Epinions Recent Reviews for owling

Killer Summer

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:32:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming is just trying to reconnect with his nephew through a little fly fishing. Unfortunately it seems he can’t leave the job behind, and when he spots a suspicious truck driving past, he has to investigate. When he...

First Rider's Call

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:27:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - When I received a review copy of Kristen Britain’s long-awaited First Rider’s Call, thankfully I realized that I had a copy of her previous Green Rider sitting unread on a shelf, and started with that. In it, Karigan...

Green Rider

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:22:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - I just got a review copy of Kristen Britain’s First Rider’s Call, the sequel to her 1998 novel Green Rider. Usually when I get a sequel as a review copy, I’m stuck jumping in at the middle of the story and hoping the...

Storm of Visions

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:10:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Jacqueline Vargha doesn’t want her “gift”—she doesn’t want to be a seer like her mother, the famous and glamorous Zusane. She doesn’t have much choice, however, when her mother’s bodyguard, Caleb, tracks her down...

Atlantis Unleashed

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:33:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Alyssa Day’s Atlantis Unleashed is book three of her Warriors of Poseidon series. I ended up reading it first because, well, that happens when you’re a reviewer (and it works out fine for some series). However, I highly...

Tails of Love

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:15:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Tails of Love is an anthology edited by Lori Foster and Stella Cameron, of romantic stories involving animals. More specifically, couples somehow brought together by the intervention of animals. I lost track of the number of times this book...

The Black Ship

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:03:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - The Black Ship is the second book in Diana Pharaoh Francis’s Crosspointe world, and as usual I find myself diving headlong into a series mid-stream thanks to the vagaries of reviewing. I did find it a little tough to follow along with...

Demon Mistress

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:51:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Demon Mistress is book six of Yasmine Galenorn’s Otherworld series. I happened to start the series with book five—one of the perils of being a book reviewer—so I will warn you that this is a very intricate world. It’s...

Bengal's Heart

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:41:37 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author owling - While I enjoy Lora Leigh’s Breed novels, some of them are better than others. Bengal’s Heart is my least favorite so far, and if it had been the first I’d read, I might not have continued. Lora Leigh’s...

Zero-Proof Cocktails

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:34:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - This pretty little recipe book is meant for two main audiences: those who don’t like the taste of alcohol (some of us are quite sensitive to it), and those who can’t drink it (for example, those whose religions forbid it). This way, those who...

Nightlife

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:28:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Nightlife is book one in the saga of the Leandros brothers, Cal and his older brother Niko. Well alright, technically they’re half-brothers. Their mother was a con-woman; Niko’s father didn’t stick around; and Cal’s father...

Eat Me!

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:06:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Kenny Shopsin is the legendary cook & owner of the New York City restaurant, Shopsin’s. “Shopsin’s, the restaurant, is all about what Shopsin, the man, considers the two most important things in life: food and people.” As...

Pitch Black

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:02:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - I’ve said before that I prefer short series when I read series at all. It’s because I hate walking into the middle of a series and finding out that the beginning of it is already out of print. I’ve also often found that quality...

Bound by Honor

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:22:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Colette Gale has a tendency to take famous romantic tales and turn them on their heads while spicing them up with a boatload of erotic sex. I very much enjoyed Unmasqued, her version of Phantom of the Opera. Bound by Honor, a tale of...

Branded by Fire

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:16:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - I started in on Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series with the absolutely amazing Hostage to Pleasure. It wasn’t the first book in the series, but it didn’t take me long to sink my teeth into this unusual world of shape-shifters...

Burning Wild

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:24:11 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author owling - I’ve read and reviewed four of Christine Feehan’s books including her latest, Burning Wild. I started out expecting good things, since she’s sold well and won plenty of awards. Turbulent Sea I enjoyed, but had minor issues...

Fade to Black

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:21:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - I spent a night in the ER waiting room (long story short: thankfully it looks like my husband is just having unusually bad sinus infection headaches). I took my mind off of my worries by reading Leslie Parrish’s upcoming Fade to Black. I...

Illegal

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:13:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Allow me to make a digression for a moment; I promise it’ll have a point. I like “dark” entertainment material (movies, TV, books), but I don’t like depressing entertainment. First, let me explain why I see a difference...

The Silver Lake

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:06:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Thanks to being a reviewer, I ended up reading Fiona Patton’s http://www.errantdreams.com/re
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which is book two of her The Warriors of Estavia series, first. While she writes her books well...

Wreck this journal!

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:55:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - The subtitle of Wreck This Journal is, “to create is to destroy,” and the concept is simple: through a variety of exercises, the book encourages you to break free of rules and assumptions, to think seriously outside the box, and thus...

Dark Curse

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:43:24 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Book 16? Book sixteen?! Don’t publishers put out any non-series books any more? Let me tell ya, it certainly makes reviewing more challenging. I’ve been sent more mid-stream series books than I know what to do with, but this one has to...

Kiss & Hell

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:21:53 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author owling - I enjoyed Dakota Cassidy’s Kiss & Hell, but it had a few aspects that made it less bowl-me-over amazing for me than her wonderful The Accidental Human. However, this is one of those cases where I think many of the things I...

Deader Still

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:09:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - In Anton Strout’s Deader Still, Simon Canderous is an ex-thief who works for Manhattan’s Department of Extraordinary Affairs. His gift of psychometry allows him to pick up memories and impressions from objects, and leads him in this...

Deathwish

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:09:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - A week or two ago I read ten books in a row without stopping to do a lot of reviewing because they were just too good—I couldn’t tear myself away from the pages. I called it my Spring recommended reading list. Books by many of my favorite...

White Star

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:03:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Elizabeth Vaughan’s Dagger-Star (I keep wanting to call it Red Gloves!) was one of my wonderful book discoveries of last year. So when I saw that the sequel, White Star, had arrived on my doorstep, I couldn’t wait to read it! It...