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Book Review: The Magician’s Guild

The Magician’s Guild by Trudi Canavan is the first in the Black Magician’s Trilogy, although trilogy is perhaps the wrong word, since after the publication of the three, Canavan published a prequel and then a subsequent standalone novel. Regardless of the time frame, The Magician’s Guild is the one readers will want to take on first. Canavan creates a wonderful fantasy world devoid of the...

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Book Review: Me and My Ghoulfriends

When I first saw the write-up for Me and My Ghoulfriends, a paranormal romance by Rose Pressey, I wasn’t sure what to think. “There’s always fun to be had on a ghoul’s night out. By day, Larue Donavan is a down-to-earth bookstore owner. But by night, she’s a world-renowned psychic investigator dedicated to helping lost spirits find peace. Dead people won’t leave...

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Book Review: The Black Ice

Having read the first book in this series by Michael Connelly, I really wanted to like The Black Ice . But 5 chapters in and I’m looking for any excuse to find something else to do rather than finish the second book featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch. I think what’s getting me is the cliché of cop who knows the right thing to do, but the brass upstairs just won’t let him do his job....

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Books: Chemistry In Death

There are primarily two types of books I read: gory crime books and sci-fi/fantasy. I like my crime books full of forensic details and smart cops. The crazier the psychopath murderer, the better. So, yeah, Criminal Minds is my favourite TV show by far. I just finished reading Chemistry In Death by Simon Beckett. It’s about a forensic pathologist who loses his wife and daughter and out of dismay,...

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Review: Would-Be Witch

Have you ever read a book that made you want to have coffee with the author, just so you could gush like a fan-girl about how wonderful it was? Have you ever read a book that made you want to have coffee with the characters? I read this book over the weekend: Would-be Witch by Kimberly Frost I’m trying to think how to describe the experience. I want to get this right, because I want you to read this...

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Review: Ripping the Bodice

Ripping the Bodice is an erotic romance by Inara Lavey (It falls more heavily on the romance than the erotic, but that was fine with me… I like a book where the story is more important than the sex.) Got sex and romance on the brain? So does Cassandra Devon. She also has hard-boiled private eyes, dashing pirates, jet-setting super spies and other sexy rogues entertaining her in her surprisingly...

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Review: Haunted Seduction

I picked up Haunted Seduction by Morgan James on the recommendation of a friend.  Wow, what a read.  Although this novel is erotica, the sex isn’t the driving force of the plot, but neither is it gratuitous. I’d say James got this just right, and that isn’t easy to do in erotica. A fame-seeking, jealous photographer gets trapped in a haunted amusement park.  It isn’t ghosts she...

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Review: Appetite for A Good, Sexy Book

I have added 77 ebooks to my reader in the past 6 months.  I’ve read most of them.  There are romance and erotica, mysteries, sci-fi, fantasy and I’ve even read one or two things that have been dubbed as classics and a couple of non-fiction books on writing. Out of these, I’d say only a handful, a bare dozen perhaps, could really be described as “good reads”.  The rest were...