Jan 25 2010
Dear Ms. O'Reilly: I realized when I started reading Midnight Resolutions that I have grown somewhat complacent with my expectations regarding your books. I was prepared for the very independent heroine, and the lust-struck good guy hero, and the witty banter between them. What I wasn't expecting, and what I found both compelling and problematic(…)
Dec 17 2009
Dear Ms. Kenner: I haven’t tried many of your non-paranormal contemporaries so when Harlequin had this back-to-backer, I thought, “why not?”. Let’s see how you do with no demons or Greek Gods. This will be just plain, ol’ normal people from Texas. Alyssa Chambers has visions of sweet temptation dancing in her head. Should she(…)
Nov 26 2009
Dear Ms. Warren: Emily Saunders was in Elk Crossing for “a wedding she didn’t want to attend with far too many of her family and friends asking nosy questions about her own continuing single status” when her hotel becomes infested with bed bugs. Another traveler at the hotel is Jonah Betts playing in his Old(…)
Nov 4 2009
Dear Ms. Monroe: Is it too corny to say that this book delivered for me?  I’m not a huge fan of the Navy SEAL books anymore because I think that there are so many of them and I worried about the machismo level of the hero but nothing about the book  was very expected.  That(…)
Aug 11 2009
Dear Ms. Borrill: I have to confess that I had gotten used to your “ordinary people” romance and expected this one to be within that oevre. I did not read the blurb, but bought this on author name alone. Clint Hilton has it all and I do mean all. He is mega rich (from being(…)
Aug 6 2009
Dear Ms. O’Reilly, I love what you do with your heroes and heroines. They’re not always totally believable (I mean, stranger sex in a stretch Hummer?) but I like these people. I’d like to have dinner with them on a couples night out and just sit and talk for hours. I feel that comfortable with(…)
Jul 6 2009
Dear Ms. Krahn, Jane’s already done the first review letter about your latest book which takes the pressure off me to recount the plot. Love it when Jane does that. Your author’s note states that this is supposed to be about a strong woman taking her hero in hand and getting him to do what(…)
Jun 24 2009
Ruthless Tycoon, Inexperienced Mistress by Cathy Williams Cesar is tired of bailing his younger brother out of hot water so when Ferdinado asks for access to his trust fund, Cesar heads out to see who it is that has her gold digging claws in Ferndando. He finds not a statuesque model blonde, but a mannish,(…)
May 20 2009
Dear Ms. Miller, Well, this one certainly lives up to the “Blaze” standards of sex, more sex and ultimately true love. And the heroine has a cool profession/trade as well as there being a hot cop hero. Jack Riley is just looking for someone to arrest to take the edge off his anger at almost(…)
Apr 4 2009
Dear Ms Mayberry, Jane has given some of your books rave reviews and since Jane knows her contemporary authors well, I was looking forward to trying you. The tattoo artist heroine working her hero into a sweat then enjoying some hot sex sounded like just the book to try. Liam’s had a hard life until(…)
Dec 18 2008
Dear Ms. Kelly I’m not big fan of holiday stories so one featuring two Christmas haters is probably perfect for me. There’s something deliciously ironic about the self referential nature of the story and the characters attitudes toward the holiday. It seems to me that they would hate Christmas themed stories. Â Noelle Bradenton overhears(…)
Dec 6 2008
Dear Ms. Mayberry: Only one book left after this one to review. Cruise Control is one of my favorites of the Mayberry collection so I was surprised to see the Goodreads rating to be a 2.5 out of 5. One of the readers said that it was “raunchy” and it is very sexual but the(…)
Nov 18 2008
My first introduction to Sarah Mayberry was Anything for You which was a huge success. Marg, a commenter, said that it was one of the best friends to lovers iteration she’s read. “I loved how the story was not about Sam finally ‘noticing how hot his friend is’ but rather realizing the depth of their(…)
Nov 15 2008
Sayuri commented in my Harlequin (not so) Lightning Reviews last week that she enjoyed Sarah Mayberry. I bought three of her books at Fictionwise: Amorous Liaisons, Island Heat, and Anything For You. The thing I like most about Mayberry’s characters is their self honesty and the sense that these individuals could be real people. They(…)
Oct 31 2008
Upon the recommendation of others, including, Blog Happy, I picked up the November Harlequin release of Lori Borill titled Unleashed. I enjoyed it so much that I went and downloaded two other Harlequin ebooks by Borill, Private Confessions and Putting It to the Test. When I sat down to pen the “lightning” reviews, they ended(…)
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