Jan 19 2012
Dear Ms. Warner, I am a big fan of Western romances and your books have been praised by many of my trusted reviewers. So when I was offered the opportunity to review your latest, the middle book in the Runaway Brides trilogy, I was happy to accept. Although I haven’t read the first book, I(…)
Jan 17 2012
Dear Ms. Guhrke: In a way I wish I had read Trouble at the Wedding before the first two books in the Abandoned at the Altar series. The Edwardian setting, pairing of the bourgeois heroine from the American South and the titled but impoverished English duke, and mixed cocktail of the marriage for money and(…)
Jan 11 2012
Dear Ms. Brooke (aka Christine Wells): I didn’t pick up the first title in this series. I think I was put off by the concept of the Ministry of Marriage (although that’s probably why the series was bought by the publisher). The Ministry of Marriage (and the fact that is has a name) is this(…)
Jan 4 2012
Updated: The winners are 1) 3beans; 2) Patti; 3) Jane A; 4) Clementine; 5) Maya S.; 6) Mia; 7) peggy h; 8) Willa; 9) Loosheesh; 10) Camilla Please fill out form at the bottom. Cecilia Grant’s A Lady Awakened is one of the absolute best debut romances I have come across in all my years(…)
Dec 30 2011
Dear Ms. Milan: Thank you for sending me “Unraveled” for review. I have enjoyed (but been somewhat critical) of your past works but your novella, “Unlocked,” was one of my best reads of 2011. Smite’s book was hotly anticipated. Part of the problem I had with “Unraveled” was the result of my own expectations and(…)
Dec 29 2011
Dear Ms. James: I confess that my dislike for the portrayal of one character in this book really overshadowed everything else. I haven’t been following this new series of yours closely but I understand that you are revisiting classic fairy tales. This story is based on the Princess and the Pea. The Princess and the(…)
Dec 27 2011
Dear Ms. Grant: I don’t remember reading a book like this lately. I’m sure that there have been ones written, after all, romance has been published for decades at a clip of several hundred a month. There are no new stories, only new ways to tell them. However, Marta Russell and Theophilus Mirkwood are two(…)
Dec 22 2011
Dear Ms. Dare, In the usual way of things, I am not a fan of the novella. Neither am I quite keen on the short story. I find both lacking in character, particularly in romance where that is the key to any relationship development. Neither the novella nor the short story offers an adequate length(…)
Dec 21 2011
Update: Here are the winners of one of the re-released Gaffney titles: 1) Karenmc 2) Vidhya 3) Asia M 4) Evangeline Holland 5) Danielle D 6) Brenda C 7) EmilyW 8) Kathryn 9) TaraR 10) Frekki Please scroll to the bottom to fill out the form. Thanks. Jennie and I are the original Patricia Gaffney fangirls. Back in 1997, I read my(…)
Dec 14 2011
sail under false colours (British & Australian) also sail under false colors (American & Australian) to pretend to be something that you are not in order to deceive people When we did a series of reviews on some of Georgette Heyer’s novels, many people listed “False Colours” as a favorite. Since I’d never read it,(…)
Dec 14 2011
Dear Ms. Bagwell, Earlier this year, I read and enjoyed your book about Nell Gwynn, mistress to Charles II, The Darling Strumpet. When the opportunity came to read a book about another woman in Charles’ life, I figured, why not? Jane Lane, like Nell Gwynn, was a real person. The romance between her and Charles(…)
Dec 6 2011
Dear Mrs. Kelly, I know that when I start a Carla Kelly book, I’ll get a certain number of things. An honorable hero, an unflappable heroine, some idiot secondary characters who may bluster and threaten to cause the hero and heroine some problems but who usually are mainly all hot air and dismissed as the(…)
Nov 22 2011
Dear Ms. Brockway, When I found out the news that this story is about Harry and Dizzy’s daughter, I was initially excited. Until I sat and thought for a minute and realized that it’s been so long since I read “As You Desire” that I have absolutely no recollection of it and its two principals(…)
Nov 11 2011
Dear Ms. Featherstone: I confess that I read this book because I just loved the cover. The positioning of the characters, the color of the dress, the frills at the cuff of the man’s outfit. It was very evocative. The soft against the hard. It’s a clinch but an evocative, sophisticated clinch. This is(…)
Nov 7 2011
Dear Ms. Burrowes: I have been anxious to read your books since The Heir came out and circumstances (and other books) have always interfered with that goal until this month. I bought The Virtuoso the day that it came out and sat down one evening with great anticipation. The sad fact is that there scarcely(…)
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