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Mis­sion Flats (Dell 2003) by William Lan­day is a crime fic­tion novel that I read and enjoyed sev­eral years ago. I rec­om­mended this book to Maili some time back and asked her if she read it, would she mind doing a review for me? So, here we are…enjoy.
Mis­sions Flats opens with the narrator’s vivid descrip­tion of a preg­nant woman […]

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ES Eter­nal Sab­bath (Del Rey 2006) writ­ten by Fuyumi Soryo (Mars), paper­back, 240 pgs, list price $10.95. Rated OT for older teens +16. Story com­pleted at 8 vol­umes and are cur­rently avail­able. This author also wrote Mars.
Wow, this is a fas­ci­nat­ing story about human exper­i­men­ta­tion gone awry. Ryousuke Akiba, the main pro­tag­o­nist, is a hacker. He’s a genetically […]

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Manhunting, Jennifer Crusie

by Avid Reader on January 21, 2010

in Book Reviews, Grade B Reviews, Romance

Man­hunt­ing (1993) by Jen­nifer Crusie, 288 pages, list price: $6.99 (B&N). That cover is of a reprint. I have in my hands the orig­i­nal, Har­le­quin Temp­ta­tion #463 from Sep­tem­ber 1993. Just what is up with boxer shorts on the cover,huh?
Crusie’s con­tem­po­rary romances are quite good. I say that only because I’ve had suc­cess with quite a few of […]

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Christa Faust, “Money Shot”

by Avid Reader on November 27, 2009

in Book Reviews, Grade B Reviews, Mystery

Money Shot by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime 2008). Ex-porn star, Angel Dare is hav­ing a really bad day. She arrives at a phony shoot and finds her­self beat up, shot at and then left for dead in the trunk of a car.
To make mat­ters worse, she doesn’t even know what the hell’s going on when she later […]

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When Love Isn’t Enough by Kath­leen Gilles Sei­del (1984) is a cat­e­gory romance apart of the Har­le­quin Amer­i­can Romance line, #80, paper­back pub­lished by Har­le­quin, 254 pgs. Theme is “mar­riage in trou­ble.”
Who doesn’t love see­ing two peo­ple find their way back to each other again? Explor­ing and reex­am­in­ing the path or conflict(s) that led them to […]

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I read the first vol­ume of ALIAS and was blown away by the story, the char­ac­ters and the art­work. The read­ing expe­ri­ence was unlike any­thing I’d ever read in the comic book world.
I mean the writer and artist seem so attuned to each other in their sto­ry­telling skills that the result of their efforts was […]

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