a review copy even came in. Big mistake. This anthology could be subtitled “Three impossibly perfect men pursue a trio of weepy messes.” It’s a prime example of the highly sexual…
To be honest, I sometimes think I like the idea of erotica better than I do actual erotica. If it isn’t outright crude and emotionally vacant, much of the erotica I’ve read sometimes seems just . . . well, silly. I’m happy to report that two of the stories in this volume are that rare…
I am so embarrassed by the title of this book. I mentally rechristened it “Large Naked Penises on Parade,” and hoped the stories inside would be better.
Debates continually rage on our message boards about what makes a book great: Is it the plot, the characters, the unexpected twists? For a lot of us, it is the voice. Marianne Stillings wrote a little bit about this in her latest journal, and it seems to be what editors are searching for, as well….
The latest entry in this popular anthology series offers a solid set of magical stories.
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