Nov 13 2010
Mills & Boon is the UK arm of the Harlequin publishing house. I don’t understand the publishing schedule of books between Mills & Boon and Harlequin North America. What I do know is that buying from M&B is a losing proposition for me. You see, MB has this line called “Modern” which somewhat overlaps with(…)
Nov 5 2010
An Extremely Short and Not So Sweet Review of Anne Stuart’s Breathless in Five Limericks Preceded by a Very, Very Short Synopsis Miranda Rohan, true to her parentage, ruined herself with one bad decision. Though she’s happy in her life away from the ton she feels something lacking in her life. Lucian, Earl of ItTotallyDoesn’tMatter,(…)
May 3 2010
Dear Ms. Graham: I can’t say I ever understood the motivations of the characters in this story. Five years after being jilted, literally at the altar, Valente Lorenzatto is putting the final touches on his revenge against Caroline Bailey nee Hales. Five years ago Valente was a lorrie truck driver for Hales Trucking and now(…)
Apr 6 2010
Dear Ms. Valdez: It’s here. After five years of wondering and waiting, the much anticipated sequel to Passion is in the bookstores. In the days leading up to my reading of Patience, I recalled with some fondness a few of the more memorable parts of Passion. I’m not certain what astounded me the most: the(…)
Mar 2 2010
Warning: The following review contains some spoilers. Dear Ms. Balogh, Your books have been an acquired taste for me. My early experiences of them were like my first taste of sushi. They too, seemed like something unusual, intense and raw, to which my palate was unaccustomed. At first I wasn’t sure they would appeal to(…)
Feb 28 2010
Dear Ms. Bernard, I was drawn to your book for a fairly superficial reason – I liked the title. It’s semi-alliterative and evocative, and I am a sucker for the angst potential in a good revenge plot. The story begins with a prologue set in a Bengali dungeon in 1857. Eight Englishmen find themselves imprisoned(…)
Jan 29 2010
Dear Ms. McSparren: One negative aspect of having titles like the one that is given to your book is that it diminishes the content of the story Bachelor Cop is actually fairly intense emotional story but the title suggests something far more flippant. Perhaps that works in both positive and negative ways. Positive because the(…)
Nov 19 2009
Dear Ms Allain : Thank you for sending me this book for review. I am a big fan of the traditional regency which is what I would categorize this novel as. The key to a successful traditional regency is the total immersion of the reader into the time period which is well done in Mr.(…)
Nov 9 2009
Dear Ms. Gray (aka Ms. Aguirre): In reviewing my emails (because my memory, as you know, is terribly spotty), I see I received the book for review from you. I had enjoyed Grimspace and heard that this book was fresh for the romance genre and it is. Kyra is a grifter, working with her father,(…)
Nov 3 2009
Dear Ms. Mallery: Having finished the entire Titan sisters series, I find myself in virtually the same place after the fourth book as after the first: I loved so much of the interaction among the women but found the basic suspense premise substantially problematic. Witty dialogue buoyed each book, while unconvincing characterizations torpedoed my ability(…)
Oct 28 2009
Dear Ms. Enoch: After finishing the previous trilogy which I believe to contain some of the best work of your career, I was delighted when The Care and Taming of the Rogue arrived on my doorstep, ridiculous title notwithstanding. With the adventurer hero, I thought we might be getting something unique again. While prose in The(…)
Oct 28 2009
Okay people, listen up. This is the last book in the series and the whole thing is a spoiler for the first three books. You have been warned. Dear Ms Hoyt, Capturing my attention for an entire series before I’ve even read the first book is something. Me remembering that a new book in a(…)
Oct 2 2009
Dear Ms. Lee: This is the first book in your Three Rich Husbands series (no need for subtlety here). Honestly the last memory of a Lee book I had was of a weeping doormat heroine who shed more water than rain falls in Seattle. I had signed up for the HP subscription service and your book was(…)
Aug 15 2009
Naughty Nights in the Millionaire’s Mansion by Robyn Grady. This book violated the number one HP principle. It was boring. By chapter five (which is about the half way point in an HP), I noted that there was amost no conflict and that the biggest issue thus far was the heroine being coy about whether(…)
Jul 15 2009
Dear Ms. Duran, I was a big fan of your debut The Duke of Shadows, published last year. I can’t say how excited I was to learn that you had not one but two books scheduled for release in 2009, one in June and the other in July. Having now read the first, I can(…)
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