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  • Miss Match

    I’ll admit it. I chose to review Miss Match based on the cover. The art has a comic book style that seemed fun, breezy, and contemporary. Unfortunately, while the book is contemporary, it isn’t exactly fun or breezy. It has the potential to be both, but a number of flaws bog it down. Kathryn “Kitty”…

  • On a Wild Night

    I read Devil’s Bride when it first came out several years ago, and I absolutely loved it. I loved the brainy heroine, the masterful, determined hero, and the expressive love scenes. Eight books later, I’m still reading Laurens, although I’ve missed a title or two along the way. At this point, she’s become a guilty…

  • Princess In Love by Meg Cabot

    Mia Thermopolis (full name: Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo) is a fourteen-year-old, vegetarian, environmentalist, New-York-City-residing European princess. It has only been a few months since Mia learned she was heir to the throne of Genovia, and since she found this out, her life has been one catastrophe after the next. In order that she might…

  • The Nanny Diaries

    I couldn’t resist picking up this book, the current number-one bestseller at Amazon.com, with its billing as a satirical expose of the child-rearing habits of upper crust New Yorkers with far, far more money than decency. I sat down with it expecting a fast and funny read. While it was quick, often humorous, and addictively…

  • The Mother’s Day Garden

    Kimberly Cates’ latest offering deals with finding yourself on a path in life without knowing how you got there – but knowing that you want to get off of it. Hannah O’Connell has had a tough year; her daughter Becca has gone off to college, her marriage isn’t working and she’s recently had a hysterectomy….

  • Queen

    Queen is quite possibly the most emotionally manipulative book I’ve ever read. Unfortunately, due to its poor writing quality, excessive head hopping, and lack of character development, all of its intrinsic machinations come to naught. I didn’t care at all about any of the characters, and I thought the story was supremely ridiculous and annoying….

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