What happens when a dashing lord meets a lovely lady, and both are swimming in a sea of secrets and doubt? Delicious banter, a touching romance capped by sizzling sex and a satisfyingly sigh-worthy ending. Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord“by Sarah MacLean surpassed my expectations as a sweet, original follow-up to [...]

A lushly drawn tale with believable characters, a sweet romance with a good dose of intrigue and a satisfying ending, Tessa Dare’s One Dance with a Duke fits the bill.

Trussoni weaves a roaring, intellectual ride that sucks you in, revealing a touching, well-researched story filled with Bible lore, historical legend and lingering myth.

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel is “a true-life novel,” the life story of Lily Casey Smith, writer Jeannette Walls’s grandmother. It begins in Texas during Lily’s childhood before World War I and ends with the birth of Jeannette Walls. If Walls intended to write a Great American Novel, she succeeded.
Half Broke Horses [...]

The Opposite of Me: A Novel, Sarah Pekkanen’s debut novel, was one of those books I wanted to like but was worried I wouldn’t. The conclusion seemed so obvious: workaholic less-pretty twin Lindsey Rose is fired from her New York City advertising job and moves to her childhood home (and Pekkanen’s current home) in Bethesda, [...]

Long before Robyn Okrant began Living Oprah, author Cathy Alter used the wisdom of the almighty O – and 13 other women’s glossies – to fix her shipwrecked life.  At age 37, Cathy was working a toxic job, eating her lunch out of vending machines, severely in debt and partying recklessly, all while cavorting with [...]

This is how busy Andrea Rodgers is: Not only do I review the newish books that publishers send to us occasionally, but I also review the books she has had on her shelves and hasn’t managed to get to yet. Which is how I came to be reviewing Candace Bushnell’s novel, Lipstick Jungle, a year [...]

For the past four months, I’ve been obsessed with an internet “chick lit” book about divorce. It’s ok, though, because with Dahlia Lithwick of Slate as the author, it has liberal intellectual cred.
Lithwick’s usual job for Slate is covering the Supreme Court, but editor David Plotz has all these newfangled ideas about using the internet [...]

Since The Lovely Bones will be released on film soon (January 15, 2010, according to IMDB), I though I would re-read Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones in order to, well. Ruin the film for me, probably. I had to stop re-reading Harry Potter books before the movie launches, because it made the movies impossibly [...]

Emily Giffin lived across the hall from Miss A at Wake Forest and is now a star of chick lit. It’s easy to see why. In Baby Proof,
she takes a simple concept (What if one partner in a “child-free by choice” couple had a change of heart?) and keeps it going for an entire novel, despite [...]