Dec 12 2012
Dear Ms. Gephart: I thought that the idea of this book was cute but it limped in the execution. Lucy Benoit has a strict list of dating rules. She sets them forth throughout the book but never observes them so the fact that the hero violates every one of her rules renders the conflict toothless.(…)
Dec 5 2012
When looking around at the holiday offerings this year, I saw this anthology from Carina Press. It was a complete stab in the dark for me as I knew nothing about any of the authors and SF/futuristic usually isn’t my thing. Perhaps having no expectations allowed me to just read in the moment but I(…)
Dec 4 2012
Dear Ms. Callahan: I was excited when I received the pitch for this book because I hadn’t read a medieval in quite a long time. The added element of mysticism intrigued me. The setting is supposed to be outside the Carpathian Mountains near Transylvania but while that is where the book is situated, the language(…)
Nov 29 2012
Dear Ms. Andrews, I’m a fan of your Edge series so I was very sad to hear that it’s likely that Steel’s Edge is the last book set in that world. Steel’s Edge begins in the Weird, a fantastical world that mirrors our own, where Lady Charlotte de Ney discovers that her husband Elvei does(…)
Nov 10 2012
Dear Ms. Probst: As I read your book, I kept thinking about a phrase my mother uses: “There’s no accounting for taste.” The first two books in your Marriage to a Billionaire series–The Marriage Mistake is the third–have sold like hotcakes. Each book features a self-centered hero, a zero(ine) to heroine chick, a love spell, a meddlesome Italian(…)
Nov 8 2012
Dear Colleen Hoover: Even though I was not overly enamored of the first book in this series, Slammed, when I finished it I started Point of Retreat right away. I was interested enough in the lives of the characters at that point to want to see how things played out. Warning: there are spoilers for(…)
Nov 6 2012
Dear Ms. Rice: Your voice, your storytelling style just works for me. This means that whatever flaws may be apparent for other readers are hidden from me. Am I the best person to review your books? Perhaps not. I tried to pinpoint what it is that I enjoy about the stories that you tell. First,(…)
Nov 5 2012
“She dreamed of digging through ancient ruins–but the only exploring Anna Simmons gets to do is in the expensive houses she cleans in Pearlman, Michigan. When Brandon Landers hires her, she’s unsure whether to be furious or thrilled. He evicted Anna and her ailing mother, but she’s heard rumors of hidden treasure on his land.(…)
Nov 1 2012
Dear Ms. Williams: SPOILERS FOR THE SHADOW READER are contained in this review. Here’s the thing I don’t understand. If fantasy books are supposed to be so hardcore, why are the female characters often depicted without agency? And if they aren’t considered romances, why is the primary conflict which hot guy to pick? McKenzie Lewis(…)
Oct 29 2012
Dear Lynn Raye Harris: My biggest problem with this story is that I was unprepared for the emotional reactions of the characters. They were two steps ahead of me and the whole time, I was internally thinking “wait up.” Anna Constantinides is the jilted and humiliated bride who learned of her fiance’s perfidy in the tabloids. (…)
Oct 28 2012
Dear Ms. Knupp: I struggled to connect to your characters from the opening scene when Nadia Hamlin endangered the lives of rescue personnel to go back into a hurricane zone to retrieve a business file. Penn Griffin, a guy who tried to date her but was constantly stood up because of business decisions. After their(…)
Oct 27 2012
Dear Ms. Miller: If a reader wondered what Bared to You would be like with a British heroine, hero, and setting, then Naked answers all those questions. Bared to You might be patterned obliquely after 50 Shades although Day has said it was not, then Naked is light pencil sketch of Bared to You with(…)
Oct 26 2012
Dear Ms. Laurens, Your latest book, The Lady Risks All, is almost 500 pages. That was at least 350 too many for me. In many ways, this is a typical Laurens book—although it differs in one excellent way. The man has enough sexual experience to train several brothels; the virginal heroine is so responsive to his(…)
Oct 25 2012
Dear Ms. Mynx: In the grand tradition of harlequin presents, you bring us a multicultural story of a down on her luck heroine and a magnetic billionaire determined to possess her. I picked this book up after reading a positive review for Buttercup, another Mynx title, at Karen’s blog. Her complaints were that Buttercup was(…)
Oct 23 2012
Dear Ms. McCallahan: I borrowed this book through the Kindle Lending Library which allows me to borrow one book per month from my Kindle device. The one thing done well in this story was the suspense because nearly everyone is in jeopardy and bad things happen to even the “good” people but part of the(…)
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