Tag: novel reviews
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September 16, 2007 01:35 AM EDT --
I just finished the fourth book in Lisa Kleypa's Wallflowers series. The series surrounds four young women who form a special bond while sitting on the sidelines . . .
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April 08, 2007 04:34 PM EDT --
Claire sits on the sweltering, dingy wooden boards. The oppressive heat burns as it flows through her nostrils. Musty smelling with acrid taste. Only one glint of light from around the . . .
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May 10, 2009 09:11 PM EDT --
I was on the fence about this book before I bought it (it was one of those books that I would pick up when shopping for a new read and then put down for something else) and it is a book I'm . . .
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June 16, 2009 04:38 PM EDT --
Egypt is on the brink of accepting the monolithic change of a multi deity system to just one God represented by the sun, Pharaoh, and his family. His main wife and queen, Nefertiti (also known . . .
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July 19, 2009 09:17 PM EDT --
As the last installment of the series, J. K. Rowling has made some interesting choices. First and foremost, ‘ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ’ is written for the fans and not . . .
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March 31, 2009 01:22 PM EDT --
If you tried to judge this book by its cover I would suggest that you dismiss the idea that the main character, Jane Popyncourt, was a blonde because she wasn't. In fact she ends up practically . . .
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July 17, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
Sandra Gulland is known to historical fiction buffs as the woman who wrote the ‘Josephine B.’ trilogy about Napoleon’s Bonaparte’s better half – until he divorced her . . .
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August 04, 2009 11:07 PM EDT --
‘ Betrayed ’ is the second book in the ‘House of Night’ series. In the world created by the mother and daughter team of P. C. and Kristen Cast , teen vampires are fledglings . . .
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October 19, 2009 07:40 PM EDT --
For a book that I only paid a buck for, I confess I got more than my money’s worth. ‘The Family Fortune’ by Laurie Horowitz is a retelling of the Jane Austen . . .
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November 17, 2009 06:06 PM EST --
One of the things that Dan Brown does well, this I even remember from ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ is that he knows how to end a book chapter with the reader wanting to read more. In ‘ . . .
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June 24, 2009 10:04 AM EDT --
' Somebody Else's Daughter ' is a fantastic read and addresses many ethical questions on several levels. The book starts out with the Nate, a heroin addict, talking about how he and his . . .
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July 10, 2009 03:34 PM EDT --
Hands down 'Flowers in the Attic' is one of my all time favorite summer reads. Debuting in 1979 it was one of the first books that; a) I was probably too young to read. b) Simply could . . .
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July 29, 2009 12:54 AM EDT --
Perhaps it was the mood I’ve been in lately, but all I could think about while reading this book was that this book was the love child between Jane Austen’s classic ‘Pride and Prejudice’ . . .
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September 18, 2009 02:53 PM EDT --
Saturday, August 15
After cheating on this book with three other novels I decided to . . .
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June 20, 2009 08:04 PM EDT --
The setting for the majority of the book is the late 80's in the village of Wolfheim, Belgium near the intersection of where the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium meet. Dr. Victor Hoppe appears . . .
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August 20, 2009 06:07 PM EDT --
Don’t let the names Brooke Parker or Jesse Emerson throw you off; this book is about Britney Spears and Justine Timberlake with a few elements of The Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus thrown . . .
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September 12, 2009 01:55 PM EDT --
While doing research for this ‘Widows of Eastwick’ project I found out that an ABC series based on the original book is set to debut in the fall called ‘ Eastwick ’. It . . .
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September 16, 2009 02:13 PM EDT --
I looked up the new series based on ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ called ‘ Eastwick .’ For the last two days I have been thinking about this television version being something . . .
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August 24, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
Where da party at? Well friends, if you think four ne’er-do well brothers, a cranky controlling mother, a fortune lost, a house which burns down, a husband who commits suicide, and a dead child . . .
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September 22, 2007 07:39 PM EDT --
Finally, chick lit from across the Atlantic where the British heroine falls for an American dude! Get this, bonus points, she really likes his accent!
‘Little Lady, Big Apple’ . . .
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