Apr 8 2013
Dear Shelley Laurentson: Dear Ms. Laurentson: Your trademark humor and lively set up was evident in this story but the overwhelming cast of characters and slow development made this book a chore for me to read. Toni Jean-Louis Parker is a jackal shifter born into a family of prodigies. Her mother is a world famous(…)
Apr 8 2013
Dear Mr. Tracey, I have a soft spot for witches. It stems from my traditional fantasy reader background. After all, a witch is often the urban fantasy equivalent of a mage. Though I’d heard lots of buzz about your debut, Witch Eyes, I haven’t had the chance to pick it up. When I heard the(…)
Apr 7 2013
Apr 6 2013
Dear Ms. McKenna: After Hours is a gritty romance. It’s set in the economic wreck that is much of the state of Michigan. The protagonists work a “high security ward designed specifically for men who suffered from persistent, disruptive psychotic episodes.” The story contains poverty, violence, and people who just barely make it through each day. The(…)
Apr 5 2013
Housekeeping: Based on comments, and Twitter, and everything wah, I’ve compiled the Big List of Awesome, which is – to the best of my ability – all the recommendations, suggestions and ideas that have been thrown my way. The order is largely arbitrary. I tried to prioritise things that accumulated multiple recs, or particularly strong(…)
Apr 5 2013
Divorced, middle-aged Rachel Brinkerhoff, a Jewish matchmaker from New York who hopes to remarry, moved to Toronto for a fresh new start with her business and her love life. But no one told her that female-aversive Toronto was BYOB – Bring Your Own Boy. She partners with an Indian and a Muslim lady who want(…)
Apr 4 2013
Dear Ms. Dane: After reading this book, I have a new favorite hero trope: I call it, “Hero in Hot Pursuit”. Mary Whaley runs a very successful catering company and a supper club. She has good friends, a loving family and is generally both busy and truly happy with her life. She offers to cater(…)
Apr 4 2013
Drusilla Delaney, daughter of an English Victorian vicar has grown up near and with the aristocratic Framling children – handsome Fabian and spoilt Lavinia. While she isn’t in contact with Fabian as much until they are adults, she has been tutored along side and then sent off to boarding school with nearly out-of-control Lavinia, since(…)
Apr 3 2013
Dear Ms. Enoch: The best thing about the romance was how it brought up and addressed the repercussions of an interclass relationship during the Regency period. Often you have dukes and maids or shopkeepers getting married but there is no resulting social approbation. Given how classist society was during that time period, these romances are(…)
Apr 3 2013
Dear Ms. Marley, You hardly need my review, as you seem to be a fairly well-known and well-selling author—in scifi/fantasy. Certainly, I had never heard of you until I stumbled across your book at my library, which sports a lovely, romance-novel-type cover. That’s right. This is a case study in covers telling the reader what(…)
Apr 2 2013
Dear Ms. Walker: You and I are friendly on Twitter, but for the most part in the past, your books have not worked very well for me. But when I read the blurb for Wrecked, it sounded right up my alley. Abigaile Applegate and Zach Barnes are tied inextricably together by their past as child(…)
Apr 2 2013
Dear Ms. Ashley: I admit I had reservations when I heard that the next Ashley book was to be Tabby and Shy’s story. Tabby is the daughter of Tack Allen, the president of the Chaos Motorcycle Club. At the end of Motorcycle Man, Tabby is 19 years old and Parker “Shy” Cage is 24 years old. I(…)
Apr 1 2013
Dear Ms. Simons: When I saw this book available online, I snapped it up without a second thought. I am a huge fan of The Bronze Horseman and its two sequels, and I also enjoyed The Girl in Times Square. I’ve avoided some of your other, earlier books because online reviews have indicated that they(…)
Apr 1 2013
Dear Ainslie Paton: Yeah! A rock star book featuring a female singer. That was my response upon being sent this ARC from Escape Publishing. I really enjoyed your voice in Grease Monkey Jive and I wasted no time in diving right into this story. The first word I’d use to describe Getting Real is authentic.(…)
Mar 31 2013
Dear Ms. London, I have read all the books in your The Secrets of Hadley Green series. (OK, I didn’t read the Christmas novella.) I seem to enjoy every other one. The first, The Year of Living Scandalously, failed to grab my attention. I liked the second, The Revenge of Lord Eberlin (my review is(…)
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