Jan 7 2012
Dear Ms. McGuire: Angela James loaned this book to me and I went on to purchase my own copy ($1.99 using the Kobodollaroff coupon). This book is often recommended on the goodreads forums and it is highly rated. I totally understand the appeal because it is a very readable book plus I think that there [...]
Jan 22 2011
Dear Ms. Jaffe, It has been a while since the young-adult world has seen some high profile novels in the vein of mystery/suspense. The 90′s was an epic burnout of the genre, and the book world hasn’t gotten over it entirely. Slowly but surely it seems as if the genre is coming back – if [...]
Sep 8 2010
If my friend Elle hadn't mentioned, when she read Tabitha King's novel One on One earlier this year, that Deanie Gauthier, the heroine of the book, reminded her a bit of Lisbeth Salander from Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I might not have paid as much attention to the similarities between the [...]
Oct 8 2009
Dear Ms. Brenna: I will confess that I don’t often venture into the Harlequin Superromance line. The covers are littered with babies and well, those tiny faces frighten me. This book, thankfully, was baby less although a child did play a fairly important role in the story. I think what surprised me most was that [...]
Feb 24 2009
Dear Ms. Dalton: This is a very well-written book. You have strong, fully realized characters, an unique plot, a romance that is slowly developed and deeply felt, and a solid, believable happy ending. I think you have a lot of writing talent and a good eye for the genre. That said, this book made me [...]
Feb 2 2009
Dear Ms. Chen Headley, I loved your previous novel, Girl Overboard, and after going back to read your debut, Nothing But The Truth (and a few white lies), I’ve decided that you’re one of my favorite contemporary young adult novelists in recent years. I wasn’t sure if North of Beautiful could match my love for [...]
Jan 21 2009
Dear Ms. Bird, After eyeing it all year last year, I finally decided to sign up for Keishon’s TBR Challenge. I figured it would motivate me to dig up some of the older books that have piled up around my house which I have been ignoring in favor of the new and shiny. Keishon’s assignment [...]
Dec 2 2008
Dear Mr. Priest, Ever since I read somewhere that rock stars were supposedly unacceptable in Romancelandia, I’ve been fascinated by the concept and read them whenever one pops up (nothing like telling me something’s “not done” to make me want to do it!). In The Curtis Reincarnation, Tyler Curtis is the young (“not yet one-and-twenty” [...]
Sep 18 2008
Dear Ms. Webb: I read this book directly after finishing Nameless that I liked quite a bit. As I said in the Nameless review, the characters generally make or break a romantic suspense book which means the suspense can be awesome but if the romance doesn’t fit, I’m not likely to read that RS author [...]
Sep 17 2008
Dear Ms. Goodman: Starting with the Compass Club series, your books have been getting increasingly darker, and The Price of Desire is the darkest by far, darker, I think, than any other book of yours that I have read. It was also an emotionally cathartic read, a book that hearkens back to the Compass Club [...]
Jan 17 2007
Dear Ms. Block and Ms. Staton, As the Dear Author discussion of the definition of paranormal romance was taking place, I picked up your book, Ruby. Although published as mainstream fiction, Ruby contains strong paranormal and romantic elements. I wouldn’t quite classify it as paranormal romance, but I think it could appeal to those readers [...]
Sep 7 2006
Dear Ms. Ward: You hardly need another letter from one more fan about how much she loved your book, but what the hell. This story is about Zsadist and Bella. Zsadist was stolen from his family as a babe and was sold as a slave. He came to be the sexual slave of a terrible [...]
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