Mar 7 2009
Dear Ms. Thomas-Sundstrom, I read your offering for last month’s offering of Nocturne Bites. Although I was disappointed by what I felt was an unresolved plot thread, I later discovered that it had been intended to be the first of a series, in which the various installments were connected by the mystery of an unidentified(…)
Mar 2 2009
Dear Ms. Kittredge, I have an uneasy relationship with the heroine of your Nocturne City novels, Luna Wilder. What this means is that I sometimes think she makes stupid decisions, which I don’t care for since I prefer a certain level of intelligence and competence in my urban fantasy leads (or leads in general, regardless(…)
Feb 23 2009
Janine and Jennie discuss Alisa Sheckley’s urban fantasy novel, The Better to Hold You: Janine: The Better to Hold You was one of my most anticipated books of 2009. I’m a big fan of Alisa Sheckley’s wry, satirical chick lit novels which were published under the name Alisa Kwitney. I remember picking up The Dominant(…)
Feb 9 2009
Dear Ms. Wilks: I fell for Lily Yu and Rule Turner in Tempting Danger and despite the many twists and turns that the series took, I haven’t lost my affection for them. When I first read the series, I thought it was going to be a supernatural Eve/Roarke-ish type series where Lily Yu, a former(…)
Feb 3 2009
Warning: there are slight spoilers in this review for Iron Kissed, the previous book in the Mercy Thompson series. Dear Ms. Briggs: I read on JMC’s blog the other day that she was having a hard time crafting her thoughts about Bujold’s Sharing Knife: Horizon without coming accross as an incoherent fan girl. I’m a(…)
Jan 13 2009
For readers not familiar with Harlequin/Silhouette’s various imprints (completely understandable because I confuse them myself), the Nocturne Bites are the paranormal novella line. Often times, they’re related to full-length Nocturne novels released around the same time. That’s not always the case, but it’s something to keep in mind if you peruse what’s on sale. Blackout(…)
Oct 15 2008
Dear Ms. Banks: Thank you for sending me, Into the Lair, the second in the Falcon Mercenary series. It might surprise you want I liked and didn’t like about this story. Into the Lair takes up where Into the Mist left off by following shapeshifting brothers Ian and Braden as they hunt down the sister(…)
Oct 13 2008
Dear Ms. Gray: I can’t recall why I wanted to read a book of yours. Was it a comment you made? Somewhere? It’s hard to say. I mentioned one night on Twitter that I was going to buy one of your books (Damnation) but my friend, Nicole of BlogHappy, twittered back that I should try(…)
Oct 1 2008
Dear Ms. Hancock, If I recall correctly from the email Harlequin/Silhouette sent Dear Author, you’re a new author they discovered via email submission. I always look forward to reading new authors in the hope of finding someone I’ll love. And at these short fiction lengths, it’s a minimal time commitment, which means less risk for(…)
Sep 29 2008
From the press release: "Mercy Thompson: Homecoming" is a four-issue mini-series with issue #1 hitting comic book shelves in November 2008. The series will be collected in hardcover and distributed by Del Rey in 2009. Dabel Brothers Publishing is excited to premiere the first eleven pages (DOWNLOAD HERE) of the much-anticipated Dabel Brothers project, "Mercy(…)
Sep 29 2008
Dear Ms. Anna, While I’ve heard of you before, this is the first story of yours I’ve read. I know some of my fellow Dear Author reviewers don’t care for shorter fiction. The compressed length doesn’t allow for as much development as you’d find in a full-length novel and as a result, something (plot, characterization,(…)
Sep 27 2008
Dear Ms. Knight: I admit to rolling my eyes a bit over the beginning book because I kept thinking of the movie 300. The prologue is the set up for the entire series. 7 books involving 7 Spartan warriors who stood at the gap at Thermopylae to stave off the demonic forces overtaking Sparta. There(…)
Sep 25 2008
Dear Ms. Kohler: I’m going to address a few of my concerns about this book in chronological fashion. Prologue. Ad 70: The scene is an apocolyptic event. The fortress is on fire; the people are fleeing. A witch is bringing down a powerful curse on the Marshan family. Cristophe, the last of his line, is(…)
Sep 25 2008
Dear Ms. Wilson: I’ll admit to being a little foolish. Ok, maybe more than a little. After finishing Lady of Light and Shadows and closing the book with a contented sigh, I thought to myself: “What could she possibly do next? Where could she go from here? How could this get any better?” What I(…)
Sep 4 2008
Dear Ms. Singh: Book four was a bump in the road for my love of this Psy/Changeling series. While the worldbuilding was strong as usual, the relationship arc didn’t work for me. Despite that, I was still looking forward to reading this entry but I admittedly worried about the setup of the Psy woman with(…)
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