Jun 30 2010
Dear Ms. Mallery: As you might have guessed, I have a love/hate relationship with your books. My favorite is Simply Irresistible and I don't know if I could pinpoint exactly why but it is a contemporary I recommend with some regularity. (I tried to give it to some reporter for NBC at the RWA in(…)
May 7 2010
Dear Ms. Mallery: I liked this book but not as much as I thought I would. Maybe in another re-read it would be a favorite but for some reason I never became emotionally engaged. The hook is that Fool’s Gold is a town with too many women and not enough men. Charity Jones is(…)
Nov 3 2009
Dear Ms. Mallery: Having finished the entire Titan sisters series, I find myself in virtually the same place after the fourth book as after the first: I loved so much of the interaction among the women but found the basic suspense premise substantially problematic. Witty dialogue buoyed each book, while unconvincing characterizations torpedoed my ability(…)
Jul 20 2009
Dear Ms. Mallery, That I endeavored to read Lip Service is probably a surprise to anyone who read my Twitter entries about the first book in the Titan sisters series (Under Her Skin), since that book hit quite a few of my hot buttons. But a good experience with the Buchanan series and active curiosity(…)
Sep 9 2008
Dear Ms. Mallery: When I was a kid, my brothers got the Boys’ Life magazine and on the back of the magazine, next to the Sea Monkeys advertisement (Oh, how I wanted that!) was the ubiquitous Charles Atlas 97 pound weakling ad. It was a cartoon that showed some guy getting sand kicked in his(…)
Aug 4 2008
Dear Ms. Mallery: The benefit of reading books out of order is you don’t get all that messy character build up. Yes, that is a bit tongue in cheek, but the truth is, if I had read Sweet Talk first, I don’t know if I would have liked Sweet Spot as much (again with the(…)
Jul 24 2008
Dear Ms. Mallery: July, August, and September sees the release of your Keys’ Bakery sisters series. The series begins with Claire, a piano virtuoso. Claire has been estranged from her family since, well, almost forever. When she was 3 years old, she walked up to a piano and started playing and her life changed forever.(…)
Jul 18 2008
Dear Ms. Mallery: This is Book 3 in the Buchanan series and it features youngest brother Reid who happens to be a famous former baseball player who suffered a career ending shoulder injury the previous year. He’d rather be playing ball than tending bar at one of the Buchanan’s restaurants, but at least he can(…)
Jul 17 2008
Dear Ms. Mallery: This is the first Buchanan book that I read but the second in the series. I think its my favorite Mallery book I’ve read in my recent glom. Elissa Towers is a woman who has made some past bad mistakes and is still paying for them, but she’s righting her ship and(…)
Jan 1 2008
Dear Ms. Mallery: Accidentally Yours relies on the premise that it is okay for a mother to do anything to save her child. And by anything, I mean, extortion, bribery, and emotional blackmail. The biggest problem with this book is that it plays off the mother’s actions as cute and endearing rather than reprehensible, but(…)
Oct 6 2007
Dear Ms. Mallery: In an effort to broaden my horizons and understand the appeal of the category romance and to support Harlequin’s phenomenal digital effort, I’ve taken to buying two or three series books a month. A while back I purchased The Sheik and The Virgin Secretary because the title exemplified two of the most(…)
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