Sep 3 2008
Dear Ms. Kittredge, When I read your debut novel, Night Life, I’m afraid I found myself among that group of readers who considered your heroine Luna Wilder abrasive, obnoxious, and borderline stupid. But even so, the Nocturne City setting stuck with me and while I felt that I might not be a perfect reader-writer match(…)
Jul 21 2008
Dear Ms. Briggs, Once in a while there comes a book that sweeps you off your feet, a book you fall in love with so completely that it is hard to do justice to that love in a review. Alpha and Omega and Cry Wolf made me feel that way. Because of the way I(…)
Mar 6 2008
Dear Ms. Kittredge, I was introduced to your writing by your short story, “Newlydeads”, in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon. While that story didn’t work as well for me as I’d hoped, I still looked forward to your first novel. Sometimes short stories aren’t the best indicators of good novelists and since Night Life was(…)
Mar 4 2008
Dear Ms. Bishop, Ten years ago, I went through a reading dry spell. Nothing within the fantasy genre appealed to me. I’d grown tired of ignorant farmboys discovering it was their destiny to save the world. I had yet to discover George R.R. Martin. It was still a few years before the urban fantasy subgenre(…)
Feb 14 2008
Dear Ms Handeland, Your books are like potato chips or popcorn or anything smothered with chocolate. I can’t stop reading them anymore than I can restrict myself to one serving of a snack that’s bound to go straight to my hips and stick there like superglue. Sigh. Just when I think that you must be(…)
Oct 8 2007
Dear Ms. Cole: I am so glad that I read Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night a second time before I wrote this review. My first time through I was so frustrated by the interminable obstacles to Bowen and Mariketa’s relationship that I could barely focus on anything else. But when I went back to(…)
Jun 22 2007
Dear Authors: A couple of weeks ago there was a small online furor over the Publishers Weekly review of Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer, and Anne Stuart‘s collaborative book The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes. The review referred to the book as three novellas, concluding with the hope that “the authors’ next collaboration will be on a single,(…)
Jun 20 2007
Dear Ms. Bast: I’ve read most of your backlist at Ellora’s Cave and really, your books have been the impetus for trying more. You have almost always been able to capture and convey the emotional connection while still bringing the heat. I think you are one of the best of the epublished authors and was(…)
Mar 12 2007
Dear Ladies, Whenever I read a book which has a NA character, I take a deep breath, cross my fingers and hope that I’m going to get one more like those written by Kathleen Eagle than the tripe churned out by Cassie Edwards. Luckily, your hero passes in that regard. Unfortunately, the relationship between the(…)
Jan 2 2007
Dear Ms. Childs: Ariel Cooper is a descendant of a family of Durriken witches. Not every Durriken woman is born a witch but many are. And many, like one of the first, had their lives ended in tragedy. Ariel’s mother could foretell the future and knew her three daughters would be taken from her. Her(…)
Oct 7 2006
Dear Ms. Drake: Your novella has a little more going on in terms of characterization but again because of the length, 4558 words, there isn’t much more to this story. Arielle is a witch who works for the FBI. Her partner is Jackson, a vampire. They are sent out to investigate demon activity in the(…)
Aug 31 2006
Dear Ms. Roberts: As you can tell by my book pimping post, I was excited to read this book. It was exactly what was promised: A Nora Roberts take on the paranormal. The characters and the magic felt familiar. The vampire lore followed traditional paths. I hadn’t read a Roberts book, though, with as many(…)
Jun 29 2006
Dear Ms. Hallaway, The cartoon cover, the back blurb and lots of the reviews/descriptions at Amazon would lead people to think this is a comedic Vamp Lit. Let me tell readers that it’s not. There are a few humorous jokes and situations but for the most part, you’ve made this book pretty serious. Garnet Lacey(…)
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