Spy Novels and Reintroducing Characters

I finished reading Daniel Silva’s latest Gabriel Allon thriller The Defector last night, and I wanted to talk about it. If you’re reading this blog, you probably know I don’t represent thrillers, but I do enjoy reading them, and Silva is one of those authors I like to keep up with.
With a multi-book series [...]

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Do I Grade on a Curve?

So I recently finished reading Sophie Kinsella’s novel Twenties Girl, which I enjoyed (and stayed up late finishing), though I felt it suffered, at first, from some of the same problems I find in Kinsella’s insanely popular Shopaholic series. Namely, that the main characters seems SO CLUELESS at times that you want to reach [...]

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Recent Reads: Bed of Roses

I devoured the first book in Nora Roberts‘ new “Bride Quartet” a few months ago, and last week, did the same with Book Two, Bed of Roses. There’s a reason Roberts is the Queen of Romance, people: even when it seems like her stories are simple love stories, she always manages to add some [...]

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Ask, and Ye Shall Receive!

You guys are rocking my world with all your comments on the previous post. I’m going to keep the contest running for one more day, and will announce the winner of either Maureen Johnson’s new novel Scarlett Fever or Josie Bloss‘ forthcoming Albatross on Thursday. So keep commenting! And don’t worry about [...]

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Recent Reads: City of Bones

As per my promise, yesterday I finished City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, and can’t wait to start on the next book in the series! I definitely felt like the world of the Shadowhunters was a very full one, and hope that later books explore it even more, so I get a better sense [...]

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