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A PHOENIX ARISES OUT OF THE ASHES..., 6 Oct 2009

This is the story of Emily Gordon, a young woman whose face had been horrifically scarred in a car accident when she was a child. Her scars turned her into a self-conscious, shy person that stayed in the background in most of her endeavors, loveless and friendless.

Then she met handsome Alec Darcy, a man who promised her the world but left her to pay the piper when something went terribly awry. Out of this calamitous event, Emily Gordon was reborn, beautiful and free to satisfy her ambitions and her thirst for revenge.

This is a wonderfully written novel of second chances, love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. It is a novel that is reminiscent of the best of… Read more

AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WOMAN OF NOTE..., 6 Oct 2009

This is much richer fare than the film adaptation of the book, which I saw before reading the book. The author does a remarkable job of creating a woman of flesh and blood out of all the documents and correspondence that she had to sift through and read in order to compile this eminently readable biography of a prominent and influential eighteenth century woman. It was like looking into another time and place.

The author paints a vivid three dimensional portrait of Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire, with all her positive attributes and foibles laid bare for the reader. The book also richly details the social mores of the eighteenth century, as well as the lifestyle of the… Read more

DELICIOUSLY DARLING DEXTER..., 6 Oct 2009

Now that the supernatural mumbo jumbo of the third book is in the past, this book is more in alignment with the first two books. It not quite of the same caliber, as some of it feels too contrived. Still, fans of Dexter will rejoice that there is a fourth book and find it enjoyable.

Dexter has now married the clearly clueless Rita, gone to Paris on his honeymoon, and returned home, a devoted father to Astor and Cody, only to find himself embroiled in a hunt for a madman who is displaying dead bodies in a very decorative fashion. These human dioramas are aimed at putting a crimp on the tourism industry of Miami.

When someone close to Dexter nearly bites the dust… Read more