From the monthly archives: February 2008

Book Review: Trickster’s Choice

By On February 13, 2008 · 3 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Trickster’s Choice

Author: Tamora Pierce

Review Number: 12

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult

Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Daughter of the Lioness duology; part of Tamora Pierce’s larger collection of work set in Tortall

Summary: (from amazon.com)
Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of [...]

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Book review: One Night for Love

By On February 12, 2008 · 2 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: One Night for Love

Author: Mary Balogh

Review Number: 14

Genre: Romance/ Historical

Stand alone or series: It is part a of series of books evolving around the same family/friends. This one being the first one can be [...]

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Book Review: Wonderful

By On February 10, 2008 · 2 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Wonderful

Author: Jill Barnett

Review number: 13

Genre: Romance / Medieval

Stand alone or series: This is a trilogy set in medieval times: Wonderful, Wild and Wicked. Each has a different knight as a protagonist – First is Merrick, then Roger, his friend at arms and third is Sir Tobin.

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Fried! An Interview with Joel A. Sutherland

By On February 8, 2008 · 5 Comments · In Chat With an Author

Joel A. Sutherland is a librarian, an editor and an author. He and his wife Colleen Morris are co-editors of the recently Book Smuggler reviewed Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths–a horror story anthology with some bite (Lame attempt at a pun, sorry). Fried! is a collection of 23 short stories, all [...]

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From Ana’s Dungeon

By On February 8, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Book Reviews, Dungeons

This episode’s unearthings: About a Boy, the book and the movie.

About a Boy by Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby is a great novelist who excels at writing about our moderns days; About the struggles to find oneself in this age and [...]

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Book Review: Stardoc

By On February 7, 2008 · 7 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Stardoc

Author: S.L. Viehl

Review Number: 11

Genre: Science Fiction

Stand alone or series: First in the Stardoc series (7 books total, with more in the works)

Summary: (from us.penguingroup.com)
Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil leaves Earth and accepts a position as a physician at Kevarzanga-2′s FreeClinic. Her surgical skills are [...]

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On the Defense: A Hunger Like no Other

By On February 6, 2008 · 4 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Debate, Book Reviews

Wow, Thea I had no idea you felt so passionate about the book. I just hope I can defend it as well as you attacked it.

Why did I read the book: I bought it ages ago after reading good reviews and it has been sitting on my TBR pile. After reading Twilight I decided [...]

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On the Attack: A Hunger Like No Other

By On February 6, 2008 · 2 Comments · In 3 Rated Books, Book Debate, Book Reviews

*cracks knuckles*

Why did I read this book: It had overwhelmingly positive reviews on virtually every site, and having read another so-called paranormal romance (Bitten by Kelley Armstrong) and loved it, I decided to give this one a try…despite the hideous cover art and embarrassing summary.

Review:

I suppose you could say that I [...]

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Book Debate: A Hunger Like No Other

By On February 6, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Book Debate, Book Reviews

Recently, Ana finished reading A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole, and loved it. On the other hand, I had read the book and despised it. Since this is too good an opportunity to pass up, we decided to bust out the gloves and have a formal pro/con debate.

Title: A Hunger Like No [...]

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Book Review: Twilight

By On February 5, 2008 · 9 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Twilight

Author: Stephenie Meyer

(this is one of the prettiest covers I have ever seen)

Review Number: 11

Genre: Paranormal/Young Adult/Romance

Stand alone or series: The first in a series. Followed so far by New Moon and Eclipse. Breaking the Dawn is in the works.

Summary: Amazon.co.uk says When 17 [...]

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