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Review: Naughty but Nice by Jill Shalvis.

Review: Naughty but Nice by Jill Shalvis.

Hero: Sean “Tag” TaggertHeroine: Cassie Tremaine MontgomeryGrade: 4.5 out of 5 The small town of Pleasantville, Ohio judges the Tremaine family harshly as bastards and tramps — deservedly so for every Tremaine except Cassie Tremaine Montgomery. So the boulder on Cassie’s shoulder is certainly understandable. After all, she has had it proven, from high school […]

Review: The Professor’s Wives Club by Joanne Rendell

Review: The Professor’s Wives Club by Joanne Rendell

Grade: 4.5 out of 5 The Professors’ Wives’ Club tells the story of four women who do battle with a ruthless dean at Manhattan U – a university which looks a lot like NYU where my own husband is a professor! The power hungry dean is set to bulldoze a faculty garden. What he hasn’t […]

Contest Alert: Win A Pre-Order of Jill Shalvis’ Next Book!

Contest Alert: Win A Pre-Order of Jill Shalvis’ Next Book!

Because we’re pretty awesome and we love to share the love around here, Book Binge is giving away a pre-order of Jill’s upcoming Firefighter book, Heating Up the Holidays, an anthology with Jacquie D’Alessandro and Jamie Sobrato and a pre-order of the book she featured in her interview, Instant Attraction. So that’s two free books […]

Review: The Smart One by Ellen Meister.

Posted September 8, 2008 by Rowena in Reviews | Tagged: , , , | 5 Comments
Review: The Smart One by Ellen Meister.

Grade: 3.5 out of 5 Bev is the Smart One, who finally leaves her artistic ambitions in chalk dust (and her humor-impaired husband in the armsand legsof his nubile protge) to become a schoolteacher. Clare is the Pretty One, who married well and seems to be living a designer version of the suburban dream. Joey […]

Book Watch: Mr. Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn.

Posted September 7, 2008 by Rowena in Promotions, Reviews | Tagged: , , , | 17 Comments
Book Watch: Mr. Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn.

Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. Literally. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has spent the rest of her life waiting. And waiting. And waiting . . . for Thomas Cavendish, the oh-so-lofty duke, to finally get around to […]