Apr 23 2012
In my recent post on my favorite romantic suspense novels, I asked DA readers to proffer their favorites. Wow, did you guys come through! Here’s a list of many of the books suggested. I’m not giving individual credit to each reader– many of you suggested the same books. But, to all of you thanks! My(…)
Apr 19 2012
Dear Ms. Higgins, I’ve read several of your books and, in general, have found them to be a bit too toothsome for me. I did however enjoy one of your earlier books, The Next Best Thing, so I was interested to read your latest novel, Somebody to Love, whose heroine, Parker Harrington Welles, was introduced in(…)
Apr 17 2012
Dear Ms. McCarty, The Saint is the first of your books I’ve read and, if they are all like this, it will be the last. This book combined the worst of the two components of historical romance. The history, of which there is a ton, is info-dumped in large swathes into your prose—I began to feel(…)
Apr 14 2012
Dear Ms. Bray-Weber, I can honestly say I’ve never read a book like your pirate romance A Kiss on the Wind. Not only is it the only pirate romance I’ve read, it’s the only historical romance I’ve read where the heroine isn’t a virgin and no reason is given for that. I’ve read plenty of historical(…)
Apr 12 2012
I recently shared with Dear Author my favorite historical romances. Today I’m pulling out my favorite romantic suspense novels. These are kept in my Kindle collection: bad guys, good sex, true love. I’ve not read as much romantic suspense as I have historical romance so my bad guys, good sex, true love collection currently only has(…)
Apr 10 2012
Dear Ms. Edwards, I’ve read all three books in your Rising Star Chef series and, of all of the couples in the series, my favorite hands down is Claire Durand and Kane Slater. This, really, is a bummer because, in all three books, they are secondary characters though their love story, finally resolved in this(…)
Apr 6 2012
Dear Ms. Nicholas, Perhaps I wasn’t the best choice to review your latest novel Everything You’ve Got. I’m married to a physician and have worked in and around the medical field for most of my adult life. Your heroine, twenty-seven (I think) year old Dr. Kat Dayton, struck me as unbelievably immature and the problems(…)
Apr 4 2012
Dear Ms. Sizemore, I loved The Price of Innocence. And, I expect to get grief from a few for doing so. The relationship between your leads, Jack and Sherrie, begins with what could be called at best forced seduction and what will be seen by some as rape. This trope makes many crazy. Before I began(…)
Mar 29 2012
Dear Ms. Dare, As I read A Week to Be Wicked, I kept thinking about Cyndi Lauper’s assertion “Girls just want to have fun.” The heroine of this book, Minerva Highwood, prior to hitting the road with your hero, Lord Colin Payne, really hasn’t had much fun. She certainly hasn’t had any fun where men(…)
Mar 26 2012
Dear Ms. Duran— As I read At Your Pleasure, I wondered if you will ever write a book I dislike. It seems unlikely. I love three of the books you’ve written and the two I don’t love—A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal and Wicked Becomes You—I like tremendously. I am enamored of your use of language, your deftness of(…)
Mar 22 2012
Dear Ms. Callaway: I was bemused and not particularly enchanted by your gothic paranormal novel Abigail Jones. Everything about it, from the demented sex-starved demonesses to the enormity of your hero’s penis, was over the top. Very little about the heroine, her plight, the hero, his predicament, or the eye-popping plot called to me to.(…)
Mar 20 2012
Dear Ms. Lee, I fell head over heels in love with your hero in the very first few paragraphs of your novel, Wedded in Scandal. “Yer wants to go in there? But, er, why?” Robert Percy, Viscount Redhill, ignored the mine manager and began stripping off his coat and gloves. They were in the shack(…)
Mar 16 2012
Dear Ms. Mayberry, It’s always a delight to read your books. Your characters are interesting, multifaceted, (reasonably) ordinary men and women; your plots are touching without being tawdry; your love stories convincing and sexy. More Than One Night isn’t my favorite of your books—I had trouble with the heroine—but was an enjoyable novel and one(…)
Mar 13 2012
Dear Ms. Dean— When you sent Dear Author a teaser for your novel Teach Me, you described it as an historical novel set in the early Victorian period. In describing the book, you wrote “romance will be the focus of the story with erotic elements. Sex and language will be hot, graphic and plentiful.” You weren’t(…)
Mar 8 2012
Dear Ms. Evans, I’ll begin this review with the last line of your novella, To Dare the Duke of Dangerfield. He loved, with a consuming passion, the woman who’d dared the Duke of Dangerfield. This line evokes a picture perfect happy ending for Harlow Telford, the Duke of Dangerfield, and Lady Caitlin Southall, the woman who(…)
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