Ecstasy Untamed is a decent book hiding behind a truly terrible cover. Colored like the inside of an overripe watermelon, it has a picture of a guy in an underwear model pose, looking gormless and doped up on cold meds. His mouth is even hanging open. I recommend this book, but I don’t recommend reading…
If you have not read any of the Sea Haven or Drake Sister novels by Christine Feehan, then I strongly recommend doing so before you read the novel Spirit Bound. Although this is a good book, it is very confusing in the beginning if you do not know the back story on the characters. I…
Writing teams have always fascinated me – how do they get their work to be so seamless? Shouldn’t I be able to tell who wrote what? Is one the idea person and the other the actual writer or do they combine the jobs? However they work it, I’ve been a fan of the husband and…
Admittedly, I’m not the biggest paranormal fan out there, but Not Your Ordinary Faerie Tale is a book I thought might work for me. I have little interest in vampires or werewolves, but I do like elves, faeries, fae, and the like. But though I did like the paranormal aspect of the book just fine,…
This is not the worst book I’ve ever read. But it was the review book that took the longest amount of time, bored me the most, and just about ruined all other reading for me. I couldn’t wait till it was done and yet adversely, couldn’t force myself to finish it. I had to assign…
I looked forward to Heather Killough-Walden’s Avenger’s Angel because I thought it might be as fun to read as her previous Big Bad Wolf series. Unfortunately it wasn’t. I enjoy clearly drawn characters, and the cast of this book suffers from too much ambiguity. The premise is that two thousand years ago the “Old Man”…
Meg Cabot’s Overbite confused me so much that I actually did something that I’ve long said I’ll never do – read some else’s review before I’ve written my own. First, the subject matter is so different from what we’ve come to expect from the author that I was extremely curious to see if other readers’…
As I park my sitter on my rolling office throne and finger up to my lettered and clicky, I realize that I don’t quite know how to cowboy up a grade, you feel me? I was hand-grenaded by J R Ward’s latest pagey rectangle, but was continually Katrina’d from the story by the Citarum River…
First person narrative is tricky for an author to pull off, in my opinion. I typically prefer more than one point of view in a story; however, there are times when first person works well to convey the depth of emotion a character is feeling. But if the main character from whose point of view…
Reading books like this debut makes reviewing a joy. Finding a promising new author is not only like getting an expensive box of hand-dipped Belgian chocolates and being assured none of the calories will transfer to you, but also that you can share them with the world. Ecstasy for a reviewer! Human Bathsheba Ward has…
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