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Mini Book Reviews: June
June, as usual, was a super busy month for me. Not only did school wrap up, but I started a new job and did quite a bit of traveling to visit family and friends. As a result, I...
Book Review: What Did I Do Wrong?
It happens without warning and it hits you with devastating force. Your closest girlfriend…stops calling you or seeing you. She has decided for whatever reason to move on with...
Book Review: What Happened to Goodbye
Now, I thought. Now is when I introduce myself as Liz Sweet, clear this whole thing up. [...] But for some reason, standing there, I couldn't. Because despite my best efforts...
Book Review: Jazz in Love
I'd lost my parents' trust and disappointed them in some pretty major ways. But whatever I'd broken needed to be broken. It wasn't real. Now, my parents saw the true me--a...
Book Review: I Saw You…
I picked up I Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections edited by Julia Wertz for two reasons. (1) The cover is cute. (2) I love the idea of authors/artists...
Book Review: Abandon
Once, I died. I was really looking forward to reading Abandon by Meg Cabot because over at her blog she has talked at length about her love for the Persephone myth and how she...
Book Review: Saving Maddie
I had no doubt that Madeline Smith needed saving. I just wasn't quite sure if I was interested in being her savior. Saving Maddie by Varian Johnson is the story of two preachers'...
Book Review: Sex, Murder and a Double Latte
The downside of writing sex scenes is that my mother reads my books. Unlike with most authors, I discovered Kyra Davis's blog before I ever read her books. I can't even remember...
Book Review: Peace from Broken Pieces
To be a good fighter, you have to be stripped down to nothing. A fighter is trained to forget what they know and who they are outside of the ring. Once a fighter is stripped...