May 14 2013
Dear Ms. Bailey: I enjoyed your debut book, Protecting What’s his, quite a bit and I was told that this novella would feature a hero cut from the same dirty talking clothe. They weren’t wrong, but this novella suffers from length related problems. Troy Bennett is a homicide cop for the NYPD, recently transferred from(…)
Apr 30 2013
Dear Ella Grace: I found this book to be rather bland. The heroine is nice. The hero is nice. There is a certain Robyn Carr Virgin River tone to it which made sense when I learned that Ella Grace was a penname for Christy Reece, whose work I had tried in the past and put(…)
Apr 25 2013
Dear Ms. Beck: Part of this book was great. The other parts made me cringe and I used SHOUTY notes at points on the PDF review copy I received. BUT, I was engaged for most of the book which is more than I can say about some of the stories I’ve been reading. When her(…)
Feb 6 2013
Dear Ms. Kennedy: I keep trying your non Samhain titles in hopes that I can find another winner but while this book started out with promise it fizzled after the first 1/3. The hero, Luke Dubois, is staking out a club and falls for one of the strippers. Olivia Taylor is thought to be the mob(…)
Feb 5 2013
Dear Ms. Rose: In “Did You Miss Me?” part of the reason the romance works is because the characters have had unrequited feelings for each other prior to the start of the book. The romance in the story basically consists of coming to an understanding of those feelings so that the romance can swim underneath(…)
Dec 9 2012
Dear Julieanne Reeves: I saw this on a list I follow as a recommended read but at $6.99 I was very reluctant to try it. Apparently Pamela Clare blurbed this but I can’t help but wonder if they are chapter mates or friends because the writing isn’t remotely as good as Clare’s book. I know(…)
Oct 30 2012
Dear Samantha Hunter: Garrett Berringer is a widower of 6 years. After his wife’s death, Garrett focused on building his security business with his brother Jonas – Berringer Bodyguards. Tiffany Walker is a private investigator who spends her time trying to get photographs of cheating husbands when her original dream was to capture nature shots(…)
Sep 25 2012
“It’s a match made in Heaven with the Sheriff from Hell–Hell, Texas, that is. Grace O’Malley is the sheriff of Bandido County in southwest Texas. Posing as an EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) investigator, Max Ridell is an undercover Texas Ranger, looking to bust an illegal-alien smuggling ring, and the Sheriff’s office is high on the(…)
Sep 8 2012
Dear Ms. Etherington: This story had a charming couple – Pollyanna from Texas and the hard bitten detective whose father did time but the plot of the book surrounded the mystery of how the hero, Devin Antonio, was framed for the assault of a New York citizen. This must be the third or fourth book(…)
Sep 6 2012
Dear Ms. Walker: This book came to my attention when it was listed as one of PW’s romances of the summer. Fortunately the book was on NetGalley and I was able to download and read it straight away. Interestingly, this is the second in the Black Knights Inc. series but it is the first that I(…)
Aug 8 2012
Dear Ms. Walker I read this book second even though it is the first in the series and it’s probably a good thing I did as I liked the second story, In Ride’s Trouble, much more than this title. My main complaint with this story is my inability to buy in to the fantasy constructed.(…)
Jul 10 2012
The Headline I Wish We Were Reading: Anthropology Changed Everything – “In a special edition of the New York Times Sunday Review, prominent columnists gathered to reflect on how Michel-Rolph Trouillot and anthropology changed their thinking. David Brooks discussed how reading Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern Worldmade him realize the perversity of the Culture(…)
Apr 28 2012
Dear Ms. Roberts: I’ve always been a fan of the single title romantic suspense books you’ve written over the straight contemporaries which is probably why some of the J.D. Robb books are my favorite in the JD Robb/Nora Roberts bibliography. In this 200th book you’ve published, you display exactly why you’ve managed to capture reader’s(…)
Apr 24 2012
Dear Ms. Griffin, I’ve mentioned before that the reason I don’t read much romantic suspense is that usually one aspect or the other gets shortchanged and I end up disappointed. Your books, however, have usually been the exception. A few little things in them might niggle but I’ve come to expect that in order to(…)
Apr 23 2012
Dear Ms. Griffin: I picked up one book of yours after reading a slew of reviews by Jayne. Jayne’s not a romantic suspense reader and the fact that she liked several of your books was enough to push me to buy one of your books. One book was all it took to get me hooked.(…)
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