![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As adult "auteurs", they had all but invented the girlie show, vehicles almost solely intended to show off brand-new starlets, and by the mid-'80s they had it down to a science. Seriously though, this proves one of the better latter-day efforts from film-making duo Svetlana and David Frazer, a furtive final flicker in the wake of the euphoria of their Ginger Lynn Hawaiian movies (SURRENDER IN PARADISE being first among equals) as they hit the downward slope by milking their BAD GIRLS franchise for all it was worth, interspersed with direly over-plotted nonsense like ANOTHER ROLL IN THE HAY. That's right, sports fans, well before long-running (try interminable) video series like CHERRY POPPERS popularized the matter there was already an entire movie out there devoted to this subject, treated with all the cavalier carnality one would expect the adult industry to attribute to such a pivotal event in a young woman's life. What the title suggests is being broken here refers to a girl's maidenhead, more commonly described as her virginity. ![]()
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(Under pseudonym Bryanna Fox) Thread of Destiny ("Rainbow Romance" series), Robert Hale (London, England), 1992.ĭaughter of Darkness, Robert Hale (London, England), 2001.Īngelina, Robert Hale (London, England), 2002. Twice awarded the Bronze Quill, Society of Women's Writers, for short fiction Romantic Book of the Year, 2002, Romance Writers of Australia, for Daughter of Darkness. Woods, Janet 1939- (Bryanna Fox) PERSONAL:īorn 1939, in Dorset, England. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tone was written very well and easy for a child to understand (my youngest is 6). ![]() They loved all the magical secrets and were trying to guess certain things throughout the read like putting together a puzzle and they wanted me to read it faster. The looks on their faces when a secret was found was precious. My children laughed and giggled in regards to the Finkle children and many of their actions and comments throughout the story. 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Back in Norway, little links two murdered women except the unusual stab wounds in their mouths. Considered an expert after catching the serial killer known as the Snowman, Harry is marginally intrigued by the possibility of another serial killer loose in Oslo. Harry Hole reluctantly agrees to return home from Hong Kong, where he's been hiding out for months, after an Oslo Crime Squad colleague tells him his father is in the hospital. In Nesb 's outstanding follow-up to The Snowman, Insp. ![]() |