Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Story & Art: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: Viz Signature
Rating: M for mature
Retail: $12.99
Length: 2/5+ volumes
Dear readers,
A few months ago, I read the first volume in this wonderful series by Fumi Yoshinaga. The premise is deceptively simple: What would happen if a plague wiped out the majority of the male population in Tokugawa era Japan? How [...]

Dear Mr. Strasser,
I think readers of a certain age and demographic will be familiar with the genre of books to which your novel belongs: the teen suspense novel. As a tween, a good chunk of my reading material consisted of schlocky teen horror writers like Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine but when it came [...]

Dear Ms. Ward,
I don’t even know where to begin. While it’s true I’m a fan of your Black Dagger Brotherhood series, I stopped making any claims about its purported quality many books back. Romance? Unlike most readers who thought the first books were romance, only for later ones to shift into the [...]

Dear Ms. Kittredge,
I have a very hard time explaining why I keep reading this series.  As I’ve mentioned in the past, the main character, Luna Wilder, can be really off-putting at times.  On the other hand, it’s very nice to see her maturing and evolving over the course of the series.  The Luna Wilder we [...]

Dear Ms. Stiefvater,

This is the first novel of yours that I’ve completed. I attempted to read your debut, Lament, but I’m afraid my general disinterest in faeries got the better of me. Shiver, on the other hand, is about werewolves, which remain my favorite of the supernatural bestiary. Add to that the [...]

Dear Ms. Sagara,
You are easily one of my favorite authors.  These days it’s very rare for me to follow a series past a certain point, but I find myself doing that for the novels you write under both the Michelle Sagara and Michelle West names.  It also helps that thus far, they haven’t disappointed me [...]

Dear Ms. Collins,
The Hunger Games was my favorite novel of 2008.  For me it had the perfect combination of a great heroine, fast-paced plotting, and gripping tension.  And considering the cliffhanger ending, I’ve been looking forward to Catching Fire since I finished last page of that book.
To refresh readers, and to bring people new to [...]