I like reading about vampires probably more than most, Twilight notwithstanding, but this series really tested my patience with its obnoxious protagonist Betsey. She is having the worst day at the start of this book. She loses her job, gets into a wreck and wakes up alive in the funeral home. The first thing she notices is that she’s wearing a tacky suit and bad shoes. Not at all like her closet of designer things. She doesn’t really freak out, but instead goes home as […]
What happens when the one who got away comes back? Well, I’ll have less sympathy with you when you’re the reason he got away in the first place.
SPOILER WARNING! There are some plot spoilers in this review, as I found it impossible to express my feelings without going into specific plot details. Rachel has just broken up with Rhys, her boyfriend of fourteen years, who she’d been dating since University. Once they got into an argument about what band to have at their wedding, it became obvious to her that they really didn’t have a future together, and she’s been staying with him more out of habit than anything else. Now they […]
An affront to everything that makes books good.
I can’t remember the last time I have not finished a book. I don’t know that I have ever not finished a book. But I did not finish this one, Cannonballers. This book was very similar to the entire Fifty Shades trilogy which — lest you wonder — I did finish. I read up to page 111 of The Sweet Spot, and I will spoil the content that happened up to that point, which shouldn’t upset you because you will not want to read this […]
When matricide isn’t an option
Bet Me had a pair of horrible, horrible mothers. I finished the book a few weeks ago, and moreso than many other details, the utter heinousness of both the hero and the heroine’s mothers sticks with me. I’ve met supercilious and cold women like the hero’s mother, so she was at least someone who I believe exists on the planet, but Minerva Dobbs — our heroine — is cursed, having been born of the nastiest caricature of a human. If this story is to be […]
All Fall Down
Jennifer Weiner has written some of my favorite books and is one of the authors who really introduced me to “chick lit.” She has shown me no reason to stop being faithful to her and I tend to pre-order all her novels. Allison Weiss is a mommy blogger who has it all, or at least she has it all on paper. She is married to a man who has become more of a roommate and her 5-year-old daughter is sensitive to every little thing. When […]
Has anyone ever told you that you haggle divinely? That the simple beauty of your self-interest is enough to bring a man to his knees?
This is the fourth book in the series, and as such, not the best place to start reading. This review will also contain some spoilers for book 3, The Deception of the Emerald Ring, so skip this review if you’re not up to date. Despite being one of the acclaimed beauties of the ton, Miss Mary Alsworthy is facing her third season. The only actual marriage proposals she’s received were from unsuitable candidates, and her attempt to secure a rich husband failed spectacularly when her intended […]
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