Dec 13 2012
Dear Ms. Smith What I appreciated most about this book was the pro woman message delivered at the end. I thought it could have gone farther in support of the idea that a woman doesn’t need to be ashamed of what she does and with whom she consorts. Mostly I found this book was heavy(…)
Nov 14 2012
Dear Ms. Stacey I’m not one who really loves big family stories but you make the Kowalski clan so appealing that even I, the curmudgeon, look forward to spending a few hours with them. This story features Ryan Kowalksi, an owner of a custom home building business in Massachusetts. He is spending a month in(…)
Sep 6 2012
Dear Ms. Walker: This book came to my attention when it was listed as one of PW’s romances of the summer. Fortunately the book was on NetGalley and I was able to download and read it straight away. Interestingly, this is the second in the Black Knights Inc. series but it is the first that I(…)
Aug 29 2012
Dear Ms. James, Last year I read and really enjoyed your book When Beauty Tamed the Beast, yet for some reason I haven’t gotten around to diving into your extensive backlist yet. When I saw that The Ugly Duchess was available for review, though, the plot blurb drew me in immediately. Our hero and heroine,(…)
Aug 27 2012
Dear Ms. Armstrong, All things must come to an end. That includes your Women of the Otherworld series. I can’t believe it’s been over ten years since we were first introduced to Elena, the only female werewolf in existence. And while I’ve liked some books more than others, I still consider this series to be(…)
Aug 21 2012
Seven Sexy Sins A few weeks ago, Ruthie Knox was raving about this book on Twitter so I decided to give it a whirl. I’m glad I did. Seven Sexy Sins is a bawdy, diverting read that skims the surface of real emotion just enough to make one care for its characters. Faith Hillman is, though(…)
Aug 18 2012
Dear Ms. Mayberry, Years ago I saw a made for TV movie called The Substitute Wife. Set in “Pioneer Times,” it starred Lea Thompson as a woman with four children who knows she’s dying. She’s determined to find someone to replace her and ultimately brings home a hooker with a heart of gold played by(…)
Aug 15 2012
Dear Ms. Morgan, In our most recent Reader Open Thread, Patty listed “Olly Harris: Wedding Wrecker” as a July book she’s interested in. Something about the title caught my eye and I looked for more about it which lead me to your website which lead me to the fun-ness that is “Beautiful Mess” which is(…)
Aug 14 2012
This is a *sticky post* which means it will sit on the top of the DA posts for the week. Scroll down for new content. 1) Was it a challenge to age Peregrine and Olivia from the children they’d been in Lord Perfect into young adults, yet keep them recognizable as the same characters? When(…)
Aug 10 2012
Dear Ms. Mathewson: I purchased this book a few months ago when Has from the Bookpushers recommended it. I believe I started it and set it aside because I couldn’t get into the first chapter. When the book hit the Times list, I pulled it out to read again and pushed through the first chapter(…)
Aug 8 2012
Dear Ms. Walker I read this book second even though it is the first in the series and it’s probably a good thing I did as I liked the second story, In Ride’s Trouble, much more than this title. My main complaint with this story is my inability to buy in to the fantasy constructed.(…)
Jul 24 2012
Dear Ms. Tenorio: Thank you for sending your book for review. I liked the premise and the story had a lot of promise. My struggle with understanding the hero’s motivations, however, diminished my overall appreciation for the story and the strongest character on the page wasn’t the hero, but the heroine’s older brother. Amanda Jackman(…)
Jul 2 2012
Dear Ms. Thomas: I knew by the end of chapter one, that this book would be one I would remember for a long time. In just that first chapter a well of emotion swelled up and closed the passage of my throat such that each subsequent page read triggered feeling. “Come on baby, make it(…)
Jun 5 2012
Gaius Vinius Clodianus is a reluctant Praetorian Guard, with a disastrous marriage history and post-traumatic stress – but he is a hero. Flavia Lucilla has given the imperial ladies a ridiculous hairstyle and makes toupees for the increasingly paranoid emperor – and she is good at her job. A devastating fire in Rome starts their(…)
May 25 2012
Dear Ms. Bliss: Your last few books have had a sort of a madcap adventure feel to them and so “Bring Him Home” is a change in tone and pace. It deals with grief and recovery and discovery and relies less on external conflict and more on the internal changes that the leads experience. Nathan(…)
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