May 24 2013
Do It Like A Dude – Painted Faces I must confess that when I first start reading Painted Faces I was pretty convinced the book should have actually been about two lines long: Fantastically hot drag artist: Hey, do you want have sex? Heroine: Yes. And then I realised I was being churlish because you(…)
May 24 2013
Dear Ms. Hart: I have to start out by saying that those abs look faker than a Louis Vuitton knock off sold on Canal Street. Ahem. Cade is one of the MacKenzie brothers and I think I bought it because it was on sale. From the website, it appears that Cade is the last of(…)
May 22 2013
Dear Ms. Connor: Thank you for sending Dear Author a review copy of your book. I’m not a frequent reader of Harlequin Intrigues so I wouldn’t ordinarily pick up this book. Jillian Jones arrives at Sutton Hall posing as a bride to be in order to investigate the death of her best friend. Jillian was(…)
May 21 2013
Dear Ms. Jamieson: I’ve kind of drifted away from menages but this book was free. I thought the dynamic of the three falling in love was really well done. My minus is that I really needed to see the other issues worked out – how would her family take it; what kinds of decisions would(…)
May 19 2013
Dear Ms. Chase: Tangled is narrated Drew, a horrible person. He says horrible things. Thinks horrible things. Half the time he comes off slut shaming and half the time he comes off misogynistic. Yet, every time that I think he’s gone beyond the pale, I’m drawn back in. At the end of the book I’m(…)
May 18 2013
Dear Ms. Kent: At first, I was a little distressed because the hero is a lawyer and the heroine is a legal assistant (not at the same firm, though). It’s fairly hard for me to get lost in the world of make believe when the characters are so familiar to me. However, there was not(…)
May 15 2013
Dear Ms. Evers: I think my expectations played a part in my dissatisfaction with this story. I was expecting something a little more serious and perhaps dark and angsty; but instead the relationship between the two came off as more flippant. Marc Wilde and Mistress Lauren are very good friends. They play at the same(…)
May 15 2013
Note: The comments are closed for this review. I’d direct you to the Dear Author Book Club pick for May for centralization of comments. Dear Ms. McCarthy: Rory does one thing really well – school. Everything else, particularly the social scene and the interpersonal relationships with the opposite sex, she can’t quite grasp the nuances.(…)
May 14 2013
Dear Ms. Bailey: I enjoyed your debut book, Protecting What’s his, quite a bit and I was told that this novella would feature a hero cut from the same dirty talking clothe. They weren’t wrong, but this novella suffers from length related problems. Troy Bennett is a homicide cop for the NYPD, recently transferred from(…)
May 11 2013
Dear Ms. Meader: On the plus side, this is NOT a small town contemporary. Cue cheers. It’s an entirely serviceable story set in Chicago with a believable plot and likeable characters but for some reason I didn’t love it like I thought I would. This is totally a case of “It’s not you, it’s me.”(…)
May 10 2013
Know When To Hold ’Em – Bet Me, Jennifer Crusie [Apologies in advance – my ebook for some reason came devoid of even pretend page numbers so I can’t reference in my usual half-arsed way] Bet Me represents my first foray into the world of contemporary romance. And I’m afraid you’ll have to forgive me(…)
May 7 2013
Dear Ms. Young: Last year’s On Dublin Street was one of my Top 10 picks of 2012, so I was most eager to read Down London Road. I’m delighted to say that I enjoyed it as much as I did On Dublin Street. Johanna Walker is a young, smart woman who has been handed a(…)
May 6 2013
Dear Ms. Denker: While told in the limited third person, this book read like a chick lit story reworked into a romance. Emmie Brewster is a young interior decorator working in a small town under an overbearing boss with overblown and stifling tastes. As the story opens, Emmie is too timid to voice her ideas(…)
May 2 2013
Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose during lunch at one of London’s fanciest restaurants. But when his big question involves a trip abroad, not a trip down the aisle, she’s completely crushed. So when Ben, an old flame, calls her out of the blue and reminds Lottie of their pact(…)
Apr 28 2013
Dear Ms. Seasons: This is one book wherein I think the grade looks harsher than it really is but I had so many problems with this book, I felt like it was the best reflection of my interaction with the story. Others may have had a much different experience. The story begins with Lorelei Littleton spying(…)
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