Sable Lit Reviews

In Michele Van Ort Cozzens’ It’s Not Your Mother’s Bridge Club, we meet eight amazing women who live, love and laugh in the heart of southern Arizona over monthly games of Bunko. At first, you wonder if you’ll spend the entire read flipping back to the first chapter where Van Ort Cozzens first introduces us [...]

Now we’re getting to the best part, Shobhan! Your work! SLR: You make the weaving of Indian culture in FORBIDDEN appear effortless. Is it difficult deciding what to include and what to leave out regarding such a complex and rich culture?   SB: The old gem of wisdom, “write what you know” is what I [...]

Tomorrow kicks off my interview with Shobhan Bantwal, Kensington author of Forbidden Daughter and The Dowry Bride. Each day for five days you’ll get a snippet of our interview to learn more about Shobhan Bantwal and the her multicultural writing.  If  you are a member of the Newsletter, you will get additional access to more [...]

               This story was about Kendra and her two loves.  One a current love named Kevin and a past lover named Adam.  Though this novella wasn’t too long I was sort of bored with it.  Overall it wasn’t really all that bad. The premise of the story was OK but I wanted a little [...]

With a vivid imagery that captures the attention of children and adults alike, you’re sitting beside Firoozeh Dumas as she retells loosely chronological stories of her Iranian upbringing in 1970’s California in the 2003 National Bestseller Funny in Farsi—A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America. Dumas shares the wisdom of her life experience, her [...]

Verbal agreements still stand after twelve years of growth and separation in LaVerne Thompson’s sensual short, Promises.  Thompson tells the story of Mia and David, teen sweethearts who reconnect at a ball honoring the political accomplishments of Mia’s mother, a long-time friend of David’s family. With a dozen years of no contact between them, will [...]

Senti is book one of the Jackwill Chronicles. Told in the first person from Major Jack Waco’s perspective, the first half of this Sci-fi futuristic voyage is fast-faced and multilayered as we learn of Waco’s self-imposed life of a loner and the barriers he’s build around his emotions. He trains a new galaxy ship pilot–Maggie Wilson, takes [...]

Let me start out by saying that sci-fi isn’t one of my favorite genres’ especially when it comes to erotic storys.  But I have to say I was pleasantly surprised how this book turned out.  I couldn’t put it down.  The story is about a couple of young women who by way of the Bermuda Triangle [...]

In a multilayered plot that pushed and pulled from beginning to end, Jean Holloway drifts in and out of the consciousness of Detective Shevaughn Robinson, an African American woman new to the homicide division, reporter and love interest Tony O’Brien, a Caucasian reporter sniffing for the big story to make his career, sexually depraved killer [...]

All the blinders are removed from the world of BDSM in Bridget Midway’s Woman in Chains. Dakota “Dak” Ricci is many things; A military veteran of the US war in Kuwait, a husky wood craftsman and a former Dom turned burly Paul Bunion savior-type who falls in love with his most recent save he names [...]