Aug 19 2011
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) Genre: Western/Action/Road Romance Grade: B It recently dawned on me that I haven’t reviewed all that many Westerns. They’re just not the first genre of films I think of when I’m looking for romance. So in an effort to remedy that I give you “Two Mules for Sister Sara”(…)
Aug 18 2011
Dear Readers. As part of our Georgette Heyer week here, I’ve decided to do lightning reviews of Heyer’s very early series. This series includes Heyer’s first runaway bestseller, the first Regency Romance evah, one of the most well-researched books about Waterloo evah, iconic heroes and the cross-dressing heroines who shoot them (well, not quite), duels,(…)
May 27 2011
The third book in my class on Georgette Heyer is Sylvester. We’ve had the founding Regency romance, Regency Buck, and Cotillion, the book that makes fun of the tropes Regency Buck establishes. I chose Sylvester for our third book because I love it and because I love how Heyer again plays with the construction of(…)
Jan 13 2011
Dear Ms. Monroe: One thing that I often find lacking in romances is seeing the actual courtship, particularly if you read paranormal romances with soulmate stories. I think that is why I like the friends to lovers trope or the marriage of convenience trope because we get to see the two characters navigate from viewing(…)
May 12 2010
Dear Ms Rossi, I’ll be honest and say that it’s the slight resemblance to the plot of “Romancing the Stone” which got me to look at then buy your book, “Along Came Quinn.” I’m a sucker for that film and for adventurous road romances. Danger, villains, treasure, jungle rot and watching a hero and heroine(…)
Apr 28 2010
Dear Ms. Duran, Since publishing your first romance in 2008, you have quickly become one of my favorite and most dependable authors; I have not given any of your first three books a grade lower than an A-. So I looked forward to Wicked Becomes You with a fair amount of anticipation. The book opens(…)
Apr 27 2010
Dear Ms. Callen: I admit I never thought I was going to make it out of the first chapter. The setup was so farcical. Three friends are in a gentleman’s club where a nude painting is hung. The nude is said to be of a lady of a ton. Conveniently three young men appear in(…)
Apr 16 2010
Dear Ms. Cullinan: Ann Somerville, knowing my predilections, recommended your book to me and I’m SO glad she did. I have to commend Dreamspinner Press for finding some of the best m/m romance authors out there. I’m certainly adding you to that list. Sam is 21, orphaned, living with and working for his awful aunt(…)
Apr 6 2010
Dear Ms. Beverley, All right. Here we go with “The Secret Duke” the third book in this series set in mid eighteenth century England. As with the first two books, it involves hidden and/or secret identities and takes place partly on the road which allows the characters to let their hair down – so to(…)
Mar 10 2010
It came to the reviewer’s attention that this story is fan fiction of Brokeback Mountain (Original posting.). This was unknown to the reviewer at the time of the review. Dear Ms. Seville. Denise Rossetti recommended this book to me late last year, but it took Maili ALSO recommending it to me recently to finally make(…)
Oct 29 2009
Dear Ms. Andre: I admit that the one and only book I read by you was one about football and I had a fairly negative reaction to it given that so little of the football aspect was portrayed with accuracy. I was hoping that this would be different. While Hot as Sin is readable, it(…)
Aug 21 2009
Dear Ms. Stacey: I confess that I haven’t ever read you before. I thought I had and just decided that while you were a great gun, your books were just not for me. Then, after seeing two recent releses, Becoming Becky and No Surrender, I thought I ought to give you a try. I tried(…)
Jul 27 2009
Dear Ms. Duran, Since I’ve acquired my lovely Sony PRS-505, I’ve used the handy-dandy “bookmark” button to mark notable pages in a book that I may want to refer back to when I write a review. Depending on the book, the bookmarks may be noting something that worked for me or something that didn’t. When(…)
Apr 20 2009
Dear Mrs. Beverley, You keep writing these Georgian novels and I can guarantee I’ll keep reading them. Witty, historically well researched, filled with characters I want to root for. Yep, I’m happy. But why did the release information that accompanied the book say it’s a Regency? Ten years ago young Lieutenant Christian Hill tries to(…)
Jan 24 2009
Dear Mrs. Styles, Yeah, finally book two in your Viking series. Or at least book two over in North America. I still don’t understand how Harlequin and Mills and Boon decide when to release what where. Greater minds than mine must be at work here somehow. Sela and Vikar have a past. A bad past(…)
JOINT REVIEW: Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh (and Giveaway)
Mockingjay 13 District Blog Tour: District 5, Our Giveaway
Something is very wrong with us, and it’s not bad reviews
Berkley Fall Giveaway
Author DeborahAnne MacGillivray Harasses Amazon Reader
Recent Comments