May 20 2010
Dear James, You’ve just published the third (and last?) book, All or Nothing, in your Taking the Odds series and I thought this was a good chance for me to reread (and review) the first two as a refresher before I start Book 3. Cheating Chance is the first book in the series. My review(…)
May 19 2010
Dear Authors: (PJ Tracy is a mother and daughter writing team). As you state in the frontpiece, “South African elephants produce faster” than you two but I never tired of waiting for the next installment of the Monkeewrench team. (Of course I had to google South African elephants to really get the joke and apparently(…)
May 18 2010
Dear James. You’ve just published the third (and last?) book, All or Nothing, in your Taking the Odds series and I thought this was a good chance for me to reread (and review) the first two as a refresher before I start Book 3. Cheating Chance is the first book in the series. From the(…)
Apr 15 2010
Update: I said I bought these from WH Smith, but in checking my receipt (at the request of Maude whose email I tried to answer but it did not work – bouncing) it was actually from Waterstones. Sorry! Dear Ms. Parry: Thank you for sending me your books for review. I had remembered seeing your(…)
Apr 14 2010
Dear Ms. Estrella: I bought this book because it was the first digital first book to be nominated for a RITA. How exciting, right? I’m not sure if the RITA nomination inflated my expectations but I am sorry to say that my reaction is somewhat (okay, a lot) less enthused than that of the RITA(…)
Mar 29 2010
Dear Ms. Stewart: Because I don’t follow many author newsletters, I was a bit surprised to find out that you were turning away from your harder edged FBI romantic suspense books for a more softer toned contemporary series set in Chesapeake Bay. The covers and stylings reminded me strongly of the Robyn Carr books that(…)
Mar 15 2010
Dear Ms. Resnick, Has it ever been a long wait for the follow up book to “Disappearing Nightly!” Which I’m sure I don’t need to tell you about. When I read, and loved, it in late 2005, I was peeved that it would probably take a year to find out if Esther and Lopez would(…)
Jan 29 2010
Dear Ms. McSparren: One negative aspect of having titles like the one that is given to your book is that it diminishes the content of the story Bachelor Cop is actually fairly intense emotional story but the title suggests something far more flippant. Perhaps that works in both positive and negative ways. Positive because the(…)
Jan 15 2010
Dear Ms. Garwood: Sizzle is the latest contemporary offering and it brings to readers Samuel Wellington Kincaid from Scotland. If readers speculate that Sam Kincaid might be a descendant from Alec Kincaid, they would be right, although little is made of this. It’s more of an easter egg than anything. Lyra Prescott is a grad student(…)
Jan 6 2010
Dear Ms. Riley. DA reader cs recommended your writing to me in one of my previous posts. I bought this and Amor en Retrogrado and devoured both of them in about 36 hours. I adore Roger and Sean in this story, adore your presentation of BDSM, and adore the storyline, huge gaping plot holes or(…)
Dec 3 2009
Dear Ms. Griffin, I don’t think readers need to worry that “Untraceable” is a sequel to your last book “Whisper of Warning.” There’s enough background information about the characters to bring newbies up to speed but – and I’m really impressed by this – they can still go back and read that book without fear(…)
Oct 29 2009
Dear Ms. Andre: I admit that the one and only book I read by you was one about football and I had a fairly negative reaction to it given that so little of the football aspect was portrayed with accuracy. I was hoping that this would be different. While Hot as Sin is readable, it(…)
Oct 9 2009
Dear James: I’m not a big one for police procedurals — they usually bore the snot out of me — but I’m a big one for your writing and characters, so I read this anyway and I’m very glad I did. As always, your characters are very real, full of personality, and your spare writing(…)
Oct 8 2009
Dear Ms. Brenna: I will confess that I don’t often venture into the Harlequin Superromance line. The covers are littered with babies and well, those tiny faces frighten me. This book, thankfully, was baby less although a child did play a fairly important role in the story. I think what surprised me most was that(…)
Sep 11 2009
The Big Easy (1987) Genre: Romantic Thriller Grade: B+ When this film was released over 20 years ago, I remember all the detractors and criticisms. No one from New Orleans talks this way. Whenever the NOPD makes the news it’s because of corruption allegations. Why must Mardi Gras always be mentioned in any film about(…)
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