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REVIEW: Upside Down Inside Out by Monica Mcinerney

By Jayne • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Mrs. McInerney,
Since it doesn’t look like I’m going to get to Australia any time soon, your book will have to serve as a travelogue of sorts. The Australian Tourism Board can use it as a reason why people should fold themselves into tiny airplane seats for an ungodly number of hours. [...]



REVIEW: Don’t Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes by Dixie Cash

By Jayne • Jun 27th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Cumbie and Ms. McClanahan,
Your first book was a delight, second I haven’t read, third was a disappointment and fourth I almost didn’t read. Ha. Let that be a lesson to me. From the blurb, I knew that this would be more comedy and mystery than romance and in the [...]



REVIEW: His Captive Lady by Carol Townend

By Jayne • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Mrs. Townend,
When I read the description for your newest book, “His Captive Lady,” all I truly noticed is that it’s a medieval and set in the fens of East Anglia. It’s not until I began reading it that it dawned on me that it’s also a Saxon vs Norman story [...]



REVIEW: A Rather Curious Engagement by C.A. Belmond (7/08)

By Jayne • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Mrs Belmond,
When I finished reading “A Rather Curious Inheritance,” I knew there ought to be more about Penny Nichols (who is aware of the silliness of her name) and Jeremy Laidley (her sort of English cousin) after their show of interest in each other and in combining the actually rather [...]



REVIEW: A Most Unconventional Match by Julia Justiss

By Jayne • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Mrs Justiss,
“A Most Unconventional Match” lives up to its name. I fear that the back blurb won’t give readers much enticement to choose it over any other Regency set historical though. When I first read it, I thought, “hmmmm, okay. Sounds….nice.” Which I would guess is not the “gotta buy this [...]



REVIEW: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

By Jayne • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Brooks,
I had initially become interested in reading this book after seeing it listed at Fictionwise as a pre-sale item. Right after that it dropped off their site and the possibility of an ebook seemed to vanish into thin air. Don’t know what happened with that but when I spotted it [...]



REVIEW: Not Another Bad Date by Rachel Gibson

By Jayne • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Gibson,
After Jennie did a review of “Not Another Bad Date,” I saw her grade and mentally wilted a little. In fact, I wasn’t sure I even wanted to read it at that point. But after starting, and stopping, a horrible historical - asshole hero plus virgin martyr widow! - [...]



REVIEW: Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik

By Jayne • Jun 18th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms Novik,
I’m so glad I waited until now to read “Empire of Ivory” even though I’ve had a copy in my hot little hands, well actually piled on top of my TBR heap by my computer, for months now. Something told me to wait, to keep it in reserve until closer [...]



REVIEW: Innocence Unveiled by Blythe Gifford

By Jayne • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Gifford,
Your name was on my list of authors to try so when I spotted your latest release and realized it was about weavers in Flanders during the middle ages, I decided to try it. Hey, no knights, different setting, middle class, little used historical incident - I’m there. True it has a [...]



REVIEW: Duking Days: Revolution by Anita Davison

By Jayne • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Mrs. Davison,
Earlier this year I read your first novel “Duking Days:Rebellion.” As I said, it took me back to my early days of reading historical fiction rather than true romance books. When I finished it, I already had plans to read the sequel, “Duking Days: Revolution.” This story does take up exactly where [...]