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Review: Happy Hour at Casa Dracula (Casa Dracula Book 1) by Marta Acosta

by Keira 09.09.2011

In the first installment of Casa Dracula, Milagro De Los Santos, Miracle of the Saints, reluctantly goes to her college boyfriend’s party celebrating his huge success as a newly published author. She thinks his novel is garbage, but the critics love it. She also thinks he’s a superficial stuck-up snob and isn’t proven wrong. At [...]

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Review: Beastly by Alex Flinn

by Keira 06.15.2011

I saw the trailer announced at Katidom and like Kati I’m a sucker for fairytales, especially Beauty and the Beast fairytale retellings. After viewing the trailer I went immediately to the library and got a copy of the book. (How about you are you planning to do the same?) It’s an easy read, directed toward [...]

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Review: The Mermaid Garden by Santa Montefiore

by Marcia 04.28.2011

by Marcia, guest reviewer The Mermaid Garden is the story of two women who are desperately longing for love and fulfillment told with beautiful, sumptuous prose as well as witty, wry humor and a touch of mystery. Ten-year-old Floriana is a lonely, lost child, yearning to have something worthwhile and beautiful in her life. Her [...]

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Review: England’s Perfect Hero by Suzanne Enoch

by Keira 04.17.2011

What makes a perfect hero? Is it his dashing good looks, his heroic deeds, or his charm? Third in the series Lessons in Love by Suzanne Enoch, England’s Perfect Hero, delves into the challenge of defining a hero. Lucinda and her two best friends, Georgiana and Evelyn, create three separate lists on how to be [...]

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Review: Merely Magic by Patricia Rice

by Susan S. 03.22.2011

by Susan S., guest reviewer Merely Magic is part of Sourcebooks Casablanca Classics Collection. It’s an out-of-print romance novel re-released for the enjoyment of new readers as well as old. Summary: Heroine, Ninian Malcolm Siddons, is a woman who marches to the beat of a different drum. She doesn’t look, dress, or act as other [...]

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Review: To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn

by Keira 01.27.2011

To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn was a fairly decent story. There were times in the story when I wondered if the main characters would ever fall in love before the pages ran out. The sex scenes were scrumptious and more than counter balanced the long wait to get to them. Also the [...]