May 14 2008
Dear Mrs. Jenoff, In my never ending quest to find historical novels set in unusual times and places, I stumbled on “The Diplomat’s Wife.” Off the top of my head, I can’t recall anything similar to it – Polish, Jewish, resistance heroine who starts as a Gestapo prisoner who is saved by the American invasion(…)
May 10 2008
Dear Ms VanEperen, I hadn’t read a contemporary in a while and since I’d been meaning to try one of your books, I picked “Willow Spring.” The second-chance-at-love plot is also a favorite of mine, so with no vampires or werewolves likely to pop up anywhere, I fired this one up on the old Ipaq.(…)
Apr 26 2008
Dear Ms Mueller, One thing I know is that I’ll always get something new and different when I begin one of your stories. I realize I mention the unusual settings you utilize in almost every review but I appreciate it so darn much that it just has to be said. And this is one of(…)
Apr 16 2008
Want to win an Advanced Readers Copy of this June 2008 book? We are giving away 10 of them. Read the review and then leave a comment if you are interested. Rules are winners are picked at random and you must promise to post something, somewhere about the book prior to June 2008. It can(…)
Mar 27 2008
Dear Mrs. Thomas, By now I’m sure you’ve heard the accolades from other review sites of how this title might herald The Return to Great Historicals of yesteryear. How it takes a Victorian setting plus two well thought out lead characters and mixes them to yield a scrumptious book for those of us tired of(…)
Mar 24 2008
Dear Mrs. O’Reilly, How do you do it? How do you make accountants sexy? No offense to any number crunchers out there, especially at this time of year, but the profession isn’t up there on the sexy-job-o-meter. Daniel’s brothers, the lawyer and the bartender, have jobs that could be considered babe-magnets but it takes a(…)
Jan 15 2008
Dear Ms. Bloom, had never heard your name before Jane sent me a copy of “The Mortician’s Daughter.” And I didn’t realize that you also wrote a mystery series under the name of Beth Saulnier until I checked at the Big Internet Book Store for anything else you’d written. Now that I’ve read this book(…)
Dec 4 2007
Dear Mrs. Styles, When I reviewed one of your Roman era historicals, I made some comment about how I wondered that you weren’t writing about Roman Britain since you’re so near to “The Wall.” Perhaps one day you’ll still place one of your books there but for now, this Victorian is a nice departure from(…)
Oct 29 2007
Dear Mrs. Stuart, I should have known better. After all, I had problems with “Black Ice,” I wasn’t that thrilled with “Cold as Ice” and I wasn’t tempted to try “Ice Blue.” But when Jane sent me the arc for “Ice Storm” I just couldn’t resist hoping that I’d “get” this one better than the(…)
Oct 20 2007
Dear Mrs. Admirand, One of the first true “romance” novels I ever read was the granddaddy of all Saxon/Norman pairings, the groundbreaking “The Wolf and the Dove” by Kathleen Woodiwiss. Since then, I’ve read my share of (usually bastard) Norman knight x (usually a healer) nubile Saxon maid. At this point in my reading life,(…)
Jun 7 2007
Dear Ms. Andrews, Though this is one of the first ebooks I bought, it’s taken me a while to get back to it. In fact, I’m kind of reading your “Savannah” series backwards but enjoying it none the less. One thing that’s really stood out so far is the “closer than sisters” bond between BeBe(…)
Jun 1 2007
Dear Ms Jones, Last year I wrote you a letter about your first book, “The Seventh Unicorn.” Now, in your second book, you explore an art area close to my heart, Renaissance Italy, and include much more romance than in the first book. Thirty years after leaving Florence with a broken heart, Suzanne Cunningham is(…)
May 17 2007
Dear Ms Barrett, When I read the pitch for your book The Men’s Guide to the Women’s Bathroom, I was intrigued by the slight weirdness of it. Okay, who hasn’t laughed at bathroom humor at one point in their lives. But I wondered if the concept of what really goes on when women head to(…)
Apr 20 2007
Dear Mrs Lovelace, I’ve read and heard on numerous occasions that there is at least a 50% divorce rate for Special Forces marriages. Which is why I’ve always looked at these SEAL, Green Beret, Delta force, Whatever romances with a degree of skepticism. And when an author tries to get a whole squad married off,(…)
Apr 4 2007
Dear Ms Kennedy, The arc for “The Penny Tree” was a blind pick for me. I’d not read your previous book so was basing my decision to read this one on the the author quotes listed on the cover. While I did find the book was “written with compassion and authenticity” there are still some(…)
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