Mar 20 2010
Under the Gun by HelenKay Dimon I’ve never been a huge fan of the Intrigue line because I felt that even full length romantic suspense books struggled to fit both romance and suspense in one story, how could a compressed format do both topics justice? Under the Gun had a good balance of both the [...]
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 [...]
Feb 15 2010
Dear Ms. Clare: I was given the opportunity to read The Naked Edge several months ago. I was initially reluctant because I have been all over the map with the series. The heroines, in particular, often struck me as foolish. I had some problems with the realism of the stories despite the fact that I [...]
Jan 15 2010
Dear Ms. Garwood: Sizzle is the latest contemporary offering and it brings to readers Samuel Wellington Kincaid from Scotland. If readers speculate that Sam Kincaid might be a descendant from Alec Kincaid, they would be right, although little is made of this. It’s more of an easter egg than anything. Lyra Prescott is a grad student [...]
Jan 13 2010
Dear Ms. Tyler: I was quite excited to read this book after finishing the first in the series. Perhaps I expected too much, but I was seriously deflated upon finishing Hard to Hold to the point that I doubt I will read the finale to this trilogy. What were excusable irritants in the first book [...]
Jan 12 2010
Dear Ms.Shay: We choose this book for our Dear Author bundle on the basis of a couple of things. First, the writing was good; but second, because it featured a female firefighter and part of the conflict is dependent on the issue of integrating a woman into a traditionally male workforce, one that depends largely [...]
Jan 7 2010
Dear Ms. Crandall: I liked Pitch Black enough to buy two other backlist titles of yours: Seeing Red and Back Roads. I found I liked your overall balance of suspense and romance so I was excited to read Sleep No More. The tone of this book was quite creepy, particularly in the beginning. Abby Whitman [...]
Dec 23 2009
Dear Ms. Robb: It’s been a while since I purchased one of the In Death books in hardcover (I prefer digital these days), so when I received my ordered paper copy of Kindred in Death in the mail I immediately noticed a couple of changes. Not only has the author photo been removed, but the [...]
Dec 3 2009
Dear Ms. Griffin, I don’t think readers need to worry that “Untraceable” is a sequel to your last book “Whisper of Warning.” There’s enough background information about the characters to bring newbies up to speed but – and I’m really impressed by this – they can still go back and read that book without fear [...]
Nov 26 2009
Dear Ms. Warren: Emily Saunders was in Elk Crossing for “a wedding she didn’t want to attend with far too many of her family and friends asking nosy questions about her own continuing single status” when her hotel becomes infested with bed bugs. Another traveler at the hotel is Jonah Betts playing in his Old [...]
Nov 24 2009
Dear Ms. Tyler: I was pretty excited to read your stand alone romantic suspense. I think it did a great job of blending the suspense and the romance. It was full of sexual tension but it also had a strong emotional impact even if I did think the villain was a little overwrought and the [...]
Nov 12 2009
Dear Ms. Howard: I confess that I was at first taken aback by the length of this hardcover. I remember thinking unkind thoughts about this format when Janet Evanovich put out her first Christmas hardcover. Those have sold like crazy so I guess that readers are unfazed by the length of the story and the [...]
Oct 8 2009
Dear Ms. Brenna: I will confess that I don’t often venture into the Harlequin Superromance line. The covers are littered with babies and well, those tiny faces frighten me. This book, thankfully, was baby less although a child did play a fairly important role in the story. I think what surprised me most was that [...]
Oct 1 2009
Dear Ms. Davis: I picked up this book at B&N because of the cover. I bought it because of its premise and because I’m fascinated by full triad m/m/f menage books actually being sold in the romance section at bricks-and-mortar stores, so I wanted to support that. Once I did, the book was…well, okay. Nothing [...]
Sep 29 2009
Dear Ms. St. Claire: I read your new book, Make Her Pay, with a bittersweet sensibility, because while the end is still open for the series, it appears that this will be the last Bullet Catcher book for a while. Which made me want to love this book, even though we only met Constantine Xenakis [...]
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