It's My Genre, Baby.

*Over at SBTB Sarah is running a Q&A with Susan Mallery about her newest reader initiative. If you haven't yet read it, I would....

Tia Nevitt has a lot of promise. I liked (but couldn't quite love) her debut . When Dear Author  featured this second tale as a Daily ...

February has been a slow month for this blog. There have been a succession of DNF titles which not only failed to engage me, they failed t...

I didn't finish Five Star Romance. After struggling with the opening pages, I threw in the towel on page 136.   It's rare for me ...

This was my first foray into the Maiden Lane series and I might have one more in me before I call it quits on Hoyt for good. What makes Ho...

Sharon Shinn has been all about confusing her readers since her career started. Is she chicken, or is she fish? Taken as a whole, her care...

*Since we're diving deeper into the book I thought the step back would be a more fitting graphic than the cover.  A few days ago I ...

Emotionally, One Good Earl Deserves a Lover is absolutely fantastic. Epic. Sheer greatness. Best Book Of The Year material. Critically, O...

Oh, patriarchy. You never change.   Before the holidays I briefly touched on Cravebox. Normally I wouldn't revisit the topic. After ...

Occasionally a book comes along that catches every reviewer's eye at once. Maybe it's the marketing, maybe it's the theme, s...

I've held off writing this review because so much about Your Wicked Heart annoyed me. First of all, the blurb being used to sell it i...

All credit to the cover designer. This is an arresting image with fantastic use of tone. I like almost everything about it. (The borders a...

Merry Freaking Christmas, indeed. In what shocks no one ever (assuming they read my reviews) A Kiss for Midwinter gets high marks from ...

I think Lorraine Heath and I just broke up. There's nothing seriously wrong in  Deck The Halls With Love . The hero was once interes...

In this unconnected follow up to 2010's The Lady Most Likely *  Quinn, James and Brockway continue the conceit that this is more than ...

It's rare I'm actually angry when I finish a book. Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet seriously pissed me off. Not only am I done with ...

*My reviews of Courtney Milan books are so very boring. "I loved this book. OMG this author. Read it because wow." (How many way...

*I've been off being all medical again, because everyone needs a hobby and reviewing books doesn't have the same flair as recreati...

In the food boxes I valued novelty over value, but in the beauty boxes it was the absolute reverse. Ipsy was my choice for gift giving her...

What do you get someone really hard to shop for? This year I decided to jump on the sample box craze and give gift subscriptions to a few...