Relationships/Women’s Lit
By Bob Cherny on May 13, 2012
Amber finds a genie named Jasper standing in front of her fireplace having just extricated himself from the samovar on her mantle. Think about that for a second. The book is full of stuff like that. Things go downhill from there in a hurry. Many of the world’s best comedians say that comedy is the hardest art form. Lauren Sweet has made it look easy. The book is funny throughout. She makes some of the jokes pay multiple times without their seeming tired. I laughed on almost every page. Some of the jokes work on multiple levels and pay on all of them.
Posted in Relationships/Women's Lit, Robert H. Cherny, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged aladdin's samavar, genie adventure, genie fiction, lauren sweet |
By Shannon Yarbrough on March 19, 2012
Being a dog lover and owner myself, I had high hopes for Joel Robitaille’s book, A Dog’s Religion. It’s a bit of a coming-of-age story with its lead character working in an animal shelter which provides a catalyst for his outlook on life, while outside the shelter we become wrapped up in his personal life involving girlfriends and various other pals.
Posted in Relationships/Women's Lit, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged a dog's religion, animal fiction, animal shelter fiction, dog fiction, dog romance, joel robitaille, relationship fiction |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on February 10, 2012
I loved this book. I tried to think of another way to start this review, but that is the overwhelming thing that comes to mind. Reading Molly Hacker Is Too Picky! is like getting together with an old friend you haven’t seen for a while and catching up on all that has happened in her life during the past year.
Posted in LK Gardner-Griffie, Relationships/Women's Lit | Tagged books, comedy, dating, friendship, Lisette Brodey, LK Gardner-Griffie, Molly Hacker, Molly Hacker Is Too Picky!, new york, review, romantic comedy, she-devil, snark, women's fiction |
By Shannon Yarbrough on February 2, 2012
Though I am a gay male and admit I have never read any lesbian erotica, I was more than willing to give Ms. West’s short story “Night Train To Florence” a try after having read her novel The Leaving just a few months ago. West wrote it with pure perfection when it came to good story telling and strong characters, so I expected her shorter work to be no different and I truly was not disappointed.
Posted in Relationships/Women's Lit, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged gabriella west, lesbian erotica, lesbian fiction, lesbian short story, night train to florence |
By Dan Marvin on January 25, 2012
Robin Nolet’s book starts out with a very applicable quote from Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement in the same circle. We never would have chosen these neighbors; life chose them for us. But thrown together on this island of living, we stretch to understand each other, and are invigorated by the stretching. In The Shell Keeper, the island is the Colorado skiing town of Blue River and the shells tossed on the beach are Gwen, Claire, and Del. Thrown together by tides they cannot fathom, the women find a common thread that brings them together as friends despite their best intentions to remain strangers.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Relationships/Women's Lit | Tagged beach fiction, robin p. nolet, the shell keeper, women fiction, women's lit |
By Shannon Yarbrough on January 22, 2012
Every once in a while there’s a book that almost gets away, especially when you are like me and read and review mostly indie or small press titles. I just can’t read them all. That’s almost what happened to Lara McLaughlin’s Alabaster Houses which was first queried to me last October. Other reviewers passed on it, but there was something in this book that made me pick it. And now I’m glad I did.
Posted in Relationships/Women's Lit, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged alabaster houses, good women's literature, lara mclaughlin, muslim fiction, women's fiction |
By Shannon Yarbrough on January 9, 2012
Normal young women go on dates on Saturday nights. Betty “Boo” Boorman goes on ghost hunts. The paranormal investigator is more comfortable around ghosts than guys, anyway. A violent haunting forces Betty to team up with her rival ghost hunter, the arrogant Carter Lansford. When the violence is turned toward her, though, Betty enlists the help of a handsome stranger, who introduces himself simply as Maxwell, Demon.
Posted in Horror/Supernatural, Relationships/Women's Lit, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged Beth Dolgner, demon fiction, demon romance, Ghost of a Threat, ghost romance, paranormal fiction, paranormal romance |
By Dan Marvin on January 5, 2012
I selected The Brevity of Roses to review based on the Amazon preview. It intrigued me because it was well written and made me wonder what happened next. I wasn’t disappointed once I read the whole book, it remained well written and hard to put down.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Relationships/Women's Lit | Tagged brevity of roses, linda cassidy lewis, modern romance |
By Shannon Yarbrough on January 1, 2012
It’s not often that I read a book that stays with me. By “staying with me” I mean I think about it and the characters long after finishing the last page. I can recall the events that took place, and often every character’s name, as if they were real pages from my own life story and real people that I know and love. A book like this is usually one that I consistently suggest to other readers that I know will appreciate it as much as I did. Appalachian Justice by Melinda Clayton is all of this.
Posted in Literary, Relationships/Women's Lit, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged appalachian fiction, appalachian justice, lesbian fiction, melinda clayton, mining fiction, southern fiction, vanilla heart publishing |
By Sunni Morris on November 30, 2011
A group of exchange students meet up in turbulent Spain to spend seven months working there. We get to know them as they navigate a foreign country amid all the chaos and random attacks. However we never learn the backgrounds of the other interns even though we know they are full of enthusiasm and a sense of adventure.
Posted in Mystery/Suspense, Relationships/Women's Lit, Sunni Morris | Tagged band of gypsies, enrico antiporda, romantic thriller, spanish fiction, spanish love story, sunni morris |
