A category to get your to be read pile jump started
Jun 20 2012
Dear Ms. Keplinger, I think you’re one of the more interesting contemporary YA authors to be published in recent years. There’s an authenticity to your narrative voice that’s difficult to match. Despite their flaws, I enjoyed your previous two novels, The DUFF and Shut Out, so I snatched up your latest without hesitation. Whitley is(…)
Jun 13 2012
Dear Ms. Cashore, While I really liked your debut YA fantasy, Graceling, I was less keen on your second novel, Fire. Graceling had a strong heroine, Lady Katsa, who, along with the man she grew to love, sought to rescue a child princess from an evil king, guarding her independence the whole way, but Lady(…)
Jun 12 2012
****This is a sticky post*****Scroll down one to see the latest content or join us for a discussion of Sherry Thomas’ Beguiling the Beauty. Our awkwardly announced Dear Author Book Club is restarting with a weeklong discussion of “Beguiling the Beauty” by Sherry Thomas. Members of the DA review crew nominated a book for the(…)
Jun 9 2012
From the words of E: I am recommending this book because Set in the Cosa Nostradamus world HARD MAGIC is book one of the Paranormal Scene Investigations series. It introduces a group of mostly 20-somethings currently who are all very determined, have their own particular skills involving the use of Current (magic), and are invited(…)
Jun 7 2012
Dear Ms. Weir, The idea of a cat as a major character and narrator in a romance would normally send me running from the room, but then I realized you were the author. If anyone could pull this off, you could. So I asked for the ARC and sat down to read. Within two pages(…)
Jun 5 2012
Dear Ms. Dane, I have long been a fan of your books, in particular your contemporary voice, which I find works for me on a variety of levels. I read Heart of Darkness, the first of your Bound by Magick series, last year and found that the world building was solid and inventive, and introduced(…)
Jun 5 2012
Gaius Vinius Clodianus is a reluctant Praetorian Guard, with a disastrous marriage history and post-traumatic stress – but he is a hero. Flavia Lucilla has given the imperial ladies a ridiculous hairstyle and makes toupees for the increasingly paranoid emperor – and she is good at her job. A devastating fire in Rome starts their(…)
Jun 4 2012
Contemporaries Bring Him Home by Karina Bliss, reviewed and recommended by Jane Unexpected Family by Molly O’Keefe, reviewed and recommended by Jane About Last Night by Ruthie Knox, reviewed and recommended by Jane (link live on 6/11) Lucky in Love by Jill Shavis, recommended by Dabney Erotic Romance Chaos Burning by Lauren Dane, reviewed and recommended by KatiD(…)
Jun 4 2012
Dear Ms. Kelly, Somehow I got the setting/era for your latest novel, “Marriage of Mercy” completely turned around in my head, thinking that it was going to be set on the American Western Frontier. Then when I went back to the eHarlequin website to recheck the back blurb, I realized that whoever wrote it didn’t(…)
Jun 2 2012
Dear Ms. Webber: The first time I came across your books was on Amazon when it recommended that I buy Between the Lines, the first in your Hollywood trilogy, after I had purchased a different YA contemporary. I resisted because there are rarely less interesting characters to me that famous people. Fiction often relies on(…)
Jun 1 2012
Dear Ms. Webber: Warning: Triggers ahead I was looking for a college set romance and author Julie Cross recommended this self published title. The minute I was done, I went and bought another Webber title. That’s how much I enjoyed “Easy”. I like college settings more than young adult because the characters are independent, more(…)
May 31 2012
ETA: Bancroft Press is giving away copies of this book and The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns, which I also reviewed and recommended. Enter before tomorrow, June 1st, though! Dear Ms. Leiknes: After reading, reviewing, and greatly enjoying your debut novel, The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns, I was happily surprised to receive an(…)
May 30 2012
Dear Ms. Grant: As I read your novel A Gentleman Undone I brooded over words from one my favorite 18th century wordsmiths, the great Alexander Pope: “Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.” Here Pope asserts honor and shame are products of behavior rather than experience or(…)
May 29 2012
She’s 33, unmarried, and stuffed into a Bubble Yum pink bridesmaid dress. And the whole town wants to fix her up with anyone with a dental plan… Who’s going to rescue Sadie Hollowell now? Everyone in Lovett, Texas knows Sadie has always been a ‘notional’ kind of gal. She got a notion to leave town(…)
May 27 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(…)
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