May 16 2012
Dear Ms. Ashley: After Kati D reviewed Knight for Dear Author, I had to read it myself. It was rough but Ruthie Knox, in the comments, suggested I give Sweet Dreams a try and I did. Sweet Dreams is an interesting story and one that I am going to review later but I actually went [...]
Apr 19 2012
Dear Ms. Higgins, I’ve read several of your books and, in general, have found them to be a bit too toothsome for me. I did however enjoy one of your earlier books, The Next Best Thing, so I was interested to read your latest novel, Somebody to Love, whose heroine, Parker Harrington Welles, was introduced in [...]
Dec 9 2011
This Time Next Year by Alison Kent. Brenna Keating is traveling to her grandmother’s house for their annual Christmas celebration when a storm strikes and she is stranded after she loses control of her vehicle attempting to avoid a deer. A gruff man comes to her rescue and carries her off to his cabin. Dillon [...]
Sep 23 2011
Update: I am reposting this review given the book I read a week ago. I wanted to highlight the story and why I enjoyed it tremendously. Dear Ms. Napier: I was delighted to see that Harlequin was digitizing your backlist titles. It’s something I’ve longed for since their digitizing efforts began a year or so [...]
Sep 19 2011
Dear Ms. Wolf: When I first started this book, I wondered if was a reprint of a formerly published book because I felt like I had read it before. I double checked and no, it was a self published work and possibly your first one. Yet, I had read a story very similar to this [...]
Sep 9 2011
Dear Ms. Goodman: Most of your writing works well for me so it probably comes as no surprise that this is one of my favorite historicals published this month. In the foothills of Sierra Nevada, the year 1850, two miners come upon the remains of a wagon train and in amongst a pile of rocks, [...]
Aug 12 2011
Book #1: The Bride Wore Blue The cheesy title refers to the epilogue, but I’m glad I took the time to dive into The Bride Wore Blue. JD “Blue” Hazzard fell in love with Maggie “Stretch” Adams when they were teenagers, and his unrequited love has remained for fifteen years. He followed her career (she [...]
Aug 5 2011
Dear Ms. Bliss: Sometimes I think a reader connects to a writer in ways that can’t quite be articulated. I’ve felt that way about your work for a while so I don’t know how reliable of a recommender of your books that I am. What I connect with is the authenticity of the characters, the [...]
Apr 1 2011
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 and a bit of 1925) Genre: Historical Romance/Drama Grade: B+ In honor of Edmund Rostand today’s film review is for Cyrano de Bergerac. It’s swashbuckling, it’s funny, it’s romantic and it’s ultimately tragic. It’s perfect for clearing out the tear ducts by either weeping in a hankie or crying in your [...]
Mar 25 2011
Elle Kennedy writes a series of novellas for Samhain Publishing called “Out of Uniform” and primarily these stories feature the romances of the Seal Team Fifteen. There are two primary storylines in these stories. The first is the friends to lovers and the second is the player who doesn’t want to settle down but in [...]
Jan 27 2011
Dear Ms. March. I loved the excerpt for this book: prostitution! angst! unrequited love! m/m romance! It hit many of my not-so-sekrit Buttons of Hottness and Readerly Pleasure. And I very much enjoyed the book, even if I wanted to beat one of the heroes and not in a fun, sexy way. Jasper Reed, a [...]
Oct 30 2010
Dear Mr. Nicholson, According to the back of this book, it says that you are an award winning screenplay author of a movie called Gladiator, which I will admit to never seeing. This explained quite a lot of things that went on in the book, but it does not change the fact that the way [...]
Jul 26 2010
Dear Ms. Armstrong, I’m a long-time fan of yours. My first exposure to your work was Bitten, the first novel in your Otherworld series about the only female werewolf in existence, several years ago before urban fantasy took off and became the sprawling subgenre it is today. I know I’ve said in the past that [...]
Jun 1 2010
I was at a used bookstore the other day and I came across an old Judith Duncan book. Judith Duncan used to write great stories for the Silhouette Intimate Moments and Harlequin Superromance line. One of the titles I loved was “If Wishes Were Horses” and it was about a man who loved his sister [...]
Dec 10 2009
Dear Ms. Mallory: I remember a number of people raving about your debut in the If You Like Debut books thread. I bought the debut book, Knight of Desire, but by the time I got around to reading it your second book, Knight of Pleasure, was out. So I read that one first. While I [...]
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