Jan 2 2008
Dear Ms Higginbotham, I wasn’t aware when we accepted your offer of an arc for “Hugh and Bess” that it is actually a novel following in the footsteps of Jean Plaidy and Norah Lofts. I grew up reading those accounts of English Kings and Queens and even though I know now that some of the(…)
Dec 26 2007
Dear Ms. Garwood: Your return to the historical genre has been the subject of romance readers discussions for months now. I would have loved to have written “welcome back” but I can see we have some growth pains here. While some of the classic Garwood moments have returned, there were also some painful speed bumps(…)
Dec 14 2007
Dear Mrs. Franklin/Norman, What can I say? I finished “Mistress of the Art of Death” late in the evening after reading non-stop for almost 200 pages. My heart was racing, I was glued to the book and if a fire had started somewhere in my house, I honestly don’t think I would have noticed until(…)
Dec 1 2007
Dear Ms Rowley, While I enjoy medieval set novels, they have the capacity to really push my bad buttons. Too often authors go for that period feel by randomly tossing in faux medieval dialogue, doing haphazard research and making the hero nothing but an angst filled bastard. Literally. And when an author takes on the(…)
Oct 20 2007
Dear Mrs. Admirand, One of the first true “romance” novels I ever read was the granddaddy of all Saxon/Norman pairings, the groundbreaking “The Wolf and the Dove” by Kathleen Woodiwiss. Since then, I’ve read my share of (usually bastard) Norman knight x (usually a healer) nubile Saxon maid. At this point in my reading life,(…)
Sep 4 2007
Dear Mrs Kean, I’d like to thank you again for sending me a copy of your latest book to read. However, when you read my review, I don’t know if you’ll still wish you’d sent it. I guess your writing style and my reading preferences just don’t mesh. You’ve garnered a slew of five star(…)
Jul 28 2007
Dear Ms Ruger, After being pleasantly surprised by “Eight Minutes,” I decided to take advantage of the February romance sale at Fictionwise and try some of your other stories. I bought “Dessert for Two,” “Morning Coffee,” and “Jason Taylor Kissed Me” along with the trilogy of novellas included in “It Must Be Love.” While I(…)
Jul 20 2007
Dear Ms Cach, I said that this was one of my favorites and I’m finally writing a letter why. This has all the ingredients that make me love The Changeling Bride. Great hero, great heroine, fun, humor, everything. George is a pro wrestler whose new age sister somehow transports him back in time while she’s(…)
Jan 11 2007
Dear Ms Quinn, As Jane says, I love me some swashbuckling. As historically incorrect as it is, I love Errol Flynn’s “Robin Hood” over any other version with its sword fights, stave fights, and lots of archery. I guess I must have misread something into your description of your medieval story because I kind of(…)
Nov 23 2006
Dear Ms. Garwood: I want you to know that I open myself up to ridicule from any number of blogland sources such as my blogging partners, Jayne and Janine, Keishon, Maili, and who knows else by writing this love letter to you. Alas, I cannot let this week of thankfulness pass by without referencing at(…)
Nov 15 2006
Back blurb: “The cowled figures which stood around the open grave in the moonlight at Glastonbury in the year 1189 were used to mystery but even they were overawed by what was in the coffin. Their great and ancient monastery was in trouble and if this sword was what they thought it was, if those(…)
Jul 17 2006
“A Norman heiress was a chattel to be sold in marriage to the highest bidder. If one husband died she was up for sale again. Only the first of Matilda de Risle’s husbands gives her anything back. His is the customary Saxon morning gift — the present to a wife if her lord finds her(…)
Jun 24 2006
Dear. Ms Ingram, How I wish you’d written more books. I’d read posts touting Red Adam’s Lady and due to the generosity of another Avid Reader (thanks Keishon!), I got my hands on a copy of it. Depending on how readers like their realism, this one might be worth it though. It really gives a(…)
May 13 2006
Dear Mr Wainwright, Your debut novel The Adventures of Alianore Audley is a brilliantly funny, subversive spoof that shouldn’t be missed. Elizabeth Chadwick recommended this book on another list and it was well worth the effort to track down. I try to tell people to imagine a female Blackadder intelligence spy during the War of(…)
May 11 2006
Dear. Ms Chadwick/Hicks, Brava! Those who liked Seton’s Katherine need to check this one out. Like in Katherine, we get a wonderfully accurate picture of life in the Middle Ages. In this case, life amongst the crusaders in Palestine while it was still in the hands of Europeans. I enjoy how you’re not hesitant to(…)
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