Category: Reviews

One Dance with a Duke (Stud Club #1) by Tessa Dare

[rating=3] Note to publisher: DUDES, if the author places a hefty chick in the lead role, PLEASE do not put a twiggy model on the book cover. It’s misleading, annoying, and leads to cognitive dissonance every time I pick up the book. “This can’t be what I was reading… my heroine had BIG MILKWAGONS. The […]

Room by Emma Donoghue

[rating=4] Riveting. Read this nearly in one sitting. Incredibly well crafted, ‘Room’ is a crazy but successful exercise in trying to inhabit the minds of people whose experience is far outside your own ken. I wonder if Emma Donoghue wrote this purely from reading reports of abductions, or if she interviewed women who have lived […]