Jun 17 2009
Dear Ms. Hailstock, I have been looking forward to sharp tongued Samara finding love with persistent Joshua for months now – well, ever since Samara’s sister Cinnamon’s book. But, alas, I’m afraid it didn’t live up to my hopes for it. Samara is marriage shy. Actually not just shy but phobic. You’ve given her some [...]
Jun 4 2009
Dear Ms. Banks: This is one of those books that are well written and evocative but made me feel personally uncomfortable. Despite my issues, though, I recognize that it is a good story. Serena is in the business of fulfilling fantasies for other people, whether it is preparing an elaborate princess party for a young [...]
Jun 1 2009
Dear Ms. Jewel, It isn’t easy to summarize the plot of your newest book, the paranormal My Forbidden Desire, and doing so necessitates giving away some spoilers for the first book in the series, My Wicked Enemy. That’s because the series is set against a backdrop of a complex battle between paranormal beings known as [...]
May 27 2009
Dear Ms. Wells: It’s hart to recommend a funny book because everyone’s idea of funny is different. Jayne didn’t love Between the Sheets and I would be hardpressed to argue that she would like How to Score. I did, however, enjoy this book and I’ll try to articulate why I liked it so readers can [...]
May 21 2009
Dear Ms. Blackwell, I didn’t realize this book is part of the “Everlasting Love” line until I began to read it. Which shows how much I pay attention to the “icon” on the front cover. Anywho, since my house has been a renovation project in the works for years now, that aspect of the book [...]
May 20 2009
Dear Ms. Miller, Well, this one certainly lives up to the “Blaze” standards of sex, more sex and ultimately true love. And the heroine has a cool profession/trade as well as there being a hot cop hero. Jack Riley is just looking for someone to arrest to take the edge off his anger at almost [...]
May 19 2009
Dear Ms. Martin, I really enjoyed your last book, Power Play, enough that I was looking forward to With a Twist. Unfortunately, this book never really got off the ground for me, owing to shallow characterizations and a heavy (and irritating) reliance on stereotyping over true character-building. Natalie Bocuse is a Frenchwoman waitressing in her [...]
May 13 2009
Dear Ms. Feisty: Even though I got this book for review, I decided to go ahead and purchase an ecopy as that is my preferred mode of reading and I hadn’t read it pre-release. I haven’t seen Warner/Grand Central put out much of any erotic romances so I was curious to see what this story [...]
May 11 2009
Dear Ms. Stuart, ewlywed Rachel Chapman Middleton has been living in her husband’s hometown, the sleepy college hamlet of Silver Falls, Washington, for only a few months when the body of a young woman is discovered. It’s an especially unwelcome shock for Rachel because she married David Middleton, a respected college professor, in large part [...]
May 5 2009
Dear Ms Jones, Every once in a while, a sweet, lovely story like this crosses my path and I’m always a better person and lucky reader for it. By rights, the blurb shouldn’t have grabbed my attention as it features a widow with a child, striking out on her own and is obviously the last [...]
May 4 2009
Dear Ms. Roberts: While I haven’t read all of your books, I’ve read a great many of them and I think I can safely say that Vision in White is one of the funniest books you’ve penned in a long time. I thought Carter Maguire, the clumsy, blushing, tweed wearing, Yale educated, English lit teacher [...]
Apr 27 2009
Dear. Ms. Thomas, This is the second novel of yours I’ve read and I’m just as, if not more, impressed. Realistic setting, believable characters, conflict that is centered on the hero and heroine and, I can’t believe I’m saying this, two young children I adored. I think I need to go take my temperature after [...]
Apr 23 2009
Dear Ms. Michaels, I love a good Cinderalla/Ugly Duckling story. It doesn’t matter to me which person is the “Cinderella” but something about an overlooked character finding love just thrills me. I shouldn’t have liked this book, once I got started reading it, since it contains misunderstandings from both sides. As much as I love [...]
Apr 22 2009
Dear Ms. Scott, I’m so glad that The Powers That Be at Liquid Silver offered me a chance to read your novel. And so sorry it took me seemingly ages to get to it. But the book is more than worth it to read. I only wish the title didn’t bring to mind 80s heart [...]
Apr 20 2009
Dear Ms. Knight: There are so many blocks against reading this book that I wonder you ever had the audacity to put pen to paper. The story is told from the first person present tense in alternating points of view. It features a gay/bisexual/quasi-queer man who purportedly falls in love with a Hollywood actress. I [...]
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