Easy

I have never given a book an F before. Admittedly, I haven’t been reviewing too long, but I’ve never read a book for review in which I couldn’t find at least something to like, some small flicker of light amidst the gloom of awkward writing and poorly depicted characters. But alas, the minute I finished…

Carrie Pilby

We’ve all known at least one of these people at some point in our lives (and some of us are related to one): People who are too smart for the world around them and are made to suffer for it. Carrie Pilby is a chick-lit book, so its ending is not much in question, but…

Engaging Men

I picked up Engaging Men, my first venture into Harlequin’s Red Dress Ink line, with a good deal of anticipation. It was, unfortunately, a struggle to finish, not an awful reading experience, but not a compelling one, either. Ultimately, the word that best describes this book is bland Angie DiFranco is an actress who’s landed…

Guilty Feet

During a fight Dan Baxter commits an unpardonable wrong: he compares his girlfriend, Jo Hurst, to her mother. Jo moves out without telling him why, believing he’ll track her down, apologize, and beg her to come back. He doesn’t. Then Dan’s upstairs neighbor, Libby, tells Jo that Dan has a new hot-and-heavy girlfriend. Dan wants…

Getting Over Jack Wagner

Every so often you read a book that feels as if might have been written just for you. Getting Over Jack Wagner fits neatly into that category for me, and while there are many things to love about this book, I feel that I should begin with a disclaimer that not everyone may react to…

Shopaholic Ties the Knot

Becky Bloomwood is a transplanted Englishwoman now living in Manhattan and working as a personal shopper. At the wedding of her best friend Suze, Becky’s boyfriend Luke Brandon proposes. All that remains is to plan the details of the wedding. Can Becky somehow manage to plan a successful wedding, as millions of other women have…

Fashionistas

Fashionistas has a great cover: slick and stylish, featuring a cartoon of a trendily-dressed woman silhouetted against a cityscape. It perfectly captures the book’s polished, light-hearted fashion-consciousness. The novel is narrated by Vig Morgan (and if the handsome face of Viggo Mortensen just flashed before your mind’s eye, banish it – Vig is female). She…

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