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Sep 11 2012
Dear Ms. Lofty, I put off writing this review. Had I written it right after finishing His Very Own Girl, I’d have nattered on and about the importance of abandoning partisan politics and working together for a greater good. But, once I calmed down and stopped bawling–His Very Own Girl is a surpassingly affecting novel–I realized I don’t have to beseech anyone to do(…)
Sep 4 2012
Dear Ms. Singh, I’ll be honest, this is a book I’ve been waiting for since your Guild Hunters series began and we first met the Archangel Raphael’s spymaster, Jason. So I started Archangel’s Storm with a sense of great anticipation. What I found was a quieter than expected romance, but one that I found great(…)
Sep 4 2012
Historicals The Ugly Duchess by Eloisa James. Recommended by Jennie. (Review here) Edited to Add: Midnight Scandals by Carolyn Jewel, Courtney Milan, and Sherry Thomas. Recommended by Sunita and Dabney. (Review to come) Paranormal Archangel’s Storm by Nalini Singh. Recommended by Kati and Jane. (review to come) Riveted by Meljean Brook. Recommended by Jane. (Review here) Contemporary(…)
Aug 30 2012
Dear Ms. Wein, I had not heard of your book before one of our posters mentioned it in glowing terms. In a way that managed to catch my attention yet not sound like fawning praise, she described it and urged people to try it. I bought it but then set it aside as I had(…)
Aug 26 2012
Welcome to the Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The book has to be released(…)
Aug 26 2012
Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general? Post away. Don’t forget to bookmark our New Releases site. Books(…)
Aug 24 2012
Dear Ms. Hughes, A few months ago, I was looking to buy another retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale and your book, “Ella’s Big Chance – A Jazz Age Cinderella” was recommended to me at the same time. Intrigued by the setting and cover illustration, I bought it as well. Though I love the Cinderella(…)
Aug 17 2012
Dear Readers, Sourcebooks is having a sale on Georgette Heyer ebooks this week (August 14-20), so I thought it would be a good time for another Heyer review. I noticed that A Civil Contract is one of the books on sale, and I’ve been wanting to write about it. Heyer fans really split on this(…)
Aug 15 2012
Dear Ms. Giffin, Decades ago, when I was a teen, I read a wonderful book by Lois Lowry called Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye. The book chronicled the teenaged Natalie’s search for her birth mother, her meeting with the woman who gave birth to her and gave her up for adoption, and ended with Natalie’s(…)
Aug 14 2012
This is a *sticky post* which means it will sit on the top of the DA posts for the week. Scroll down for new content. 1) Was it a challenge to age Peregrine and Olivia from the children they’d been in Lord Perfect into young adults, yet keep them recognizable as the same characters? When(…)
Aug 5 2012
Dear Ms. Florand, When Jane said she had a book set in Paris with a romance centered around chocolate, I didn’t see how I could pass it up. I’ve never read anything else by you, but I plan to rectify that omission immediately. There’s really no other way to say it: The Chocolate Thief is(…)
Aug 2 2012
In keeping with the Olympic spirit, Amy Legend is a former Olympic gold medalist in figure skating. Not the summer Olympics, but still. “To their respective families, Jack Wells and Amy Legend are outsiders. A free-spirited man-of-all-trades, Jack takes life as it comes—not at all like his supremely organized mother, the admiral’s widow, and his(…)
Aug 2 2012
Dabney recommends: The Legendary Playboy Surgeon by Alison Roberts (Contemp). (Review here) Within Reach by Sarah Mayberry (Contemp). (Review to come) Broken Harbour by Tana French (Mystery). (Review to come) Janine recommends: Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch. (Review here) Sunita Her Cowboy Avenger by Kerry Connor (Contemp). (Review to come) In His Eyes by(…)
Aug 1 2012
Dear Ms. McLinn: In ESPN’s The Body issue (their answer to SI’s infamous Swimsuit edition), an article ran about licentious behavior in the Olympic Village. Put together a thousand young people with high energy levels and incredibly toned bodies and it’s spring break, athlete style. And on it went for eight days as scores of(…)
Jul 31 2012
Dear Ms. McGarry: When I was at BEA this year, many of the conversations began with “what are you excited about” and to nearly every person I said “Pushing the Limits” by Katie McGarry. My interest was piqued when I came across the cover and title of this book when adding to the new releases(…)
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