captivity narrative

REVIEW: Don’t Tempt Me by Loretta Chase

REVIEW: Don’t Tempt Me by Loretta Chase

Dear Ms. Chase: After I read last year’s book, Your Scandalous Ways, I knew my expectations were going to be set incredibly high for anything that came after.   And thankfully, Don’t Tempt Me is not a book in the same vein, but instead hearkens back to the Carsington series, especially Miss Wonderful and Mr. Impossible.   [...]

REVIEW:  Midnight Rising by Lara Adrian

REVIEW: Midnight Rising by Lara Adrian

Midnight Rising by Lara Adian Dylan Alexander is a talented journalist who is overseas enjoying a vacation with friends of her mothers. During a walk, she wanders away from the group and encounters a cave with strange markings. She has photographed these and a homeless man she observed in the caves before said homeless man [...]

REVIEW: Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare

REVIEW: Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare

Dear Ms. Clare: I admit to having some reservations about starting this book because I had a real hard time with the heroine in Hard Evidence. However, the gritty and realistic feel that emanated from the pages of this book were captivating and made the book hard to put down. I read that you had [...]

REVIEW: Satisfaction Guaranteed by Charlene Teglia

Dear Ms. Teglia: Thank you for sharing with me your latest book, Satisfaction Guaranteed. I really liked Wild Wild West which was an anthology collection of three women who experience great sex and find love along the way. Satisfaction Guaranteed is modeled after the first book and contains three semi interconnected stories about women taking [...]

REVIEW:  Virgin Slave, Barbarian King by Louise Allen

REVIEW: Virgin Slave, Barbarian King by Louise Allen

Dear Ms Allen, I had planned on reading this book anyway because 1) I like a previous book of yours I tried and 2) I just had to support the era in which you’d set the story. After all, I can’t remember the last book I read that features Visigoths! When we all got together [...]

REVIEW:  Untouched by Anna Campbell

REVIEW: Untouched by Anna Campbell

Dear Ms. Campbell: I realized reading your new release Untouched that for me your books are fundamentally a revisiting of older Romance motifs, with both retro and current elements. At your best, your work brings out the best of both past and present Romances, because you are often examining some of the more provocative elements [...]

REVIEW:  Taken by the Viking by Michelle Styles

REVIEW: Taken by the Viking by Michelle Styles

Dear Mrs. Styles, I trust that placing “Viking” in the title has got this one selling well in the UK. Isn’t that one of the words that your mother-in-law’s friend always looks for when deciding which new books to buy? Too bad for us US buyers that Taken by the Viking hasn’t been released here [...]

REVIEW:  Satanta’s Woman by Cynthia Haseloff

REVIEW: Satanta’s Woman by Cynthia Haseloff

Dear Ms Haseloff, Years ago I read the DIK review at AAR for this book. I was interested and purchased it. I read it and was blown away by it. I contacted you and you were gracious enough to email with me a little about this book and others you’d written. I’ve always meant to [...]

REVIEW:  An Uncommon Enemy by Michelle Black

REVIEW: An Uncommon Enemy by Michelle Black

Dear Ms Black, One thing that has always bothered me about reading Westerns in which Indians and Whites come into conflict is that usually the white heroine gets captured by the noble Indian hero, falls in love after being humiliated by him numerous times, completely accepts the Indian culture and lifestyle while repudiating her white [...]