Mar 12 2012
Dear Ms. Knox: I received a number of recommendations for this story and the recommenders were correct. Ride with Me was right up my alley. It was a well paced, contemporary featuring a non clingy heroine and a caretaker hero set on a bike ride across America. The only downside was that Tom, in particular, came(…)
Feb 25 2012
Dear Ms. Moon: This book caught my eye on Twitter. KatiD recommended it and I can see why. The story featured two really sweet characters who had never been special in anyone’s lives before and who found, in each other, the perfect companion. As I read the book, I kept thinking of how much potential(…)
Feb 18 2012
Dear Ms. Laverentz: This book was originally reviewed by Jayne about four years ago, and I intended to read it after she wrote her review but then other books caught my attention and I forgot. I ended up buying this book in January because it was included on a sports romance list at Goodreads. It had(…)
Feb 6 2012
Dear Ms. Martin: My favorite books have always been your hockey books and I’ve recommended “Body Check” to any number of readers looking for a modern contemporary romance. We were given locker rooms scenes and game scenes and while none of it may have been authentic, it felt authentic to me. We then detoured into(…)
Dec 15 2011
I haven’t had much luck with Harlequin Presents subscriptions of late. In December, I enjoyed three of my eight books. The problem is that I’m never sure what books I’m going to enjoy and thus the subscription seems worth it. I guess I’ll reevaluate mid year 2012. The Trophy Wife by Janette Kenny is the(…)
Oct 10 2011
Dear Ms. McCarthy: For the most part I’ve enjoyed this NASCAR inspired series quite a bit even though I’m not a stock-car racing fan and despite some of your more challenging heroines. However in “Slow Ride”, I was not able to overcome what I felt was shoddy behavior by the heroine to a somewhat flat(…)
Sep 10 2011
Dear Ms. Healey, There are two things I continually look for in books: stories set places not in the U.S. and stories featuring diverse characters. While books do feature more of the above these days, I still think there’s room for improvement. One of the reasons why I’ve been reading more YA during the past(…)
Aug 11 2011
Dear Ms. Burton: As you know, I really enjoyed The Perfect Play. I love football and I felt like the story captured elements of the athlete hero fairly well. It was scorching hot and had a believable love story with a great heroine. I knew from hints within The Perfect Play and by the included excerpt that(…)
Jul 6 2011
Dear Ms. Davenport: Thank you for sending me your football book. I must say that your review pitch was one of the best I have read. You pointed to my long and public quest for more romance books about sports. Fourth and Goal displayed a deep and comfortable knowledge of football but strangely enough it(…)
Jul 1 2011
Love and Basketball (2000) Genre: Sports Romance Grade: B I’ve wanted to review this movie for over a year and finally got off my lazy butt when I realized that June 23rd was the anniversary of what’s come to be called simply Title IX. Now I’m probably one of the most unathletic people on the(…)
May 16 2011
Just a few days after the killing of Osama Bin Laden carried out by a special operations group that the press has called SEAL Team 6, Disney applied for and received a trademark for SEAL TEAM 6. The trademark is to be used in conjunction with “toys, games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles; hand-held(…)
May 13 2011
Dear Mr. Cohen, I should have known that picking up a sports book would not have yielded the best results from me. You must understand that someone who has no real interest in them or the sporting culture will find a book that is over 400 pages and all about this rather ‘meh’ culture (in(…)
Apr 26 2011
Dear Ms. Gibson, I’ve been reading your books for so many years and have enjoyed enough of them that when I hear a new one is coming out, I automatically make room in my reading schedule to at least look at it. And since the books with sports heroes are usually ones I like, the(…)
Apr 14 2011
Dear Ms. McCarthy: I have a feeling that this might not be the favorite book in the stock car racing series and I am going to blame it on Kendall, the heroine. She is a woman racing in a man’s sport and she feels her minority status keenly. Kendall Holbrook is the only female stock(…)
Feb 12 2011
Dear Ms. Warren: In keeping with our unintentional sports week here at Dear Author (what with the reviews of Icebreaker and Huddle With Me Tonight and my Ode to Donald Driver), I thought I should go ahead and post a review of your latest Blaze release. In the past couple of years, I’ve really come(…)
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