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Review: Petals in the Wind by V.C. Andrews

March 19, 2010

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Review: Petals in the Wind by V.C. Andrews

When we last saw the Dollagangers, they were escaping the attic in which they were locked up for almost four years, plotting revenge against their evil mother, and incest-kissing like it’s going out of style (has it ever ever been in style? No, it has never been in style). With their little sister Carrie in [...]

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Review: Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

March 17, 2010

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Review: Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

I’ve never been a particularly religious person. Growing up a Catholic Filipino-American, my exposure to church was my mother dragging me out of bed at the crack of why-am-I-awake on a Sunday, making me put on a skirt, and forcing me to sit on a pew for a whole hour listening to some guy in [...]

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Review: Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

March 6, 2010

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Review: Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Once upon a time, in a mansion deep in the heart of the South, a beautiful blond princess borne to a heartless, cold woman and a cold, soulless man, fell illicitly in love with a beautiful blond prince. This beautiful blond prince happens to be the very much younger half-brother of her father, which makes [...]

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Review: Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas

December 8, 2009

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Review: Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas

I’m really not sure how to review this book. Lisa Kleypas is an auto-buy for me (though I haven’t yet tried her contemporary stuff) and I normally enjoy her tortured, damaged, will-do-anything-to-have-heroine heroes, but there was something about this particular hero that made me go, “whoa, buddy, say what?” Immediately after finishing this book, my [...]

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Review: First Comes Marriage by Mary Balogh

April 16, 2009

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Review: First Comes Marriage by Mary Balogh

Grade: B- I accidentally grabbed this book from the pile I have on the passenger seat of my car—I meant to grab the Kleypas one— and didn’t realize my mistake until I was sitting in the waiting room of my doctor’s office. Because I didn’t want to go down ten floors on the elevator, walk [...]

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