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(…)
Sep 11 2012
Dear Ms. Kemmerer: I was excited that I found Spark at NetGalley the day after I finished Storm, the first your Elemental Series. The four Merrick brothers are Elementals, individuals born on the point of a Pentagon which gives them power over one of the four elements.  Elementals are often responsible for wars and tragedies and(…)
Sep 10 2012
Dear Ms. Patrick: You and I have always been friendly on Twitter, and I knew that you were an aspiring author, so when you offered me an opportunity to read your self-published book, As You Wish, I jumped at the chance. The book is a series length book, that has a charming locale, entertaining characters(…)
Sep 6 2012
Dear Ms. Walker: This book came to my attention when it was listed as one of PW’s romances of the summer.  Fortunately the book was on NetGalley and I was able to download and read it straight away.  Interestingly, this is the second in the Black Knights Inc. series but it is the first that I(…)
Sep 5 2012
Dear Ms. Goodman: Your books always present a challenge for me to review because oftentimes the plot is a mystery and thus delving into the story can ruin the surprise for many readers. The Last Renegade is one of those types of stories. Â Set in Wyoming Territory, 1888, Lorraine Berry answered a newspaper ad to(…)
Sep 4 2012
Dear Ms. Warren: In flipping through the Blaze ARCs sent to us by Harlequin, I picked up your book first. I’ve read and enjoyed you in the past. For 2/3 of the story, I felt like this was a book I could recommend to Dear Author readers but it kind of fell apart at the(…)
Sep 2 2012
Dear Ms. Kemmerer: Sarah Wendell told me about your book when it was chosen for the Smart Bitches Sizzlin’ Book Club. I admit some trepidation because I am not a huge fan of YA and the YA I do read is ordinarily straight contemporary. Storm is book 1 in the Elemental series. I felt like(…)
Aug 23 2012
Janine: About the time we had the discussion of diversity in Harlequin’s romances here at DA, Suleikha Snyder made a couple of thoughtful comments on Twitter, and that got me interested in her volume of two connected stories, a novella called Spice and Smoke. Spice and Smoke is set in the world of Bollywood cinema(…)
Aug 22 2012
I read a handful of m/m ARCs over the past month, with varying levels of success. I either DNF’d them or didn’t have enough to say to warrant a full-blown review, so I decided a lightning-review post fit the bill. In no particular order: But My Boyfriend Is by K.A. Mitchell Mitchell is an auto-buy,(…)
Aug 22 2012
Dear Ms. Schaller, When I was looking at the Harlequin Historicals for this past April, this cover seemed familiar to me. The generic blurb rang vague bells. Looking back through my reading list, I discovered why. It was first published in 2004 and I had read it then. Curious to see how it would hold(…)
Aug 20 2012
Dear Ms. Diaz, The blurb for this one just sounded like so much fun that I hurried to snatch it up from Netgalley. A superheroine with family issues – namely an ex who had turned evil – and who has to worry about childcare. These are certainly not our grandparents’ comic book heroes anymore! But(…)
Aug 17 2012
Dear Ms. Kenneally: I can’t recall how this book came to my attention. It may have been Elyssa Papa who sends me links to books that feature football. It may have popped up on Goodreads. I’m not a huge YA reader and thus it isn’t a book that I would come across in my normal(…)
Aug 12 2012
“Promise Me You’ll Help Her.” Former Union soldier Jeremiah “Jack” Murphy should never have given his word to a dying man, especially a Rebel. But now he feels honor-bound to carry the message to the man’s young bride. Besides, with false charges following him, Jack needs somewhere to turn. After he fulfills his promise, perhaps(…)
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