Tag Archives: fairy tale
REVIEW: On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

REVIEW: On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

Dear Ms. Andrews,
On the Edge was the first of your books that I’ve read, but it will not be the last.
Rose Drayton and her two young brothers, Jack and Georgie, live in the Edge, an area where two dimensions known as the Weird and the Broken overlap. In the Weird, people have magical abilities [...]

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REVIEW: Tangle Girls (anthology edited by Nicole Kimberling)

REVIEW: Tangle Girls (anthology edited by Nicole Kimberling)

Dear Readers,
Back in July of 2008, I reviewed Tangle XY, an anthology of short speculative m/m stories. Earlier this year, Blind Eye Books, the publisher of Tangle XY, came out with Tangle Girls, an f/f anthology. As with Tangle XY, some (not all) of the stories are multicultural, and many have fairy tale [...]

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REVIEW: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

REVIEW: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Dear Ms. Lin:
I don’t review many non romance books here at Dear Author because it’s a) a romance oriented blog and b) I rarely read anything that isn’t romance except for the books I read to my daughter. For the most part, the books I’ve read to my five year old are mainly old [...]

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REVIEW: Magnate’s Make-Believe Mistress by Bronwyn Jameson

REVIEW: Magnate’s Make-Believe Mistress by Bronwyn Jameson

Dear Ms Jameson:
Sarah from SmartBitches either tweeted or emailed me that she was reading some awesome book. I am always interested in awesome books so I emailed her and asked her for the name of said book. Bronwyn Jameson came the response and so off I went to Harlequin. I emailed her back and you [...]

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WINNERS of Giveaway for Legend of the Werestag by Tessa Dare

WINNERS of Giveaway for Legend of the Werestag by Tessa Dare

 
The following are the three winners of the Goddess of the Hunt.  These are the last three ARCs that Tessa has.  (I would throw my copy in if I had one!)

Babs
Kate K
Lorraine

The following are the twelve winners of the digital format Legend of a Werestag.  I threw in a couple of copies in addition to the 10 [...]

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REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: Legend of the Werestag by Tessa Dare

REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: Legend of the Werestag by Tessa Dare

Update: I’ve closed the comments and will announce the winners later today. Thanks everyone. It was fun to read the comments.
Dear Ms. Dare:
Thank you for sending me Legend of the Werestag. I’ll confess that when I first heard of it I thought it was a paranormal regarding shapeshifting animals and I wasn’t convinced [...]

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REVIEW: The Frog Princess (Book One of Tales of the Frog Princess) by E.D. Baker

REVIEW: The Frog Princess (Book One of Tales of the Frog Princess) by E.D. Baker

Dear Ms. Baker,
As I wandered through my local bookstore, the title of this book caught my eye. I love fairy tales retold from a modern perspective, given slight twists or are just cute. The cover, and that of the many sequels, certainly fits the cute profile. Alas, the book itself didn’t live up to [...]

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