By LMReviews on Jul 11, 2010 in Multicultural Lit Reviews | 1 Comment
Barbara Karmazin’s Huntress is set mostly in Puerto Rico’s Cabo Rojo circa 2032. Sonia Rodriguez , a web designer, seeks a little recuperation after a big project. During her participation in a renaissance battle, Sonia learns that her loving yet distant father, who used the construction of a security empire to cope with the murder [...]
By LMReviews on Jun 27, 2010 in Multicultural Lit Reviews | Comments Off
Set along a country road called Jericho in south Georgia , author Icy Snow Blackstone tells the story of blooming interracial love between Lindsey Conyers and Dr. Logan Redhawk in the 1970’s against the backdrop of racial and sexual intolerance and the post Vietnam War era. Dr. Redhawk, who is serving his obstetric residency at [...]
By LMReviews on May 25, 2010 in Multicultural Lit Reviews, Multicultural Writing | 2 Comments
In Sylvia Hubbard’s Stone’s Revenge, the long-standing hatred William Stone has for the Davenport prosecutor, Ramsey McPherson is only equaled by the forbidden love he has for his crippled daughter Abigail. Hubbard weaves a complex story with family secrets, heartache, ongoing deception and pure evil. In fact, the thirst for revenge that both McPherson and [...]
By LMReviews on Nov 29, 2009 in Multicultural Lit Reviews | Comments Off
After the Storm, a Gay, Interracial Erotic short story, is about a rich hotelier’s son, Ethan Conrad, who is make the most of his new life in Indiana after being forced to run the hotel there after his involvement in a same-sex affair his father viewed as a family sex scandal. Ethan falls head over [...]
By LMReviews on Jun 7, 2009 in Multicultural Lit Reviews | Comments Off
In By the Moonlight by Jaxx Steele, sexy vampires Jared and Byron have been friends for centuries. When Byron catches up with Jared at his favorite flesh bar, the reader senses right away that the only flesh Bryon wants to see is Jared’s. Jared is a hetero vampire who believes that blood tastes the sweetest [...]
By LMReviews on May 26, 2009 in Multicultural Lit Reviews | 1 Comment
A married couple struggling to maintain their connection and start a family recapture the perfection of young love in Veronica Blaque’s short story, Doppelganger. Though the story starts a little rough, but Blaque tells the story of a middle-aged woman tormented by her ticking biological clock, the strain of her marriage and a sexy stranger [...]
By LMReviews on May 24, 2009 in Multicultural Lit Reviews | Comments Off
The two main female characters in Dorothy Phaire’s Murder and the Masquerade learn that unconditional love first develops from within. Psychologist Reneé Hayes is not only caught in a loveless relationship with her husband, she’s in a loveless relationship with herself. Striving not only to find love, she struggles to find someone to whom she [...]
By LMReviews on Apr 20, 2009 in Multicultural Contributors, Multicultural Lit Reviews | Comments Off
In Congresswomen Linda and Loretta Sánchez’s inspirational book, Dream in Color, the sisters of congressional politics discuss their humble upbringing in El Monte and Anaheim, California. The sisters, parented by Mexican immigrants in a house with five other siblings, tell of the family’s strong work ethic and values. Linda, a JD licensed to practice labor [...]
By LMReviews on Apr 6, 2009 in Multicultural Contributors, Multicultural Lit Reviews, Multicultural Writing, Writing/Freelancing | Comments Off
In Marta Acosta’s contemporary paranormal romance, The Bride of Casa Dracula, blood-lust, jealousy, first class wedding skepticism and thematic hints of chicklit stories past abound. Milagro De Los Santos is a hot Hispanic freelance writer on the fringes of the rich and famous vampire society with only a series of wedding rituals, a loyalty agreement [...]
By LMReviews on Mar 19, 2009 in Multicultural Contributors, Multicultural Lit Reviews, Multicultural Writing | Comments Off
In Marcia L. McNair’s book, E-Males, the title isn’t just a play on the terms males and e-mail. In a novel where the reader gets to play the role as big brother or big sistah spying on the virtual conversation of two best friends, the author allows you to witness Ebony’s deepest thoughts and [...]