Elizabeth Berkley Books

this was a very good account of robert dudley's life. i found his relationships with queen elizabeth and lettice knollys to be rather fascinating. if you love the elizabethan era, this one will charm you.

I read this book may years ago. It was one of the first Historical Romance novels I ever read. It is also the best. I have read well over 3,000 different Historical Romance novels, and this is still my favorite of all time. I am sure I must have read this book well over a dozen times. It still can make me cry. That is the sign of a truly wonderful book. Even though you already know how the story will end, it can still bring a tear to you eye, and you are truly sorry to turn the last page of the book. That is how I feel everytime I have read this book!!!!

Despite the information on this page, NIGHT HUNGER has NOT been published yet. The new publication date will be posted as soon as the book is scheduled. I apologize for any confusion caused by the uncorrect date and info here. And thank you to the hundreds of readers who have written me about the Pharaohs Rising series. Best wishes, Elizabeth Guest

P.S. Excuse the 5 stars, but I had to put something in so this note could be posted.

An exceptionally compelling journey into a relationship involving total power exchange . Well written , candid , and highly erotic .

It is a shame this book is out-of-print, because it is a marvelous story. The author, Elizabeth Klein, tells the story of an extended secular Jewish family whose carefully structured world is shattered when the college-age son of one of the families runs away on Christmas Day. This causes everyone in the family to reexamine themselves and their lives, facing the difficult past and the more difficult future. Religion, God, and the lack thereof play an important part of the story, as do the meanings of words and silence. I heard the author read a selection of this book shortly after its publication, and the power of connections between family members who have chosen different paths has always remained with me. I highly recommend this title if you can find it!

I liked this version of Darcy's side of the story. The author kept Darcy true to his Austen roots.

I really enjoyed this simple version of Mr Darcy telling the story himself. The author didn't create a storyline outside of the original, which I appreciated. I enjoyed reading Mr Darcy's own account of his feelings and emotions during his revelation of a world outside his own immediate circle. This is a very believable account of Darcy's struggle to overcome his prejudice and eventually win Elizabeth's love. I totally enjoyed it.

I liked the way it starts out, and stays in Darcy's point of view and perspective. Very good imagry as you could see youself there with him.
His interactions and view of Elizabeth Bennet exactly as F. Darcy would view her as well.

If you have enough stress in your life, escape for a while into the world of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett. This story stays true to the original yet gives the reader more insight into the characters and the era. Good clean fun and a very nice read.

I cannot usually bear to read expansions, continuations, revisions, or prequels of Jane Austen -- I tend to hurl them down before I reach page three. They all fail miserably to sound like Austen, and I'm appalled at the hubris the authors exhibit in attempting it.

But this book sneaked around my prejudice by being -not- in the voice of Austen, but in the voice of Darcy, and I enjoyed it very much. It was funny; it followed the original, but from a different point of view; it sounded like Darcy to me -- young, proud, passionate, uncertain, and a little humor-challenged.

Street even came up with a reason for Darcy to have attended that first ball, though he doesn't enjoy it or expect to: he knows that if he stays home, Caroline Bingley will find an excuse to stay home too!

Get it. Read it. Enjoy it.

This book is a churning vortex that pulls readers in right from the start. It opens in 1984 when the protagonist, Bridget discovers her first husband has been having an affair. She exacts revenge on him, emblazoning the date of Wednesday, February 15, 1984 into the minds of readers as well.

This book covers Bridget's adult life. Her cousin Nessa dies at an early age from breast cancer and her father's death follows shortly afterward. It is interesting that Bridget refers to her father as "Hugo," yet she refers to her mother as the formal, distant "Mother," thus emphasizing the contrast in the relationship she had with her divorced parents.

Her marriage to Philip ends; she spends time in Portugal tutoring an 11-year-old girl and meets her then future husband, Pierce there. Pierce is an artist who is bipolar. They return to New York City; relocate to Minnesota and raise their two daughters, Maeve and Cleo. Maeve has severe autism.

Bridget's axis is tilted upon discovering the severit of Maeve's condition. Maeve at 2 1/2 was nonverbal and remained so throughout the story. She acquires some self care skills, but sadly suffers from eneuresis. Her behavior is believable; she has sensory issues such as a strong adherence to routine and certain foods and cannot bear the feel of certain textures such as nylon. She also likes water running on her feet and finds baths soothing to the point where she insists on being bathed several times a day. Morbidly obese from overeating and medication, Maeve's physical strength poses a danger. She is also a Beatles fan, loving the 1965 John Lennon classic "In My Life." That speaks to cultural awareness and cultural savvy.

Bridget joins a Mother's Support Group (MSG). The different personalities are described as well as Bridget's reaction to them. As Pierce's axis tilts further into bipolar episodes resulting in emergency hospitalizations, Bridget realizes she cannot do everything by herself. Once she admits she is angry at Maeve for her difficult, destructive behavior; the severity of her condition and the toll it has taken on family life, she feels "refreshed." She relates to the Paul McCartney 1968 classic, "Rocky Raccoon," when she talks of her revival, like Gideon, who checked out.

In reading this, one cannot help but wonder how much is Elizabeth Burns and how much is her fictitious character. A gifted author, Burns will pull readers into a vortex of churning, understandable emotions and readers will float among the eddies, wondering what the next move will be. It is impossible not to feel the fear, sorrow, disappointment, anger, angst and bewilderment that are all part of the character's emotional state. Readers will no doubt think about this book long after turning the last page and Burns' mastery at writing will leave indelible impressions upon the minds of her readers. This is a good companion book to A Rock and A Hard Place

I read this book at the reccomendation of a good friend. I thought the writing was choppy, and confusing at times. I had a hard time getting into it, but I did begin to like it about half way through. However, the ending was terrible. I have a great deal of experience with children and families affected by autism. I am sure some of the character's emotions are realistic, but the ending was unrealistic, and an easy wrap-up for the author. I found it offensive and hurtful. Without *spoiling* the ending, what bothered me most in this book, is that the main character never explores the idea of leaving her husband because of his mental illnes (which is highly dramatic for their family). Her daughter, however, is left at 5 years old.

We have all come into contact with autistic children and their beleaguered parents. We have all empathized with them. This book, however, REALLY delves into the nitty-gritty behavior of the autistic child and the candid emotions of the caretaker. The additional stress of the bipolar husband sinks the reader into the same depth of depression as the overwhelmed heroine. Pair Tilt with Mark Haddon's excellent book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and you will have a better sense of what autism is like.

I think Ms. Burns wrote a great first novel. She is a very petic writer, has a great technique, and the novel was very carrying. However, as a parent of an autistic child, I honestly was looking forward to something that would be somewhat of a simpatico with me and this was not. I felt that the perspective of the autistic child was a cliche that is what others perceive an autistic child is. I don't feel like the author truly researched the field. More was written about the other psychiatric illnesses than what a true autistic relationship would have been. The stereotypees were just too general and contrived. I couldn't get past my upset after a certain point that this just wasn't real life.

Maybe I am being too harsh but again, as a parent living and breathing with an autistic daughter, I didn't feel like it was real. I finished the book but in anger. Besides, in present day culture, a state will not let a person commit their child long term unless a parent signs over parental control, thereby giving up all capabilities to be a part of a child's treatment team. It is basically unheard of so I felt like the story jumped the shark, so to speak.

Beautiful, engaging, every sentence is to be savored.

I bought this book thinking, it has great reviews, it's science fiction, and it has gay characters; exactly what I was looking for. From the tags this book looks to be overflowing with gay storylines. Well to my disappointment, it was not. There is one sadist character that likes men(sometimes). His scenes are few and neither graphic sexually or sadistically. While I kept waiting for the all the "gay stuff" to appear, I genuinely got caught up in her storytelling. The author is excellent at world building as well as character developement. Interesting and well paced, this was a fun read. I enjoyed it greatly. With her talent, I'm definitely going to look into her other books.

This and Dragon's Winter are my favorite Elizabeth A. Lynn books, and two of my favorite books all around. I've recommended both to a number of (carefully selected) friends over the years with great success. Beautifully written stories. It isn't for everyone though. Lynn is one of those writers who doesn't worry about making life fair for her characters and, in many of her stories, her protagonist has very little power over something very important to him/her. You've been forewarned...

If you like this, you might also like Testament by Valerie Freireich and/or Transformation by Carol Berg

If you're a woman and fantasize about owning slaves and what it would be like to have a slave as your very own personal helicopter pilot then this book is for you. If your a man and your fantasy is to torture slaves because you're in love with your slave owning sister than this book is for you. If you're neither of the above then don't even consider this book. Although the book takes place in the future on some distant planet, there was almost nothing futuristic about this story.

I first read this affecting novel twenty years ago and large parts of it have stayed with me every since. It's long out of print, but I hunted until I found a copy -- and I know now, again, why I remembered it so well. Lynn is known mostly for her high-concept fantasy, but this one is "what if" science fiction of the best sort. It's sometime in the unknown future and humans have colonized dozens of worlds, aided by the discovery of the "Hype" -- a parallel hyperspace route between stars, navigated by starcaptains, latter-day bravos with their own traditions and culture. The four worlds of the Sardonyx Sector got together a few generations ago to set up a prison world called Chabad, not unlike Britain shipping off its felons to Australia. But now Chabad is a colony world, too, with its own exports, and nearly everything is powered by the slave labor of the convicts. Lynn is careful to make her version of slavery as humane as possible: After their sentence is up, slaves are freed, their property is returned to them, and they can either leave Chabad or become free citizens. They're depersonalized, but not tortured. If they have useful skills, and if their owners are sensitive people, they may experience something like contentment. But they aren't free. And many, perhaps most, slaves are kept dosed on a tranquilizing euphoric drug called dorazine to keep them controllable. Of the Four Families that run Chabad, the slave system is in the care of Family Yago, and especially of Domna Rhani Yago, head of the family, and her brother, Zed, who is both a Senior Medic and Commander of the "Net," the toroidal starship that collects the prisoners from the other worlds of the sector and brings them to the slave auction on Chabad. Add an interplanetary antidrug police force trying to keep dorazine from being brought to Chabad, and all the elements are present for a complex, involving plot. But the real focus is on the personalities of Rhani, a reasonable, fair-minded woman who has been blinded by her upbringing and position, and of Zed, a sexual psychopath and thoroughgoing, self-aware sadist. And, finally, of Dana Ikoro, young starcaptain trying to bring off his first successful dorazine smuggling run, who gets caught and falls afoul of Zed before becoming Rhani Yago's slave-pilot -- and confidant, and lover. And there are more than a dozen other carefully-drawn characters in the supporting cast, all of which makes this a thoroughly fascinating book. I've read other reviews by readers -- probably much younger ones -- that have been knee-jerk dismissive of this novel because it seems to approve of slavery, . . . which it doesn't. Lynn seeks only to examine the possible effects of its use, which she does very effectively. Those other reviewers seem to adhere to absolutist standards of ethics and morality and seem not to understand that history (even when it's future history) is what happens, not what *should* happen. Both attitudes are foolish. But then, most long-time science fiction readers learn early to become tolerant ethical relativists.

This story is old (I think I was just a little kid when it was first published) but it sure doesn't seem like it. This futuristic tale is still futuristic, not dated in the least, and that's a timelessness that all storytellers should strive for. The basic premise of the book, drug enhanced slavery, is okay, but it's so much thin air without the involvement of the characters, my favorites being Dana and that sado-masochistic, pain/fun lovin' villian you love to hate to love, Zed Yago. The deep-space-faring hypers are so cool, it makes you want to dress up (or down) in leather and mesh, toss some glitter in your hair and cruise down to your neighborhood space bar. What gets me is that the only sci-fi Elizabeth A. Lynn has written is this book and "A Different Light." Of the handful of books she's written at all over the past 25 years, most of them are fantasy. I have no problem with fantasy, most of the books I own are of the genre, but her hip, stylish brand of science-fiction is one that I can get into, one that isn't so glaringly technical that my eyes roll back into my head, one that doesn't sacrifice story and style to teach you how to go about building a warp drive. Her two sci-fi stories are connected in many ways, and seem to take place in the same universe, with the sub-space highway of the Hyper being part of both. She could build on this if she wanted to, and if she does, I'll be there with glitter and eyeliner.

I read one reviewer saying what a bad read this was and I just can't believe he/she would?!?!?!?!?! I have read this book 3 times and I think it gets better each time. I have also seen the play twice and enjoyed it both times. I have lent the book out to about 6 people and they all enjoyed it too. Its one of those books you don't have to really think about it. Its humourous airy fun..........its no Shakespeare, but just a damn good time. Bravo to Miss Elizabeth Fuller for allowing us into her time with Bette Davis. I know if I had this legendary star with me for a month I would have written something too. Its the only true way you really learn about the real person beneath the star facade.

The reviews on this site called the book "a hoot." I hate that geriatric expression. I should have known better. This story would have made an excellent magazine article or a Golden Girls episode but there just isn't enough here for a book. Bette Davis spews some funny lines here and there but Fuller is no writer and not even an interesting character. In fact, she's really out there. I'm sure Ms. Davis thought she was a total nutcase. I also can't believe that Fuller had the audacity to take this even further and perform it on the New York stage - playing herself no less! In a way, I think it's quite sad because Ms. Davis was heartsick at the time for her daughter's scathing, tell-all book. I'm sure she never dreamed that a country bumpkin like Fuller would also capitalize from her name years later.

Still, as we learn in the book, Fuller is all about believing in communications with the otherworld. If that's true, I'm sure Ms. Davis has already made contact, hopefully depositing a couple of choice words and a poltergeist-ish bop to Fuller's noggin. Her dull-as-dirt husband or one of those hayseed handymen should have knocked some sense into this woman the minute she mentioned picking up a pen.

You should defintly get this book! Its a lot of fun it shows Bette is witty and of course bitchy! lol Its great fun and well worth it. I could see her saying "brother or christ" definitly get this book its a lot of fun!

Who could ever be ready to have Bette Davis, in the flesh, come and stay in our own home? What was supposed to be a few days turns into months for our admirable author, who tries to the best of her ability to do the impossible - please Ms. Davis.

Ms. Fuller lives many of our dreams come true when she takes on what turns to be an arduous task. It doesn't take long for the movie queen to wear out her welcome. Though Bette keeps Ms. Fuller hopping, the end result is a beautiful book of an inside day to day look at one of our most beloved stars. Davis fans should love it.

This is a delightfully funny little book in which author/psychic Elizabeth Fuller shares her experiences with her legendary house guest - Bette Davis, who stayed with Fuller and her husband and small son for a month! Amusing episodes include Liz taking Bette to McDonald's (she promised her son a visit) and the attention Davis attracted. Bette and the author watched JEZEBEL together one evening as it aired on the telly. I liked the book because it gives us insight into the real Bette Davis, who could be very child-like and just as vulnerable as anyone. Well worth reading!