Nov 9 2010
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is referred to by some as the mother of paranormal romance. She began writing the Saint Germain stories four decades ago with the first Saint-Germain book published in 1978. While the Saint-Germain series is technically not a romance (Saint Germain cycles through more than one woman during his immortal life span), the(…)
Oct 21 2010
Dear Ms. Wright: I struggled to pinpoint exactly why I didn’t respond well to this book. At first blush, I thought my problems lay with the derivative nature of the worldbuilding but in retrospect I think the real problem was the lack of romance although I did think the worldbuilding was uneven and often silly.(…)
Oct 20 2010
Dear Ms. Black, I guess it was only a matter of time before we received our first cell phone novel here at Dear Author. I’ve heard of them before, so I am familiar with the format. It’s a popular medium in Japan from what I understand, but this is the first one I’ve seen in(…)
Oct 19 2010
Dear Ms. Mullany, When I heard you were going to write a Regency paranormal, my initial thoughts were, “Why?” No, actually they were more along the lines of “You’ve got to be shitting me. Jane Austen as a vampire?!” But when the publicist sent me a copy, I couldn’t resist at least trying it because,(…)
Sep 24 2010
I read a lot of novellas or stories that are even shorter than that. Torquere, for instance, regularly puts out stories that are 10 pages, or 20, or 30, but I don’t bother requesting them because how could I justify a review? But I figure if I review 3-4 shorts in one post, then I(…)
Sep 21 2010
Dear Ms. Slyvan: I would have never read this book if Angela James hadn’t recommended it to me. It is published by ACE and while I love some ACE authors like Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews, I associate the line with more straight up urban fantasy, fantasy and science fiction than any kind of romance.(…)
Sep 10 2010
Warning: this review contains spoilers from the last book, which are central to the plot of this one. Dear Ms. Carriger: The cliffhanger to your second Parasol Protectorate book, Changeless, definitely worked its storytelling magic on me, and by the time Blameless was released, I was still dying to find out what happened. It is,(…)
Sep 9 2010
Dear Ms. Beck: I know my blogging partner, Jayne, is a big fan of your Carpe Demon series and I have enjoyed your Harlequin Blaze books but this paranormal detective story seemed like a mishmash of a 100 ideas poured into a tiny space. The people, the concepts, the story all was too much even(…)
Aug 10 2010
Dear Ms. Mead, I’ll admit that the first time I saw your book series was when Twilight came out. I was recently getting into YA at the time, but after having read Twilight, I felt like your series was just a pretender. Vampire Academy. You have to admit it’s a pretty ho-hum kind of name. (…)
Aug 2 2010
Dear Readers, Burning Up is a new anthology of steamy paranormal novellas from Berkely. I almost never read or review entire anthologies, mainly because it takes me a long, long time to craft four mini-reviews, but in this case I was motivated to do so by my desire to try these stories, all of which(…)
Jun 16 2010
Dear Ms. Johnson, I’ve made no secret of my general malaise when it comes to the urban fantasy genre. I overloaded on it during its boom period, and I still don’t think I’ve entirely recovered. That said, I’m always willing to give a book a chance, especially when it tries to do something different with(…)
Jun 14 2010
Dear Ms. Cabot, I’m not sure why I got a copy of your new book, “Insatiable” since I’m not the first DA reviewer who comes to mind when vampire books are being discussed but nonetheless it arrived in my mail and, since I hadn’t read any of your books in years, I found myself giving(…)
Jun 9 2010
Dear Ms. Smith, There’s a lot to be said of having a vampire novel out on the market today. With Twilight’s soaring popularity, it’s only natural publishers try and cash in on it. I’d seen Tantalize before, but I had read some pretty scathing reviews on the book so I didn’t really think anything of(…)
May 6 2010
Dear Ms. Harris: The first time I read Dead in the Family I felt almost hypnotized by the emotional aftermath of the horror Sookie faced in the last book, Dead and Gone. Enthralled by the effects of her trauma and the painfully slow steps she was making toward recovery, I could barely summon my critical(…)
Apr 26 2010
Dear Ms. Ward, It may surprise you to know that I didn’t hop on the Black Dagger Brotherhood bandwagon until Lover Revealed was released. Before anyone has an aneurysm, know that I did pick up all the books in the series and read them in order. Like many other fans out there, I was inexplicably sucked into(…)
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