Feb 17 2010
Dear Ms Pattillo, I’d call this book a loose sequel to last year’s “Jane Austen Ruined My Life.” It’s not necessary to have read that one to jump right into “Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart.” I also love that while you take advantage of the current “Austen craze,” this book isn’t one of the many(…)
Dec 24 2009
FTC disclaimer: I won this ARC in the competition to write a review of Jane’s nonexistent weregerbil novel. Review disclaimer: I don’t read a lot of paranormals, so take my judgments of the worldbuilding, mythology, etc. with a grain of salt. Husband’s comment on the ARC cover: “‘Maybe bad girls do have more fun’? So,(…)
Dec 4 2009
Black Silk was one of the first two Romance novels I read, and to this day it remains one of my absolute favorites. Submit Channing-Downs, the woman who deeply mourns the husband who was almost three times her age, is so unlike most Romance heroines. Her hair has the quality of thick yarn, her teeth(…)
Dec 4 2009
On rare occasion, I come across a novel that seems so rich, so sumptuous, and so sublime, that I am afraid to reread it. The first reading experience is so close to perfect that I don’t think anything can equal it. Such was the case with Judith Ivory’s Black Silk. When I first read the(…)
Oct 23 2009
Rachel and the Stranger (1948) Genre: Historical frontier romance Grade: B Here’s another movie from ‘way back when’ that I first saw years ago courtesy of the AMC TV channel. In my quest for movies to write Friday Film reviews on, it came to mind. When I noticed that it’s going to be shown on(…)
Sep 27 2009
Dear Ms. Roux. I opened this file when I got it because it wasn’t paranormal (no world building…I’m so sick of world building) and because you wrote it and I adore your Caught Running with Madeleine Urban. That said…meh. So many holes, such annoying characters, unbelievable timeline, so much potential angst wasted, wasted I tell(…)
Jun 15 2009
Dear Ms. Haymore, When I first picked up A Hint of Wicked, I did not have much in the way of expectations. I assumed that this was your first book, since I hadn’t heard your name before. I hadn’t really heard any buzz about the book, and I had to remind myself of the plot(…)
May 14 2009
Dear Ms. Sinclair. I first heard of your novel when someone posted the cover on their blog. And speaking for myself, I can safely say the cover did its job. It caught my interest, stuck the title and your name in mind, and when I got the chance to review it, I was positively gleeful.(…)
May 14 2009
May 13 2009
Janine: When Jaili (Maili) and I recently found out we were reading the same little-known book from 2008, Dru Pagliassotti’s Clockwork Heart, we thought it would be fun to discuss it here at Dear Author. But first, a plot synopsis: Clockwork Heart takes place in a fictional Industrial Age city-state called Ondinium. One of Ondinium’s(…)
Mar 26 2009
The following is a spoiler filled tale in the spirit of Green Eggs and Ham. I am a zombie fan! Zombie fan I am That zombie-fan-I-am That zombie-fan-I-am! I do not like that Forest of Hand (and Teeth)! Do you like The village and Mary? I am not being contrary. This story is not believable(…)
Mar 18 2009
Dear Ms. Jewel: I had Lord Ruin in my TBR pile for a long time but for some reason I never read it until I had finished with Scandal. In some ways, I saw this as a prelude to what would become Scandal as the themes in the two stories are quite similar. I feel(…)
Mar 16 2009
Dear Ms. Ryan, We’ve joked about zombies becoming the new vampire here at Dear Author. For a while, it seemed like zombies were replacing faeries as the hot paranormal trend. In fact, I first heard about your debut novel from a publishing deal announcement during one of those waves. The reason why it stood out(…)
Mar 12 2009
Wherein Jennie and Janet weigh in on Megan Hart’s latest… Jennie: I was very happy when I discovered Megan Hart’s Harlequin Spice books a couple of years ago – I read Dirty and Broken in short order, and liked them both a lot. I was less enamored of Tempted, but figured that not every book(…)
Aug 25 2008
Dear Ms. Meyer, While I didn’t think it was perfect, I did enjoy your first young adult novel, Twilight. So when my fellow blogger Jia was unable to get too far into The Host, a genre-bending speculative romantic thriller and your first book for adults, I agreed to give it a try. The premise of(…)
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