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REVIEW: Escape Velocity by Anah Crow and Dianne Fox

REVIEW: Escape Velocity by Anah Crow and Dianne Fox

Dear Ms. Crow and Fox. I would not have finished this book if I had not been listening to it on audio book instead of reading it. In fact, I tried multiple times to read it when it was released from Torquere Press and couldn’t. Now revised for and re-released through Carina, it was also(…)

Friday Film Review: The Snow Walker

Friday Film Review: The Snow Walker

The Snow Walker (2003) Genre: Adventure/Drama Grade: B NOTE: This one has a bittersweet ending. If you’re okay with that, read on. At Susanna Kearsley’s urging I put this one in my Netflix queue months ago where it lingered and lingered. And lingered. She gently goosed me a bit about it in a comment on(…)

REVIEW: Trifecta by Kate Sherwood

REVIEW: Trifecta by Kate Sherwood

Dear Ms. Sherwood. I didn’t really expect to like this book. I love menage stories, especially m/m/m menage. So I read the book because of that, not because I was blown away by the excerpt. I thought the excerpt was too thinky, didn’t have enough dialogue, and the characters looked a bit flat. But I’m(…)

REVIEW: Primal Calling by Jillian Burns

REVIEW: Primal Calling by Jillian Burns

Dear Ms. Burns: This is my first encounter with your writing and it was a good one. In fact, this is a book I could have seen myself re-visiting if the heroine hadn’t annoyed me so much in the first half. Max, though, was one of the sweetest heroes I recall reading about in a(…)

REVIEW: Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis

REVIEW: Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis

Dear Ms. Shalvis, I have a major problem with Animal Magnetism-’the heroine. At its heart, Animal Magnetism is a story about the hero's emotional evolution, with the heroine and his foster brothers acting as the catalysts that jump-start that evolution. Animal Magnetism opens with Lilah Young, animal rescuer, rear-ending the truck of Brady Miller, retired(…)

REVIEW: Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

REVIEW: Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Dear Ms. Smith, When I told some friends I was reading your YA novel, Flygirl, and what it was about, one of them directed me to this article at The New York Times. It’s about the awarding of Congressional Gold Medals to the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), who provided the United States Army with(…)

REVIEW: Bedding the Secret Heiress by Emilie Rose

REVIEW: Bedding the Secret Heiress by Emilie Rose

Dear Ms. Rose, It was actually part of the excerpt for the next book in the “Hightower Affairs” series which got me to get this one as well. If possible, I like to start at the beginning and that seems to be with this memorably Harlequin-esque title “Bedding the Secret Heiress.” Gage Faulkner is the(…)

REVIEW: No Crystal Stair by Eva Rutland

REVIEW: No Crystal Stair by Eva Rutland

Dear Ms. Rutland, Your book, No Crystal Stair, came to my attention a couple of years ago when I was perusing Library Journal’s best books of the year lists from previous years. Back in 2001, Library Journal designated No Crystal Stair one of the five best romances of 2000. I was intrigued enough by that(…)

Raising the Sexual Acts Stakes (Part review, part rant)

There I was, sitting at my computer, reading a review copy of Pepper Espinoza‘s gay male triad novella from Samhain, Falling in Controlled Circumstances. I’m feeling pretty nifty that I’m reading a review copy-’like, OMG, people are actually giving me free books in the hopes that I’d write something nice about it. And I’ve got(…)

REVIEW: Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: I am a big fan girl and while I haven’t loved your last few books (okay since Open Season), I still look forward to your new ones. While Up Close and Dangerous isn’t going to sit on my keeper shelf with Dream Man or After the Night or the Kell Sabin series,(…)

Spying in High Heels by Gemma Halliday to Be Considered for a 2007/2008 Slot on USA Today

New author Gemma Halliday has extra reason to be happy this year. Not only was her book, Spying in High Heels nominated in two categories: ‘Best Novel With Strong Romantic Elements’ and ‘Best First Book’, but now her series has been slated for a pilot production on the USA Networks. The series is based on(…)

REVIEW:  Angel’s Wings by Anne Stuart

REVIEW: Angel’s Wings by Anne Stuart

Dear Ms. Stuart, Most of the “A Century of American Romance” books have been winners and your entry for the 1930s, Angel’s Wings, is one of my favorite of your books. Sophisticated flying ace Angela Hogan lives to fly but is struggling to keep her financially troubled air freight business going. Her major rival is(…)