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REVIEW:  The Dark Knight by Elizabeth Elliott

REVIEW: The Dark Knight by Elizabeth Elliott

Dear Ms. Elliott, It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than fifteen years since your popular medieval romance Betrothed was released. That book featured a secondary character, the brother of the heroine, who caught the attention of many readers. Dante Chiavari was a dangerous and deadly assassin who had been living by his wits(…)

REVIEW: An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

REVIEW: An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

Dear Ms. Gabaldon, Though the classification of your first book, Outlander, as a romance has apparently been a bone of contention for you, I have to say that it was Outlander that started me on romance reading 15 years ago. I had joined a mail-order book club, one of those where you get nine books(…)

Gone With the Wind Lives On (perhaps in ignomy?)

St. Martin’s Press is publishing Rhett Butler’s People in the fall. SMP paid over $4 M for the rights to publish a sequel. The book has had three authors and extensive involvement by the estate of Margaret Mitchell. The estate demanded that the book contain no “acts or references to incest, miscegenation, or sex between(…)