Title: The Down Home Zombie Blues Author: Linnea Sinclair Genre: Science Fiction Romance Stand Alone or Series: As of right now a stand alone novel, but hopefully there will be more? Summary: (from linneasinclair.com)In this steamy, suspenseful new thriller…
Joint Review
Title: Gabriel’s Ghost Author: Linnea Sinclair Genre: Sci-fi Romance Stand Alone or Series: Book one of a trilogy around the central characters Summary: (from amazon.com) After a decade of cruising interstellar patrol ships, former Captain Chasidah Bergren, onetime Pride…
Title: Dead Until Dark Author: Charlaine Harris Genre: Urban Fantasy Stand Alone/Series: Book 1 of Southern Vampire Mysteries Summary: (from amazon.com)Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn’t date much because…
(Not called “Book of the Month” because…well, we like doing joint reviews and can’t have more than one “Book of the Month” or the title loses significance, right? Right?) Title: Awesome Lavratt Author: Ann Wilkes Genre: Science Fiction Stand…
Title: Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer Series, book 1) Author: Karen Chance Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Stand alone or series: First in the Cassandra Palmer series Summary: (from Amazon.com) Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But…
Review number: 34 Review: OK, right. At some deeper level of consciousness I would agree with most of Thea’s points (the “Frag” thing was particularly eye-popping) but I ended up not caring about the bad and the ugly because…
I feel like such a Debbie Downer when it comes to these much buzzed over romance novels. But, I got nothing else if I ain’t honest, so here goes. Review Number: 27ish? Review: Grimspace by Ann Aguirre is the…
Loads of glowing reviews around blogland have prompted us to pick Grimspace for our Book of the Month feature and do a joint review. But, in the process of reading it we realized that whilst Ana was having a…
Title: Sunshine Author: Robin McKinley Review number: Ana’s 30th and Thea’s 24th Genre: (Urban) Fantasy, Horror Stand alone or series: Stand alone Summary: They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they…
Book of the Month: Lord of the Fading Lands
Each month Thea and I choose one book that we both review. Last month’s was The Time Traveler’s Wife and we read it because it was the choice of our book club. This month, we chose to read Lord…
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…
*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…
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…
Why did I read this book?: It was the chosen book of the month for our book club. Review: I start reading the book and I am immediately sucked into it. I find the first few chapters enchanting, the…
I guess I’ll begin with the regular spiel. Why did I read this book?: I have heard a LOT about this book from multiple sources, and all the reviews have been positive. That said, this is not a book…
Since Thea and I read different genres most of the time – Me, reading mostly Romance Novels and Thea reading mostly Sci-fi/Fantasy, although I can feel deep in my bones that she will turn into a voracious Romance reader…