Spotlight: REVENGE GIFTS by Cindy Cruciger (TOR, September 1, 2005)
Not looking forward to speed reading your way through the same tired plot, the same predictable characters?
Welcome to a different kind of writing and a far weirder reality. Take the road no one else traveled and do lunch with the people who paved it.
It?s a romance?for the lunatic fringe.
Tara Cole is a computer geek who drops off the grid to live in the Florida Keys. After ten years taking hit after hit in the digital world, it?s hard to cut all the baggage loose. She carries some of that baggage in the form of a website she runs called Revenge-Gifts.com. One of the gifts she sells comes back to haunt her in the form of a Reversal of Fortune curse a voodoo priestess puts on Tara for revenge. Only, if you haven?t had sex in ten years and your life pretty much sucks already, how bad can a Reversal of Fortune curse really be?
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Excerpt:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0765352257/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-1562852-4871063#reader-link
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ABOUT Cindy Cruciger
Cindy Cruciger was born on a full moon night in Okeechobee, Florida. A few days later, the doctor who delivered her disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Weird? Yes. But, she’s used to it. She graduated from USF and UCF with a degree in computer engineering and is an alumna of the Delta Eta chapter of Kappa Delta sorority. She got married, got a job, had a few kids and ended up in Puerto Rico for five years. There amongst the Chupacabra sightings, Santeria rituals, and all the usual island-life madness, on a full moon night at the height of the summer heat, no air-conditioning, fans blowing so hard the cats were skittering over the terrazzo floor trying to get some traction and failing, the scent of night blooming Jasmine so thick in the air that you could wring it out of the curtains — she started writing. Her first work of fiction won an RT Book Club contest and for three years she has been chronicling the strange world of an aspiring author, trying to get published. Her Path to Publishing column appears monthly in RT Book Club Magazine. She is a computer engineer for the Miami Herald and freelances for the Keynoter — a bi-weekly tabloid that chronicles everything and anything that happens in the hundred plus miles of the Florida Keys.
She currently lives in the village of Islamorada in the Florida Keys — until her neighbors read her book and kick her off the island.
REVIEWS
?Four and a half stars TOP PICK Flat-out fabulous, this novel is one-of-a-kind. Cruciger?s original, funny voice is cool and wise?? ?RTBOOK Club Magazine
?Cindy Cruciger?s debut novel is riotously funny and wickedly witty.? ? Romance Junkies
?I kept hiding behind the boxes to keep reading it - this book seriously hooks you so bad you?ll have a rictus curl in the side of your face.? ? Smart Bitches Trashy Books
Website: http://www.CindyCruciger.com
MY COMMENTS: The term “fresh voice” is tossed around a lot in the publishing industry, but Cindy lives up to the hype. She combines great storytelling with a caustic sense of humor that kept me turning the pages. And what a great concept! If you haven’t read this book, do it. Now. That’s an order.



