The 2016 U.S. presidential election is nearly upon us, and candidates aren’t the only ones throwing their hats in the ring. Political romance authors would like your vote as well. (Make your own caucus jokes. You know you want to.) In 2008, we saw the first young, picture-perfect family move into the White House since… Read More Vetted and Bedded: The Rise of the Political Romance
With 110 percent more self-awareness, silliness and skin, Magic Mike XXL casts the spell that 2012’s Magic Mike couldn’t quite muster. It’s going to be a common observation: This is exactly what people wanted from the moody, artsy, and often-times slow first film. There’s a scene early on in which Channing Tatum’s affable Mike shows… Read More Magic Mike XXL is Bigger, Better, Bawdier and Bomerier
Thanks to some bumps and bruises and the recovery time therein, basically ALL I did during April and May was read. Here’s what made an impact on me besides the sidewalk. ;) One Week in Hawaii by Alexis Anne, Audra North, Julia Kelly & Alexandra Haughton (contemporary romance anthology, e-book) Grave Phantoms by Jenn Bennett… Read More Page Against the Machine: April and May Reads
Jeffe Kennedy The Talon of the Hawk Kensington / May 26 21, 2015 / $15.00 print, $13.50 digital Three daughters were born to High King Uorsin, in place of the son he wanted. The youngest, lovely and sweet. The middle, pretty and subtle, with an air of magic. And the eldest, the Heir. A girl… Read More First Look: Jeffe Kennedy’s Talon of the Hawk
Hawkeye/Natasha. Bruce Banner/Natasha. And here I am about to sally forth with my own ‘ship manifesto: Bucky/Natasha. I know what it looks like: We’re gleefully, even shamelessly, pairing Black Widow up with everything in pants because she’s the only female member of the movieverse Avengers. Let me get three things out of the way.… Read More Why I’m Here for The Avengers’ Black Widow and Winter Soldier
Jeannie Lin A Dance With Danger Harlequin Historical / April 21, 2015 / $6.50 print & $5.99 digital Jeannie Lin returns to the world of her 2013 novel The Sword Dancer, as well as Tang Dynasty China, as a sheltered but bold magistrate’s daughter and a rebel leader unite in marriage and go toe-to-toe in… Read More First Look: Jeannie Lin’s A Dance With Danger
After six seasons, FX’s Justified came to a perfect close this week. Though buckets of blood bathed the episodes leading up to the finale, the last hour was all about quiet, hard-won farewells. Viewers said goodbye to so many memorable characters. Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens, the gunslinger who, despite his white hat and noble intentions, was… Read More Justified, My Love (Sorry! Couldn’t Help Myself!): Saying Goodbye to the FX Series
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