Reading Anne Stuart’s Ice storm was a natural progression for me since I’ve been following this particular spy suspense series when it first debut with Black Ice.
This time round, it’s Ice Queen Isobel Lambert, the head of the committee who is being hunted down by an archenemy who wants her eliminated at all cost. Sent […]
Posted on July 19th, 2008 by ag
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I made a mistake by watching the movie first before I finished reading the multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed novel Atonement by Ian McEwan. Admittedly, the movie moved the story along a little faster, and intrigued me from the beginning with its casting of Keira Knightley as the lead actress, long before I set eyes on […]
Posted on June 24th, 2008 by ag
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The month of May was as much about celebrating differences as fantasy serials. The three paranormal/ fantasy romance reads I finished had relationships that involved protagonists who come from different worlds/ races and time/ century.
Elijah is the third in the Nightwalkers paranormal romance series by Jacquelyn Frank and boy did she have a bombshell of […]
Posted on June 16th, 2008 by ag
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This magnificent fantasy epic was first brought to my attention by Katie, who named them her Top 2007 reads. So, when I chanced upon the first two books of the series on a book buying binge, I swept them home and never regretted it.
Why? Lord of the Fading Lands and Lady of Light and Shadows deserve […]
Posted on May 14th, 2008 by ag
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My reading diet has been a little varied of late. I’ve swung from the star magic and mystery of Enchanter and Battleaxe to the desert rites of passage for would-be queen Anghara and the meddling of a ghostly poltergeist with romantic endings, and enjoyed every bit of it.
The only one which I have some misgivings […]
Posted on January 15th, 2008 by ag
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Forgive me the silence. The traveling, the projects piling up, and the pressure deadlines, are getting to me. But the reading and posting must go on nonetheless, so here are my reviews of two more books from a recent journey.
Mary Higgins Clark is another favourite suspense writer of mine and re-reading Moonlight Becomes You made […]
Posted on December 9th, 2007 by ag
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It’ll probably be no big surprise for you to hear that I enjoyed reading The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheevers by Julia Quinn and The Pleasure Trap by Elizabeth Thornton tremendously. In fact, I reread both books a week after finishing them just to relive certain well-written scenes in both books.
In The Secret Diaries, […]
Posted on November 24th, 2007 by ag
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What a good day it was for paranormal fans when Nalini Singh came up with this fantastic universe of Changelings and a psychic super race.
Having enslaved many fans with her serial debut, Slave to Sensation, the author has gone on to blaze a new path to bestselling success with the scorching Visions of Heat, and […]
Posted on September 16th, 2007 by ag
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