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REVIEW: The Spymaster’s Lady by Joanna Bourne

By Janine • May 19th, 2008 • Category: DNF Reviews

Dear Ms. Bourne,
It’s taken me a while to get around to reading your debut, The Spymaster’s Lady. Back in the winter, Robin asked me if I would review it in a conversational review with her before your next book came out, and I promised that I would. When I got to reading [...]



REVIEW: Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale

By Janine • May 12th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews

Dear Ms. Hale,
I first heard of your book, Wicked Gentlemen, when it was nominated in the GLBT category of our DA BWAHA March Madness tournament. Wicked Gentlemen made it to the third round of the tournament, which means it was the runner-up in the GLBT category.
At the time we were [...]



REVIEW: A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson

By Janine • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Ibbotson,
When Azteclady asked me to review one of your romances, I was both excited and challenged. You pack so many irresistible characters into less than three hundred pages that it is difficult to do justice to these delightful folk. And how would I explain the magic by which you can take [...]



DUELING REVIEW: Black Ice by Anne Stuart

By Janine • Nov 14th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, B Reviews Category, B- Reviews

Dear Ms. Stuart,
Black Ice is my favorite of all your books — the ones I’ve read, that is. You have a huge backlist and I have not come anywhere near reading them all, but I’ve read several of your most popular titles, including A Rose at Midnight, To Love a Dark Lord, Moonrise, Nightfall, [...]



REVIEW: General Winston’s Daughter by Sharon Shinn

By Janine • Oct 11th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Shinn,
You’ve written some of my favorite romances (Yes, I know that they are published in the SF/Fantasy and YA genres, but I consider many of your books romances). General Winston’s Daughter, your latest YA fantasy novel, may not be my most cherished among your works but it’s still an unusually good book, [...]



REVIEW: The Secret to Seduction by Julie Anne Long

By Janine • Sep 17th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Long,
For me, reading The Secret to Seduction, was like having a glass of champagne. First the effervescent joy of being introduced to your characters through the liquid clarity of your voice, then the warmth of being immersed in the sensations and emotions that those characters grow to feel, and finally the blissful [...]



The Element of Style

By Janine • Mar 27th, 2007 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

Dear Readers and Authors,
There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or [...]



REVIEW: The Smoke Thief by Shana Abé

By Janine • Nov 20th, 2006 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Abé,
Imagine a place so ripe and thick with the promise of magic that the very air breathes in plumes of pearl and gray and smoky blue; that the trees bow with the weight of their heavy branches, dipping low to the ground, dropping needles and leaves into beds of perfume. A place [...]



REVIEW: Archangel by Sharon Shinn

By Janine • Oct 3rd, 2006 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Shinn,

I think Archangel is a wonderful book. One might even say heavenly.
Most of the inhabitants of Samaria are mortals, but the world also has angels who, by taking wing and praying to the god Jovah through song can ask the god for favorable weather and other aid. Once a year, the [...]