Jan 1 2013
Dear Ms. Howard: After enjoying Running Wild, your collaboration with Linda Winstead Jones, I felt perhaps you had gotten your writing mojo back. While Running Wild wasn’t the Howard writing of pre Open Season, it was still an improvement over the last several hardcovers. In the year’s previous hardcover release, we were even treated to(…)
May 3 2012
Dear Ms. Norris, I admit I went into your debut novel not knowing much about it. I knew it was a YA. I had an idea about the basic set-up: a girl dies in a car accident and is brought back to life by a classmate. This somehow leads into a race against the clock(…)
Apr 9 2012
Dear Ms. Stevens, I enjoyed your previous novel, The Restorer, about the self-styled Graveyard Queen, Amelia Gray. It’s a morbid name but a fitting one. Amelia is a cemetery restorer, as well as the owner of a niche, but popular, blog. What few people know, however, is that she can also see ghosts. Because I(…)
Apr 19 2011
Dear Ms. Stevens, I don’t often read many thrillers, but I picked up a previous novel of yours a couple years back. In fact, I think I may have reviewed it here on DA! (Yup, I did.) Although the details of the book have long since become fuzzy, I do remember having a generally positive(…)
Jan 21 2011
Les Rivieres Pourpres (The Crimson Rivers) 2000 Genre: Action/Thriller/Mystery Grade: B Remember in my review of “Brotherhood of the Wolf” when I said that by the end of the film, the plot has gone to hell in a hand basket? Well, here we go again. But this time, at least most of the actors involved(…)
May 19 2010
Dear Authors: (PJ Tracy is a mother and daughter writing team). As you state in the frontpiece, “South African elephants produce faster” than you two but I never tired of waiting for the next installment of the Monkeewrench team. (Of course I had to google South African elephants to really get the joke and apparently(…)
Apr 21 2010
Dear Ms. Pearson, I first heard about your YA novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, last December during the Smugglivus event on The Book Smugglers blog. Author Nalini Singh did a guest post recapping her favorite books read in 2009. Her description of the book was brief but, combined with the hardcover's eyecatching cover and(…)
Dec 29 2009
Dear Mr. Eisler: Fault Line was the first book of yours that I’d read. I’ve since read more, by the way. In the past, I have worked at Intellectual Property law firms as well as in the legal department of a Bio-Tech firm, so I am intimate with the portion of Fault Line that deals(…)
Dec 14 2009
Dear Ms. Merrill: Someone sent me an email pointing me to this blog post by Lani Diane Rich wherein she lamented that there was a great book out there that no one was reading. I was intrigued. I knew you wrote historicals for Harlequin but I admit to never having read you. While I don’t(…)
Aug 26 2009
Dear Ms. Carroll: I picked this book up because I had the jones for a good romantic suspense and when I paged through it I discovered that the hero is a former football player. WIN! I love sports related books. Alas, it wasn’t a sports related book but I still liked it. I’m not sure(…)
Nov 19 2007
Dear Ms. Sala: You are another “new to me” author. I may have read you in your category iteration, but not in a long, long time. Cut Throat is apparently the second of in a series of books featuring Cat Dupree, a bounty hunter. The story was at its strongest during the action scenes and(…)
Nov 9 2007
J.T. Ellison’s debut book, All The Pretty Girls, is a thriller featuring the first a series of books featuring female Lt. Taylor Jackson and her FBI profiler lover, John Baldwin. Her background is as varied as any writer’s complete with a graduate degree from George Washington, a Presidential appointment, positions as marketing director and financial(…)
Jul 19 2007
Editorial note: This review/letter may contain spoilers. It is also not entirely a review but more of a diatribe. If you read this series, you may not want to read this post. Again, if you do read this and are spoiled, don’t blame us. We warned you. The book is due out on July 31,(…)
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