Nov 9 2011
Dear Ms. Mayberry: I almost feel bad recommending another book of yours. I feel like to continually recommend the same author time and again may read inauthentic to readers but your voice and the stories that you tell really resonate with me. I think you really know how to capture and express a modern women [...]
Aug 5 2011
Dear Ms. Bliss: Sometimes I think a reader connects to a writer in ways that can’t quite be articulated. I’ve felt that way about your work for a while so I don’t know how reliable of a recommender of your books that I am. What I connect with is the authenticity of the characters, the [...]
Jan 24 2011
Dear Ms. Guhrke: Although I'm not always a fan of the back-to-back book release, in the case of Wedding of the Season and Scandal of the Year, I appreciated being able to follow up Will and Beatrix's story with Julia and Aidan's. Although their match-up was anticipated by the first book, they are, in many [...]
Jan 20 2011
Dear Ms. Crow and Ms. Fox. I’ve had a hard time writing this review. I made it a Recommended Read for January and it’s been a best-seller at Carina since it’s been out. But it’s such a subtle book, so simple and yet so complicated, I’ve been lost for what to say about it. This [...]
Dec 26 2009
Beware, there are spoilers for the series in the review itself so if you want to read The Mitchells of Riverview Inn without being spoiled one iota, please don’t read this review: Dear Ms. O’Keefe: Worth Fighting For brings together the loose plot threads involving Iris and Patrick, the mother and father of Gabe, Max, [...]
Nov 23 2009
Plot summary from Ellen Hartman’s site: Sarah Finley’s husband left her to marry his boss. Her children have been tossed out of elementary school for a violation of the weapons code. Her friends and neighbors are avoiding her like the plague. Clearly, Sarah is in need of a Plan B. Enter Charlie McNulty. Charlie is [...]
Sep 27 2009
Dear Ms. Seidel, Your 1983 category, The Same Last Name, begins when three cars arrive at New York State’s Frank Lake State Park. One of the park’s forest rangers, twenty-five year old April Ramsey, greets the man who registers this group of six visitors. April directs the tourist to the best campsites for a group [...]
Aug 30 2006
Dear Mrs. Osborne, Some of your other novels have made my “Best of” lists. You wrote westerns and stuck with the genre even when it fell out of favor. You never tried to incorporate the latest “trend” in your books but wrote about basically decent, honest people working hard and trying to make a living. [...]
Jul 24 2006
Dear Ms Wax, This is the third book of yours I’ve read. Do I detect a slight shift towards women’s fiction with this one? Once again you write about a heroine at whom life throws a curveball and who has to stand on her own two feet. Amanda Sheridan’s husband of 20 years has walked [...]
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