Mar 29 2013
Dear Ms. Bale: This new adult book told in alternating first person from Georgia and Ben Lancaster’s points of view. Georgia King is a 20-year-old who is three months off of a suicide attempt trying to cope outside of her mental hospital. She is living with her brother and struggling with her medications. Her brother,(…)
Mar 26 2013
Dear Ms. Godwin: This is a compelling but flawed post apocalypse/science fiction/suspense genre bender with a host of multicultural characters. Unfortunately one race is singled out as the villains which made the entire story sit uncomfortably around my shoulders. Eve was the mother of two and married to a gun dealer. A virus is released(…)
Mar 19 2013
Dear Kit Rocha: This is the second book in your post apocalyptic series. My main problem is that the two main protagonists are in a power struggle, but I’m not sure what their efforting toward. Dallas and his gang of O’Kanes built Sector Four into a formidable territory outside the walls of the protected land(…)
Mar 17 2013
Dear Ms. McBain: I have heard it number of varying opinions about these books but someone gifted me a copy and once it was on my Kindle I couldn’t resist. The most intriguing part of this book is that it surrounds an established couple who have been married for over 20 years. After Zeke Brawer(…)
Mar 7 2013
Dear Ms. Swift: I find myself drawn to Restoration-era novels even though I haven’t found one I really love yet. I blame my years-ago late-night viewing of Forever Amber. The blurb for The Gilded Lily stated that it is “set in a London of atmospheric coffee houses, gilded mansions, and shady pawnshops hidden from rich(…)
Mar 3 2013
Dear Ms. Dee: This was a book recommended to me after I expressed interest in post apocalyptic books, an interest stoked by the writing of Kylie Scott. “After the End” is a more plot driven, cinematic book and because of that, not as engaging. However, for those who like fast paced action with some human(…)
Mar 1 2013
Dear Ms. Andrews Moore: I’ll be honest — this book caught my eye because it shares a title with one of my favorite Lisa Kleypas books. What I found was a mostly engaging if relatively bland contemporary novel with a heroine who is a Mary Sue, and an uptight hero who unwound as he fell(…)
Feb 22 2013
Dear Ms. Scott: I don’t like post apocalyptic stories. I am not a fan of zombies. Thank goodness for other reader’s recommendations because without them, my own prejudices would make me miss interesting new stories such as this one. Flesh is set 53 days post apocalypse in Brisbane, Australia. Daniel has stumbled upon non infected(…)
Feb 21 2013
Dear Ms. Marshall, I read “Rinaldi’s Revenge” due to part of a documentary I recently began watching – the BBC series “The Private Life of a Masterpiece.” Covered on one disc that featured some Italian Renaissance paintings was a three panel work I hadn’t paid much attention to during my study of famous artworks. But(…)
Feb 19 2013
Dear Gabriella Pierce: I will never fully understand how anyone could claim the short-lived ABC TV series, 666 Park Avenue, was based on this series. They have completely different premises. The TV show was about an apartment building that granted your desires — but for a price. The book series is about a young woman(…)
Feb 15 2013
Dear Megan Miranda: I read and loved your debut novel, Fracture. It was such an unusual novel that contained some of my favorite tropes along with some elements I don’t usually see in the YA genre. So I’ve been looking forward to your future works. When I saw that you had a new book coming(…)
Feb 13 2013
Dear Meredith Duran: I’ve been a Meredith Duran fangirl since The Duke of Shadows was published in 2008; none of your books has received less than a B+ from me. So naturally each new book is eagerly anticipated. For perhaps the first time, reading That Scandalous Summer, I ended up feeling…disappointed. Further, I’m not sure(…)
Feb 8 2013
Dear Ms. Martin: We are back with hockey! Yay! I wasn’t a fan of our walkabout to the tavern and then to Ireland and I really didn’t like the playboy hero of Breakaway. The male protagonist, Esa Saari, is a long time member of the NY Blades. Esa is from Finland and has been enjoying(…)
Feb 5 2013
Dear Ms. Rose: In “Did You Miss Me?” part of the reason the romance works is because the characters have had unrequited feelings for each other prior to the start of the book. The romance in the story basically consists of coming to an understanding of those feelings so that the romance can swim underneath(…)
Feb 4 2013
Dear Ms. MacLean: The day before I wrote this review I was stuck in the library of a large public high school, waiting to be called to a debate tournament. I was there for eight hours and only judged one match. The rest of the time I spent re-reading One Good Earl Deserves a Lover(…)
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