ROB Review: Immortal by Traci L. Slatton

Sybil's review of Immortal by Traci L. Slatton
Historical fiction released 29 Jan 08 by Delta

I honestly have NO clue what not only had me open this book but read it in just about one sitting. Although it might have had something to do with having just read The Opposite of Love by Julie Buxbaum and needing something completely different to get me to stop thinking about it. Or it could be that it came in the same day, I am lazy, and it was close at hand.

Like that shocks anyone... with that here is our next ROB Review brought to you by the letter S and the number 2. Read more

Tags: 2008, Delta, Grade C, Historical, Immortal, January 2008, Review, ROB Review, Sybil, Traci L. Slatton

Review: The Opposite of Love by Julie Buxbaum

Sybil's review of The Opposite of Love by Julie Buxbaum
Fiction published Jan 08 from The Dial Press Hardcover

Contemporary, mainstream fiction, first person pov, hardcover novel that arrived with a nifty press release telling me of all the nifty reasons, highly contested auction debut novel, The Opposite of Love needs to be read. People it is "...heartbreakingly poignant, funny, and undeniably moving..."

My first thought was "Has Gwen done anything to annoy me lately..." What? You read the summary Read more

Tags: Fiction, Hardcover, January 2008, Julie Buxbaum, ROB Review, Sybil, The Dial Press Hardcover, The Opposite of Love

ROB Reviews

I have been reading a ton of 'not my normal kind of reads' lately. I thought about not reviewing them but something made me read them. So where I may have loved some, been eh about some and was very WTF about others they still seem to be worth talking about.

One I invested the time in them, two you might like them and three some of them I liked. So in my ever ongoing quest to drive Gwen and Bev crazy I decided these reviews needed a title! Cuz... uh... I had a reason but it was so long ago I forget. But we decided on ROB Reviews: why you ask?

ROB = Reading Outside (your) Box

go with it

But then I decided eh screw it, why name it? Cuz a review is a review is a review. Right? Thinking about this, which yes I did for a while as normal, it dawned on me that I really have no 'normal kind of read'. So where all of these aren't romance, well we never said we JUST reviewed romance, did we? hmmm well if I did I lied. Sorry... tis a woman's prerogative to change her mind... right?

What do you think? Do you have a 'normal' kind of read? I EXPECT and WANT and get really really really PISSY if the label of the book lies to me. But other than that... if it is historical fiction, I don't expect a HEA. But I do like them, sadly people tend to die though. Bastards.

Do you stick to 'just' romance? I tend to go in cycles for a while I read only smut, I know shocking, and when I say smut I mean that in the nicest way. Jackie Collins type books, le sigh I still own Rockstar, haven't read it in forever but I still have it. For a while it was Anne Rice, back when she didn't suck and did horror. Man I loved me some Witching Hour. One year was crime type novels, loved Faye Kellerman, Dennis Lehan and Jonathon Kellerman.

Than I fell into a ::manyyearsnotgonnathinkaboutit:: fanfic habit and didn't read too many books at all. Then I fell in love with Historical Romance. A fanfic writer who I adore and beta'ed many a fic for (hey mishy!) rec'ed and rec'ed and rec'ed and rec'ed... until I gave the hell in a book she loved.

After reading Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale... well the rest is history. Or I guess my story. So I am thinking we don't really need a label to say YO this might not be romance or what we NORMALLY read right now. What do you think? Do you want to know? Would a tag help you know if it might be something you want to read?

Do you ever step outside of the romance box? If so what do you like? What other places do you visit?

Tags: reviews on reviews, ROB Review, Sybil