Jan 12 2013
Dear K. A. Tucker: I enjoyed Ten Tiny Breaths but I’m not sure I fully bought into the resolution of the story. It’s a New Adult book set in Miami as two young women try to make a life for themselves absent parents or guardians. Kacey Cleary moves herself and her sister, Olivia, to Miami(…)
Jan 11 2013
Dear Jean Haus: I purchased this book sight unseen during an after Christmas sale on Amazon. It had quite a few positive reviews and something most band romances seem to neglect: a female actually in the band instead of just sleeping with someone in the band. At the sale price, it seemed like an interesting(…)
Dec 26 2012
Dear Ms. Carmack: After reading this book, I am starting believe that the professor/student kink is a real and popular thing. Not having any professors at my school that I thought were particularly lust worthy, it’s not one I understand given that the consequences to discovery of such an action basically ruination for the professor.(…)
Dec 25 2012
Now that NYTimes has acknowledged that there is a sub genre called New Adult, I guess it’s legitimate. St. Martin’s Press introduced the phrase back in 2009 and authors have been involved in writing and promoting those books since then, facts not mentioned in the NYTimes article. But ignoring the origins of the origin(…)
Dec 22 2012
Dear Heidi McLaughlin: I really wanted to read this book after reading the blurb and hearing Tori from SmexyBooks raving about it. I asked for a review copy and you kindly sent me one. I suspect that my discontent with the story will be a lone voice because there is a lot in the story(…)
Dec 16 2012
Dear Ms. Sorenson: This book sat on top the Bestseller list for weeks and I bought it based on chatter over at Goodreads. It fits into the New Adult category featuring post high school protagonists trying to figure out how to tame the world that is open to them. This title was self published when(…)
Oct 26 2012
Dear Ms. Hoover: Despite many accolades and even your engaging excerpt posted here at Dear Author at the recommendation of a fellow reader, I balked at reading a book about poetry. But after reading every traditional publishing acquired self published, Slammed remained a nagging omission. An unchecked item on a to do list. A hanging(…)
Oct 9 2012
Dear Ms. Leighton: I find this book hard to grade. It’s very sexy and hot as the cover suggests but the story is kind of a miss. There are three main characters: Olivia, Nash and Cash. Nash and Cash are twins. First, Olivia has this faux conflict. She’s always gone for the bad boy. Nash(…)
Sep 29 2012
Dear Ms. McAdams: After this book, I wondered if the new thing in New Adult is love triangles and super selfish heroines. Is this the new *thing*? Is it a result of Twilight’s fake love triangle? Does it feed a wish fulfillment of being the center of all the attention? It could just be Vampire(…)
Jul 31 2012
Dear Ms. McGarry: When I was at BEA this year, many of the conversations began with “what are you excited about” and to nearly every person I said “Pushing the Limits” by Katie McGarry. My interest was piqued when I came across the cover and title of this book when adding to the new releases(…)
Jul 24 2012
The above is my own definition for the New Adult genre. In 2009 St. Martin’s Press announced it would be acquiring books for a “New Adult” line and held a submission contest but by 2011, SMP had not yet delivered on the promised new line despite interest expressed by readers online. Georgia McBride, author (Praefatio) and founder(…)
Jun 21 2012
Dear Ms. Doller: This book was recommended to me by Racblog (http://romance-around-the-corner.blogspot.com/) who knows I’ve been reading more New Adult books. I’m using the term “New Adult” which I believe was originally coined by St. Martin’s Press. The period references that post high school, on the cusp of adulthood time period. In some sense, these(…)
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