Nov 19 2011
Dear Ms. Grey: Right before I received your book for review, a friend of mine told me she had a “meet cute” on a train. She ran into a guy who dropped a tux he was carrying. She later found out he was the best man and the tux was for the wedding. I joked [...]
Oct 20 2011
Dear Ms. Romain: You received a glowing endorsement from Courtney Milan and I had to try this book out. While I am not sorry I read it, perhaps heightened expectations left me with a disappointed feeling during the book. I think, too, the book was a bit too lighthearted for me. I seem to be [...]
Apr 2 2011
Dear Ms. Johnson: I’ve always meant to read you. Your books are often recommended by category lovers and non category lovers alike. Now I know why. Kathryn Riley has always felt like an outsider at Sauk River. She wondered if the community’s cold shoulder arises not just from the fact that she wasn’t born in [...]
Oct 13 2009
Dear Ms. Hewitt: Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. The thing that stuck out most in my mind at the end of the story was how apt the title was. The story really was about the sheikh’s forbidden virgin. This is part of The Royal House of Karedes miniseries. These series [...]
Feb 9 2009
Dear Ms. Mead, While it’s true I’m not a fan of your succubus novels, I do enjoy your young adult books. In fact, I vastly prefer your voice in that genre. When Jane linked the Publishers Weekly article about how well your Vampire Academy series was doing in this post-Twilight world, she suggested I review [...]
Mar 17 2008
Dear Ms. Ibbotson, When Azteclady asked me to review one of your romances, I was both excited and challenged. You pack so many irresistible characters into less than three hundred pages that it is difficult to do justice to these delightful folk. And how would I explain the magic by which you can take me [...]
Dec 18 2006
Dear Ms. Rosoff, When a book has won a slew of awards including ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005 and Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year, and has even been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, it hardly needs more accolades from me. Here I am regardless, writing this open [...]
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