Desert Isle Keeper
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Stephen King once said that publishers disliked novellas because they “they were too long to be short and too short to be really long.” And it’s not just publishers, is…
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Too Deep for Tears Trilogy
The three reviews of the books in this trilogy made me want to take a week off from life and read these books. Here’s the link to all three…
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The Trespasser
In early summer of 2007, I picked up a mystery at the Regulator Bookshop. The cover was mildly menacing, black letters embellished with sharp pointed green branches spelled out Tana French In the Woods. From the…
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The Invisible Circus
Jennifer Egan’s a storied writer. She won the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2011 for Welcome to the Goon Squad. Her writings appear regularly in the…
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Marrying Winterborne
Marrying Winterborne the second book in Lisa Kleypas’s dearly anticipated Ravenels series, begins with Lady Helen Ravenel calling on Rhys Winterborne, a man to whom she was briefly engaged. As…
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The Slow Burn of Silence
When does something begin and end? The ripples from a stone cast into a pond, do they start with the smoothness of the pebble that first attracts the eye, the…
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Edge of Obsession
I began the book the evening I downloaded it and stayed up until after one, unable to put it down until I got to its end. Yes. I read Edge…
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Loud Is How I Love You
Don’t fuck anyone in the band.This is rule number one of being in a band, and it’s especially true when you’re the only girl. Which means whatever I’m doing with…
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The Legend of Lyon Redmond
On page seven of Julie Anne Long’s The Perils of Pleasure, published in 2008, is this: For ’tis said an Eversea and a Redmond are destined to break each other’s hearts once…
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Luck Be a Lady
Welcome to our Pandora’s Box on Meredith Duran’s Luck Be a Lady. They call her the “Ice Queen.” Catherine Everleigh is London’s loveliest heiress, but a bitter lesson in heartbreak…
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If You Only Knew
Traditionally, the Happily Ever After in romance is that of my generation’s favorite childhood chant. “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage.” What marriage…
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Tress
Earlier this year I read and fell head over heels over head over heels in readerly love with Larissa Brown’s Beautiful Wreck. (Melanie’s DIK review is here.) Ms. Brown was…
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