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The Mummy movies starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz have always been guilty pleasures for me. Granted, the story line isn’t brilliant nor the acting critically acclaimed. The history undoubtedly has its flaws. But the story is so fun, the characters so charming that I can’t help but love them. This book captures the spirit…
Narrated by Dan O’Grady I heard a lot of buzz about The Rosie Project – it is an Australian book so I heard the local buzz first and now that it has been released in the US, it’s being renewed. When it came up for review at AudioGals, I put my hand up to continue the…
Narrated by Amy Rubinate For the past ten years, McKenzie Lewis has been leading a double life. She’s a college student in Texas, but she also works as a shadow reader in a world few people have ever even dreamed of. McKenzie has a special ability. She can track the fae by reading the shadows…
You know the stereotype of the Ugly American, a tourist from the U.S. who travels abroad but instead of immersing herself in the culture and trying to really experience the uniqueness of her environment, she expects everything to be like it is “back home”? Geek Girls Don’t Date Dukes is the literary equivalent of the…
Madeline Hunter’s medievals were special to me. Sadly, I haven’t found her 19th century historicals to be as strong. At first, I thought The Counterfeit Mistress was going to be a truly laughable spy story. When it turned into a decent romance and then a simple adventure, it was at least a step up, but…
Narrated by Christina Traister You know how they accuse some legislators of crafting policy via pollsters and focus groups? Well, The Ideal Man is Julie Garwood writing via focus groups. If you poll women on what they like in a heroine and a hero in a romance novel, Ellie Sullivan and Max Daniels caricatures should come…
Do you miss the old perils of Pauline style women’s fiction? The kind of book where the heroine has two or three loves after going through hell and back? Then look no further, I have the book for you. <!– var browName = navigator.appName; var SiteID = 1; var ZoneID = 4; var browDateTime =…
I was a bit tentative about picking up Sabrina Elkins’ Stir Me Up because I knew it was about a girl who wanted to be a chef. While I LOVE to eat, I don’t love to cook and had no interest in reading about the minutia of food preparation. I needn’t have worried. Rather than…
I’ve read all of Ms. Shalvis’s Animal Magnetism series and her Lucky Harbor series. So, whatever criticisms I have of her latest, it’s clear, on some level, her work is working for me. <a That said…. Rumor Has It, the latest book in the Animal Magnetism series, echoes many of Ms. Shalvis’s Lucky Harbor novels….
Why is is that every vampire hero hates who he is? Or, rather, what he is? It’s a running trend in books and television – Edward from Twilight, Angel from the Buffy TV show, Louis in Interview with the Vampire, and then some. Now, there are those that revel in their otherworldliness, but they often…
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