Like the movie Soul Food, Sheer Necessity follows three African-American sisters and their family as they deal with problems in their lives. The book does so ably, but lacks some of the soul that characterized the movie (as written and directed by George Tillman Jr). The center of the book is supposed to be Toni…
I’d never read a book by Jennifer Crusie, and I’m always nervous about picking up a book by an author everyone loves. In this case, I need not have worried. Her new hardcover, Welcome To Temptation, is sexy, intelligent, unexpectedly moving, and Crusie is a heck of a good writer. Her descriptions are so clever,…
We romance readers have certain perceptions of Jennifer Crusie – she’s witty and she’s a great story-teller to name only two. When I first read the excerpt of Tell Me Lies on her web page, I could barely wait for the book to come out. I finally found it on the book rack at Wal-Mart…
Leave it to Jennifer Crusie to take betrayal, murder, steamy romance, and small town secrets and somehow make it funny. Tell Me Lies, a 1998 release now available in paperback, defines the meaning of “having a bad day.” This is Crusie’s break-out novel, moving from series romance to hardcover, and it combines a complex plot,…
To date, A Taste of Honey is the only book I have ever bought because of its cover. In this case, you can judge the book by it. There are no rearing horses in the background, and no one’s clothes are falling off. It just shows a man and a woman standing together by a…