Wanda doesn’t remember reading much in grade school, but junior high is when she started to read romances. She had a friend who got Harlequin books from her sister in Canada and that’s how Wanda got hooked. Remember those, maybe one kiss and only holding hands. Wow, have things changed in the genre. Anyway, she is now a bookaholic. If she doesn’t read a book a day, then she starts to have withdrawal symptoms and it doesn’t matter if it’s a new one or an old favorite, she has to read something. Wanda says the best thing about books is that you can go anywhere, learn anything and have an adventure or a torrid romance, all without leaving the comforts of home.

Wanda started to wonder about reviewing and the mechanics of how it works after discovering Romantic Times magazine and realized how she used the reviews to influence her personal buying choices. She is enjoying this opportunity to expand her reading horizons with new authors and the books from independent publishers that are not readily available in her area. Wanda hopes that readers will find her reviews helpful and entice them to try these authors and to actively seek out books from the independent publishers on their own or request them through their local library. She says this is a great time to be a reader — we have so many more choices available to us now!

REVIEWS
Baby Mine by Emma Bruce
Caviar Dreams by Judy Nichols
Finding Mary Blaine by Jodi Thomas
Lady of the Lakes by J.C. Hall
Milky Way Marmalade by Mike DiCerto
Once Again, Now by Charmaine Gordon
One True Secret by Bethany Campbell
Plague Maker by Tim Downs
The Dark Plain by Sloan St. James
The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine
The Huntress by Barbara Karmazin
Who Bravely Dares by Judy Genandt