4.5 stars Maria Lopez runs a small niche blog where she imagines apocalyptic disaster scenarios and uses her comprehensive knowledge of science to figure out how to best try to avoid said scenarios. While it used to be just a hobby, and the blog wasn’t widely read, recently it’s getting a lot more visitors, and Maria has started getting actual job offers. She has kept her real identity closely guarded, so none of the people offering to hire her know that she’s a woman, working […]
Did Lisa Kleypas Need the Money? Did Her Publisher?
An addendum to Lisa Kleypas’s Capitol Theatre series, I Will is a very bad Christmas novella that Ellepkay suggested had been lying in a drawer at the author’s house for years. Dated in many elements, I had at first suspected it was ghost written, but a long abandoned manuscript makes more sense. Shortly after I began reading, I found myself wondering how I would feel about the book and quality of the writing if it didn’t have the Queen of Romance’s name on it. Admittedly, […]
Books! All the Books!
Thank you, thank you, thank you Mrs. Julien! I didn’t realize the other day that Katie totally gave us each other, but it’s worked out stupendously. I received a Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh the other day in ebook form (how I read most of my romances), and then came home yesterday to this lovely sight! I’ve wanted to read Uprooted for a couple of years now, and as a baker I love new cookbooks. Especially ones specifically designed for home baking at its best. […]
Rock Star? No, Thank You
Enh. Read The Game Plan instead. The first book in Kristen Callihan’s VIP Series, Idol features a hero who enters the story passed out drunk on the heroine’s lawn. It’s not an auspicious beginning and though Callihan is a good writer the story didn’t work for me. Admittedly, I read it months ago and am only reviewing it now, but let’s see what I remember about the book. The off-putting opening which involved a motorcycle and drunk driving. Killian has been through a trauma and […]