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REVIEW: Exquisite by Ella Frank

Dear Ms. Frank:

I picked up your book on Amazon because I was interested by the cover (which has absolutely *nothing* to do with the actual plot of the book). Dr. Magdalena O’Donnell is grieving. She was driving the car that her 18 year old sister Carly was riding in when she died. Lena is suffering from horrible survivor’s guilt, to the point that she’s completely cut herself off from any possibility of personal relationships, with the exception of her friend Shelley, who won’t take no for an...

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[image error] As You Wish by Elyssa Patrick. $ .99

From the Jacket Copy:

“Elyssa Patrick has written an amazing debut novel that is destined to be a favorite for romance readers” ~ Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews

Love doesn’t always follow the sheet music . . .

This Christmas, Portia Jackson needs a miracle to save her family’s generations-old florist shop. What she gets instead is a car that breaks down during a blizzard. Help arrives unexpectedly when the infamous Aubry Riley pulls over. She only expects him t...

Review: A look at the new Nook HD+ 9″ tablet

With the iPad, iPad Mini, Nexus 7 & 10, Kindle Fire HD 7 & 8.9, Nook Tablet and dozens of more generic Android tablets in the market place things are getting very crowded with good tablets. On September 26th Barnes & Noble crowded it further by announcing the 7″ Nook HD and 9″ Nook HD+ tablets to their stable of Nook devices. Both tablets feature fully laminated (to reduce glare) screens at very attractive high resolutions. Below is a look at the 9″ Nook HD+ which is facing some stiff competi...

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[image error] The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman. $ 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:

The world is still only half-made. Between the wild shores of uncreation, and the ancient lands of the East lies the vast expanse of the West—-young, chaotic, magnificent, war-torn.

Thirty years ago, the Red Republic fought to remake the West—-fought gloriously, and failed. The world that now exists has been carved out amid a war between two rival factio...

REVIEW: The Marriage Mistake by Jennifer Probst

Dear Ms. Probst:

As I read your book, I kept thinking about a phrase my mother uses: “There’s no accounting for taste.” The first two books in yourMarriageto a Billionaireseries–The Marriage Mistake is the third–have sold like hotcakes. Each book features a self-centered hero, a zero(ine) to heroine chick, a love spell, a meddlesome Italian family, and lots of screaming (literally) sex. I haven’t read the first one, The Marriage Bargain (Jane reviews it here), but have waded through the second...

First Page: Captive of Her Heart (Historical)

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If a child was guilty for the crimes of one’s father, then Georgina Patience Wilcox was going to burn in the eternal flames of hell.

And it just so happened that hell was located in a stucco townhouse with heavy cor...

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[image error] Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star by Heather Rigaud. $ 1.99

From the Jacket Copy:

Darcy’s as hot as he is talented…

Fast music, powerful beats, and wild reputations-on and off stage-have made virtuoso guitarist Fitzwilliam Darcy’s band into rock’s newest bad boys. But they’ve lost their latest opening act, and their red-hot summer tour is on the fast track to disaster. Now Darcy and bandmates Charles Bingley and Richard Fitzwilliam are about to meet their match…

But she’s about to rock his world…

Ente...

REVIEW: Rescue My Heart by Jill Shalvis

Dear Ms. Shalvis,

I’d looked forward to reading Rescue My Heart, the third in your Animal Magnetism series. I enjoyed the first two books in the series and was ready to learn Adam’s and Holly’s story. I liked Rescue My Heart, although I struggled a bit in the beginning with the characterizations of Adam and Holly.

[image error]In the first two books in the series, Adam is a significant character; he seemed significantly different in those books than he does in this one. In the earlier books, Adam comes acro...

REVIEW: Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

Dear Ms. Taylor,

Your previous novel, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, was my favorite read of 2011. In it, readers met Karou, a blue-haired art student from Prague who also happened to be the human adopted daughter of monsters. The unfolding of Karou’s story, her history with the chimera, and her connection to the global angel sightings enthralled me. So I’ve been anxiously waiting for the sequel. It did not disappoint.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new...

Friday Film Review: John Carter

[image error]John Carter (2012)

Genre: SF Action/Adventure

Grade: C-

I’m coming at this movie from the standpoint of someone who’s never read any of the books on which it’s based nor even read much about the books on which it’s based. I was a John Carter/Barsoom virgin and I don’t think that was a good thing. This is a review that’s going to be a lot of me asking you for advice and clarity on it.

The story opens in 1881 with John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) ducking and dodging someone through the rainy streets of...