Jan 2 2013
Dear Ms. Ashley: While I love the idea of this book, I felt that there were too many shortcuts taken to get us to the emotional hits you delivered. Elliot McBride went off to India to make his fortune. While he was there, Elliot became captive to a “tribal” band. During his captivity, he was(…)
Oct 8 2012
Dear Ms. Ashley: This shifter series has a unique world setting. It’s almost punk in some sense because the world of the shifters is anti establishment in every way. The humans are afraid of shifters and despite shifters greater strength, humans have superior power and were able to corral shifters onto reservations of sorts and(…)
Apr 3 2012
Dear Ms. Ashley The McKenzie family epitomizes the Byronic creed of being mad, bad and dangerous to know. The MacKenzie head of the family was a horrible man who beat his kids, sent his youngest son into an insane asylum, and ultimately killed his wife. Hart MacKenzie, the eldest, did all he could to protect(…)
Aug 1 2011
Dear Ms. Ashley: In The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie, Mac says to Ian: Mac sighed, cutting through the memory. “We’re Mackenzies. We don’t get happy endings.” Ian wiped his eyes with the back of his hand and didn’t answer. Their father lived by the mantra that sparing the rod spoiled the child. He beat(…)
Mar 3 2011
Dear Ms. Ashley: I have to confess that if I hadn’t gotten an ARC of this book, I would never have read it. The cover is just so, well, 70s? I mean, there is definitely something about this cover that screams Miami Vice or Chips. Too bad the dude is not wearing a white nylon(…)
Jul 8 2010
Dear Ms. Ashley: I really enjoyed The Madness of Lord Ian McKenzie and started reading the sequel featuring a brother of Lord Ian the minute Lady Isabella’s Scandalous Marriage dropped on my doorstep. Lady Isabella met and married Roland Mackenzie on the night of her debutante ball. Mac, as he is called, crashed the(…)
Apr 28 2009
Dear Ms. Ashley: As a satisfied reader of your Regency pirate series, I was definitely on board to try your new late Victorian book about a hero who suffers from Asperger’s. The barbaric aspects of a growing medical tradition and the increasing urbanization and complexity of British society are a perfect fit for a story(…)
Dec 20 2008
Dear Ms. Ashley: The premise is that Brenda, our heroine, wakes up on New Years’ Eve, naked and in bed with a buff naked man. He jumps up, covers himself and runs out. Brenda has just been dumped by her boyfriend Larry, one of the richest men in Southern California. Being in bed with a stranger somehow awakens a(…)
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