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Issue 13
March 2011

Book Reviews

ON SHELVES

DARK PRINCE by Christine Feehan

"The writing? Terrible, unless you’re a disciple of the Steel Rod and Silken Sheath school of prose, in which case this should be right up your alley." -- Kate Nagy

LOVER UNLEASHED by J. R. Ward

"J.R. Ward’s greatest strengths have always been her world-building skills and her literary voice, which winningly intermingles machismo and sass. Both are on open display here." -- Kate Nagy

MERMAID by Carolyn Turgeon

"Anyone who is looking for a darker tale than the original is probably never going to get it." -- Sara Paige

ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING by Jasper Fforde

"This book has so many layers it’s practically Inception-y" -- Rachel Hyland

RIVER MARKED by Patricia Briggs

"The story itself is a solid, action-packed, twists-and-turns plot that is very much in the Briggs style." -- Colleen Reed

TORTALL AND OTHER LANDS by Tamora Pierce

"The stories are all good tales, but the collection itself is highly erratic in both length and depth." -- Colleen Reed

IN THE STACKS
Our topic this month: Made into Movies

CHRISTINE by Stephen King

"Christine, if you’ve never heard of it, or even seen the cover of the book itself, is essentially a story about a car. An EVIL car." -- Joe O'Brien

I AM NUMBER FOUR by Pittacus Lore

"Is I Am Number Four a good book? I’ll say yes -- I couldn’t put it down." -- Cathy Thomson

THE DA VINCI CODE by Dan Brown

"I tend to find Brown’s exposition of the puzzles and the solutions to be a little heavy handed and boring... His characterization is adequate but not deep." -- Rachel Day

THE PHILIP K. DICK READER by Philip K. Dick

"Much of his work can be amusingly quaint, full of rockets and atomic power and various others 50's-esque sci-if. What's interesting, though, is that many of his stories are not so quaint, and could easily pass for something written recently." -- K. Burtt

Our topic next month:
Invasion!

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