Aug 15 2012
Dear Ms. Giffin, Decades ago, when I was a teen, I read a wonderful book by Lois Lowry called Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye. The book chronicled the teenaged Natalie’s search for her birth mother, her meeting with the woman who gave birth to her and gave her up for adoption, and ended with Natalie’s(…)
Aug 7 2012
Dear Ms. French– OK, deep breath and here goes. I love your work but I’ve read this book three times now and I really don’t get it. Broken Harbour is obsessively readable and jammed with sumptuous language. It has a fabulous first person narrator with an idiosyncratic voice. And yet, Broken Harbour didn’t add up for me.(…)
Aug 7 2012
Dear Ms. Brady: I picked this book up randomly from my pile of paper ARCs. I had no preconception of the story. The ARC had a plain blue paper cover and while it may have had a cover flat attached to it at one time, it was nowhere to be found when I began reading.(…)
Aug 5 2012
Dear Ms. Florand, When Jane said she had a book set in Paris with a romance centered around chocolate, I didn’t see how I could pass it up. I’ve never read anything else by you, but I plan to rectify that omission immediately. There’s really no other way to say it: The Chocolate Thief is(…)
Aug 2 2012
Dabney recommends: The Legendary Playboy Surgeon by Alison Roberts (Contemp). (Review here) Within Reach by Sarah Mayberry (Contemp). (Review to come) Broken Harbour by Tana French (Mystery). (Review to come) Janine recommends: Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch. (Review here) Sunita Her Cowboy Avenger by Kerry Connor (Contemp). (Review to come) In His Eyes by(…)
Aug 1 2012
Dear Ms. McLinn: In ESPN’s The Body issue (their answer to SI’s infamous Swimsuit edition), an article ran about licentious behavior in the Olympic Village. Put together a thousand young people with high energy levels and incredibly toned bodies and it’s spring break, athlete style. And on it went for eight days as scores of(…)
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 30 2012
Please note: This review is for book three in a series, so it contains some spoilers for the previous two books. Readers who would like to hear more about the Peter Grant series but remain spoiler free are invited to check out the review of the first book, Midnight Riot (also known as Rivers of(…)
Jul 30 2012
Dear Ms. Ashley, After I read Knight, I thought for sure that I wouldn’t read another book by you. But then, I tried another, and another, and another. I read five of your books in a weekend. I have a hard time putting my finger on why your books work so well for me. The(…)
Jul 25 2012
Dear Ms. Kelly: Angela James mentioned on Twitter she was reading something really good from Harlequin and I reminded her she had my Kindle address. A few moments later, a book by you appeared on my device. The magic of technology! Angie was right. Never Stay Past Midnight was a sexy contemporary with good meat(…)
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(…)
Jul 23 2012
“‘What are you thinking, Amy? The question I’ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we(…)
Jul 20 2012
Dear Ms. Sorenson: Jane sent me Caught in the Act months ago to peruse and I ignored it. This proved to be an error on my part. In my defense, I’d just read a couple of awful romantic suspense novels and couldn’t generate any interest in another. Then a friend of mine on Twittter praised(…)
Jul 3 2012
It’s kind of a light weight month. Maybe July is a month for vacations and beaches where reading doesn’t take place? Contemporary: At Last by Jill Shalvis, recommended by Dabney. Reviewed here. ( A | BN | K | S ) At Last is an effortlessly enjoyable contemporary romance. The romance between Amy and Matt(…)
Jun 13 2012
Dear Ms. Cashore, While I really liked your debut YA fantasy, Graceling, I was less keen on your second novel, Fire. Graceling had a strong heroine, Lady Katsa, who, along with the man she grew to love, sought to rescue a child princess from an evil king, guarding her independence the whole way, but Lady(…)
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