Jun 21 2012
Dear Ms. Doller: This book was recommended to me by Racblog (http://romance-around-the-corner.blogspot.com/) who knows I’ve been reading more New Adult books. I’m using the term “New Adult” which I believe was originally coined by St. Martin’s Press. The period references that post high school, on the cusp of adulthood time period. In some sense, these(…)
Jun 19 2012
Dear Ms. Fox, I’ve read and recommended several of your books in the past. They feature more angst than I usually like, but the settings are so compelling and the writing is so textured that I wind up enjoying them a great deal. When SarahF recommended your latest release, set on the Scottish island of(…)
Jun 12 2012
Dear Ms. Ashley: I was looking for recommendations for contemporary romances and this Samhain title was recommended to me. By whom, I am unsure. While this is the first book of yours that I have read, it appears that you’ve been successfully publishing Chick Lit type of stories in the UK which are now being(…)
Jun 11 2012
Dear Ms. Watson, Fantasy and paranormal books aren’t usually my thing but after reading another good one earlier this month, I decided that since I was on a (mini) roll, I’d try yours as well. I don’t think a reader has to be a dog lover to enjoy “Dog Days” but it doesn’t hurt given(…)
Jun 10 2012
The following are reviews for three novellas written by Thea Harrison, published by Samhain, and set in her Elder Races world. While I understand that men on the cover sell better, the stories are almost all focused on the female characters. Finally, a common thread throughout the three books is the strangeness of the Wyr.(…)
Jun 8 2012
Dear Ms. Bardugo, After your debut YA, Shadow and Bone, was recommended to me, I looked it up. What I read about it got my attention, because the book is a historical fantasy set in a world based on Russia. I ordered an ARC through NetGalley and began to read. Shadow and Bone gets off(…)
Jun 7 2012
Dear Ms. Weir, When Jane forwarded your email offering this novella to the DA reviewer loop, I will fess up to thinking, “this could be cute/great or it could be a bomb.” Sunita stepped right up and said she would read it, or anything else you had on offer, so I took the coward’s path(…)
Jun 4 2012
Dear Ms. Grant: Your debut novel, A Lady Awakened, is one of my favorite Romances of the past year. So I was particularly excited to read A Gentleman Undone, not only to catch up with the delightfully perverse Martha and her new husband, Theo, but also to discover if Martha’s brother, Will, made as fascinating(…)
May 31 2012
Dear Ms. Maher— I loved the idea of your novella, Snowbound With a Stranger: two strangers stranded by a snowstorm share a passionate weekend. The last time I was stranded by a snowstorm, I was stuck in my house with four little kids, no heat, no running water (septic system), and a husband who spent all(…)
May 30 2012
Janine: When I emailed the DA loop to see if anyone wanted to review Tangle of Need with me, I had no idea what spark I ignited. Jennie took me up on it, and the resulting review is epic in its length and scope. Hope you guys enjoy it. Jennie: This is apparently the 11th book in the(…)
May 19 2012
Dear Ms. Sharp, There is a strong stigma surrounding self-published YA novels that suggests that they are all badly written and derivative. Even with authors like Amanda Hocking becoming successes in both print and digital publishing, there is an inherent idea that self-published YA is bad and a constant stream of riffs on the latest(…)
May 11 2012
Dear Ms. Stein: I’ve always been fond of your voice but often found the narrative running away. In Sheltered, the balance between the deep point of view and the emotional arc of the characters was better tuned here and for the most part this emotional journey was engaging. DA January and I engaged in an(…)
May 7 2012
Dear Ms. McMurray. I picked up your book because of a recommendation by someone whose taste I trust and because I liked the excerpt. The story was cute, but the flaws outweighed the cuteness for me. This is a book about Being a Gay Athlete. This was NOT a romance. Oh, it had a love(…)
May 6 2012
“Tang Dynasty China, 759 A.D. Yao Ru Jiang, known as River, has woven many romantic dreams of honorable swordsman Wei Chen from her brother’s stories. Their meeting should have been a happy event; instead, Chen arrives to tell River he is duty bound to kill her brother for rebelling against the warlord they both serve.(…)
May 4 2012
Dear Ms. Thomas: I have the same problem reviewing you as I do Courtney Milan. As in, do I really have the temerity to criticize such an amazing writer? Apparently the answer is yes because while Beguiling the Beauty was beautifully written, I wasn’t feeling the romance. This may be an “it’s not you, it’s(…)
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