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: Spies
January 16, 2012 | Monday | 20 Comments
I found this book to be fun and fast paced and easy to jump in and out of, with a pretty good balance of emotion, drama, action, humor and tension between the main characters. I liked the heroine and the hero, I wanted them to figure out a way to be happy and together, and I loved their scenes together. In the larger context of the mystery they were trying to solve, I cared more about them than their progress in solving the case. Adrian, Lord Smythe, is a spy known as Wolf. His wife, Sophia, is also a spy,…
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October 30, 2010 | Saturday | 34 Comments
Rani writes in asking for help with a book she read 10 years ago, or thereabouts: It has been driving me crazy not being able to recall this book. Please, please post this to your readers so I can finally get some relief. Read it about 10 years ago and it’s stuck with me this whole time. It’s 1800s. Girl somehow ends up in the spying business. She has a spymaster, who was the guy she ends up falling for. The thing that stood out was that they were in a location that I wasn’t used to in romance novels. …
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December 16, 2009 | Wednesday | 13 Comments
When I saw the news on Twitter that Salon Magazine picked Barry Eisler’s Fault Line as a top book of 2009, I realized I’d been a complete slacker and hadn’t reviewed it, though I read the book in a gulping, cringing marathon of reading. I’ve been pondering books that have The Crack in them - you cannot put them down - and this was definitely one for me. First, a few warnings. It’s not a romance, but it’s tense and packed with elements that are so realistically drawn that they could be possible - which is a key element in…
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September 21, 2009 | Monday | 23 Comments
Lena writes: I’ve been thinking about some of the books I loved as a teen and was hoping you or your readers can help me with the titles and authors. I want to read them again and either relive the magic or mock myself for having such lousy tastes. Book #1: It’s a time travel romance where the heroine, a nurse, puts on an antique hat and ends up somewhere in the South during the Civil War. She ends up working and falling in love with a widowed(?) doctor, and ends up having to marry him for some reason. There’s…
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