Feb 11 2013
Dear Ms. Lohmann: (Dabney’s disclaimer: I know Jennifer and occasionally attend a book club she runs.) I’d wanted to read this book for quite some time. Jennifer Lohmann entered Harlequin’s “So You Think You Can Write” contest in 2011 and was offered a contract. I’d met Jennifer earlier in that year when I interviewed her(…)
Oct 11 2012
Dear Ms. Johnson: HSRs are known to be issue books and sometimes the issues are so prominent that they overtake the book and that was the case for me in “No Matter What”. Molly Callahan has a fifteen year old daughter, Caitlyn, who is dating Trevor Ward whom Molly views as a trouble maker from(…)
Sep 26 2012
Dear Ms. Doyle: I admit part of me wants to give this book an A just for the attempt to address something that I don’t believe has ever been addressed in romance before. (It’s not abortion – you can pick up No Matter What by Janice Kay Johnson in the October HSR series if you(…)
May 7 2012
Dear Ms. Hartman: Within the space of about 20 minutes, I received two emails from disparate parties telling me I must read this book. I toddled off and did what I was instructed. There were parts of the story that I loved but parts that frustrated me a great deal and so while I can(…)
Mar 28 2012
Dear Ms. Gaines: The book has a very original opening. Rachel Frye is trying to convince her stick in the mud boyfriend not to break up with her. The breakup is bringing out her least favorite trait, shrillness, and is being done in front of her biggest rival, Garret Calder. Garrett is a fellow creative(…)
Mar 21 2012
Dear Ms. Brashears: This book really didn’t work for me. For one thing I felt like the tone and content of the story was quite dated. I’ve often lamented how many Harlequin Superromances lack sexual tension and this is emblematic of the issue. I never felt like these two had any attraction for each other(…)
Mar 17 2012
Dear Ms. Doyle: I believe that this is the first book of yours that I have read but now I’ll definitely be on the look out for more Stephanie Doyle books. Gabby Haines is a former host of Wake Up Philadelphia, the “hottest job on morning television in Philadelphia.” She was replaced by a “younger,(…)
Nov 29 2011
Dear Ms. Knupp: In looking in my past reviews, I don’t see that I’ve read you before but I believe I have and just not reviewed the book(s) that I’ve read. Because of the List starts out with a old but favorite premise. Hero is best friends with heroine’s older brother. The twist in this book(…)
Nov 18 2011
Dear Ms. Flynn, Harlequin’s Treasury reissues are allowing me the relatively easy opportunity of trying some authors completely new to me without having to laboriously track down their OOP books. While scanning the offerings at their website, your book “40 Tons of Trouble” caught my eye because of the heroine’s occupation. I can’t recall ever(…)
May 23 2011
Dear Ms. Hartman: This turned out to be such a lovely book and in a way that totally surprised me. The story opens with Cooper Murphy proposing to Jorie Burke after knowing each other for six months, in a totally romantic and kind of scary way (come on, it was kind of creepy because the(…)
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(…)
Mar 31 2011
“You’re being audited.” That’s hardly his most winning opening line, but Rafe Ellersley isn’t here to make friends. He’d promised himself-’and his boss-’that this audit would be different. This time, he would be the consummate Australian Tax Office investigator. Cool, detached, professional. He’d bring Lexie Thatcher, tax-dodging artisan, to justice with ruthless efficiency. No more(…)
Mar 18 2011
Dear Ms. Parv: Emma Jarrett knew exactly what life with a surgeon would be like. Her mother was one, her father was one, and her brother was one too. From personal experience, Emma knew that life with a surgeon meant missed birthdays, false commitments and taking a backseat to the operating theater. Emma made it(…)
Feb 21 2011
“Her stay in Oak Stand, Texas, is only temporary. After a series of setbacks, Dawn Taggart is giving herself one year to pull everything together so she can start over somewhere else. No putting down roots here. No romantic entanglements. No exceptions! Not even the very persuasive Tyson Hart can change that. A contractor looking(…)
Feb 7 2011
Dear Ms. O’Keefe: Your books were recommended to me a year or so ago and I burned through The Mitchells of Riverview Inn series and then I tried to read the O’Neill trilogy and I couldn’t finish even one of them. However, I still wanted to give your books another shot and so I bought(…)
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