Narrated by Tavia Gilbert We’re starting out today with a close look at Jeaniene Frost’s Halfway to the Grave, an urban fantasy romance with a kick. What’s the kick? Bones the hero. Read on! Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress series is one that garners a good bit of attention from time to time here at Speaking…
As Jane Austen might write if she were here to see the industry her works have propagated: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a female reader in possession of a copy of Pride and Prejudice, must be in want of a Mr. Darcy. Or so today’s publishers would have us believe. While Austen might…
Kresley Cole is one of the few writers I know the release dates for and usually pre-order her books so I can start reading that very day. Needless to say, I’m slightly addicted to the IAD series and have been waiting for Lothaire for a long, long time and I wasn’t disappointed. Lothaire, The Enemy…
There are some books that make you wonder how it ever got to the printing press. Then there are others that defy hyperbole and uplift your soul. You wonder what set the authors on this path, and how the strange alchemy of thoughts and feelings became magic. On my bookshelf, there are fewer than five…
Ms. Grant’s excellent debut should really be titled A Lady and a Gentleman Awakened. Both the heroine, repressed Martha, and the hero, feckless Theo, are, by this novel’s end, alert to possibilities unimaginable to both prior to their relationship. In A Lady Awakened, opposites don’t merely attract; two strongly disparate people are transformed into a…
Like many romance readers, I can’t get enough of Elizabeth, Darcy, Jane, and Mr. Bingley. However, unlike many romance readers, I haven’t fallen prey to the seemingly endless supply of Pride and Prejudice sequels. Until P.D. James, one of my favorite modern authors, tried her hand at it, that is. Now 92, her mysteries are…
Before I picked up 11/22/63, I hadn’t read a book by Stephen King in over twenty years. (I read The Tommyknockers in college, and let’s just say it put me off.) A chance comment by someone who I don’t even know well who “heard it was good” and a free Klout perk copy led me…
Sometimes I pick up a book on a whim: I have never heard of the author, nor has it been recommended by anyone, but there’s something about the description or the cover that strikes my fancy. Sometimes, I discover a gem this way, which is what happened with Reconcilable Differences by Elizabeth Ashtree. Prosecutor Gwendolyn…
Quirky, innovative, original, and unpredictable are just some of the words that come to mind when describing this new release by Lisa Walker. I was thoroughly charmed by these attributes – so much so that it joins my short list of Desert Isle Keepers. Developers working to put through a housing project on the edge…
Once in a while, during every reader’s literary life, you encounter a book that reminds you why you are a reader. It renews your faith, if faith was lost; it rekindles your interest, if interest waned; and every word, every page, is a wonder. Adrian and Justine’s story is not only such a book and…
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