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Emotional Payoff: Why Angst is Awesome

by Keira 04.26.2011

What makes a novel memorable? Is it the characters? The sex? The plot? The setting? The writing? The angst? All of the above play a part, but for me angst is king. What is angst? Angst is moving, and emotional, and evocative. It is 100% relatable. Everyone has doubts, fears heartbreak, has experienced pain. In [...]

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Review: Come Again No More by Jack Todd

by Zarabeth Golden 03.19.2011

by Zarabeth, guest reviewer This is the first “romance” novel I’ve read that was written by a man (well at least the first one I know about, pseudonyms might have been involved with other male authors). And he didn’t do a half-bad job of it. Obviously, it is written a bit differently with fewer insights [...]

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Review: Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Man in the World by Abigail Reynolds

by Keira 01.18.2011

Abigail Reynolds delivers again! The Last Man in the World is a Jane Austen variation of Pride and Prejudice. As a variation there are some things that must be accepted before you start the novel. The first is that for this variation to take place something must not be canon. This something is Elizabeth’s stunned [...]

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Review: Willoughby’s Return by Jane Odiwe

by Isabel G. 11.09.2010

by Isabel G., guest reviewer Marianne is one of the main characters of the story. She’s married to Colonel William Brandon, and although it is a seemingly perfect match, she becomes more insecure about their marriage. These feelings are tested when her old beau, and first love, Willoughby returns to town. Marianne learns that she [...]

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How to Get a Harlequin Tycoon to Share His Feelings

by Keira 11.07.2010

Are you in love with an impossibly closed-minded and secretive millionaire? Are you incredibly frustrated with his lack of emotional disclosure? Follow the following 10 steps on the yellow-brick road to ‘emerald’ city. Cultivate Your Alluring Innocence. A Tycoon is a much jaded and cynical man. He’s seen much of the world and of the [...]

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Review: Tally’s Gift by Elle Amery

by Keira 07.21.2010

Tally’s Gift is the third novel in Quartzton Trilogy. The last of the unhitched friends are thrown together when calamity strikes and the others are out of town. Playboy Brett Huntsman has broken nearly every limb in his body. The poor guy is strung up and unable to move. Tally Bennett comes to check up [...]

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Darcy & Elizabeth: Finding New Aspects of Their Characters to Explore

by Guest Blogger 01.07.2010

by Abigail Reynolds, guest blogger and author of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Man in the World Darcy and Elizabeth are wonderful characters for variations because Jane Austen leaves so much unsaid and unexplored about them. Depending on which passages you choose, you can form very different impressions of them. Part of the fun of [...]

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Review: Wild Oats by Pamela Morsi

by Keira 10.17.2009

When I was in the middle of Wild Oats by Pamela Morsi I had no strong feelings on it. It was neither good nor bad and looked to be shaping up to a solid two stars. I did dislike all the words devoted to talk on disease. The hero was a mortician, but not inclined [...]