Published Reviews

Voya reviews Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beaudoin VOYA-Starred Review April 2007 Beaudoin, Sean. Going Nowhere Fast. Little,... Read More »	Breast Cancer Action News reviews Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know by Lori Hope Hope [is] first and foremost is a great storyteller. If you invited her to a dinner party, you would actually encourage her to share her observations on cancer as... Read More »
CURE magazine reviews Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know by Lori Hope Even though I am a 20-year survivor, I needed to be reminded about what people in the throes of cancer need, and Lori Hope’s book is... Read More »	McSweeneys.net reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt Readers of the quarterly know Ms. Ehrhardt's stories from Issues 14 and 16, and now there's a whole book of them together in one place, which is very convenient.... Read More »
Time Out Chicago reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt Her characters, all living in or around New Orleans, are flawed and selfish, and yet it’s impossible to avert one’s gaze. Each story is like a perfectly wrapped... Read More »	Narrative Magazine reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt On occasion, the narrator looks around the room, and Ehrhardt has a gift for lucid description that has the hyperreal effect of a still life, causing one to... Read More »
The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt Refreshingly, Ehrhardt doesn't string the reader along with inflated prose or over-the-top characterizations. Her stories are clean, sharp-edged, and imbued with... Read More »	The New York Times reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt The collection’s most successful story, “The Longest Part of the Day,” moves between the point of view of 15-year-old Jilly, who goes missing when she takes a ride... Read More »
New Orleans Times-Picayune reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt All readers recognize it when they hear it -- the siren song of the truth teller, the voice that will lead you someplace new, summoning you to an experience that... Read More »	The Washington Post reviews The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes Like any good teacher, Hayes has a knack for metaphor. The still, close air in an anatomy lab is "like the gym of the dead." A lung is "a wet mound... Read More »

WDRF reviews Deidre's Secret by Terry Spear Title: Deidre's Secret Author: Terry Lee Wilde Publisher: The Wild Rose Press YA Climbing Rosebud Rating: Sweet ISBN: 1-60154-414-6 I enjoyed the book very much... Read More »	Quill and Quire reviews Valley of the Lost by Vicki Delany Delany has a lot of plot and atmospheric elements to balance, but she does so with relative ease. The focus doesn’t waver from the main investigation, and the... Read More »
E!Online reviews The Entire Predicament by Lucy Corin Lucy Corin's The Entire Predicament. These stories take about 10 seconds each to get their hooks in you for life. Do those hooks hurt? Of course they do, in all... Read More »	The Oregonian reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker "Ovenman may leave some readers puzzling over how When can be such a dope in some ways and still such a fun narrator. Parker rides that thin line of narrative... Read More »
So Many Precious Books, So Little Time reviews The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks In this bright and intelligent book, we follow Edward Meopian from the age of 14 to 45 years old (1968-1999). His mother died when he was young and his father does... Read More »	The Agony Column, Bookotron.com reviews Ice Song by Kirsten Imani Kasai Kasai's prose is up to the challenge of a setup reminiscent of the genre-changing classic by Ursula K. Leguin, 'The Left Hand of Darkness.' 'Ice Song'; is a... Read More »
Vintage Guitar reviews Rock 'N' Roll Soldier: A Memoir by Susan VanHecke May be the most entertaining take on the war since Michael Herr's Dispatches. Read More »	Medieval Book Reviews reviews The Commander's Desire by Jennette Green Jennette Green's THE COMMANDER'S DESIRE is a quick paced romance read…. [It] focuses on emotion, dynamic encounters and internal transformation more than minute... Read More »
Merry Genre Go Around Reviews reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear The third werewolf romance (see DESTINY OF THE WOLF and HEART OF THE WOLF) is an enjoyable action-packed thriller from the fiery onset to the mystery of what is... Read More »	DarqueReviews.com reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear To Tempt the Wolf is the third installment in the werewolf series by Terry Spear. Each release has been even more exciting than the last, and they can also be... Read More »