Feb 21 2012
Dear Ms. Gray, When I read the blurb for Wars of the Heart, I was utterly confused. Let me explain; or better yet let me sum up the blurb, which goes something like this: Katherine Morgan is a diplomat from Earth, she thinks that someone is out to destroy Earth’s Ozone Shield, and goes to(…)
Mar 15 2011
Dear Ms. Massey, I have totally procrastinated about writing this review, which will probably give you a hint regarding my reaction to Once Upon a Time in Space. My hesitation is due to this coming on the heels of my less than charitable review about another group of space pirates, but since honesty has always(…)
Feb 26 2011
Dear Ms. Drake: I don’t read a lot of futuristics but I’m trying to be more adventurous in my reading so when this Carina Press book popped up on NetGalley, I requested it. It’s a no risk proposition to try out new books via NetGalley. Jaq’s Harp is a short story with six chapters. I’m(…)
Sep 9 2010
Dear Ms. Grant, I admit, with a certain amount of chagrin, that there was a time when I would gobble up any romance or story with romantic elements that was set in space. I think I once told someone “A hero farts in space? I’m there and A+!” and I meant every word. But that(…)
Jun 16 2010
Dear Ms. Cain: I asked for all the erotic romances published by Carina Press in June because I have been desperate for a good erotic romance. I don’t know where they have all gone. Yours was sent to me with a number of others and I read all five in a row. Alien Revealed is(…)
May 26 2010
Dear Ms. Robb: This is a difficult review for me to write, because something happens in Fantasy in Death that many will likely regard as insignificant, but which for me changed the series in a fundamental way. Several books ago, Jane noted that Eve did something at the end of Creation in Death that seemed(…)
May 5 2010
Dear Ms. Granger, Let’s face it: I love romance in space, having to do with space, or having the element of the alien (and I don’t mean Sigourney Weaver Alien). Nowadays it seems particularly hard to get past all of the vamps and shifters and move off (or into the future/alternate past/Star Wars) of this(…)
Feb 4 2010
Dear Ms. McBride. The excerpt of this book on Loose Id really intrigued me. I liked the writing, I even liked the space opera set up. I was excited to read it. But the book itself is a book of missed opportunities. As I read it, all I could see was the idea struggling desperately(…)
Nov 2 2009
Dear Ms. Singh, Blaze of Memory begins shortly after Devraj Santos finds an unknown woman unconscious on his doorstep. Dev is the director of the Shine Foundation, an organization that assists the Forgotten and protects their children from those who would exploit their psychic powers. For those who haven’t read the earlier books in the(…)
Sep 17 2009
Dear Ms. Roberts: I am trying to climb onto the futuristic bandwagon so I was excited when I saw this book released from Samhain this week. While the story had potential and I found it readable, I ultimately came away disappointed. Blademir, the Crown Heir to the throne of Barian, was sent on a diplomatic(…)
Sep 16 2009
I have to go to the dentist today for an aching tooth. Yes, my hardliving consisting of peanut m&ms and Mountain Dew is catching up with me. That’s some real news I know you all were dying to read. DNAML, a company with more consonants than sense, is selling a PDF to ePub converter. This(…)
Aug 13 2009
Dear Ms. Granger: I didn’t have Beyond the Rain as a recommended read this month just becauseit was a science fiction romance but it did play a part. There are few of these types of books published within the genre. You did a great job of creating not just one different culture but two and(…)
May 25 2009
Notice: The whole review is really a summary of what the fuckedness so if you plan to read the book and don’t want to be spoiled, click away. Dear Readers: I can’t remember who chose this book for me to read during #RRTheatre (wherein I roast bad porn) but the premise was “have sex or(…)
Feb 17 2009
Dear Ms. Robb: I have had an up and down relationship with the In Death books since the series went hardcover. Happily for me, Promises in Death marks an upswing, an effective blending of the police procedural and personal aspects of Eve Dallas’s life and a particularly moving storyline featuring everyone’s favorite ME, Morris. When(…)
Dec 13 2008
Dear Ms. Michaels: I think I bought this book because I wanted to read a science fiction space opera fantasy romance thingy or I may have bought it because someone recommended you, as an author, to me. One of the two. I’m thinking it was the latter because as I re-read the blurb at Fictionwise,(…)
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