May 19 2013
Dear Ms. Chase: Tangled is narrated Drew, a horrible person. He says horrible things. Thinks horrible things. Half the time he comes off slut shaming and half the time he comes off misogynistic. Yet, every time that I think he’s gone beyond the pale, I’m drawn back in. At the end of the book I’m(…)
May 6 2013
Dear Ms. Archer, An acquaintance recommended you as an author to read so that’s why I decided to take a look at this one. Although I don’t think I was a fan of this one, I think I may go find some of your other books. The third book of the Hellraiser series features Abraham(…)
Apr 21 2013
Dear Ms. Dee: Thank you for sending “New Life” for review at Dear Author. I was immediately fascinated by the storyline of a young man, Jason Reitmiller, whose promising future was cut short when he suffered brain damage in a motor vehicle collision. Jason now works as a night janitor in the building where the(…)
Apr 16 2013
Dear Ms. Rai: This was a 33,000 word novella featuring two high school + college lovers who separated and then reignited their romance. Tatiana Belikov always tried to meet the expectations of her adopted parents except when it came to one thing, her boyfriend. Wyatt Caine was a bad boy with poor prospects who worked(…)
Apr 16 2013
“Lily Sawyer flees her controlling, wealthy family in New York City for a solitary existence on Cape Cod. Three months later, a mounting anxiety binds her to the house she can no longer leave. With hurricane season approaching, Lily hires Cliff Buckley—an angry carpenter with an immediate disgust for his elitist employer—to storm-proof her house.(…)
Apr 3 2013
Dear Ms. Enoch: The best thing about the romance was how it brought up and addressed the repercussions of an interclass relationship during the Regency period. Often you have dukes and maids or shopkeepers getting married but there is no resulting social approbation. Given how classist society was during that time period, these romances are(…)
Apr 3 2013
Dear Ms. Marley, You hardly need my review, as you seem to be a fairly well-known and well-selling author—in scifi/fantasy. Certainly, I had never heard of you until I stumbled across your book at my library, which sports a lovely, romance-novel-type cover. That’s right. This is a case study in covers telling the reader what(…)
Mar 31 2013
Dear Ms. London, I have read all the books in your The Secrets of Hadley Green series. (OK, I didn’t read the Christmas novella.) I seem to enjoy every other one. The first, The Year of Living Scandalously, failed to grab my attention. I liked the second, The Revenge of Lord Eberlin (my review is(…)
Mar 4 2013
Dear Ms. St. James: I didn’t read, although I always intended to, your first book The Haunting of Maddy Clare. Janine included it in a reading roundup. Janine commented that one of the stand out parts of the book was how atmospheric it is. I found the same to be true with An Inquiry into(…)
Mar 1 2013
Dear Ms. Scott: I bought this directly after finishing Flesh and was totally thrilled to be immersed in your evocative post apocalyptic world once again. While the two main characters in this book had a more developed romance, I was still stymied by the heroine’s passivity. I hope in future books we see women who(…)
Feb 27 2013
Dear Ms. Carlyle: The first four chapters appeared to address a number of events that took place in previous books. I barely remember these events and felt frustrated and lost. It seems like no book these days, be it historical or paranormal, can be read without having first powered through the previous four titles in(…)
Feb 18 2013
Dear Ms. Morgan: This book is a lot of fun with a great hero, more quotable lines than a compendium from John Bartlett, and a somewhat disappointing conclusion. My favorite lines in the book have to be this: “Spork! I cry spork!” She released some of the tension on his arm but didn’t back away.(…)
Feb 15 2013
The comments to this review are turned off because we are hosting a bookclub for this book today. Please lend your voice to our discussion there. Dear Ms. Hunter: There was a lot to like about this dark book about lost love, fear of self, and redemption. The premise of the book is that Logan(…)
Feb 12 2013
Dear Ms. Gerard: “Killing Time” makes a smooth transition from the Black Ops, Inc. to the One Eyed Jacks series with pilot Mike Brown and CIA attorney Eva Salinas. Eight years ago, Eva’s husband died in Afghanistan in a terrible mission gone wrong, a mission that Mike Brown was involved in and one that haunts(…)
Feb 8 2013
“Jade Moon is a Fire Horse — the worst sign in the Chinese zodiac for girls, said to make them stubborn, reckless, and far too headstrong. While her family despairs of marrying her off, she dreams of traveling far beyond her tiny village, living out a story as big as her imagination. Then a young(…)
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