Jan 11 2010
Dear Ms. Archer and Ms. D’Arc: When Zoe Archer offered ARC copies of your new two-novella book, Half Past Dead on Twitter, I enthusiastically requested one, with more than a little curiosity about how zombies would work in Romance. I would have to read substantially more books to fully quench that curiosity, but your novellas [...]
Jan 9 2010
Dear Ms. Dane: I included this book in January’s recommended reads because I like straight up contemporaries that feature two people falling in love. This is one of those books. It is, however, a qualified recommendation for a couple of reasons. First, the love story is largely without conflict, either internal or external. Second, the [...]
Jan 8 2010
Dear Ms. Amara. I was reminded about your Holiday Outing by Jessica’s review of it at Racy Romance Reviews. I read Holiday Outing and enjoyed it, I think when it first came out, before I was reviewing. I especially loved the perfect depiction of a Jewish family, with all their lumps and bumps, but I [...]
Jan 7 2010
Dear Ms. Crandall: I liked Pitch Black enough to buy two other backlist titles of yours: Seeing Red and Back Roads. I found I liked your overall balance of suspense and romance so I was excited to read Sleep No More. The tone of this book was quite creepy, particularly in the beginning. Abby Whitman [...]
Jan 6 2010
Dear Ms. Riley. DA reader cs recommended your writing to me in one of my previous posts. I bought this and Amor en Retrogrado and devoured both of them in about 36 hours. I adore Roger and Sean in this story, adore your presentation of BDSM, and adore the storyline, huge gaping plot holes or [...]
Jan 6 2010
Dear Ms. Domin, Thanks again for contacting us about reviewing “The Soldier of Raetia.” I’m a pushover for just about anything regarding ancient Rome and having reviewed lots of m/f books about the era, I was primed to try some m/m toga action. At least I thought I remembered it was going to be m/m [...]
Jan 5 2010
Dear Ms. Andrews, On the Edge was the first of your books that I’ve read, but it will not be the last. Rose Drayton and her two young brothers, Jack and Georgie, live in the Edge, an area where two dimensions known as the Weird and the Broken overlap. In the Weird, people have magical [...]
Jan 5 2010
Dear Ms. Dahl: I’m probably not going to do this book justice in the review and I actually have some fear of turning people off the book based on what I am going to write. Robin and I talked about the book and she said it was brave and I agree. It’s brave because Jane, [...]
Jan 4 2010
Dear Ms. Beecroft. I enjoyed, as I always do, your sublime prose and the beautiful love story. I had more reservations about this story than I have for the previous two of yours I reviewed, though, reservations all revolving around the plot. In addition, I’m pretty much paranormaled out, so reading a ghost story was [...]
Jan 2 2010
A Black Tie Affair begins a series about the Smith sisters who are famously as beautiful as the “Cushing, Bouvier, and Miller sisters.” The Smith sisters have had a long history with the Clayworth’s of Chicago, the last event being the hasty termination of their father, former treasurer of the Clayworth department store. There are rumors that Mr. Smith was let go because of something shady and this only serves to foster negative feelings by the Smiths toward the Clayworths, or so we are told.
Athena Smith fell in love with Drew Clayworth and he with her. When his parents died in the Fastnet sailing race, Athena was there for him. Drew felt that Athena had betrayed him and their relationship ended.
Dec 31 2009
Dear Ms. Milan, I had been hearing positive buzz from several quarters for this, your debut romance, so I approached it with perhaps higher-than-usual hopes. Maybe because of those high hopes, the read started out a little rocky for me. The heroine and hero encounter each other in the first scene, and I found myself [...]
Dec 30 2009
Dear Ms. Fleischer: When I saw that the novella you sent to Dear Author for review was published by Drollerie Press, I eagerly snagged it for review. Unfortunately, it’s been a while getting to the review, but I at least hope I can encourage a few readers to try Over Her Head, a sweet, nicely-crafted [...]
Dec 29 2009
Dear Mr. Eisler: Fault Line was the first book of yours that I’d read. I’ve since read more, by the way. In the past, I have worked at Intellectual Property law firms as well as in the legal department of a Bio-Tech firm, so I am intimate with the portion of Fault Line that deals [...]
Dec 28 2009
Dear Ms. Adrian: I’ve had an on again off again relationship with this series. I adored Midnight Awakening but struggled with Veil of Midnight. I liked Shades better than the last two but not as much as Midnight Awakening. One of the things that I enjoyed about Shades was that the story was more about [...]
Dec 27 2009
Dear Ms. Maxfield. I listed this book as one or my Top Books of 2009, so I should do a review of it. I had such fun rereading it. I love meta books: books that are enacting the very thing they’re about as they’re relating it. Books about romance authors are a favorite of mine [...]
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