Apr 11 2013
Dear Ms. Darby: Reading Entry Level Mistress was like going out on a date with a fun guy, the sort you start thinking, “Hmmm… He seems pretty cool. I think I’d like to see him again.” And then, blam, over dessert, he says, “Let me pay for dinner. I wanna get lucky.” I would have(…)
Apr 10 2013
Dear Ms. Harmon: This book was recommended by two very disparate parties and the blurb was quite intriguing; however, the blurb and the story are a bit at odds with each other. Blue Echohawk is attending her senior year of high school. One class is taught by Darcy Wilson, a history teacher who uses literature(…)
Apr 7 2013
Mar 30 2013
Dear Ms. Frost: I think I received this book in paper format, but I actually bought the digital copy when it was released on Tuesday because that is my preferred way of reading. I bought the book for three reasons. First, I had read the first one and it ended in somewhat of a cliffhanger(…)
Mar 28 2013
Dear Ms. Rowan: Your first book, A Study in Seduction, was the subject of intense debate between myself and Sarah Wendell of SmartBitchesTrashyBooks on the issue of the heroine’s believability as a mathematician. Spoiler: I liked it. I haven’t had great success with historicals and was eager to read the follow up featuring the musically(…)
Mar 27 2013
Dear Ms. Hearon: This is the first book I’ve read of yours so I went in without any preconceptions but I met an instant stumbling block in the hero’s name. Rick Warren. Rick Warren is a pretty famous person in the U.S., author of The Purpose Driven Life (which is actually an interesting philosophical book)(…)
Mar 24 2013
Dear Ms. Couper: I loved the cover on this book. It depicts exactly the image I have a rock star’s bodyguard. I couldn’t resist requesting it from Samhain when the review copy list was sent. This is a sequel to Love’s Rhythm which I reviewed last summer. While I enjoyed Muscle for Hire more than(…)
Mar 22 2013
Blurb: Reporter Kevin Price has a knack for tripping over his own feet. And everyone else’s. He’s in over his head undercover at the Haven, a swanky gay sex club, determined to find out why members of the club keep vanishing. Five minutes inside and he can no longer deny the truth about his sexuality.(…)
Mar 21 2013
Dear Ms. Banks: Your historical series is really hit or miss for me. While Genevieve McInnes and Bowen Montgomery are perfectly nice characters with a perfectly nice romance, the tone and spirit of the romance was too similar to the last one for me to fully enjoy it. Genevieve McInnes was stolen from her bridal(…)
Mar 16 2013
Dear Ms. Wildes: You are an author whose prose I’ve enjoyed in the past. Your 2009 novel, An Indecent Proposition (reviewed here by Jane), was a sexy fun read and I found the first book in the Whispers of Scandal series, Ruined by Moonlight, entertaining (My review is here.) Your latest, A Most Improper Rumor, however, left(…)
Mar 15 2013
Dear Ms. West, I loved reading teen horror novels when I was younger. Old school Christopher Pike? Fear Street? Sign me up! Despite the explosion of YA novels in recent years, however, I haven’t seen many fall into the horror genre. So when I read the premise of your novel, The Murmurings, I was excited.(…)
Mar 14 2013
Dear Ms. Yardley: While I liked the narrator’s voice and found some aspects of this story funny, the lack of movement in the plot and the overall mishmash of world building left me puzzled and deflated at the end. Kate O’Hara is presented as this conflicting mass of extraordinary capabilities and super screw up. Despite(…)
Mar 2 2013
Dear Ms. Stone: This is the first book in a series involving three childhood friends who reunite upon the death of one of their members. Cain Black is a former star high school quarterback turned down a full ride scholarship to Michigan State University to pursue his dream of music. He and his band are(…)
Feb 26 2013
Dear Ms. Hoyt: I felt schizophrenic reading this book. Part of the story of Lady Margaret Reading and Godric St. John is heartwrenching, subtle and evocative. Part of it lacks believability, relies too heavily on past characters and books, and plods along at speeds that a snail would get impatient with. In a previous book,(…)
Feb 26 2013
Dear Ms. Higgans: When I was growing up, I always got these annoying reports cards that said “Dabney could try harder.” Well, Ms Higgans, so can you. The Best Man isn’t an awful book–in fact I had fun reading it.But this novel has far too many pitfalls. It’s condescending to gays, full of unbelievable emotional(…)
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