Mar 14 2013
Dear Ms. Yardley: While I liked the narrator’s voice and found some aspects of this story funny, the lack of movement in the plot and the overall mishmash of world building left me puzzled and deflated at the end. Kate O’Hara is presented as this conflicting mass of extraordinary capabilities and super screw up. Despite(…)
Feb 23 2013
“Sadie Hutchins loves her job at the Kentucky Tourism Commission. She loves finding the unusual sites, hidden gems, and just-plain-odd tourist attractions of her home state. She’s a shoo-in for the director’s job when her boss retires at the end of the year…until hotshot Josh Vaughn shows up to challenge her for the position. Josh(…)
Sep 14 2012
Dear Ms. Aycart: This is one erotic romance that I wished for less sex and far more time spent with the characters out of the bed, or out of the car, or off the bike. The book starts off with Christy getting intoxicated with her friends and wishing for a, well, male prostitute. She rips(…)
Aug 10 2012
Dear Ms. Mathewson: I purchased this book a few months ago when Has from the Bookpushers recommended it. I believe I started it and set it aside because I couldn’t get into the first chapter. When the book hit the Times list, I pulled it out to read again and pushed through the first chapter(…)
Jun 7 2012
Dear Ms. Weir, The idea of a cat as a major character and narrator in a romance would normally send me running from the room, but then I realized you were the author. If anyone could pull this off, you could. So I asked for the ARC and sat down to read. Within two pages(…)
Apr 6 2012
Dear Ms. Quint: Thank you for sending me your book for review. The blurb and excerpt you sent signaled a cute contemporary romance with a storyline that I had not read recently. Mac is recently divorced and trying to enter the dating scene but he is inept. Inept is actually a kind word for Mac’s(…)
Mar 1 2012
Dear Ms. Nash: So. I’m thinking that I’m not quite the right reader for your books. “Between the Duke and the Deep Blue Sea” is meant to be a comedy, a piece of frivolity. It’s a tale of frippery, if I can borrow a period phrase. There is nothing wrong with frippery but sometimes it(…)
Jan 17 2012
Dear Ms. Rennison, Your Georgia Nicholson series is one of my go-to YA recommendations for a read that makes me chuckle. I’ve read maybe half of them, but each one was a treat that made me laugh out loud – and though I can appreciate a lot of humor in books – it’s rare to(…)
Dec 24 2011
Dear Ms. Garwood: Back in 2006, Jayne and I wrote a few reviews of our all time favorite books. We primarily read and review “new to us” books whether those are new publications or recently republished backlist titles. Because of that, our archives are thin as it pertains to the books which might considered modern(…)
Jul 6 2011
Dear Ms. Harper, While I know that being a woman scorned would suck, Lacey Terwilliger, nee Vernon, makes it seem survivable. Nay, not only survivable but rise above-able. Lacey does what I suspect most women in her place would want to do – she gets her revenge on her cheating spouse. But she also ends(…)
Jan 5 2010
Dear Ms. Dahl: I’m probably not going to do this book justice in the review and I actually have some fear of turning people off the book based on what I am going to write. Robin and I talked about the book and she said it was brave and I agree. It’s brave because Jane,(…)
Jul 23 2009
Dear Ms. McCarthy: You are fast becoming one of my go to authors. This was a fun, sweet, and very sexy romance. I want more of these. Russ Evans has been trying to track down a fraudster, Trevor Dean, who is preying on women in online dating forums. He romances them, takes their money, and(…)
Jun 20 2007
Dear Mrs Strohmeyer, I loved The Cinderella Pact and was delighted when Jane mailed a review copy of your new hardback, The Sleeping Beauty Proposal. I found it enjoyable and funny but not quite as good as the first book. At 36, Genie Michaels is beginning to feel that she has hit the snooze button(…)
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