Where Fiction and Reality Meet
I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact. – Hugh Grant P.S. – This not a review. This is only an observation. I’m freaking excited about this series. Do you remember The Monkees? No? Just me? Well, if you do, imagine The Monkees have traveled forty years into a future where cable... Continue Reading →
Hey, y’all!
I just read about this on Rhys Ford’s blog and thought I’d share. Woot! Birthday giveaway! :-)
She’s celebrating a big #0 birthday and is holding a giveaway! Go on and enter… wish her a happy hamster and get some cake!
Hey, y’all!
I just read about this on Rhys Ford’s blog and thought I’d share. Woot! Birthday giveaway! :-)
She’s celebrating a big #0 birthday and is holding a giveaway! Go on and enter… wish her a happy hamster and get some cake!
Title: Hunter of Demons Series: SPECTR: Book 1.1 Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: JordanLHawk.com Length: 108 Pages Category: Paranormal Fantasy Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. Well, color me cuckoo because here we are again, with another... Continue Reading →
Title: The Other Guy Author: Cary Atwell Publisher: Self-Published Length: 233 Pages Category: Contemporary Romance Rating: 4.5 Stars At a Glance: This book is charming and clever, and I adored it so much that I couldn’t put it down. In fact, I may just go ahead and read it again. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Emory... Continue Reading →
How about some cover art, yeah? Right or wrong, I'm going to be the first to admit I have a hard time not judging a book by its cover. Sometimes a beautiful cover will make me pick up a book I might otherwise not have, and on the other side of that coin, I know... Continue Reading →
Well, it's that time of year again, the time of year when we all wonder where the days and weeks and months have gone, the time to reflect on some of the great books we've read throughout the year, the time of year I scratch my head and wonder if I'll ever live long enough... Continue Reading →
“A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.” – Gore Vidal 3 is a book that surprised me. Why? Well, let’s just say it wasn’t exactly what I was expecting it to be when I started reading it. What I expected was the story of... Continue Reading →
“A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.” – Gore Vidal 3 is a book that surprised me. Why? Well, let’s just say it wasn’t exactly what I was expecting it to be when I started reading it. What I expected was the story of... Continue Reading →
Title: How to Repair a Mechanical Heart Series: Mechanical Hearts: Book One Author: J.C. Lillis Publisher: Self-Published Length: 298 Pages Category: YA Romance Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Just when I’ve become complacent in the belief there can’t possibly be any more original ways to tell me a coming-of-age story, J.C. Lillis happens along... Continue Reading →
“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.” – Kahlil Gibran Jake Landon and Kurt Carlson have been navigating the slippery slope of a relationship that Jake isn’t altogether sure how to maneuver through. Oh, there’s no question he loves Kurt, and Jake can say with almost utter certainty that Kurt loves him too,... Continue Reading →
“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.” – Kahlil Gibran Jake Landon and Kurt Carlson have been navigating the slippery slope of a relationship that Jake isn’t altogether sure how to maneuver through. Oh, there’s no question he loves Kurt, and Jake can say with almost utter certainty that Kurt loves him too,... Continue Reading →
“At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way.” – Hermann Hesse Michael Finnegan has been called a lot of things in his life: unorthodox, lax, a slutty nonconformist, which, when you’re standing in a man’s office with your fly unzipped and your naughty bits exposed after you’ve... Continue Reading →
“At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way.” – Hermann Hesse Michael Finnegan has been called a lot of things in his life: unorthodox, lax, a slutty nonconformist, which, when you’re standing in a man’s office with your fly unzipped and your naughty bits exposed after you’ve... Continue Reading →
I’ve read quite a few of Cornelia Grey’s short stories and have to say I believe her to be one of the most creative and versatile authors in the medium. I’ve read and loved everything from her, from contemporary to paranormal fantasy to steampunk to pirate adventure, and now she’s tackled the Old West in... Continue Reading →
I’ve read quite a few of Cornelia Grey’s short stories and have to say I believe her to be one of the most creative and versatile authors in the medium. I’ve read and loved everything from her, from contemporary to paranormal fantasy to steampunk to pirate adventure, and now she’s tackled the Old West in... Continue Reading →
Where nerves end, fear begins. Where nerves end, doubt exists. Where nerves end, caution rules. Where nerves end, there is touch, pain, the warmth and shiver of skin against skin, and that is the place Jason Davis and Michael Whitman begin. Where Nerves End is the first book in the Tucker Springs series (the second... Continue Reading →
Where nerves end, fear begins. Where nerves end, doubt exists. Where nerves end, caution rules. Where nerves end, there is touch, pain, the warmth and shiver of skin against skin, and that is the place Jason Davis and Michael Whitman begin. Where Nerves End is the first book in the Tucker Springs series (the second... Continue Reading →
Title: The Affair of the Porcelain Dog Series: The Ira Adler Series: Book One Author: Jess Faraday Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Length: 288 Pages Category: Historical, Mystery Rating: 4.5 Stars At a Glance: Sometimes happy endings are so evident they’re impossible to miss. Sometimes happy endings are so subjective that one hesitates even to call... Continue Reading →
Title: Dark Soul: Volume Five Author: Aleksandr Voinov Publisher: Self-Published (Second Edition) Length: 117 Pages Category: Mafia Romance, Dark Romance Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: Aleksandr Voinov was the master of my education, from start to finish. He led me by the senses and tweaked at my emotional boundaries; then, when he got me... Continue Reading →
It doesn’t take long to realize there’s something a little bit special about Landry Carter—from the manic highs to the frightening lows, from the dangerous impulses to the intense shifts in behavior that cause him to become aggressive one moment and submissive the next—Landry Carter is a bit like a butterfly in a jar, beautiful... Continue Reading →
Title: Dark Soul: Volume Four Author: Aleksandr Voinov Publisher: Self-Published (Second Edition) Length: 117 Pages Category: Mafia Romance, Dark Romance Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: This installment in the Dark Soul series felt like progress, but that's also a dangerous feeling; there's always a sense of one step forward and two steps back when... Continue Reading →
There’s been a bunch of political / social crap going through life over this past week. From the Komen disaster to the latest debacle of a Romance Writers of America Chapter, The Romance Writers Ink (RWI), refusing to include same-sex romances in their annual contest, it’s been a shit-shoveling on the brain kind of week.
I keep telling people; I’m not an activist. A lot of my friends disagree with this statement but hear me out. I don’t have the energy to be an activist. And I sure as hell don’t have the emotional energy to be a hardcore activist.
What I do believe I can do without sacrificing what little sanity I do have? Communicate the issues to others. And voice an opinion. Both in words and with money. I boycott the Boy Scouts’ fundraisers because of their policies on homosexuality and endorse the Girl Scouts for their support…
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Enemies & Shadows by Ginn Hale My rating: 4 of 5 stars Reading Enemies and Shadows was a little bit like standing in Hades and watching Sisyphus push his boulder uphill, seeing it strive toward its ultimate destination, holding your breath and hoping…only to have it roll back down to the bottom of the hill... Continue Reading →
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