Nov 22 2012
Dear. Ms. Tarr, Halfway through your new fairytale Operation Cinderella, I began to wonder: Where is the woman who wrote Vanquished and what have you done with her? Vanquished, which you published in 2006, is a kickass historical about a suffragette and the photographer who has been hired to ruin her. The characters, the plot,(…)
Nov 16 2012
October was, overall, a crappy reading month for me. The majority of the books I read ranged from mediocre to dreadful. Here’s a representative sampling. The month wasn’t a total lost–I read several books that will be published over the next few months I thought were quite good. I also enjoyed several of the books(…)
Nov 10 2012
Dear Ms. Probst: As I read your book, I kept thinking about a phrase my mother uses: “There’s no accounting for taste.” The first two books in your Marriage to a Billionaire series–The Marriage Mistake is the third–have sold like hotcakes. Each book features a self-centered hero, a zero(ine) to heroine chick, a love spell, a meddlesome Italian(…)
Nov 9 2012
Dear Ms. Shalvis, I’d looked forward to reading Rescue My Heart, the third in your Animal Magnetism series. I enjoyed the first two books in the series and was ready to learn Adam’s and Holly’s story. I liked Rescue My Heart, although I struggled a bit in the beginning with the characterizations of Adam and(…)
Nov 1 2012
Dear Ms. Mayberry: Immediately after reading your latest, Suddenly You, I knew exactly what my review of it should say: “Yet another well-done book by Ms. Mayberry with appealing characters and a sweet love story.” However, DA readers expect a bit more. And while their time would be better spent reading your prose than mine, here(…)
Oct 26 2012
Dear Ms. Laurens, Your latest book, The Lady Risks All, is almost 500 pages. That was at least 350 too many for me. In many ways, this is a typical Laurens book—although it differs in one excellent way. The man has enough sexual experience to train several brothels; the virginal heroine is so responsive to his(…)
Oct 22 2012
WARNING: This review, like A Touch of Confidence, contains lots of sexually explicit language. Dear Ms. Dee, For readers who don’t want to spend their time reading a review of a novella I found weak, here’s a quick summary: For readers who would like a bit more explanation, here goes. For a romance novel to(…)
Oct 18 2012
Dear Ms. Lane, I rarely believe in insta-love and, in general, holiday stories leave me cranky. I didn’t think I’d like this book—even the title made me smirk (although the guy on the cover is seriously hot). But Hunk for the Holidays entertained me. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a good time. The beginning(…)
Oct 3 2012
Dear Ms. Wildes, When I saw you’d published a new historical romance, Ruined by Moonlight, I downloaded the ARC. I’ve read quite a few of your books since your print debut An Indecent Proposition (Jane liked it less than I did.) and enjoyed several. (Let’s agree not to discuss One Whisper Away.) When your books work(…)
Oct 1 2012
Dear Ms. Taylor, Cute cover, crappy book. Finally Home must be what Carina calls “sweet” and, in this case, that means–among other things–no sex. More’s the pity. It’s not I must have sex in my romances–although, in general, that’s my preference. It’s, if there isn’t sex, there’d better be something else compelling in the book:(…)
Sep 24 2012
Dear Ms. Lin, I’ve read several of your other books and enjoyed them—I liked your novella “Capturing the Silken Thief” (reviewed here). I also liked “An Illicit Temptation” but didn’t love it—it felt incomplete to me. I bet, however, if I’d read the companion novel, My Fair Concubine (reviewed here), I would have appreciated your novella(…)
Sep 20 2012
Dear Ms. Jewel, I was excited to read Not Proper Enough because two of your earlier books are on my list of favorite historical novels—my Ballin’ Bodice Rippers compilation—Lord Ruin (reviewed here by Jane) and Scandal (reviewed here by Janine.) I haven’t read the first book in your Reforming the Scoundrels series, Not Wicked Enough (reviewed(…)
Sep 11 2012
Dear Ms. Lofty, I put off writing this review. Had I written it right after finishing His Very Own Girl, I’d have nattered on and about the importance of abandoning partisan politics and working together for a greater good. But, once I calmed down and stopped bawling–His Very Own Girl is a surpassingly affecting novel–I realized I don’t have to beseech anyone to do(…)
Sep 7 2012
Dear Ms. Dahl, I am still surprised at how little I liked your latest Western-lite book, Close Enough to Touch. I’ve enjoyed many of your books–especially the sexy Bad Boys Do (reviewed here, along with the other Donovan books, by Robin) and the very funny Lead Me On (given a B+ here by Jane)– and you’re hilarious on Twitter. This book,(…)
Aug 31 2012
Dear Ms. Linden, I’ve read all three books in your The Truth about the Duke trilogy and never much cared about what happened to said peer, the (unchallenged) Duke of Durham. The guy seems like a heel. On his deathbed–and estranged from his eldest son, Charlie, the hero of The Way to a Duke’s Heart–he confesses(…)
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