Apr 18 2012
Dear Ms. Probst: Your publisher kindly sent this book for review and given the recent announcement of the great sales success of this book, I was eager to read it. I can only conclude that the success of this book is due to a great hunger for category books by readers who believe that they [...]
Mar 27 2012
Dear Ms. Linden: Before I get too far into this review, I want to say right up front that I found Blame it on Bath quite likeable. I do so because the series that includes this book – The Truth about the Duke – is based on a legal issue that, even to my limited [...]
Feb 29 2012
Dear Ms. Balogh, I first read The Temporary Wife, one of your most beloved trad regencies, several years ago. At the time, I liked it but was distracted by an initial similarity to another of your regencies, The Ideal Wife, which I had read first and liked even better. The opening premises of the two [...]
Feb 28 2012
Dear Ms. MacLean: This is the first of your books I’ve read, and it’s the first in quite a while that I’ve considered applying the mistorical tag to. Given the muddled nature of Regency history in Romance, as well as my insecurity regarding how much I really know that’s true about the period, I decided [...]
Aug 30 2011
Dear Ms James: I think I have been waiting for you to write a book like The King’s Courtesan since I read Broken Wing. This book has a confidence and maturity, a depth, in fact, that impressed me, despite the numerous well-used genre tropes and devices it employs and the predictability of the overall story [...]
Aug 26 2011
I read Ried’s Gold Ring of Betrayal and The Bellini Bride after Dear Author’s recommendation several months ago and enjoyed them. When I saw that some of Ried’s backlist was being republished I purchased Marriage on the Rebound. I enjoyed the angst and the occasional humor in the story. I even liked Rafe once some of the back-story was revealed. What annoyed me was that the heroine in [...]
Aug 9 2011
Dear Ms. Reavis, The books which make up this series have been favorites of mine for years. First published in the late 1990s, they’ve also been out of print for about that long so I was delighted to notice them among the Harlequin Treasury reissues. I hope that this will allow more people to try [...]
Jul 22 2011
Her Night of Romance (1924) Genre: Romance/Comedy/Silent Grade: B The Talmadge sisters rocked during the silent era but, for the most part, decided to retire from films once the talkie age arrived. In this film, which is paired by Kino along with “Her Sister from Paris,” Constance Talmadge, who played mainly light, comedic roles, shines. [...]
Jun 22 2011
Note: was released in the UK as “The Bride’s Awakening” Dear. Ms. Hewitt, Your post at DA about your hero who deliberately marries his plain heroine caught my attention. A dashing, powerful, dark Italian hero who isn’t going to bed/marry then spurn/reject/humiliate a delicate blonde flower of a heroine? Bring it! “Vittorio Ralfino, the Count [...]
Jun 8 2011
Dear Ms. Mitchell. Sarah: It’s no secret that we love your books here at DA. Your No Souvenirs is on my list of Perfect Books. I recommend Collision Course to anyone who will listen. You’ve had some semi-duds (for me) and some it was incredibly difficult for me to read, but overall, I adore your [...]
Jun 6 2011
Dear Ms. Daughtridge: This review is a testament to the power of the Kindle free chapter. I had never heard of your SEAL books until Jane wrote her opinion piece on the caretaking alpha, and someone mentioned your books in the comments. Although I’m not a big fan of military heroes, for some reason I [...]
May 16 2011
Dear Ms. Arend, While heroines aren’t all the sweet young things they used to be when I started reading romances way too many years ago, it’s still nice to read about ones who are over age 30. And to have a younger man hot on her trail and determined to get her just tops it [...]
Feb 17 2011
Dear Ms. Garnier: You are really skilled at writing sexual tension and emotional agnst. One of the things I remember about your single title contemporary, The Satin Sash, was the high level of emotion and the gripping chemistry that permeated many of the scenes. Every encounter between the characters is highly charged. The problem, though, [...]
Feb 7 2011
Dear Ms. O’Keefe: Your books were recommended to me a year or so ago and I burned through The Mitchells of Riverview Inn series and then I tried to read the O’Neill trilogy and I couldn’t finish even one of them. However, I still wanted to give your books another shot and so I bought [...]
Jan 11 2011
I guess my title should be why isn’t there any arranged marriage stories? Or maybe it should be why isn’t there any arranged marriage stories portrayed in a positive light? Two young adult books have been released in 2010 that dealt with arranged marriage. One, Passion Play presented the gang rape of the female protagonist [...]
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