Cupid.com by Karen Lee

Cupid.com is supposed to be a wacky paranormal comedy with Cupid himself behind the hijinks. Unfortunately, both Cupid and the plot are out of the picture for most of the book, and the laughs feel incredibly forced. Chloe Phillips is the head of Creative Investments, a business that markets small inventions. Her father gave her…

Virtual Warrior by Ann Lawrence

When it’s done well, fantasy and science fiction can be breathtaking, twisting the constraints with which humans see themselves and their world. Amateurish SF/F, however, reads like a high schooler’s first attempt at writing after getting stoned and playing Dungeons and Dragons. The first three quarters of Virtual Warrior reads, unfortunately, like the latter; the…

Body Electric by Susan Squires

No one could ever accuse Susan Squires of being in a rut. Danegeld, her first book, was a Dark Ages Medieval about the Saxons and Vikings. Her second, Sacrament, involved a vampire during the Regency. Now she tackles artificial intelligence in the near future. Victoria “Vic” Barnhardt works for Visimorph, a Microsoft-like corporation, run by…

Know by Heart by Angela Winters

I’d never read an Arabesque book before but I wasn’t disappointed. Angela Winters tells a pretty riveting story in Know by Heart, and while I couldn’t relate exactly to the discriminatory problems faced by the lead characters, I did find them to be interesting and involving. Both the hero and heroine of this story are…

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