Short stories have a different sort of appeal to them than novels do, but you get just as much satisfaction from them. Besides, it takes a certain amount of skill and style to get a reader invested in a character or plot in such a limited number of words. Oddly enough, when I want to... Continue Reading →
Usually, it's the plot that draws me into a book or book's summary. I'm not sure why that is; I've just always been a plot-driven reader. That's not the case with The Dating Alternative, by Jennifer Woodhull, however. With this book's summary, it's entirely Max's character that drew me in--and that continued when I read... Continue Reading →
There were a lot of things that drew me into the summary of Cynthia Rayne's Under Your Spell, including the promise of voodoo, a Bayou setting, and some heated romance between the two main characters. Altogether, they create this wonderfully tantalizing atmosphere that I just can't wait to delve into. Today, we get a bigger... Continue Reading →
There are books that fit firmly into their assigned genre, and then there are books that fit firmly into their assigned genre. False Memory, by Meli Raine, is definitely one of the latter. The book is tagged as a suspense, and, based on its summary and today's teasers, it easily earns its place in the genre. I'm... Continue Reading →
I've occasionally mentioned that I don't always know what, exactly, draws me into a book's summary. That isn't at all the case with Ani Gonzalez's Hex Marks the Spot. There were a few key phrases that locked me in as soon as I read them: The main character's hometown is the "Most Haunted in America";... Continue Reading →
Miranda Burski 