Dear Author: Romance Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Commentary

Dear Ms. Shalvis:

All this talk about RITA, RITA, RITA, got me to buy your June release, ShadowHawk, which I liked enough to head to my basement to my to be read shelves to see if I own any of your past Blazes. Alas, this was it. Fortunately for me, this was a good one. I wonder why I missed reading it the first time around?

Cassie Tremaine Montgomery is a good girl with all the bad girl trappings: the family history; the reputation; and the body. At 17, she’s endured 4 years of near constant ogling but she thought one guy in her town was decent and that was the Sheriff. Only on prom night, when she thinks she going to be saved from her drunk, grope happy date, Sheriff Taggart makes a creepy and inappropriate proposition. Cassie vows that someday she’ll come back, live on Lilac Hill, give the town a what-for, and get the Sheriff.

Cassie wasn’t really ready to come home but a stalker made New York a dangerous place for her. At the urging …

Dear Ms. Kent:

I bought this book during Fictionwise’s 20% off sale last December. I’ve bought other Blazes but this is the first Blaze I’ve actually read in a long, long time. I guess I’ve been missing out.

Milla Page is one of those people who have a job that most young people would dream of. She gets paid to go to the hottest nightclubs and restaurants in San Francisco to review the venues for suitability for the MatchMeUp.com clientele, an online dating service. Only, like most dream jobs, the reality is that going out and partying every weekend is very tiring and Milla is running out of guys who will be her “business only” date.

In the last minute, she decides to raid the office “Sisters of the Booty Call” fund. After a woman dates a guy but finds that he isn’t a good fit, she drops his business card in a vase shaped like a boot in the woman’s lounge with some descriptions of his “suitability” on the back. Milla reaches in and pulls out the name, Rennie Bergen …