Feb 8 2013
Dear Ms. Martin: We are back with hockey! Yay! I wasn’t a fan of our walkabout to the tavern and then to Ireland and I really didn’t like the playboy hero of Breakaway. The male protagonist, Esa Saari, is a long time member of the NY Blades. Esa is from Finland and has been enjoying(…)
Jan 29 2013
Dear Molly O’Keefe: I first read Crazy Thing Called Love a couple of months ago, and my immediate response upon finishing was that I found it riveting but a little bit of a mess – much like Billy and Maddy’s relationship. When I re-read the novel in preparation for my review, I had the same(…)
Mar 14 2012
Dear Ms. Burton: I didn’t love Changing the Game but enjoyed The Perfect Play and I was excited to read about the youngest Riley, Jenna. Jenna is the only girl of the Riley family and despite (or maybe because of) being around sports all of her life, she has sworn of all athletes. Not dating athletes is(…)
Feb 18 2012
Dear Ms. Laverentz: This book was originally reviewed by Jayne about four years ago, and I intended to read it after she wrote her review but then other books caught my attention and I forgot. I ended up buying this book in January because it was included on a sports romance list at Goodreads. It had(…)
Feb 6 2012
Dear Ms. Martin: My favorite books have always been your hockey books and I’ve recommended “Body Check” to any number of readers looking for a modern contemporary romance. We were given locker rooms scenes and game scenes and while none of it may have been authentic, it felt authentic to me. We then detoured into(…)
Jun 3 2011
Dear Ms. Howard, Older women-younger men must be the new vampires. I’m seeing quite a lot of it in the past few months but that didn’t stop me from picking this one up. What can I say, I’m weak for (hot, hunky, muscled) sports heroes. So, um plot. Older heroine who hooks up with her(…)
May 16 2011
Just a few days after the killing of Osama Bin Laden carried out by a special operations group that the press has called SEAL Team 6, Disney applied for and received a trademark for SEAL TEAM 6. The trademark is to be used in conjunction with “toys, games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles; hand-held(…)
Feb 12 2011
Dear Ms. Warren: In keeping with our unintentional sports week here at Dear Author (what with the reviews of Icebreaker and Huddle With Me Tonight and my Ode to Donald Driver), I thought I should go ahead and post a review of your latest Blaze release. In the past couple of years, I’ve really come(…)
Nov 22 2010
Dear Ms. Martin: I looked through the archives but I couldn’t find a review of this book at Dear Author which is such a shame because it is one of my favorite contemporary romances and one of my favorite sports romances. I recently re-read (and purchased a new digital copy to replace my paperback) this(…)
Oct 2 2010
Dear Ms. Hartman: I’ve really loved some of your past Superromances particularly because I think you do such a great job of creating authentic, believable people in your stories. While the prose was still strong, I felt that the pacing was a bit slow, the ending was a bit too dramatic and the characters weren’t(…)
Apr 22 2010
Dear Ms. Gibson, I am a slut for your hockey theme books. You can give me improbable plots and unlikeable characters but it you throw hockey into the mix, I will give up for your stories. Why? I like to watch big, strong macho guys fall for women who initially drive them nuts and I(…)
Mar 19 2010
Dear Ms. Betts: I came across your book cleaning out my towering stash of review copies that needed sorting and sending out to the reviewers. I read the back and realized that it had a hockey hero. I love sports books and I set it aside to read. When I opened, it however, it started(…)
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(…)
May 7 2009
You are new to me And I love a good contemp (And hockey heroes) Sadly, this was not The read I was looking for. Almost, but not quite. Faith is ex-Playboy Bunny and stripper who wed A millionaire Sound familiar? Yep. It’s a romance spin of Anna Nicole Smith. But Faith is ‘special’. Because she(…)
Mar 17 2009
Dear Ms. Kennedy: I was excited to see another sports book in the Harlequin Blaze line. My last encounter with a sports Blaze was Hard and Fast by Lisa Renee Jones and I enjoyed that book quite a bit. Bodycheck is a hockey book and it suffered a bit in comparison to another hockey book(…)
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