Book Review: Lou Berney’s Gutshot Straight
All Charles “Shake” Bouchon has to do is deliver a “package”. A wholesome young housewife named Gina who’s run afoul of Dick “The Whale” Moby, a murderous 300-pound strip club owner.
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Book Review: Linda Wisdom’s Wicked By Any Other Name
A customer unhappy about a love charm brings wizard lawyer Trevor Barnes to town to sue Stasi Romanov, a witch running a lingerie shop with that oops of a sideline.
Book Review: Nora Roberts’ Alan * Grant
Combines two classic stories from the MacGregor family saga: “All the Possibilities” and “One Man’s Art.
Book Review: Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Fancy Pants
She was the most beautiful British bauble in Europe’s jet-set playground. Now she’s broke, furious, and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown. He was tall, lean, and All-American gorgeous. He liked his brews cold and women loved to keep him warm. So why is he stopping his car for this woebegone, surly Scarlett?
Book Review: Harry Connolly’s Game of Cages
As a wealthy few gather to bid on a predator capable of destroying all life on earth, the sorcerers of the Twenty Palace Society mobilize to stop them. All Ray has to do is survive until help arrives. But it may already be too late.
Book Review: Christine Feehan’s Darkest at Dawn
An anthology with one short and one long from Feehan’s Dark Saga series, revolving around two De La Cruz brothers in Brazil who find their lifemates.
Book Review: Shannon Hale’s Austenland
Jane Hayes is obsessed with Colin Firth’s portrayal of Mr Darcy from Price and Prejudice, and when she is gifted a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined.
Book Review: Orson Scott Card’s Shadows in Flight
A derelict Formic colony ship offers Bean and his three children the chance explore their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship’s colony.
Book Review: Orson Scott Card’s Shadow of the Giant
Bean, strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender’s defeat of the alien empire, and his wife, Petra, yearn for a safe place to build a family. Yet no such place exists on Earth, a world riddled with Bean’s enemies from the past. Once again he must follow in Ender’s footsteps and look to the stars.
Book Review: Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn’t so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature.