]> http://reviewparty.com/taxonomy/term/3/0 en http://reviewparty.com/flashpoint <!-- google_ad_section_start --> This book is definitely the kind you start reading and don't stop until the last page. It captures perfectly the feelings of lust, and eventually love, between a man and a woman. The hero is a firefighter, sexy enough in itself, but when combined with the author's breathtaking descriptions, he almost leaps out of the book at you.<!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:22:28 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/wuthering-heights-by-emily-bronte-amateur-review <!-- google_ad_section_start --> I have never been much of an avid reader. Being of above average intelligence, Most people have always expected me to have exhausted any library’s selection. Book ever in hand. Au contraire, I have never read. In fact, two or three lines (read in comfort) were as good a sedative as any to lull me straight to sleep. <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:46:39 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/the-writing-class <!-- google_ad_section_start --> A fascinating mystery revolving around a college extension adult writing class filled with interestingly quirky characters. When mysterious phone calls in the middle of the night and obscene comments instead of peer evaluations on class writing assignments start happening, Amy Gallup, the teacher knows this class is different. Then one of the students is murdered and the class works together to discover which one of them is the killer. <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:18:14 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/the-case-of-vineyard-poison <!-- google_ad_section_start --> It is a hot summer on the picturesque island of Martha’s Vineyard and the bluefish are biting in abundance. It is here that Jefferson W. Jackson and his fiancée Zeolinda (Zee) are planning their upcoming wedding, when they’re not busy fishing for bluefish or digging for quahogs. Jackson is an ex-cop from Boston, invalided out of the force with a bullet close to the spine, now semi-retired and living on the island. Zee is a nurse. <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:11:17 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/the-collection-bentley-little <!-- google_ad_section_start --> Another review here lambasts people for comparing Little to Stephen King, and that is a sentiment I greatly agree with - for entirely different reasons. King is a wordsmith whose work should be recognized as true literary art outside of the realm of strictly 'horror' fiction; Little's work is hackneyed and pure pulp, trumped up for shock value with very little beneath imagery used more to appall the reader than anything else.<!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:30 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/lost-echoes-horror-and-mystery-combine <!-- google_ad_section_start --> There is an ageless quality to the beginning of Joe R. Lansdale's most recent novel, Lost Echoes . The opening to the main narrative – which arrives only after a newspaper clipping and a brief retrospective thought from the novel's lead character – has a quiet sense of timelessness that could lead a reader to believe that this story could be taking place at any time in the latter half of the 20 th century. An ill child awakens from a fevered sleep and wanders through a quiet house in the dark, reveling in his innocence by watching drive-in cartoons through his living room windows, parents all the while unaware. The sweetness of this picturesque scene is soon stripped away, when this single incident leads to a new talent that will haunt this child, young Harry, for much of his life. <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:27:40 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/rajasirs-review-of-beloved-written-by-nobel-prize-winning-author-toni-morrison <!-- google_ad_section_start --> Beloved (by Nobel Prize winning novelist Toni Morrison) THE epigraph to ''Beloved'' is from the Bible, Romans 9:25: ''I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.'' <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Sat, 17 May 2008 05:51:38 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/soul-mountain-my-views <!-- google_ad_section_start --> Soul Mountain (my views) Gao Xinjian is the only novelist from China who has the honor of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature for his memorable novel ‘Soul Mountain’ which has set a new trail for the Chinese novel. It is an autobiographical social commentary that has significant place for the supernatural in its plot. It describes the self-imposed exile in Sichuan Province from where the author draws elements of the plot. Had he been in the central China, he would have definitely faced persecution but the seclusion provided him time enough to set out for his spiritual pilgrimage. <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Fri, 09 May 2008 22:02:20 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/covenants <!-- google_ad_section_start --> If you love Fantasy as much as I do, this is a must read book.<!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Fri, 09 May 2008 14:28:44 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/ghost-rider-stories-by-jonathan <!-- google_ad_section_start --> Fictionwise is the top independent eBook seller in the world with tens of thousands of satisfied customers. We offer award-winning eBooks for all PDAs and PCs by top authors! Palm, PocketPC, Hiebook, eBookMan, Adobe, MS Reader, and WinCE eBooks. All new eBooks discounted each week! <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Thu, 08 May 2008 06:39:55 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/rajasirs-review-of-chinua-achebes-works <!-- google_ad_section_start --> " This story revolves around the life of Okonkwo, an up and comming leader of an Igbo village in Africa. He is willing to do anything to maintain his social status,indifferent to the suffering that it causes himself and those around him. <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Thu, 08 May 2008 04:08:23 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/coelhos-the-devil-and-miss-prym <!-- google_ad_section_start --> Paulo Coelho is a famed author, most noteably for his bestseller The Alchemist. Being a fan of The Alchemist I picked up The Devil and Miss Prym which discusses, through story, the topic of good versus evil. <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Tue, 06 May 2008 15:30:29 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/hold-tight <!-- google_ad_section_start --> From the very start of the book, Hold Tight will draw you in. Hold tight is about an adolecent boy, Adam, who lost his best friend to suicide. Since that time, Adam's behavior has become questionable, which has caused his some-what wealthy parents, Dr. Mike and Tia, to become increasingly concerned for his well being. As a result, Mike and Tia use a program to spy on their son, to try to find out what is going on. <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:56:25 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/dark-challenge <!-- google_ad_section_start --> A real page turner with twists and turns. The characters were realistic and you felt like you were sharing their emotions as they sought to survive in a modern day world where they were still considered the monsters.<!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:24:15 -0400 http://reviewparty.com/duma-key-a-return-to-form <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HDrhRkU9L._SL500_AA240_.jpg"> <p>As a Stephen King fan, I've been disappointed with his work recently. 'Cell' seemed to be just a long personal bitch about cell phones, which was not really what I was looking for. Cell phones (or mobiles, as we call them here in England) are awesome. I will have no man speak against them. However, Duma Key seemed to be a return to form. I loved it. <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Fiction Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:12:44 -0400