Tag: Contemporary

Lightning Review: Across the Table by Linda Cardillo

Lightning Review: Across the Table by Linda Cardillo

I picked this up because the blurb caught my eye, but the blurb is kind of misleading. This is really Rose’s tale, not Toni’s. The story of Rose, from a young woman just married to an old grandmother, was totally fascinating. Cardillo really pulls the reader in. This novel was totally engaging – I felt […]

Review: Big Boned by Meg Cabot.

Review: Big Boned by Meg Cabot.

Main Characters: Heather Wells, Cooper CartwrightSeries: Heather Wells Series, Book 3 Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwright, but her relationship with “rebound beau,” vigorous vegan math professor […]

Review and Giveaway: Greek: Double Date by Marsha Warner.

Review and Giveaway: Greek: Double Date by Marsha Warner.

Main Characters: Casey, Cappie, Rusty, Dale, etc.Series: Yes, I think it’s called The Greek Series but I can’t find confirmation on that anywhere. Two dates—same night! Major oops. When Casey Cartwright’s brother begs her to be nerdy Dale Kettlewell’s date to the sure-to-be-boring Honors Engineering Awards, Casey says yes. Even though Dale is totally not […]

Review: Size 14 Is not Fat Either by Meg Cabot

Review: Size 14 Is not Fat Either by Meg Cabot

Main Characters: Heather Wells, Cooper WainwrightSeries: Heather Wells Series, Book 2 Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College–a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her […]

Review: Airhead by Meg Cabot.

Review: Airhead by Meg Cabot.

Main Character: Emerson Watts, Nikki HowardSeries: Airhead Series, Book 1 Em is considerably more interested in playing computer games with her friend Christopher than in befriending the A-list girls who rule her high school. A freak accident mortally injures Em and leaves superstar model Nikki brain dead. After a transplant operation, Em wakes up in […]