May 10 2013
Dear Ms. Bliss: This was such an interesting plotline. Juliet Browne has been playing the mournful fiancee to presumed dead SAS soldier Lee Davis. But Davis comes back to life and confronts Browne because not only is she not his fiancee, she turned him down when he asked her. And now she is living in(…)
Apr 30 2013
Dear Ella Grace: I found this book to be rather bland. The heroine is nice. The hero is nice. There is a certain Robyn Carr Virgin River tone to it which made sense when I learned that Ella Grace was a penname for Christy Reece, whose work I had tried in the past and put(…)
Apr 2 2013
Dear Ms. Ashley: I admit I had reservations when I heard that the next Ashley book was to be Tabby and Shy’s story. Tabby is the daughter of Tack Allen, the president of the Chaos Motorcycle Club. At the end of Motorcycle Man, Tabby is 19 years old and Parker “Shy” Cage is 24 years old. I(…)
Mar 25 2013
Dear Beth Andrews: Technically this had all the right elements of an interesting romance but I struggled to connect with the hero. Maddie Montesano got pregnant when she was sixteen with Neil Pettit’s baby. Neil didn’t want a child. He wanted to pursue a hockey career. His dreams came true and Maddie stayed in Shady Grove,(…)
Mar 18 2013
Dear Ms. Mac: As a secret baby book, the story must do two things: 1) convince me that keeping the secret justified and 2) that the secret should be kept for an ongoing period of time. Unfortunately both failed for me. The story starts out with young Kelly Atkinson watching her father be locked behind(…)
Feb 20 2013
Dear Ms. Kaye: I should have stopped reading when I realized that the two protagonists were named Storm and Breezy. Nothing good can come of this level of twee but instead of listening to my instincts, I read on. Breanna aka Breezy Collins has loved Storm Decker forever. He’s been off sailing his yacht, winning(…)
Feb 9 2013
Dear Ms. Stone: I tried to read, but did not finish, the first book in the Barker Triplet’s trilogy. When the second book came along, I wanted to give this self published series another chance. ”Collide” is a re-united lover story. The primary problem I had is that it felt melodramatic and the characters acted(…)
Jan 27 2013
Dear Ms. Banks: If the price of this book hadn’t been so cheap (99c) and I hadn’t been given a detailed description of the story and assurances that it wasn’t full of typos and grammatical errors, the cover alone would have deterred me. In fact, this is a book that would likely sell better without(…)
Jan 2 2013
Dear Ms. Ashley: While I love the idea of this book, I felt that there were too many shortcuts taken to get us to the emotional hits you delivered. Elliot McBride went off to India to make his fortune. While he was there, Elliot became captive to a “tribal” band. During his captivity, he was(…)
Jan 1 2013
Dear Ms. Howard: After enjoying Running Wild, your collaboration with Linda Winstead Jones, I felt perhaps you had gotten your writing mojo back. While Running Wild wasn’t the Howard writing of pre Open Season, it was still an improvement over the last several hardcovers. In the year’s previous hardcover release, we were even treated to(…)
Dec 20 2012
Dear Macy Beckett: I stayed away from this book initially because of the heroine’s name, Mae-June July Augustine, made me think the book would be full of Southern homilies and hijinks. There is Southern flavor such as the heroine’s favorite epithet being “Sugar” but it’s not overwhelming. Mae-June July, called June, is a month away(…)
Dec 7 2012
Dear Ms. Jenkins, Ms. Perrin, and Ms. Smith: I’m a sucker for Christmas stories, and anthologies are a great way to try out new authors, so a Christmas anthology can be a double winner for me. While I’ve read one of the contributors to this volume before, but the other two were new to me.(…)
Nov 27 2012
Dear Mrs Narayanan, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the first offerings from Harlequin Indian writers and was psyched when Jane told Sunita and me that she had a copy of your first book “Monsoon Wedding Fever.” But just to support the effort, I bought my own copy when it became available at Harlequin.com last month. Overall,(…)
Nov 14 2012
“The dead don’t speak, but Kelsey Quinn knows their secrets. As a forensic anthropologist at the Delphi Center crime lab, Kelsey makes it her mission to identify bodies, often using no more than shards of bone. Her find at a remote Philippines dig hints at a sinister story. When Kelsey’s search for answers puts her(…)
Nov 2 2012
Dear Ms. Robinson: I haven’t read such an adorable hero in a long time. I was just sad he was matched up with Evie. There was an inequality to the characters that set me on edge and I never quite felt balanced in the end. Evie Ramsay took over a printer’s shop that her father(…)
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