Nov 1 2011
Meet the Montgomery brothers – Beckett, Ryder, and Owen – as they bring an intimate bed-and-breakfast to life in their hometown. The historic hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, the changing of hands, and even rumored hauntings. Now it’s getting a major face lift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother.(…)
Aug 16 2011
Dear Ms. Michaels, Last year I gave the first two books in this series A- grades. And ever since then I’ve been eagerly waiting for Chessie’s chance to find her Mr. Perfect after being left at the altar by Mr. Asshole. Would there be revenge? Or public humiliation? Or would MaryLou work her matchmaking magic(…)
Jun 27 2011
“Meet Josh Kincannon, high school principal, single father of three, and thus, he thinks ruefully, celibate into the foreseeable future. After working with Vanessa Irish on a project for tiny Drago, Illinois, Josh believes he knows her. Then he catches sight of her wild, vibrant robe, and it makes him curious –then a lot more(…)
Jun 3 2011
The Wedding Singer (1998) Genre: Romantic Comedy Grade: B- I’ll be honest and say that I didn’t expect I’d like this movie. Drew Barrymore is an actress who works for me about 50:50 while Adam Sandler is someone I’ll dive for the remote to change the channel away from. But the comments about the movie(…)
May 7 2011
“The Honourable Miss Annabel Wells needs to catch a husband to save her reputation – and fast. But even in her dire straits she can’t bring herself to accept Mr Henry Champion, a gentleman without property or pedigree, no matter what she feels about him. She marries a foreign count but when her husband is(…)
May 6 2011
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) Genre: Action/Romance/Comedy Grade: B+ It’ll soon be that time of year again, when we get contacted about the organized hell that are High School Reunions. “Festivals of Pain” as one character here calls this one, when we see people we’ve barely thought of in 10, 20, 30 years and wince as(…)
Mar 29 2011
Dear Ms. Higgins: Let me try to articulate in the beginning what I liked about this book because most of the review is going to be what I didn’t like. After I finished the book, I emailed a friend of mine and said that this book really disappointed me. It’s like everything I love about(…)
Mar 29 2011
We had a run of “If You Like Posts” by Dear Author readers. It is a great series and one day, reader Laura emailed me and asked if we had done one for Redemption stories. We had not. I said to her that she should write one for us and she did. Back in December.(…)
Mar 24 2011
Dear Ms. Sorenson, It is with regret that I write this DNF review. The blurb of “Stranded with Her Ex” sounded so interesting. Two divorced wildlife researchers – a seal researcher and a shark expert, stuck together out on a remote island, find each other again. But as I’ve sometimes found, blurbs that caught my(…)
Mar 12 2011
Dear Ms. Stone: This is my first time I’ve read a book of yours. Second Chance Dad caught my eye because I am a fan of the second chance theme. More of the story seemed centered around the second chances of Hanna Rosser, a recently divorced mother of Ashton, a sixth grade boy with growing(…)
Mar 4 2011
Undertaking Betty (aka Plots with a View) (2002) Genre: Romance/Black Comedy Grade: B- I like Brenda Blethyn, Alfred Molina, Christopher Walken and Robert Pugh and the premise sounded fun so I rented this from Netflix not expecting more than an enjoyable hour and a half of entertainment. That’s about what I got. However it’s a(…)
Feb 21 2011
“Her stay in Oak Stand, Texas, is only temporary. After a series of setbacks, Dawn Taggart is giving herself one year to pull everything together so she can start over somewhere else. No putting down roots here. No romantic entanglements. No exceptions! Not even the very persuasive Tyson Hart can change that. A contractor looking(…)
Feb 19 2011
Dear Ms. Roland, I will admit to not understanding the whole appeal of reality TV shows. Let’s go on national TV, make a fool of myself – or be made a fool of by the hosts, all for …what? Fleeting D list fame? Nope, not for me. And not for our heroine Mattie Johns either.(…)
Feb 15 2011
Dear Ms. Watson, Your novels first landed on my radar when Jayne reviewed one of your SuperRomances last summer. When I saw that you had come out with a book about a rock star post-stardom, and for a change the rock star was the heroine rather than the hero, I was sold. But the book(…)
Dec 20 2010
Dear Ms. James, I enjoy a good ‘second chance at romance’ story and the blurb, which mentioned the heroine standing in as an elf and later corralling kittens, sounded cute so I gave “Heating Up the Holidays” a shot. Mrs. Giggles 83 grade review didn’t hurt either. Nicky Paxton and Chris Spencer have 13 years(…)
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