Aug 16 2013
Two of LAPD’s finest, Officer Jeff Chandler and his partner Mickey Stanton, have been together on duty for three years. When Mickey first met Jeff, a lateral transfer from Rain City- Seattle, he was crazy about him. When the men were assigned to a two-man patrol car, Jeff and Mickey’s attraction blossomed. And from then(…)
Aug 15 2013
Dear Ms. Loren: I’ve really enjoyed your Loving on the Edge erotic romance series. For the most part, it’s quite light BDSM, and it features strong heroes and heroine who are easily liked. Kelsey LeBrock is a pastry chef. Or, she wants to be. To achieve this goal, she works at a local diner where(…)
Aug 15 2013
Dear Ms. Anderson: I picked up Dark Waters because I’d read and enjoyed your 2010 release Sea of Suspicion. As I began to read Sea of Suspicion, I was struck by how much it reminded me of Anne Stuart’s Moonrise, albeit with a less wimpy heroine. Both books have a killer for a hero and(…)
Aug 12 2013
Dear Ms. Schwab: The next time I see someone bewail, “they don’t write historical romance like they used to,” I’m going to recommend this. The intense, angsty, sometimes uncomfortable story is very reminiscent of older books such as those by Brenda Joyce or Kat Martin, though terser and less epic. Which was perfect for me,(…)
Aug 10 2013
Dear Ms. Harris: I was intrigued by this book when I first heard about it. It is a novel length versus the category romances you’ve been writing in the past and includes an element of suspense that absent from your Harlequin Presents. When it showed up on NetGalley, I thought it was too good(…)
Aug 9 2013
Dear Ms. Nuest: I picked up She’s Got Dibs when it was free a few weeks ago, but then deleted it when the ebook opened to a dedication that made me think it would be a particularly heavy inspirational. Lesson learned. After I saw some enthusiastic discussion on Twitter, katiebabs was kind enough to lend(…)
Aug 5 2013
I’m slacking off on writing a full review because I blew through these pretty quickly, and I already used up my snark quota for the month. All but Jeffries and Willingham were new-to-me authors. What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries If I didn’t own Jeffries’ entire backlist, I might have avoided this solely because(…)
Aug 3 2013
Dear Ms Haymore: I’d hoped to like The Duchess Hunt. I enjoyed the first two chapters you released with your novella The Devil’s Pearl. And years ago, I read and liked your debut novel A Hint of Wicked. But The Duchess Hunt didn’t do it for me. The hero’s behavior was, at times, decidedly unheroic and(…)
Aug 2 2013
“Charlotte, the determined heroine of beloved author D.E. Stevenson’s The Young Clementina, has her future all planned out. But when Garth, the man Charlotte loves, marries her sister instead, Charlotte is heartbroken and moves to London to escape her pain. After the two divorce, Garth’s tragic death forces Charlotte to care for her young niece,(…)
Aug 1 2013
Dear Ms.Sorenson: This is the follow up to the cliffhanger released earlier this year, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden. This makes my third read of yours, the first barely esccaping a DNF, the second being a surprising emotional read that I highly enjoyed, and the third somewhere in between. The Redemption of Callie &(…)
Jul 31 2013
Dear Ms. Evans: I love a good pack book and when The Thing About Weres focused on that, I was thrilled but all too often I became overburdened by complicated magical descriptions and strange writing tics. But the focus on the pack, the dance of dominance and submission, the fragile separation between man and beast(…)
Jul 31 2013
Dear Ms. Fraser: I wish I had read this on the Nook instead of the Kindle, because then I would have realized going in that it was less than 90 pages long, and been able to adjust my expectations accordingly. On the other hand, considering that when I looked down and realized I was almost(…)
Jul 30 2013
Dear Ms. Taylor, I admit I have a weakness for Gossip Girl-esque novels, even though they are inevitably about rich, white kids. So when I heard that your debut, Prep School Confidential, was a prep school murder mystery with a Gossip Girl flair, I had to give it a try. Anne Dowling is the queen(…)
Jul 28 2013
Dear Ms. Tenorio: This book features the eldest Jackman sibling, Locke. He’s held his family together after the death of his parents and raised five brothers and one sister. In the past year, all of them have moved and now Locke is alone. Many of the townspeople believe that Locke will do a runner but(…)
Jul 24 2013
Dear Ms. Locke: I’ve been in something of an extended slump with historical romances this year – none have earned better than a B grade from me, and nothing has really held my attention and impressed me as new or fresh. I decided to branch out to new-to-me authors, but unfortunately did not find what(…)
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