Linda Howard

REVIEW:  Shadow Woman by Linda Howard

REVIEW: Shadow Woman by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: After enjoying Running Wild, your collaboration with Linda Winstead Jones, I felt perhaps you had gotten your writing mojo back.  While Running Wild wasn’t the Howard writing of pre Open Season, it was still an improvement over the last several hardcovers.  In the year’s previous hardcover release, we were even treated to(…)

REVIEW:  Running Wild by Linda Howard, Linda Jones

REVIEW: Running Wild by Linda Howard, Linda Jones

Dear Ms. Howard and Ms. Jones: I’ve read one collaboration by you before and it was a … less than successfully executed paranormal romance. I had low expectations going into this book but I was secretly hopeful. Linda Howard’s books remain some of my favorite in the genre. I keep waiting for the magic to(…)

REVIEW: Son of the Morning by Linda Howard

REVIEW: Son of the Morning by Linda Howard

Dear Ms Howard: The re-release of one of your only time travel novel provided a perfect excuse for a re-read. Son of the Morning was first published in 1997. It’s an unusual romance in that for much of the story, Grace and Niall, the two main protagonists are separated by the dimension of time. While(…)

REVIEW: Prey by Linda Howard

REVIEW: Prey by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: In a recent podcast, Sarah Wendell and I talked about how there are titles we would like to have rebound into collector’s items so that they can sit on our shelves and be read and admired.  Some of your titles would be on that list. After the Night.  Now You See Her.(…)

REVIEW: Veil of Night by Linda Howard

REVIEW: Veil of Night by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: I have to preface this review with a little backstory about my love for your books. I’ve loved most everything you have written from your early category days (McKenzie’s Mountain, the Kell Sabin Series) to your hardcovers like Open Season. I’ve defended Marc Chastain and his Guiness Book of World Records erection(…)

REVIEW: Ice by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: I confess that I was at first taken aback by the length of this hardcover. I remember thinking unkind thoughts about this format when Janet Evanovich put out her first Christmas hardcover. Those have sold like crazy so I guess that readers are unfazed by the length of the story and the(…)

REVIEW: Burn by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: I liked this book but I think it is important for a reader to view it more as an adventure book than a romance on although there is a strong romance. It lacks the emotional intensity of prior Howard works, but it was engaging. There was a certain instruction manual feel to(…)

REVIEW: Death Angel by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: I was ruminating about this book as I polished up the review. At first I thought, this is a departure for you because it is such a dark book, featuring a very different type of heroine. But you’ve had darker books before (Cry No More) and you’ve featured different types of heroines(…)

REVIEW: Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: I am a big fan girl and while I haven’t loved your last few books (okay since Open Season), I still look forward to your new ones. While Up Close and Dangerous isn’t going to sit on my keeper shelf with Dream Man or After the Night or the Kell Sabin series,(…)

REVIEW: Raintree: Inferno by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: When it was announced that you would be contributing to the new Silhouette Nocturne line, I could not wait for this book. Some of my favorite Howard romances were categories from MacKenzie’s Mountain to A Game of Chance and the great Kell Sabin series. Sadly, this book was a shadow of a(…)

REVIEW: Drop Dead Gorgeous by Linda Howard

Dear Ms Howard: I wasn’t really much of a Blair fan the first time around and with any book in the first person, if you don’t love the narrator, you aren’t going to love the book. I didn’t find her as irritating as I did in To Die For, but I don’t think I’m up(…)

REVIEW:  Dream Man by Linda Howard

REVIEW: Dream Man by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: I know that you won’t be reading this letter as you are not an onliner, but let me tell you about my love for Dream Man. To some, this is a terrible book filled with a terrible betrayal by the hero. To me, it shows the extent I will overlook things when(…)