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Whip Smart: Lola Montez Conquers the Spaniards  Kit Brennan  Based on a true historical figure, Eliza Gilbert (a.k.a. Lola Montez), Whip Smart chooses to allow Lola some fictional attributes and plots to ensure her sexy, erotic nature is exposed inside a plot that is criminally skillful and full of titillating scenes. Lola is escaping an atrocious divorce trial, 1842, in London, and flees to Spain.  Her trip, financed by Juan de Grimaldi, associated with both the theater and the government, ... continue reading...

Rooms Author: Lauren Oliver Intricate, triple webbed and seductive, Rooms by Lauren Oliver proves a must read. The characters are both human and ghosts, but Oliver presents both with somber and accurate emotional nuances that grab us and finger us into her tapestry of weaved secrets, sorrow and redemption. The novel is about family, and forgiveness, and until everyone in the novel forgives themselves, they perpetuate their deep grief and sadness. Unusual, this is not your typical gothic ... continue reading...

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher  Stories by: Hilary Mantel   Hilary Mantel’s spilling of language on a page stuns: imagery explodes from her pen.  Each story is masterful, precise, poetic and stark, ruminating or terrifying or strange, and proves that language can merge into art.  Emotion taut and tense, characters lost and found like luggage, Hilary Mantel excels.  You don’t just read Mantel.  You inhale her.  If I could sneak into her pages, steal her sentences and imagery and ... continue reading...