I’m not going to talk about what it means to be romantic. That’s highly individual, and there are no shortcuts. If you want to know what your significant other likes or dislikes, ask! What I’m concerned with is the definition of romance in fiction, because sometimes I see it flung about in wide circles at […]
Author Archive: Christine
Expected Delays
Cassie Scott: ParaNormal Detective, is still coming soon, though perhaps not as soon as we’d hoped. I won’t have anything firm for a few weeks, but we’ve only just been able to get the cover artist we wanted, and he needs some time to complete his work. I have been waiting on a cover image […]
Book Review: The Age of Miracles
In this dystopian novel, we follow a young girl (12) named Julia in the months after the earth’s rotation begins to slow down. I keep seeing it referred to as a “coming of age story,” although I’m not convinced Julia made the transformation from child to adult during the course of the story. For me […]
Vote NO on Woman Suffrage
Yesterday, in the midst of all the election hubbub, I found myself going to Wikipedia to refresh my memory of the history of women’s suffrage. We gained the right to be full, deciding citizens of this nation in 1920, not even 100 years ago. Later in the evening, one of my Facebook friends shared this […]
Happy Election Day (US)
We are amazingly privileged to be citizens of the Untied States of America, and for so many reasons. We live in a society with advancements to make our lives easier, with educational opportunities to make the world fairer, and of course, with the world’s best military to keep us safe. We get all of that, […]
Fifty Shades
The Series: Fifty Shades of Gray Fifty Shades Darker Fifty Shades Freed Disclaimer: I did not read the final book in this series, Fifty Shades Frees. I lost interest in this series for the reasons described below. I have been uncertain about whether or not to review this book for my web site, but since […]
On Reforming the Rake
He’s handsome. He’s dashing. He has a certain magnetism that makes women flock to him in droves. And he doesn’t care about a single one of them, at least not until… Despite the popular myth painting romance readers as idiots, most of us know this for the fantasy it is. It works because it speaks […]
Book Review: Overbite
Overbite takes place six months after the events in Insatiable, in which Meena Harper falls in love with the prince of darkness (Dracula’s son) and they take out some bad guys. In this book, Meena is working for the Palentine Guards, a secret organization attached to the Vatican whose mission is to destroy vampires and […]
Running Wild by Linda Howard
Carlin Reed is on the run thanks to a stalker who thinks two dates means he owns her. He followed, called, broke into her apartment, and finally — when she ran to a new city to get away from him — killed her friend in a case of mistaken identity. Zeke is a Wyoming Rancher […]
Book Review: Whispers in the Dark
Nathan Kelly has hit rock bottom. Imprisoned, tortured, all hope gone, he’s ready for death to claim him when he hears an angel inside his mind. Only its not an angel, it’s a woman with psychic powers reaching out to him from the other side of the world. With her help, he escapes, returns to […]