Review: Master of the Highlands by Veronica Wolff

Gwen's review of Master of the Highlands by Veronica Wolff
Timetravel romance released by Berkley Sensation 5 Feb 08

I like a good historical.  I like a good paranormal.  Mix them together and I'm a pretty happy little camper.  Timetravels generally give me the best of both worlds.  When timetravel is done well (such as K.M.Moning's Beyond the Highland Mist, still my fave), it's pure escapist entertainment that a reader can lose themselves in.  When it's done poorly, it's painful to read and stretches suspension of disbelief - a critical element with timetravels - beyond its tensile strength.  This book falls somewhere between the two extremes.

[Side note:  The author's site is very pretty - takes a bit to load and uses Flash, but very pretty pictures.  Warning - the site plays music, but at least you can toggle it off.]

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Review: Five eBook “Lightning Reviews”

These are reviews of five short, erotic titles from various publishers, in various flavors. They are a bit too short to review on their own without the review being almost as long as the story, so I have put together five "Lightning Reviews." 

Read on if you're wearing rubber soled shoes...

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Review: Sundial by Carrie Lofty

Alicia Thomas's review of Sundial by Carrie Lofty
Time travel short story ebook published Dec 07  by Wild Rose Press

Sundial is a short story, only 67 pages and is the first thing I've read from Wild Rose Press.

The biggest factor in Sundial is the style. The whole feel of this story is disjointed but in an artsy kind of way. It's like Picasso does time-travel romance. I enjoy some of the weird IFC movies, etc., so once I figured out what I was reading I enjoyed it. I did have immediate negative reaction, though, and had to come up from there. Read more