![]() “This is great!” does not a critique make. But they are all firmly rooted in Crosley’s experience and perspective, which is just what we want.Īt a certain point, around page 31, I started worrying that the feeling taking hold of me - that I wanted to you-should-read-this to all my like-minded friends - would obscure my ability to say anything intelligent about the book, as is required in a book review. The pieces sometimes employ light reporting, as with an interview with the man who buys her expired website in order to extort money from her (“Wolf”), and another (“Relative Stranger”) with her first cousin once removed, a porn star named Johnny Seeman (yes, that’s his real name). In personal essays that range from the short and pithy to the long and involved, Crosley mines the absurdities of life in her 30s in New York City for both humor and deep human feeling. But pretty much any mood would’ve been conducive to appreciating Crosley’s work here. ![]() I WAS BEYOND GRUMPY when I began reading Sloane Crosley’s third collection of essays, Look Alive Out There - which, it turns out, was exactly the right frame of mind in which to pick it up: within moments, Crosley had charmed me out of my bad humor. ![]()
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Si eres Kate Evans, conservas a tu amiga Rachel, te vínculas con sus hijos, y entierras tus sentimientos por su esposo. ![]() ¿Qué haces cuando tu alma gemela se casa con tu mejor amiga? ![]() ![]() ![]() As a former firefighter, all he can do to forget his sorrows is liquor and try to keep Middleton out of his mind. He is aging his fiancée dumped him, and her dream career ended. ![]() Tyler Henderson is a golden boy who recently lost his spark. Kate is a woman who knows what she wants and is ready to go after it. Working for a man aged 20 years older has made her fantasize about him each day. She is the girl next door on the outside but inside, a nasty girl. She has been drooling after him since her first day on the job two years ago. Henderson has always attracted Kate for the longest time. She is sure that the type of man she craves isn’t her boss, Mr Henderson. However, it’s been hard to find such kind of man since kinks aren’t for everyone, and she understands it. Kate, a.k.a ‘Middleton’ McGrath, craves a man to call ‘Daddy’ in bed. Readers have described her work as the defibrillator contemporary romance needs.Īct Your Age is the debut in the series by the same name. She creates erotic stories featuring complicated women and charming but somehow tortured men. ![]() She has always been a fan of romance books since a young age. Eve Dangerfield is a romance author born in Melbourne, Australia. ![]() ![]() The hero is much more understanding than you can imagine. The heroine’s profession and personal situation is heartbreaking to read about. The romance between Vin and Marie-Therese is sweet and fun to read. There’s also a lot of slang like “freshies” and other oddities that will make this book a hoot to read in about ten years. I wish the author would just say “he ground out” or “he said slowly” or anything except .reading.mojo with a stinkin’ grammatical stop sign. I seriously hate it when authors do that. Regardless, the cover art rocks.Īs with the BDB books, in Covet Ward indulges a bit too much in the period.as.a. Dumb thing to pick up on, I realize, but it bugged me. Greed is a deadly sin but coveting isn’t. However, Ward is setting up a new world here, so I cut her some slack. I read nearly all of it, though I admit to skimming some of the paragraphs simply because how many times did I need to read about the heroine’s guilt or the hero’s obsession with money. I think it’s WAY too long, but is still an entertaining read. ![]() ![]() So you ask, is this book good? Well, yes and no.Ĭovet is an interesting paranormal romance. I have a feeling that we’ll be seeing something of Lassiter in future Angels books. With the Fallen Angels books we get a new set of bad guys, some cameos of the BDB and related characters, and a new set of good guys – angels. 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