Dec 17 2012
Dear Ms. Graham: I struggled writing this review because so few romance books feature characters with mental illness. One thing our society doesn’t do very well is accept mental illness as an ordinary and acceptable illness. People can have cancer or colds, broken limbs or broken hearts. Some heroes can suffer from PTSD or maybe(…)
Dec 15 2012
Dear Keziah Hill: When Escape Publishing launched, each of the launch titles were $.99 so, of course, I bought all of them. After my great success with Grease Monkey Jive, I couldn’t wait to see what else was in store for me. Chains of Revenge had an evocative cover and I recognized your name as(…)
Dec 14 2012
Dear Ms. Knightley: This book is the romance between the Earl of Raleigh, Richard Moore, and Jane Bunting, baker and proprietress of a confectionaire’s shop. Jane has good reason to despise the aristocracy and first meetings with Richard only serve to cement her opinion that they run London with little thought to the lower classes.(…)
Dec 13 2012
Dear Ms. Smith What I appreciated most about this book was the pro woman message delivered at the end. I thought it could have gone farther in support of the idea that a woman doesn’t need to be ashamed of what she does and with whom she consorts. Mostly I found this book was heavy(…)
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 11 2012
Dear Ms. Moning, The Fever series was exciting and unparalleled in urban fantasy. When I heard you were branching off from the Fever series with a second trilogy, I had high hopes. Sadly, this book fell short of my expectations. Whereas the Fever series was held together by the glue that was Mac and all(…)
Dec 10 2012
Dear Ms. Hunter: I’ve read and enjoyed your shapeshifter romances in the past, so requesting this book from you was a no-brainer for me. Chloe Bryant is mystified to find herself in front of The Wolf’s Den, a tattoo parlor in the seedier side of town. She’s determined to have a tattoo done over the(…)
Dec 10 2012
Dear Ms. Madison: The “Coveted” series is narrated by Natayla, a werewolf on the very bottom of the pack hierarchy. She suffers from OCD and overall weakness in strength. I wasn’t sure from the text whether it was for psychological disorder or physical weakness that made her pack view her with disgust but she is(…)
Dec 7 2012
Dear Ms. Jenkins, Ms. Perrin, and Ms. Smith: I’m a sucker for Christmas stories, and anthologies are a great way to try out new authors, so a Christmas anthology can be a double winner for me. While I’ve read one of the contributors to this volume before, but the other two were new to me.(…)
Dec 7 2012
Dear Ms. Banks: I read this book on recommendation from a friend of mine whose description of it brought me back to my early days of reading romances when Julie Garwood and Amanda Quick were my staples. I gulped the book down in one evening. It’s totally sudsy fun. These are not historically accurate masterpieces(…)
Dec 6 2012
Dear Gwen Hayes: Ours Is Just a Little Sorrow may be the best title of the year, and the cover is way up there as well. The combination, as well as the blurb, made it hard for me to resist. You describe your novella as “neo-Victorian,” which turns out to be a mixture of steampunk,(…)
Dec 6 2012
I came to this holiday anthology in a non-traditional, non-festive way. During a Twitter conversation with another reviewer, I mentioned ménage scenes rarely raise my pulse. She suggested I read Anne Calhoun, an author I’d never heard of. I searched on NetGalley and this collection, Red Hot Holiday, came up. I downloaded it thinking at best(…)
Dec 5 2012
Dear Ms. Cole: When I first read the review thoughts of Mandi from SmexyBooks on this book and she sounded, well, bored by a book that she described as a classic Cole, I thought to myself that it was impossible for a book to be a signature Cole and be boring. But after reading the(…)
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(…)
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