Apr 25 2013
Dear Ms. Maguire, I decided to read “Making Him Sweat” because I like to try new-to-me authors at Harlequin, I hadn’t read a Blaze book for a while, and I wanted to see if a book about boxers could hold my attention. I mean no insult to boxing but it’s not a sport I follow(…)
Apr 17 2013
Dear Ms. Parr: I get the sense from the various internet reviews that people either love this book or hate it. I fall into the latter category. It’s not that I didn’t hate it so much as I wasn’t convinced at the end of the story that the two protagonists actually belonged together. It’s sold(…)
Mar 27 2013
Dear Ms. Hearon: This is the first book I’ve read of yours so I went in without any preconceptions but I met an instant stumbling block in the hero’s name. Rick Warren. Rick Warren is a pretty famous person in the U.S., author of The Purpose Driven Life (which is actually an interesting philosophical book)(…)
Feb 26 2013
Dear Ms. Higgans: When I was growing up, I always got these annoying reports cards that said “Dabney could try harder.” Well, Ms Higgans, so can you. The Best Man isn’t an awful book–in fact I had fun reading it.But this novel has far too many pitfalls. It’s condescending to gays, full of unbelievable emotional(…)
Jan 29 2013
Dear Kimberly Lang: This was originally published under the Harlequin Mills & Boon Modern line and before the creation of Harlequin Kiss would probably be sold through the Harlequin Presents line and marked as an extra. I’m not certain what to think of the Kiss line but it appears to be a North American version(…)
Jan 22 2013
“Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.” Dear. Ms. Rowell, In 2011, your book, “Attachments,” was one of my surprise delights and, like any book lover, when I find an author whose book moved me this much I immediately head to online stores (used(…)
Jan 15 2013
This is the first book in our 2013 Book Club. I selected the book because I thought it was an m/m romance that even non m/m readers might find enjoyable. It had interesting discussion points about unexpected parenthood, social anxieties, and opposites attract. Moreover, I thought it was a good book. I asked the authors(…)
Dec 26 2012
“Come forth with an open mind, for an unconventional tale of love.. Dublin native Freda Wilson considers herself to be an acquired taste. She has a habit of making offensive jokes and speaking her mind too often. She doesn’t have the best track record with first impressions, which is why she gets a surprise when(…)
Dec 19 2012
Dear Ms. Burns: I enjoyed your Harlequin Blaze release Relentless Seduction. It’s got just the right blend of humor, sex, mystery, and faux vampires. I picked it up and didn’t put it down until I gotten to the last page. Claire Brooks has coke-bottle glasses, frizzy brown hair, no sense of style, a PhD in(…)
Dec 14 2012
Dear Ms. Knightley: This book is the romance between the Earl of Raleigh, Richard Moore, and Jane Bunting, baker and proprietress of a confectionaire’s shop. Jane has good reason to despise the aristocracy and first meetings with Richard only serve to cement her opinion that they run London with little thought to the lower classes.(…)
Dec 2 2012
Dear Ms. Sumners: Grace Barnum’s life is precariously balanced on sensible choices and uncomfortable compromise. She dutifully edits textbooks that, she fears, may be more harmful than helpful to kids. She is engaged to a patent attorney who is steady and reliable. She has a cautious relationship with her fascinating father, a renowned New(…)
Nov 30 2012
Dear Ms. Fox: I was interested to read Body Heat–I enjoyed your book, Love, Unexpectedly. Love, Unexpectedly had heat, heart, and smarts. Body Heat, not so much. The book’s heroine, Maura Mahoney, is about to turn thirty and her life is marginally more exciting than watching paint dry. Maura, like so many pitiable leads in romance, was orphaned at(…)
Nov 22 2012
Dear. Ms. Tarr, Halfway through your new fairytale Operation Cinderella, I began to wonder: Where is the woman who wrote Vanquished and what have you done with her? Vanquished, which you published in 2006, is a kickass historical about a suffragette and the photographer who has been hired to ruin her. The characters, the plot,(…)
Oct 30 2012
Dear Ms. Long, Dabney and I are both fans of your work and we both enjoyed your latest Pennyroyal Green novel, A Notorious Countess Confesses. I, however, liked it more than Dabney did and thought it would be interesting to discuss the book with her. A Notorious Countess Confesses continues the pattern of the last(…)
Oct 13 2012
Dear Ms. Elsborg: I had read one book by you before which had been recommended by a friend. While the voice was strong, I pretty much hated the story because the main character was dislikeable lout sleeping with underaged girls,using drugs, and then miraculously being cured by love within one week or so. Because of(…)
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