I can’t remember the last time a book depressed me as much as this one did. Not because it’s a three-hanky weeper with a sad ending (although it is), but because I really, really disliked it. Normally that would be all well and good, but I kept running into people who told me they loved…
Undead and Unreturnable is the fourth Betsy Taylor book, the chronicles of a shoe-obsessed secretary who gets hit by a car and wakes up as undead Queen of the Vampires. This would obviously freak out most people, and Betsy’s (mis)adventures as she tries to cope with drinking blood and sleeping all day and her new…
For those who didn’t make it to Italy on their summer vacation, The Food of Love offers a first-class getaway to the country. It’s another variation on the classic Cyrano de Bergerac, this time with a culinary twist. With a perfect sense of place, wonderful food and a warm storytelling style, Anthony Capella delivers a…
Warning, warning! The Forbidden is not a stand-alone book; author L.A. Banks unapologetically picks up the action exactly where the previous book ends. Not having read any of the previous four books in her Vampire Huntress Legend series, I was immediately and completely lost. The plot starts in the middle, there are no clues to…
Whew! After reading Ms. Davidson’s last book, Derik’s Bane, I’d begun to worry a little bit. Though she has a proven track record of writing clever dialogue and sharp characters, I was beginning to overdose a little on those very things. In her third novel featuring Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor, the sharp writing is present…
This book has such an intriguing setting: the 1930s, first in Spain at the outset of the Civil War, and then in San Francisco. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? I’m not necessarily a fan of vampire novels – I’ve read as many bad ones as good ones – but The Chronicles of Saint-Germain (of which this…
Alice Hoffman’s Second Nature is one of my all-time favorite books. It’s a lovely, lyrical story, a relatively short book that feels so much bigger, the type of tale that deserves to be read slowly and every word savored. They called him the Wolf Man. He was found in the wilds of Northern Michigan by…
Coyote Dream is labeled Fiction, but it tells a love story satisfying enough for any romance reader. At the risk of making a comparison the book can’t live up to, it reminded me somewhat of Kathleen Gilles Seidel’s books: quiet, insightful and character rich. It’s that type of book. Sarah Friedman is in her early…
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have some strong political feelings. Among my friends are one vocal Bush-supporter, several active in the effort to elect Kerry, and a few who have become so disgusted with the entire political process that they refuse to participate at all. Even those who are ambivalent are passionate about it,…
In her sequel to Ladies With Options, Cynthia Hartwick revisits the investing ladies of the Mostly Methodist Club. This tale is set as the tech bubble began to burst and, like many people in the 1990’s, the investors of Larksdale, Minnesota are starting to feel the pinch. While this tale of how they persevere is…
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