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: Angst
April 27, 2011 | Wednesday | 5 Comments
This RITA® Reader Challenge review was written by Steph, who is reading like a mad fiend and loading up her Kindle before she is deployed again. The synopsis: Restless souls and empty hearts Brooklyn can’t sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca, died only a year ago, and now her friend Gabe has just died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe’s ghost is there waiting for her. She has no idea what he wants or why it isn’t Lucca visiting her dreams. Nico can’t stop. He’s always running, trying to escape the pain of losing his brother, Lucca. But…
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April 14, 2011 | Thursday | 108 Comments
I will state upfront that I had an ulterior motive for reading this book. I read it for the anal. Yup, you read that right. Blazing anal. Blazing the Hershey highway. Firing up the backdoor action. Hot poop chute lovin’. Avast me hearties, there be anal in this novel. While at RT, I heard about this book from Andrew Schaeffer, who reviews the Blaze line for RT Book Reviews. You should have seen my face. I absolutely did not believe him. But no, there is anal. He even says so in his review. I was hoping to like the story,…
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March 24, 2011 | Thursday | 25 Comments
Hello Geeks, it is time once again for my monthly review of something geeky and romantic. This month I read Across the Universe, to determine whether or not it is a Romance Novel, capital R, capital N, by which I mean a story in which the love story is the main focus and a happy ever after is reached. I was drawn to this novel for two reasons. First, it’s a fairly new release that got a lot of buzz when it came out in January of this year. Second, it just screams “Teen Angst Romance”. The front cover has…
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February 02, 2011 | Wednesday | 68 Comments
It could have been worse. When people ask me if I’m “Into Star Wars”, I say, “Yes, absolutely”. But when I say “Star Wars”, I mean, “Star Wars: A New Hope”, “The Empire Strikes Back”, and “Return of the Jedi”. I saw the first two prequels but am convinced they were a hallucination brought on by bad popcorn. I’ve never seen the Clone Wars. And I’ve never read a Star Wars novel. But for you, dear bitches, I braved the novelization world to review The Courtship of Princess Leia. I figured a novel about Han and Leia’s romance would either…
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January 03, 2011 | Monday | 135 Comments
While I was gazing at my own navel the other day (and the stretch marks along side of it) I started thinking about where my own standard of beauty originated, and how the romances I read may have influenced my concept of the female ideal. What, you don’t think about that while getting dressed? OK, it was more along the lines of, “My chest wouldn’t fit in a single one of those bodices without ripping,” but that spun out into standards and ideals. I think there’s good and bad parts to the female standard in romance novels. Among the good…
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February 11, 2010 | Thursday | 36 Comments
From Mara, a wardrobe malfunction about to happen: I’d like to appeal to the collective knowledge of the Bitchery. I’m looking for a book (a Harlequin, I believe) that I read in the mid-to-late 90’s or early 00’s. It was about a pair of twins (identical, of course) separated in toddlerhood by divorcing parents. The story follows the twin who ended up with Mom, who later remarried, I think she grows up in Florida? In the States for certain. She is a model whose career is destroyed when she is in a car accident and has to relearn how to…
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January 10, 2010 | Sunday | 61 Comments
Jac asks for your help: I am in need of some help ladies! I read a book way long ago in the dark teenage years and am aching to re-read it. The only problem…I have no idea who wrote it, who published it, or any of the other important names (main characters, title, location etc.) But all is not lost; I feel it’s fairly identifiable based on a wondrous sex scene that shocked my teenage sensibilities to their prudish little toes! So there is angry sex all over this book, and one scene involves a champagne bottle. He is angry…
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September 17, 2009 | Thursday | 31 Comments
Once, long ago, I had a guy friend ask me out to dinner. Now, we were pretty much “just friends”, but I thought he was sweet and cute and I enjoyed his company, so I happily agreed to what sounded rather date-like (especially since he told me to dress “nice”). Off we went, with him telling me that where we were going was a “surprise”. Then we pulled up in front of a church. I asked him why we were stopping and he said he needed to run in really quick and asked if I would mind coming along. Once…
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September 15, 2009 | Tuesday | 22 Comments
As Harlequin very generously offered a book voucher as part of the Sony e-Reader test drive, I decided to use it to break out of my preferred romance genre (long historicals) and try some short contemporaries. I hadn’t read a contemporary in years, so I figured the best way to re-introduce myself to the genre was to try some random compendiums and the Blaze series seemed to be about the furthest away from my usual preferences as possible. For the most part, they were enjoyable, but fairly forgettable (kind of like the McDonalds of romantic fiction really). However, there was…
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June 17, 2009 | Wednesday | 146 Comments
I ended up with two ARCs of Victoria Dahl’s One Week as Lovers, her August release from Kensington. (Thanks, Kensington!) Given that Dahl’s heroines are usually on the neurotic, often-stalked side, and her heroes are often a bit tortured, let’s talk damage, shall we? What’s your favorite or most enjoyed form of heroine neurosis, or hero damage? Conversely, what tortured devices make you want to throw things? Me: I’m a total sucker for forbidden attraction, when one character’s personal code, no matter how flawed that code may be, will absolutely not allow them to act on what is one hell…
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January 18, 2009 | Sunday | 37 Comments
First, thank to N. and Brandyllyn for sending me the second best line to ever appear on the internet, right after “I’m in ur ass, savin ur life.” Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog reads an episode of Tarot and the best thing to ever happen to my day occurs at the bottom. Enjoy. Seriously. Not work safe, but fuck that, it’s Sunday. And suppose you need a getaway for the holiday weekend (if you’re in the US and in a state that grants Monday off), consider the FantaSuites hotel chain, located in Wisconsin, Indiana, and, my favorite, Bumsville, Minnesota. (Bums? Oh, yah,…
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January 14, 2009 | Wednesday | 67 Comments
Have you ever wondered to yourself, “Self, I wonder what Sarah thinks about at 6:40 am before she’s had caffeine?” Well, wonder no more. Here’s a sample! Following the discussion during our last liveblog about the use of the word “prostate” during a sex scene in K.A. Mitchell’s Custom Ride, I got to thinking about the word “prostate.” Within the context of m/m romance and sex scenes, the prostate is big pimpin, as stimulation thereof can yield mad happy pants, if you know what I’m saying. Yet the discussion we had questioned the use of the word itself, since it’s…
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November 08, 2008 | Saturday | 9 Comments
Today is a super busy day in my world (Freebird is 3?! How the CRAP did that happen!?) but I still manage to grab 10 minutes at the laptop. I noticed that I’m very much a mood swing reader, in that I’ll glom onto a particular type of romance, then turn radically in a different direction. For awhile, I’ve been feasting on contemporaries: novellas, suspense mysteries, humorous, but straight up contemporary. Now? Historical?! YUMMY. I deviated from the line up of the TBR pile (for which I am giving myself a very hard time) and taking a side route through…
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