Nectar, Lily Prior

Book Review: Well I will start off by saying that you should be a mature adult to read this book. The content in this book is very inappropriate for young readers. 

In my opinion that is why I didnt like the book, there was to much. I did like the way the author describes her characters and the enviroment around them.

Book Synopsis: Ramona Drottoveo is a haughty, unsightly albino woman whose sole asset is her intoxicating and magical aroma. She works as a chambermaid at a luxurious Italian country estate where men desire her and she readily satiates their lust. In an act of defiance, she marries the one man who resisted her, the quiet beekeeper. But when he catches her with another man on their wedding day, he kills himself. When the beekeeper's body disappears and strange events befall the estate, the townspeople blame Ramona and her lover. Exiled, they end up in Naples, where Ramona continues to use her sexually charged aroma to get what she wants. However, when she conceives and has a child, Ramona's smell vanishes. Without money, a lover, or her spellbinding scent, Ramona humbly returns to the country estate with her daughter in tow to a surprising response and her ultimate fate. Following La Cucina (2000), Prior once again explores the power of the senses in a lush and bawdy tale of sex, desire, and the certainty of retribution. Carolyn Kubisz
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Love Artist, Jane Alison

Book Review: Well let me start off by saying I am very picky with my books, if they dont catch my attention in the first few chapters then I will not finish it. When I picked up this book I did not want to put it down, it catch my attention in the first few pages. I love the Jane Alison describes her chatacter. She goes in depth, so when you are reading it you can acually picture what that character really looks like or the place that she is describing. This was an awesome book and I would recommend this book to anyone. It is in the era when Emperor Augustus and the time of Jesus Christ.

I love this book so much that I want to buy it to have on my little book shelve!

Book Synopsis: Little is known about Ovid's life in exile in the first century A.D., and only two lines of his acclaimed Medea survive today. In this strong debut novel, Alison reimagines Ovid's sojourn on the east coast of the Black Sea, where Emperor Augustus, in the middle of a campaign to restore morality to his new empire, has banished the poet, displeased by the success of his Loves and The Art of Love. Here Ovid meets Xenia, a wild-eyed young woman who lives in isolation. The only literate person in her community, Xenia acts as town mystic, casting spells, healing the sick and telling futures. Ovid, who admits he believes in Amazons, with "their strong sweating thighs clutching galloping horses, wild howls coming from their parched, cracked mouths," is eager to be stunned by the "fishy, monstrous, unreal." He imagines the jealous, stormy Xenia to be his Galatea and sweeps her back to Rome, where she unwittingly becomes the muse for the lost Medea, his darkest work. From Alison's depiction of a trio of gossips at a patrician's dinner party, "dark eyes flying from one to the other like torches," to her description of an evening walk in Rome freighted with the knowledge that thousands of animals are "denned beneath the city's streets until they were let out, half starved, to devour terrified criminals or be speared in the emperor's shows," she demonstrates familiarity and ease with her subject; and her historic detail is never pedantic. Even those unfamiliar with Ovid and Roman history will delight in this tale of romantic intrigue, rife with blood, jealous rage and the consciousness of human frailty.
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Crime Scene At Cardwell Ranch, B.J. Daniels

Book Review: I was off with one of my college friends at a hair appointment when my hairstylist told me they were giving away free books on the second floor of the mall. While my hair was drying she scooted up there and got me a copy! Apparently it was Harlequin's 60th anniversary!

I don't particularly care for Harlequin novels, my old faithful being Mills & Boons, a UK leader in romance novels, whose caliber in the genre I much prefer to Harlequin. However, it was free, I had three hours on my hands till Cindy got her hair colored, and there was a Starbucks close by. So I spent my three hours emersed in the world of B.J. Daniels.

A modern tale of murder and mystery, this novel is definitely not the best I've read, the plot is too sparsely laid out and an overly cute cowboy on the cover...one of those novels where the end is in sight from the first page! Definitely a time killer if you have nothing else on your hands!

Book Synopsis: After Hudson Savage betrayed her, Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on the seductive cowboy again. Until a bunch of old bones showed up on her family ranch. Suddenly her former lover was back in her life in a big way-to investigate a decades-old crime.
Five years ago, Hud left town with a heart load of regrets. But now, as acting interim marshal, he had a job to do. And this time he wasn't walking away. Because now Dana's life was on the line-as the unsuspecting target of a killer who still walked the canyon. Hud would do whatever it took to keep Dana close. Even if it meant risking his own heart for a second chance for both of them.... Synopsis courtesy of Amazon.com

Don't Bargain with the Devil, Sabrina Jeffries

Book Review: I was totally surprised when I got this book in the mail! An autographed, reader's advance copy that I had won through an online giveaway! Pretty cool!

So, as soon as I got it, I sat down to read it! And I was pleasantly surprised at how good a read it actually was! For a while I had grown weary of the typical, mass-produced romance novel! But this was indeed one whose plot had been carefully thought out, and even more carefully laid out!

It was a pleasure reading every page of this novel and for any of you romance readers out there, this is definitely a book you should add to your shelf!

Book Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries delights and entertains with this novel of Regency manners and roguish passions -- fifth in her dazzling School for Heiresses series.
The future of Charlotte Harris's fi nishing school is in jeopardy when a charming Spaniard -- world-famous magician Diego Montalvo -- arrives to turn the bordering estate into a scandalous pleasure garden. Valiantly ignoring his wicked flirtations, outspoken Lucinda Seton vows to derail his plans and save the school, unaware that Diego's true mission is to spirit the long-lost heiress away to Spain for a handsome reward! But before long Diego's heart is playing tricks on him, and Lucy is falling under the illusionist's spell. How can the Master of Mystery go through with his devilish scheme when all he wants is to make the lovely heiress his own? About the AuthorBy the time Sabrina Jeffries was eighteen, she'd eaten chicken heads and jellyfish, been chased by a baby elephant, seen countless cobras and pythons, had the entire series of rabies shots, and visited rain forests and rubber plantations. But that wasn't enough excitement for her; to escape her mundane life as a missionary's daughter, she read romance novels.
Now she writes romance novels, and her bestselling, award-winning tales of strong women and sexy, dangerous men have been translated all over the world. Although she now lives in North Carolina with her husband and son, her colorful life has given her plenty of inspiration for more novels.
Visit her website at www.sabrinajeffries.com.

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Sarah, Marek Halter

Book Review: From the lands of ancient Ur comes a story of an amazing woman. A woman who's beauty was unrivaled, who became the mother of a civilization so great its numbers rival the grains of sand. A woman who went from the palaces of her pagan childhood to the tents of the beduin people; those who followed the One True God.

In Sarah Halter takes us in the footsteps of an amazing woman in Biblical History, Sarah wife of Abraham. But before she was Sarah, she was Sarai, "born in a house with thirty rooms in a city that contained a hundred similar houses, its most beautiful temple as high as the hill of Qiryat-Arba, its outer walls thicker than an ox."

Our Bible characters, are sometimes without faces; without personalities. They are the people who were inspired by God. This book brought this most mysterious of women to my attention... She was more than Abraham's wife, she was more than 'the woman who was barren but God healed'; in this books Halter brings her to life. Her fears, her desires, her destiny are all alive and shining with the brilliance of God's plan for her life. A truly worthy read!

Book Synopsis: Yet another entry in the burgeoning subgenre of fictional portraits of biblical women (see, for example, Rebecca Kohn's retelling of the story of Queen Esther in The Gilded Chamber), Halter's novel (the first in a trilogy) adheres to a by now familiar formula: frank sexual and emotional revelations presented against a backdrop of burnished interiors. Halter's Sarah is born Sarai, the daughter of one of the most powerful lords of Ur.

At the age of 12, she is pledged in marriage to a man she has never met, and despite the finery of her bridal chamber ("Everything was new.... Linen rakutus as smooth as a baby's skin"), she flees in distress. Dragged back to her father's house, she doses herself with an herbal concoction that leaves her barren and is made a priestess of Ishtar, Ur's goddess of war. Six years later, an encounter with her childhood love, the handsome Abram, furnishes her with the chance she's been waiting for: she escapes with him and joins his nomadic tribe.

Her contentment is short-lived, because Abram is called by God to leave his tribe and set out for a new land, whereupon the familiar (but freely adapted) Bible story unfolds. The misery Sarah feels at being barren, the indecent love her nephew Lot expresses for her, her encounter with Pharaoh and her quarrel with Hagar, the slave woman who gives Abram a child, shape the novel's second half. Halter isn't afraid to present headstrong Sarah as bitter in her old age, and his complex portrait of the biblical matriarch gives this solid if predictable novel a dash of freshness.

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