Dec 6 2013
Solace Ames is a Japanese-American writer with roots in the Southeast US, although her heart lives somewhere along the Pacific coast of Mexico. She’s worked in restaurants, strip clubs, academia and the corporate world and studied everything from the philosophy of science to queer theory to medieval Spanish literature. Rejecting neat categories, her writing sprawls across(…)
Dec 6 2013
After an eye-opening congressional hearing, former corporate shark Jack Morgan redirects his ill-gotten gains toward charity work. However, his attempts to bring holiday cheer to a Bolivian village meet with one disaster after another: canceled flights, crumbling luggage, implacable customs officials. His plans disintegrate further when he runs into a sexy tourist with . .(…)
Dec 5 2013
Dear Readers, When readers talk about their favorite books that feature gay or LGBT protagonists, Mary Renault’s The Charioteer is usually at or near the top of their lists. Renault is most well known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece, one of which, The Persian Boy, may be even more well-known and well-loved(…)
Dec 5 2013
Dear Ms. Kelley, I first heard of Take Me Home when you posted about it in the author promo thread, and was intrigued by the West Virginia setting – not a particularly common one in romance – as well as the characters’ backgrounds. This is a difficult book for me to review, as there were(…)
Dec 4 2013
Dear Ms. Hill: After many books exploring the vampire world, Unrestrained returns to the contemporary setting in a book very loosely connected to the Knights of the Boardroom series (a series that I found entertaining but very troubling). Athena is a widow and accomplished businesswoman with a challenging bedroom issue. She served as a dom(…)
Dec 4 2013
A Christmas star shines brightly in the Western skies, bringing hope, love, and miracles in three unforgettable stories of romance trimmed with the holiday traditions of Native America. The Sharing Spoon Cynthia intends to show her inner-city classroom that Santa does not forget about children. For Kyle Bear Soldier, donating part of his fortune is(…)
Dec 3 2013
Dear Ms. Carlyle, I’m a fan of many of your early historicals, but in recent years I have found most of your books more miss than hit. Nonetheless, I’ve always enjoyed your writing style and when I saw that In Love With a Wicked Man apparently features a new cast of characters and no paranormal(…)
Dec 3 2013
Dear Ms. Jones: I read and reviewed the first book in this series, Escaping Reality. While I admired your writing in the first book, I was frustrated by the lack of understanding of why the heroine of the series, Amy Benson, is on the run. When I say this, I mean, I read the entire(…)
Dec 2 2013
I’ve been making my way through the Bronte sisters’ oeuvre for the past couple of years; for the longest time I’d only read Jane Eyre (in school, originally). Then I dove into the big bowl of crazy that was Wuthering Heights, before taking the suggestion of readers that Anne’s quiet realism was an antidote to(…)
Dec 2 2013
Dear Ms. Lynn, I read and enjoyed the previous book in this series, Leave Me Breathless, last year so I was happy when this one landed in my inbox. While the series has a lot of recurring characters and there is regular reference to events from previous books, I think the books work well as(…)
Dec 1 2013
I’ll start the confessions by admitting that I was never a major fan of “Little House on the Prairie.” Even at age 10 I knew sappy when I saw it and not ever having read any of the “Little House” books, I wasn’t invested in the series. That being said, I did watch my fair(…)
Nov 30 2013
Dear Ms. Moon: I saw that this book was out and kind of balked at the price. I liked the first one in the series but I never finished the second one so I hovered over the buy button. The author then offered the book for a potential review. Here’s my two cent summary. If(…)
Nov 29 2013
Dear Zen Cho: Back in 2012 you sent DA a blurb about your self-published novella. I remember being intrigued by the excerpt and I meant to request it, but apparently I never did. Stupid me. But it stuck in my mind, and a few months later I bought my own copy and finally read this(…)
Nov 29 2013
Dear Ms. Lane, I hadn’t read a western in a while so the blurb for this one caught my eye. High stakes marriage After shooting a man, the stakes for gambler Logan Devereaux have never been higher. On trial for his life, he’s offered a shocking alternate form of restitution…marriage to his victim’s pregnant sweetheart!(…)
Nov 28 2013
Dear Ms. Kenneally, Having enjoyed the three previous Hundred Oaks books, I was happy to have the chance to read and review this one. I’m pleased to say that it did not disappoint, and Racing Savannah was an enjoyable reading experience. Set several years after the previous books in the series, it features a new(…)
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