Review: Tales From The Crib

Tales From The Crib
by Jennifer Coburn
Strapless Kensington
January 2006
Sub-genre: Mom Lit
Rian’s rating: 3/5 stars

Ever wonder what it would be like to watch your husband, with whom you had just had a child with, date other women and bring them back to your home?

Lucy, the main heroine of Tales From the Crib, is speeding full ahead towards 40, and has finally gotten pregnant after several miscarriages. (more…)

Review: Fashionably Late

There’s nothing like a marriage proposal to jolt you into reality and make you wonder what exactly you want out of life. When Becca Davis of Fashionably Late is proposed to by her longtime boyfriend Kevin, she accepts, but almost immediately realizes that it isn’t what she wants.

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Review: Spooning

Spooning
by Darri Stephens
Broadway Books
April 2006
Sub-genre: Single City Girl Lit
Rian’s Rating: 2/5 Stars

This book held great promise: the story of a girl just starting out in the great city of New York with a new job, new apartment, and a unique twist of a cooking club.

The problem is that the story was all over the place; you could tell that it was written by two people. (more…)