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(…)
Oct 4 2012
Dear Ms. Byrne: When I began this book, I had only vague memories of the vampire series you wrote several years ago. This story takes place shortly after Damned by the Blood and involves Alya Adad sending her Hand, Eva Sosa Padillo, to the northwoods of Minnesota to seek out the clan of the vampire(…)
Sep 21 2012
Dear Ms. Mayberry, Why am I reading this older book of yours? There’s a story behind this and I’m going to tell it to you. You see, Jane usually gets all the printed arcs submitted to DA and then she divvies them up and mails them out to us. Sometimes she needs to pad the(…)
Sep 10 2012
Dear Ms. Andrews: I grabbed this book on NetGalley given that I enjoyed How to Mend a Broken Heart quite a bit. An environmental protestor handcuffs herself to a property developer. Worse, they are fluffy pink handcuffs. The scatty tree hugger with the uptight has never been my kind of story but I think what(…)
Sep 9 2012
Dear Ms. Robert: The setup is corny but amusing. Elle Walser decides to creep into her boss’ bed and seduce him and instead ends up with his brother, Gabe Schultz. Crawling into her boss’ bedroom and trying seduce him even though he has ignored every overture takes some brass ovaries. And I liked it that she(…)
Sep 4 2012
Dear Ms. Warren: In flipping through the Blaze ARCs sent to us by Harlequin, I picked up your book first. I’ve read and enjoyed you in the past. For 2/3 of the story, I felt like this was a book I could recommend to Dear Author readers but it kind of fell apart at the(…)
Aug 21 2012
Dear Ms. Mathewson: After enjoying Playing for Keeps, I immediately started on the second book in “A Neighbor from Hell” series. The title is apt because all Trevor Bradford wants is perfection. The concept that you tried to sell here is that the inside matters more than the outside, but the execution of it faltered(…)
Aug 1 2012
Dear Ms. Roberts– I am baffled why such a good book has such a stupid title. Really, I am. When I first saw your book The Legendary Playboy Surgeon I snorted. The cover is awful–some dark-haired dude wearing oversized aviators is going for sexy and coming across surly–and the series description, “Heartbreakers of St. Patrick’s(…)
Jul 31 2012
In honor of the Olympics, we are reposting some sports books this week. McLinn actually has an Olympic book called “The Games“. Jane has read it and will review it tomorrow. Dear. Ms McLinn, The first book of yours I read, “Widow Woman” made a very good impression on me. Then Jane read one of(…)
Jul 16 2012
Dear Ms. Davitt and Ms. Snow, I enjoy your contemporary romance collaborations and was interested to see how you would approach an enemies-to-lovers story, especially one with the added twist of an unexpected deserted island interlude. While the romance didn’t entirely convince me, I found the cast of characters were fun to spend a few(…)
Jun 29 2012
Dear Ms. Kelleher June 23 was the 40th Anniversary of Title IX, a controversial statute that required colleges to offer women equal access to collegial athletics. The initial goal was to provide an increased opportunity for women to attend college through the form of athletic scholarships. Over time, the statute has been criticized because in(…)
Jun 27 2012
Dear Ms. Chase: The very nature of this series presents a problem or at the very least requires a huge suspension of disbelief of the reader. The first book, Silk is for Seduction, portrays the romance between a dressmaker and a Duke in England. The second book pairs another dressmaker with an Earl. Needless to(…)
May 10 2012
Dear Ms. Mayberry— I think your novel Hot Island Nights is splendid—I love the rapport between Elizabeth and Nathan—and I was happy to learn your new self-published novel Her Best Worst Mistake is a companion/sequel to that tale. Her Best Worst Mistake chronicles what happens between Elizabeth’s wild best friend Violet and Elizabeth’s stuffy ex-fiancé(…)
Apr 11 2012
Dear Ms. Allen, This review is long overdue. I loved this book when I read it last year, so much that I put it on my Best of 2011 list. But I didn’t get the review written in proper time, and then the Dreamspinner Press debacle happened and Sarah and I stopped reviewing DSP’s(…)
Mar 28 2012
Dear Ms. Gaines: The book has a very original opening. Rachel Frye is trying to convince her stick in the mud boyfriend not to break up with her. The breakup is bringing out her least favorite trait, shrillness, and is being done in front of her biggest rival, Garret Calder. Garrett is a fellow creative(…)
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