Dec 27 2011
Dear Sean. I like your voice. I really do. After all, it’s why I keep trying your books. I’ve even enjoyed some of your Hammer Club series (Kinky Klub of Kinkiness, ahoy! in which Sarah learns about sexual sounding. O.O ). I just wish you believed in plot a little more strongly. I think I’ve [...]
Aug 25 2011
Dear Ms. Harrington, This is the second charming book I’ve read of yours I’ve read. The CEO hero isn’t a cad or bounder, the baker heroine is dedicated to what she does – and I’d love to try her strudel, the action is short, sweet and to the point and I had a good time [...]
Mar 18 2011
Dear Ms. Parv: Emma Jarrett knew exactly what life with a surgeon would be like. Her mother was one, her father was one, and her brother was one too. From personal experience, Emma knew that life with a surgeon meant missed birthdays, false commitments and taking a backseat to the operating theater. Emma made it [...]
Dec 7 2010
Dear Ms. Mitchell. This was not the book I was expecting. At all. Which doesn’t make it bad, at all. It just…threw me a curve ball pretty early on (not that I have any idea what that metaphor actually means) and just kept them coming. That said, I adored it. I adored Tony. I adored [...]
Aug 18 2010
Dear Ms. Blackwell, I hadn’t read an m/m in a while and decided to splurge on this story of one hot Parisian chef who meets his match in a cool English food critic. Luc Tessier is hot tempered, sexually demanding of his minions – who really don’t seem to mind too much, a top vegetarian [...]
Aug 7 2010
Dear Ms. Shalvis: This is a recommended read by Jaclyn but while I loved the tone of the book, the overall story felt very rough. Isabella Manchelli is a free spirit who has never believed in settling down. She flits from one place to the next, enjoying her time until her restlessness pushes her to [...]
Jun 3 2010
Dear Ms. Harrington, Celebrity chefs and cook off challenges aren’t my passion. I like to cook but hate to clean up so having one hanging around my kitchen to do my scut work for me would be nice, though. And if he looked like I imagine Brett Cameron does, that would be a bonus because [...]
Mar 11 2010
Mar 3 2010
SPOILER ALERT: THIS REVIEW HAS ‘EM! Dear Ms. Black, I will admit front and center that I never read Decadent, but I definitely did read the reviews and comments on both this site and Smart Bitches Trashy Books. I was intrigued by the reviews and comments, similar to how one is intrigued watching the slow-motion replays of [...]
Dec 16 2009
Dear Ms. O’Keefe: I mentioned on Twitter that I wanted to try out more Harlequin Superromance authors and Larissa Ione suggested your books. I am so glad for the recommendation. Baby Makes Three is not a book I would have bought through ordinary browsing. Generally I am not a fan of books with babies, featuring [...]
Sep 29 2009
Dear Ms. Edwards: Thank you for sending me this book. I confess I tried to read this book many times, never making it out of the first few chapters. The heroine, Miranda Wake, a food critic, gets drunk at a restauraent premiere and makes some very loud and rude remarks. She then insults the chef, [...]
Apr 5 2009
Dear Ms. Rai: This is the first book of yours that I have read. I picked it because it featured a non caucasion protagonist; it had to do with cooking; and there were two hot guys in the story. I had mixed emotions at the end of the story. On the one hand I loved that [...]
Nov 15 2008
Sayuri commented in my Harlequin (not so) Lightning Reviews last week that she enjoyed Sarah Mayberry. I bought three of her books at Fictionwise: Amorous Liaisons, Island Heat, and Anything For You. The thing I like most about Mayberry’s characters is their self honesty and the sense that these individuals could be real people. They [...]
Sep 23 2008
Dear Ms. Holquist: I almost didn’t write this review because it was such a struggle for me to pinpoint why I didn’t respond well to it given that I liked The Sexiest Man Alive so much. Ultimately, I think I failed to connect to the hero and heroine in a "it’s not you, it’s me" [...]
Sep 9 2008
Dear Ms. Mallery: When I was a kid, my brothers got the Boys’ Life magazine and on the back of the magazine, next to the Sea Monkeys advertisement (Oh, how I wanted that!) was the ubiquitous Charles Atlas 97 pound weakling ad. It was a cartoon that showed some guy getting sand kicked in his [...]
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