Oct 25 2011
Dear Ms. Dahl: I had been planning to review Good Girls Don’t, but by the time I got to it, Bad Boys Do was out and Real Men Will was imminent. So I figured I might as well review all three, since the trilogy’s release dates are so close together. I’m not a stickler for [...]
Oct 21 2011
Dear Ms. Napier: When someone on Twitter mentioned that your older book, The Mistress Deception, features a virgin widower, I bolted right over to Amazon to purchase a digital copy, excited at the idea of a Harlequin Presents playing against type in this way. That was not the only pleasant surprise of the book, and [...]
Oct 17 2011
“When photographer Skyler Quinn first fixed her lens on gorgeous cowboy Trace Wolf Track, she liked what she saw but didn’t give it much thought. Until everywhere she went—the rodeo, the Double D Wild Horse Sanctuary—there he was, and the heat between them built to the boiling point. As a widow struggling with debts and [...]
Oct 10 2011
UPDATED: The winners of the giveaway are: 1) SeaGrace 2) Eilis Flynn 3) Julie L. 4) Robyn B. 5) Amy K 6) Maggie 7) Elizabeth56 8) DarcyO 9) Maili 10) Lindsey Please send me your snail mail address at sunita at dear author dot com. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you Sourcebooks! Dear [...]
Oct 10 2011
Dear Ms. McCarthy: For the most part I’ve enjoyed this NASCAR inspired series quite a bit even though I’m not a stock-car racing fan and despite some of your more challenging heroines. However in “Slow Ride”, I was not able to overcome what I felt was shoddy behavior by the heroine to a somewhat flat [...]
Oct 7 2011
Dear Ms. Kelly: I believe that someone told me to read this book but I can’t remember who but I would have read it anyway. It’s part of my HP subscription! The S Before the Ex is a reunited lovers story. Claire Brady married one of the wealthiest financier’s in the world but they’ve been [...]
Oct 6 2011
Dear Ms. Margolis, Though I’ve been back to reading romance for over 15 years now, there are still way too many authors I’ve yet to try. In one of the latest big ol’ boxes of books that Jane sent me was a copy of your newest book “A Catered Affair.” For some reason I don’t [...]
Oct 4 2011
Dear Ms. Keplinger, I read your debut novel, The DUFF, earlier this year. While I didn’t think it was as mindblowing as I was led to believe, I liked it enough to look out for your future books. When I learned your sophomore effort was a retelling of Lysistrata, my interest was piqued. How would [...]
Oct 4 2011
During the Mistorical discussion, some asked why we didn’t point out errors or miscues in contemporary romances.Lynn S even gave us a good name for it: contemporroneous. To the extent that we know them, I think that we do. I’ve been pretty scathing, in fact, about books featuring sports characters where I didn’t agree with [...]
Sep 30 2011
Dear Ms. Belmond, Before I started this book, I hoped that my reading experience wouldn’t continue the pattern of the previous three books – loved “Inheritance,” thought “Engagement” was just okay, enjoyed “Invitation.” In other words, up then down then up then maybe down again. Well, I liked “Homecoming” but definitely not as much as [...]
Sep 28 2011
Dear Ms. Cullinan I’m going to apologize up-front that this review will not do justice to this book. I don’t think anything can do justice to this book except reading it AGAIN. It’s just…brilliant. Not without flaws, but brilliant. The book starts with two alternating prologues. One is the night Laurence “Laurie” Parker is thrown [...]
Sep 27 2011
Dear Ms. Moorcroft, What caught my attention about this book is that you, and English author, are writing an American heroine. I’m so used to the reverse – especially historicals – that I wanted to see how well you’d pull it off. Um, still a few issues and / or word choices here or there [...]
Sep 21 2011
Dear Ms. Weir: A while back you posted on Twitter a couple of drawings that your late husband had done, explaining that while he was an accomplished artist, he never felt comfortable thinking of himself that way or having his art made public. At the time I thought it was sad that someone who so [...]
Sep 21 2011
Dear Ms. Howard: In a recent podcast, Sarah Wendell and I talked about how there are titles we would like to have rebound into collector’s items so that they can sit on our shelves and be read and admired. Some of your titles would be on that list. After the Night. Now You See Her. [...]
Sep 19 2011
Dear Ms. Wolf: When I first started this book, I wondered if was a reprint of a formerly published book because I felt like I had read it before. I double checked and no, it was a self published work and possibly your first one. Yet, I had read a story very similar to this [...]
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