Tag: Rowena’s Reviews

Review: Remember the Sweet Things One List, Two Lives and 20 Years of Marriage by Ellen Greene.

Review: Remember the Sweet Things One List, Two Lives and 20 Years of Marriage by Ellen Greene.

Grade: 4.5 out of 5 For twenty years, Ellen Greene kept a running list of the thoughtful, funny, touching things that her husband, Marsh, said and did. She wrote them down secretly, then shared those thoughts with him every Valentine’s Day when he would find pages from her “Sweet Things List” tucked inside a card. […]

Review: Love on the Line by Laura Castoro.

Review: Love on the Line by Laura Castoro.

Grade: 4 out of 5 Identity, attitudes, and culture collide as a mother and daughter’s values and backgrounds are challenged by everyone around them in this moving, often humorous, and unforgettable novel from laura castoro. It ain’t easy being biracial and a trust fund baby, but blue-eyed Jesse Morgan is determined to just be herself […]

Review: Dark of Night by Suzanne Brockmann.

Review: Dark of Night by Suzanne Brockmann.

Hero: Lawrence Decker, Dave MalkoffHeroine: Tracy Shapiro, Sophia GhaffariGrade: 4.75 out of 5 Taking on the world’s deadliest criminals is what the elite security force Troubleshooters Incorporated does best. But now they face a new and powerful threat from their most lethal enemy yet–a shadowy government outfit known only as The Agency. For years, operative […]

Review: The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly.

Review: The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly.

Hero: Sid MaloneHeroine: India Selwyn JonesGrade: 4.75 out of 5When India Selwyn Jones, a young woman form a noble family, graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, her professors advise her to set up her practice in London’s esteemed Harley Street. Driven and idealistic, India chooses to work in the city’s […]

Review: On Writing Romance by Leigh Michaels.

Review: On Writing Romance by Leigh Michaels.

Grade: 4.5 out of 5 In On Writing Romance, award-winning romance novelist Leigh Michaels talks you through each stage of the writing and publishing process. From the origins and evolution of the romance novel to establishing a vital story framework to writing that last line to seeking out appropriate publishers, everything you ever wanted to […]