Apr 4 2013
Dear Ms. Dane: After reading this book, I have a new favorite hero trope: I call it, “Hero in Hot Pursuit”. Mary Whaley runs a very successful catering company and a supper club. She has good friends, a loving family and is generally both busy and truly happy with her life. She offers to cater(…)
Apr 4 2013
Drusilla Delaney, daughter of an English Victorian vicar has grown up near and with the aristocratic Framling children – handsome Fabian and spoilt Lavinia. While she isn’t in contact with Fabian as much until they are adults, she has been tutored along side and then sent off to boarding school with nearly out-of-control Lavinia, since(…)
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(…)
Apr 2 2013
Dear Ms. Walker: You and I are friendly on Twitter, but for the most part in the past, your books have not worked very well for me. But when I read the blurb for Wrecked, it sounded right up my alley. Abigaile Applegate and Zach Barnes are tied inextricably together by their past as child(…)
Apr 2 2013
Dear Ms. Ashley: I admit I had reservations when I heard that the next Ashley book was to be Tabby and Shy’s story. Tabby is the daughter of Tack Allen, the president of the Chaos Motorcycle Club. At the end of Motorcycle Man, Tabby is 19 years old and Parker “Shy” Cage is 24 years old. I(…)
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 26 2013
“Home from Afghanistan to surprise her mother, Milla doesn’t expect more than the best apple pie in the world and the bliss of unrationed hot showers. She’s not counting on futures – or meeting a woman like Tyna.” Dear Ms. Kallmaker, Our readers at Dear Author have bemoaned the fact that we haven’t reviewed a(…)
Mar 25 2013
“Children have a place and it’s anywhere I’m not!” It was one off-the-cuff remark. But when it goes viral, Alec McAvoy is labeled the playboy CEO of Best for Baby–who hates kids! Enter Julia Stillwell, image consultant extraordinaire. The widowed mom of two has a knack for changing public opinion, and she’ll teach Alec all(…)
Mar 20 2013
Dear Ms. Knox: Along Came Trouble is the second entry and first full novel in your Camelot series. The series is built around the Clark siblings who live in the small midwestern town of Camelot. I’ve read that your original story idea was about an LA rock star and the pregnant woman in Camelot he falls in(…)
Mar 19 2013
Dear Ms. Pape: I’ve been looking for some good steampunk romance and this definitely worked for me. This is the first book of yours of I’ve read, even though this is 5th book in the Gaslight Chronicle series. Widow Belinda Danvers is accused of being a witch. Things are looking pretty dire for her until(…)
Mar 18 2013
“In the year of 1777 in rural Pennsylvania, Quaker Kate Grey is powerfully drawn to British officer Peter Tremayne. But when Kate’s “Aunt Angela”, a master spy posing as a Quaker, steals his military documents, he is disgraced and run out of town. With the support of Peter’s dissolute cousin, Colonel Bayard, Peter returns to(…)
Mar 15 2013
Note: The comments are closed on this review because it is our book club pick. Don’t forget to join the conversation later today and all through the week. Dear Ms. Calhoun: I am so glad that you are back publishing longer length works (not that I minded the holiday novella). In Uncommon Pleasure we meet(…)
Mar 14 2013
Dear Ms. Thurman, It’s rare that a long-running series can hold my attention. Very few authors have successfully have kept my engagement levels high over extended periods of time. (And one of them I freely admit is done so with no small amount of resentment — George R. R. Martin, I’m looking at you.) Usually(…)
Mar 13 2013
Dear Mr. Morgan, I haven’t read many Regency era books lately. Whenever I’ve looked at new releases, I’ve almost immediately been put off of them for some reason, often before I’ve even finished the blurb. Usually it’s some bizarre plot set up or mistorical aspect which promises to make me cringe if I should ignore(…)
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