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Review: Lessons in French by Laura Kinsale

by Keira 04.23.2011

Lessons in French is a feel-good story. It’s cute, lighthearted, and full of whimsy. It was the right novel at the right time. I needed cute, lighthearted, and whimsy. I smiled a lot when reading it and rooted for both of the main characters. They’re imperfect, but that just makes them extremely likeable. The heroine [...]

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Review: Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer

by Keira 01.23.2011

Morning Glory is easily one of the top five romances LaVyrle Spencer wrote. It spans two years from 1941-1943. Small town America is still recovering from the Great Depression. America is holding neutrality while helping the Allies in the Second World War by supplying them material aid. It’s about five or six months before Pearl [...]

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Review: Destiny by Victoria Gray

by Carla F. 01.10.2011

by Carla F., guest review In Destiny, set during the American Civil War, Emma Davenport has slipped away from the home of her father (a U.S. senator) to travel to St. Louis and marry her fiancé. Along the way she gets out of the train to get some fresh air and notices a manacled prisoner [...]

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Review: Luminous Nights by Michele Hart

by Susan S. 01.07.2011

by Susan S., guest reviewer Summary: Blank Blank (sorry, no-spoilers) is using the pseudonym Jack Luminous. Luminous, hero, is a Draco Alliance Imperial Marshal (galactic super cop). His job is to protect Draco (an entire galaxy sector with 15 worlds). When Alliance Gemini tick prototypes are stolen, he’ll do what he must to track down [...]

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Movie Review: The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp

by Keira 12.25.2010

I can’t say enough good things about this movie. The movie got lambasted in my newspaper. I haven’t checked, but I have to wonder if a man wrote the negative review. The Tourist is a cat-and-mouse romantic comedy with lots of action and suspense. Just the sort of movie I want to see! There’s no [...]

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Review: Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich

by Keira 11.24.2010

Sizzling Sixteen is the latest in the series which chronicles the misadventures of bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. This time around Vinnie, her cousin, has been kidnapped and held for ransom until his gambling debt can be paid off. There’s a deadline and if the girls (Stephanie, Connie, and Lula) can’t conjure up the money then [...]

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Review: The Mists of Time by Susan Squires

by Keira 10.20.2010

The Mists of Time is part of the DaVinci Time Travel Series by Susan Squires. The DaVinci Series is an offshoot of the Companion Series, starting with One with the Darkness. The second DaVinci time travel romance, Time For Eternity, also fits into both series. After that they seem to be separated. I haven’t read [...]

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Review: Once Upon a Threesome: An Erotic Anthology of Historical Ménage-à-Trois Edited by Lori Perkins

by Susan S. 09.05.2010

by Susan S., guest reviewer Be forewarned, reading Once Upon a Threesome will leave you with a permanent afterglow. And the heat level’s equivalent to biting into a Ghost Chile pepper. Warning: These are explicit and erotic short stories intended for the adult reader. Story 1- “Barabbas, Give Me Back My Barabbas” by Jen Bluekissed [...]