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TRIPLE PLAY REVIEW: Donovan Brothers Brewery series by Victoria Dahl

TRIPLE PLAY REVIEW: Donovan Brothers Brewery series by Victoria Dahl

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 [...]

REVIEW:  One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare

REVIEW: One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare

Dear Ms. Dare, Dear Ms. Dare, I've heard good things about you for the last year, ever since your debut The Goddess of the Hunt appeared as the beginning of three inter-connected novels. I've been meaning to read something of yours for quite sometime, in the same way I've been meaning to clean out my [...]

REVIEW: Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran

REVIEW: Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran

Dear Ms. Duran, I was a big fan of your debut The Duke of Shadows, published last year. I can’t say how excited I was to learn that you had not one but two books scheduled for release in 2009, one in June and the other in July. Having now read the first, I can [...]

REVIEW: Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran

REVIEW: Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran

Dear Ms. Duran: I was probably the only member of the Dear Author reviewing team that didn’t love your freshman debut, DUKE OF SHADOWS. For me, it read like a love story between you and India and not so much a love story between the characters. I admit that despite the urging of your critique [...]

CONVERSATIONAL REVIEW: Tempted by Megan Hart

Janine: My friend Jennie F. and I had so much fun doing a conversational review of Jane Lockwood’s Forbidden Shores that we decided to do it again. Lo and behold, the subject of this discussion is also a novel about an erotic entanglement that involves two men and a woman! This time, it’s Megan Hart’s [...]