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

Dear Ms. Morrow:
I didn’t expect anything of this book except that the excerpt intrigued me, so to discover a gem like this was a wonderful surprise. I love how you played with both the Cinderella fairytale and the old skool Harlequin Presents tropes and came up with something so powerful and good.
Tom is an auto-mechanic. [...]

Dear. Ms. Willig,
I kind of lost track of this book earlier in the year when it was released in hardback. Now, I can make up for that at the trade paperback release. Since it’s been almost two years since I read book 4 (Crimson Rose), it took me a little while to get back into [...]

Dear Ms. Donald:
This is a very recognizable storyline within the Harlequin Presents line. The hero, Kain Gerard, believes that the heroine, Sable Martin, is a no good gold digger out to seduce his cousin’s fortune away. Kain is summoned by his aunt to check out this woman for whom the cousin, Brent, has [...]

Dear Ms. Shalvis,
Slow Heat is the first book by you that I’ve read, and hoo-boy, I’ve been missing out. Slow Heat is captivating from page one, and I might have even gotten a little teary-eyed near the end of the story—it is exactly what a romance story should be: believable characters with challenges in their [...]

Conagher (1991)
Genre: Western/Romance
Grade: B
I first saw this movie shortly after it was made in 1991 and immediately went out and bought the book upon which it was based. Louis L’Amour was better known as a writer of traditional westerns but here he includes a bit of romance along with punching cows and riding the range. [...]

Dear Ms. McBride.
The excerpt of this book on Loose Id really intrigued me. I liked the writing, I even liked the space opera set up. I was excited to read it. But the book itself is a book of missed opportunities. As I read it, all I could see was the idea struggling desperately but [...]

Dear Ms. Graham:
When I start reading this book I was pleased to see that it was a billionaire from some other region than Italy, Greece, London or Spain. Instead we are treated to a Russian billionaire. I have fond memories of Russian billionaires. One of my favorite Lindsay books is Secret Fire. [...]