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I chose this book because of the title – Isle of Lies – isn’t it great? It implies intrigue, seduction, mystery, and an island. Unfortunately, this book has none of those things; the hero and heroine don’t even go near an island! Once again, I found myself searching for a more appropriate title, and in…
This slim paperback wouldn’t have caught my attention at the library book sale had it not been for Janet Evanovich’s name on it, which promised a fast-paced and hilarious story. As a fan of her enormously popular Stephanie Plum series, I never imagined coming across a book of hers that wouldn’t be an automatic keeper…
Despite a few minor problems, Glenna McReynold’s River of Eden is a pulse-pounding thrillride, a sensual love story, and a surreal adventure into the mystical unknown, all rolled into one. And this page-turner will hold you in its thrall long after those minor problems are forgotten. Dr. Annie Parrish is an ethnobotanist on a mission…
A while back, after hearing positive feedback about Christina Dodd I picked up Move Heaven and Earth. While not a keeper, it was a good enough read that when the chance came to review her upcoming release, Lost in Your Arms, I jumped at it. There was a fantastic improvement in the quality of the…
Confessions of a Shopaholic is another Brit Chick Lit book with yet another heroine who is the author of most of her own problems. But unlike the addict heroine in Marian Keyes’s Rachel’s Holiday, the heroine of this book is not nearly so likable, nor does she make as much progress. Rebecca Bloomwood has a…
Ironically, Rebecca Bloomwood writes financial articles in a magazine called Successful Saving, although she could write an encyclopedia about all the things she doesn’t know about successful saving. “I shop, therefore I live,” is her motto. Or wait, maybe it was “I live, therefore I shop.” Shopping is her only hobby and a true addiction…
I started A Bend In The Road wanting to like it, and for the first half I basically succeeded. Up until about the halfway point it is a sweet, if uncompelling, tale of two people trying to find hope for a second happiness in life. And then it suddenly turns into a slightly more-compelling but…
This book has one of the worst covers I have ever seen in while. He has no shirt on, she is falling out of her gown. Judging from the expressions on the model’s faces, they are totally self absorbed. The book opens with one of those hard-to-take plots involving a will which states the hero…
If I had attempted the review after reading the first 25 pages of July Thunder, the book would have received a fairly low grade. But after a while, things smoothed out a bit and by the end, it turned into a nice little read. The back cover claims that July Thunder is “A searing tale…
Spherical Harmonic, book 7 in the Skolian Saga series, is my first book by Catherine Asaro, and unfortunately it doesn’t stand on its own at all. A memorably poetic expression of unusual scientific concepts is blended with an ungainly tale of interstellar court intrigue. So much of this book seems to be recapping from earlier…
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