Apr 25 2013
Dear Ms. Maguire, I decided to read “Making Him Sweat” because I like to try new-to-me authors at Harlequin, I hadn’t read a Blaze book for a while, and I wanted to see if a book about boxers could hold my attention. I mean no insult to boxing but it’s not a sport I follow(…)
Dec 19 2012
Dear Ms. Burns: I enjoyed your Harlequin Blaze release Relentless Seduction. It’s got just the right blend of humor, sex, mystery, and faux vampires. I picked it up and didn’t put it down until I gotten to the last page. Claire Brooks has coke-bottle glasses, frizzy brown hair, no sense of style, a PhD in(…)
Oct 30 2012
Dear Samantha Hunter: Garrett Berringer is a widower of 6 years. After his wife’s death, Garrett focused on building his security business with his brother Jonas – Berringer Bodyguards. Tiffany Walker is a private investigator who spends her time trying to get photographs of cheating husbands when her original dream was to capture nature shots(…)
Sep 21 2012
Dear Ms. Mayberry, Why am I reading this older book of yours? There’s a story behind this and I’m going to tell it to you. You see, Jane usually gets all the printed arcs submitted to DA and then she divvies them up and mails them out to us. Sometimes she needs to pad the(…)
Sep 8 2012
Dear Ms. Etherington: This story had a charming couple – Pollyanna from Texas and the hard bitten detective whose father did time but the plot of the book surrounded the mystery of how the hero, Devin Antonio, was framed for the assault of a New York citizen. This must be the third or fourth book(…)
May 5 2012
Dear Ms. Foley: I wished I had liked this book more because it was fairly non offensive with likable characters but it read underwhelming to me primarily because most of the story felt forced. Jenna is a Blackhawk pilot who has made a vow to never get involved with another pilot. One night she hooks(…)
May 17 2011
Dear Mr & Mrs. Carrington: It used to be that I would never read a book containing infidelity but lately it seems that I can’t get away from it. Books containing infidelity that is, not infidelity itself. When it turned out that this book was going to be a book about infidelity, I decided I(…)
Apr 5 2011
Dear Ms. Maguire: I was unreasonably excited about reading this book as I loved your voice in Willing Victim, the imagery of your prose, and the vividness of your characters but wanted more from the emotional arc between the characters. I thought that a straight romance might deliver the entire package for me as a(…)
Mar 5 2011
High Octane by Lisa Renee Jones. Â Both the characters in this book were likeable but I felt like a) they fell in love too fast and b) the heroine’s personal struggle lacked any believability and c) there were too many conflicts for the space. Conflict 1: Sabrina Cameron was a political reporter with a dedicated(…)
Mar 4 2011
Dear Ms. Burns: This is my first encounter with your writing and it was a good one. In fact, this is a book I could have seen myself re-visiting if the heroine hadn’t annoyed me so much in the first half. Max, though, was one of the sweetest heroes I recall reading about in a(…)
Jan 13 2011
Dear Ms. Monroe: One thing that I often find lacking in romances is seeing the actual courtship, particularly if you read paranormal romances with soulmate stories. I think that is why I like the friends to lovers trope or the marriage of convenience trope because we get to see the two characters navigate from viewing(…)
Aug 7 2010
Dear Ms. Shalvis: This is a recommended read by Jaclyn but while I loved the tone of the book, the overall story felt very rough. Â Isabella Manchelli is a free spirit who has never believed in settling down. She flits from one place to the next, enjoying her time until her restlessness pushes her to(…)
Jun 8 2010
Dear Ms. Kelly: I think you were part of my Harlequin Presents subscription. The title is pretty ridiculous and the cover doesn’t match the book at all given that it is set in the city of Chicago and this cover gives off a certain tropical vibe. Although it is sold as a Harlequin Presents (albeit(…)
Apr 3 2010
Dear Ms. O’Reilly and Ms. Kenner: This one Blaze holds four very short stories which take place on April 1. While the authors take turns telling the slightly interwoven stories and their voices mesh well, O’Reilly’s Devon story was my favorite. Because the stories are so brief, there is very little time to explore true(…)
Mar 23 2010
Dear Ms. Lyons, “Under His Spell” is a book I find hard to grade. And might even find a challenge to review properly but here goes. I like a lot of things about it, while other things make me nervous. It’s the first (sorta vanilla) BDSM book I’ve ever read from Harlequin but I’m not(…)
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