Undead and Unwed is a riot of a book that, like its heroine, never takes itself seriously and pokes fun at romance, vampire and chick lit clichés. The language is rough, the sex and “almost” sex is a perfect blend of edgy meets funny (and fits the tone of the book), and I haven’t laughed…
My enjoyment of Jane Green’s books is on the wane. I loved her first American release, Mr. Maybe. I enjoyed her second book Jemima J despite its flaws. But her latest release Straight Talking pretty much just depressed me. Tasha is a 30-year-old television producer who has everything together except for her love life. Her…
Sam Washington (the heroine of Lost & Found) and I have something in common: both of us lost our diaries – and both on journeys to New York, no less. That kinship prompted me to read this book, but the similarities between Sam and me pretty much ended there. Sam panicked when she lost her…
Remember the first time a pimple appeared the morning of a super-special evening? There it was, smack dab in the middle of your nose and you had a prom to go to that night. Would your light pink dress match the angry red zit? Could you get through the evening without anyone mentioning Rudolph the…
Everything I know about the movie business I learned from reading Entertainment Weekly and watching The Player, but I’m a sucker for a Tinseltown story. That said, I wasn’t sure what to think of this book as I read the back-cover blurb: how could a book about somebody in the “adult film” industry be any…
The Princess-in-Training Manual is very hard to synopsize. Why? For the simple reason that it’s hard to write a synopsis when there is no plot. Our protagonist is Princess Jacqueline de Soignee. Princess of what, you ask? Well, the book never says for sure, but she appears to be the Princess of Manhattan. Princess Jacquie…
Alexandra (Xandra to her friends) is a diva “from a long line of passionate Russians.” She does everything in a big way, is extremely high maintenance and has already been married twice – not to even mention two broken engagements. As Divas Don’t Fake It opens, Xandra sits in a bar with Scott, her gay…
Don¹t let the Red Dress Ink label fool you. A Clean Slate isn’t a hip Chick Lit novel filled with sardonic humor and ditzy characters. Instead it’s a fascinating, compelling, thought-provoking book about one woman’s efforts to find five missing months of her life, and what she learns about herself and what she wants in…
Romance has the Big Misunderstanding. Chick Lit has the Big Lie in which an entire plot is wrapped around the heroine’s failure to be honest. If the heroine would simply tell her boyfriend/friends/fiance the truth, we wouldn’t have a book. Or perhaps we could call it the Big Indecision: The heroine’s life becomes a tangled…
Losing It promised to be just the kind of story I love: a transformation story. However, a main character who started out so odd killed the potential and the execution for me. Diana Christopher is miserable. In the prologue to the story, we find out that 32-year old Diana just crashed her car through a…
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