Alaska

REVIEW: Baby It’s Cold Outside by Addison Fox

REVIEW: Baby It’s Cold Outside by Addison Fox

“After a frantic call, Sloan McKinley travels to the heart of the Alaskan wilderness to be there for her best friend, who’s just inherited property in the small town of Indigo. The last thing she expects is to be lured by the town’s matriarchs into their annual contest to get their grandsons married off. But(…)

Friday Film Review: The Proposal

Friday Film Review: The Proposal

The Proposal (2009) Genre: romantic comedy Grade: B+ Movies which are specifically made to be romantic comedies are often a mixed bag for me and often don’t work well enough for me to even finish the film. I had been eyeing this one for a while and watching the star rating at Netflix before finally(…)

REVIEW: Soldier On Her Doorstep by Soraya Lane

REVIEW: Soldier On Her Doorstep by Soraya Lane

Dear Ms. Lane, I am a long-time fan of the Harlequin Romance line, so when you offered Dear Author the opportunity to review your debut novel I was happy to volunteer. And when one of my favorite blogger-reviewers (and RWA Librarian of the Year!), SuperWendy, gave Soldier On Her Doorstep a positive review, the book(…)

REVIEW: How I Learned to Love the Walrus by Beth Orsoff

REVIEW: How I Learned to Love the Walrus by Beth Orsoff

“When Los Angeles publicist Sydney Green convinces her boss to let her produce a documentary for the Save the Walrus Foundation, the only one Sydney Green is interested in saving is herself. The walruses are merely a means to improving her career and her love life, and not necessarily in that order. Sydney would've killed(…)

REVIEW:  Shades of Midnight by Lara Adrian

REVIEW: Shades of Midnight by Lara Adrian

Dear Ms. Adrian: I’ve had an on again off again relationship with this series. I adored Midnight Awakening but struggled with Veil of Midnight.   I liked Shades better than the last two but not as much as Midnight Awakening.   One of the things that I enjoyed about Shades was that the story was more about(…)

REVIEW:  Always Valentine’s Day by Kristin Hardy

REVIEW: Always Valentine’s Day by Kristin Hardy

Dear Ms. Hardy: I generally don’t read many books from the Silhouette Special Edition line. I can’t say exactly why. I enjoy the Jessica Bird category books and those are SSE. I think I equate the blue and gold covers with babies and the red covers with career women? Whatever the reason, I consciously went(…)

REVIEW:  Fire and Ice by Julie Garwood

REVIEW: Fire and Ice by Julie Garwood

Dear Ms. Garwood The lure of the 100% micropay rebate at Fictionwise was too great for me to overcome despite the fact my last few encounters with your books have not ended well. I’m happy to say that Fire and Ice is an improvement over recent publications but it doesn’t reach the level of the(…)

REVIEW: She Went All the Way by Meg Cabot

Dear Ms. Cabot: You know that I love your work, right? That I have an inappropriate girl crush on you and all? So it’s with some dismay that I have to write this letter which talks about why I didn’t like this latest reprint of yours. Part of the problem was that the voice of(…)