Oct 25 2012
Jia’s preface: The majority of this review is spoiler-free but I would be remiss if I didn’t discuss the end of this novel because I know it’ll be a dealbreaker for many readers. I’ll put that discussion under a spoiler tag, however, so just don’t click it if you want to remain unspoiled. Dear Ms.(…)
Oct 19 2012
Dear Ms. Bell: What a totally fun, sexy, and contemporary romance. The story is driven by well known tropes but the writing and the characters made it a fresh read. Lacey Garrity finds her husband with a bridesmaid during the wedding reception and flees on the back of her best friend’s brother’s motorcycle. The brother,(…)
Oct 18 2012
Dear Ms. Lane, I rarely believe in insta-love and, in general, holiday stories leave me cranky. I didn’t think I’d like this book—even the title made me smirk (although the guy on the cover is seriously hot). But Hunk for the Holidays entertained me. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a good time. The beginning(…)
Oct 13 2012
Dear Ms. Elsborg: I had read one book by you before which had been recommended by a friend. While the voice was strong, I pretty much hated the story because the main character was dislikeable lout sleeping with underaged girls,using drugs, and then miraculously being cured by love within one week or so. Because of(…)
Oct 11 2012
Dear Ms. Jewel, Ms. Milan, and Ms. Thomas, I’ve been waiting for this anthology since I first heard about it last spring. The authors are among the strongest writing historical romance today and the premise linking the three novellas is clever and unusual: each is set in the same location but in a different time(…)
Oct 9 2012
If I could offer one piece of advice now, as I fall past the eighty-fourth floor of Victory Tower, with the sky above me the swirling eye of a crimson hurricane, the blade of a goddess stuck in my thigh, and a man I used to love preparing to end the world, it would be(…)
Oct 4 2012
Dear Ms. Byrne: When I began this book, I had only vague memories of the vampire series you wrote several years ago. This story takes place shortly after Damned by the Blood and involves Alya Adad sending her Hand, Eva Sosa Padillo, to the northwoods of Minnesota to seek out the clan of the vampire(…)
Oct 3 2012
Dear Ms. Wildes, When I saw you’d published a new historical romance, Ruined by Moonlight, I downloaded the ARC. I’ve read quite a few of your books since your print debut An Indecent Proposition (Jane liked it less than I did.) and enjoyed several. (Let’s agree not to discuss One Whisper Away.) When your books work(…)
Oct 3 2012
Dear Ms. Day: Part of my response to this book is in direct correlation with my biggest fear for the book – that the conflict between Eva and Gideon would be unnaturally extended as we worked our way through to the end of the trilogy. Fortunately that did not happen. If anything, I wondered if(…)
Oct 1 2012
Dear Ms. Enoch: The Scandalous Bride series as this is called has been a challenge for me. I really appreciate the thoughtful presentation of women and their powerlessness in the Regency period. Through the Tantalus Club, set up in Book 1 of the series, women of all backgrounds have found a safe haven. As Diane,(…)
Sep 28 2012
Dear Ms. Rocha: The pre publication reviews both intrigued and scared me but I thought I would ask for a review copy, something I rarely do. This book is both erotic and loving but within the confines of a dystopian world where lawless gangs rule outer sectors surrounding a walled city where propriety is the(…)
Sep 26 2012
Dear Ms. Doyle: I admit part of me wants to give this book an A just for the attempt to address something that I don’t believe has ever been addressed in romance before. (It’s not abortion – you can pick up No Matter What by Janice Kay Johnson in the October HSR series if you(…)
Sep 24 2012
Dear Ms. Lin, I’ve read several of your other books and enjoyed them—I liked your novella “Capturing the Silken Thief” (reviewed here). I also liked “An Illicit Temptation” but didn’t love it—it felt incomplete to me. I bet, however, if I’d read the companion novel, My Fair Concubine (reviewed here), I would have appreciated your novella(…)
Sep 23 2012
Dear Ms. Zhang, When I first saw the premise for your debut YA novel, I was intrigued. Everyone is born with two souls but one gains dominance until finally, the other vanishes in childhood? Interesting yet twisted – my kind of thing. It was enough to make me look past the dystopian setting that’s become(…)
Sep 21 2012
Dear Ms. Mayberry, Why am I reading this older book of yours? There’s a story behind this and I’m going to tell it to you. You see, Jane usually gets all the printed arcs submitted to DA and then she divvies them up and mails them out to us. Sometimes she needs to pad the(…)
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