B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Contemporary romance
Dear Ms. Ashley: I was thrilled to receive an ARC of this book a few months ago particularly after the last few reviews we’ve done haven’t been so glowing. And I was even more happy when I read The Will. As… more
B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
paranormal/ scifi m/m romance
No two people are exactly alike, but Elijah Crowe is very, very different. Elijah is on the autism spectrum, so the tasks of day-to-day life most people breeze through are a challenge for him. His career suffered because he never… more
B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Australia, baby, Contemporary romance, single father
Dear Ms. Mayberry: This story could have gone wrong in so many ways, and the fact that it doesn’t makes me appreciate it even more. Pretty much every time I feared it was going to go to a stupid or… more
B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
closed bedroom door, rake, reprints, Traditional Regency
Dear Laura London (Sharon and Tom Curtis): When it was announced on Twitter that several hard to find Laura London historical titles were going to be reprinted and digitized, including The Windflower, you could probably have heard our squeals from… more
A- Reviews/ Recommended Reads
19th century fiction, classic fiction, teacher heroine
I have been slowly making my way through the Bronte sisters’ oeuvre, having read Jane Eyre twice (in high school and college) and then tackling the frankly batshit Wuthering Heights a few years ago. Since then, I’ve read Anne’s two… more
B Reviews/ Recommended Reads
English Historical, Historical, Victorian, widower
Dear Ms. Duran: Just the title is probably enough to clue in readers of That Scandalous Summer that this book will be about widower Alistair de Grey, who went spectacularly round the bend over his late wife’s betrayal in that… more
A- Reviews/ Need A Rec!/ Recommended Reads
historical romance, Lively St. Lemeston series, politics, Regency England, Small-Town, Writer
Dear Ms. Lerner, Your third historical romance, book one in your Lively St. Lemeston series, begins in October of 1812, with a knock on Phoebe Sparks’ door. Phoebe, an author of Improving Tales for Young People, is contemplating what fate… more
B Reviews/ B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Historical, politics, Regency, Small-Town
Dear Rose Lerner, I’ve barely read any historical romance in the past couple of years but when I found out you had a new book releasing, it was enough to tempt me back into the fold, even if (possibly) only… more
A- Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Mercy-Thompson, Urban-Fantasy, werewolves
Dear Patricia Briggs, I’ve long been a fan of both your Mercy Thompson series and your Alpha & Omega series (which is set in the same world but follows different people in it). I’ve read them all in print and… more
B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Contemporary, Small-Town
Dear Virginia Kantra, Carolina Man is the third book in your Dare Island series which, so far has featured the three offspring of Tom and Tess Fletcher. Tom was a Marine for 20 years and after his retirement from the… more
A Reviews/ B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
China, courtesan heroine, historical romance, police, Tang Dynasty
Dear Ms. Lin: A number of us here at Dear Author have really enjoyed your historical romances set in China, including (and perhaps especially) the Pinkang Li series. Sunita and Jayne read and recommended The Sword Dancer and they… more
B Reviews/ Book Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Contemporary romance, Recommended Reads, Small Town Romance, South Dakota
“Nice job with the presentation,” he said. “You made a library sound both necessary and really exciting.” “Libraries are both necessary and really exciting,” she said. “To me, anyway.” Dear Ms. Calhoun: The sequel to Unforgiven (reviewed here by Dabney,)… more
A Reviews/ Need A Rec!/ Recommended Reads
gender, identity, loss, political intrigue, psychological thriller, revenge, Science Fiction, spaceship
Dear Ms. Leckie, I finished reading your debut novel, Ancillary Justice, about a week ago and I am still in awe of just how good it is. I suspect I will remain in awe for a long time. I first… more
B Reviews/ Recommended Reads
Contemporary, New Adult
Dear J. Lynn, I have enjoyed Wait for You (reviewed here at DA by Dabney) both in print and on audio so when I realised the next book in the series was due out, I asked Jane if she was… more
B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads
18th-century, Africa, class-difference, England, Georgian, Historical, Jacobite rebellion, lawyer / law related, working class
Forced by Sir Robert Walpole into a distasteful marriage and then ruined by her husband’s speculation in the South Sea Bubble, Lady Cecily Fitzhenry vows revenge on the Prime Minister and all his myrmidons – including the creaking Hanoverian court… more