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

Dear Ms. Green,

Holy batshit, Batman, here we go again. It’s back to the alternate reality world you’ve created with the Hunstmen - hot men who roam in twin brother pairs looking for a good woman who likes it like that. Trying to keep sane via the emotional energy they can unleash from her following some hella good sex. Trying to survive in a world that doesn’t know about them - in fact can’t know about them - because when they lose it - well bad, bad things happen.

Readers starting with this book will be totally lost. I’m sorry but there it is. This is a complex world with lots of rules which makes sense to those of us who’ve read the first two books but newbies will be floundering and pitifully calling for help. Those just beginning these stories should check your website for a little background info.

I love that these men mind their manners around the matriarch. I guess it’s the only way she could live with fourteen males in one household. “Yes, ma’am. No ma’am. You’re right. We’ll do whatever you want.” Wiping their feet before entering …

Dear Ms Munro,

For a book as short as this is, with three main characters, lots secondary characters and several long sex scenes, I should have gotten the feeling that every word was being used for a purpose, that every scene counted, that maximum use was made of the entire story. Instead, what I felt a a lot of while reading it was bored.
An heirloom sapphire. That’s where Sarah Walsh’s troubles began. Oh and sex. That came into the equation when she met Flynn Wangford. Now he has her sapphire and she wants it back.

Bad boy Flynn is causing trouble again. Sarah and fellow spy, sometimes lover Thomas MacIntyre are assigned to protect the British prime minister and royal guest Princess Leila from Mundavia while keeping an eye on Flynn. For Sarah it’s a chance to retrieve her sapphire. Somehow, she’ll juggle official duties and best the cocky Australian. But before she knows it, Sarah is alone with Flynn and they end up horizontal. The sex is explosive and hot, hot, hot, but she can’t stop thinking about Thomas. Two men. They’re so different yet both are delectable and very …

Dear Ms. Ellwood:

You have a fun sense of humor and your prose is quite readable. The romance, however, seemed rushed and pushed aside for the sake of the explicit sexual content. I had trouble believing that this couple truly loved each other or whether they just enjoyed the sex.

Cal Briscoe is a studio musician who struggles with the fact that at the age of fifty-one, he is unmarried and essentially alone. This loneliness is punctuated by the imminent marriage of his best friend, Brady, the hero in Truth or Dare, to a woman that Cal fancies himself with, Ellie. Much of the beginning half of the story is spent on the poignant feelings Cal exhibits when he longs for Ellie and his unrequited love for her.

Upon the urging of Brady, Cal decides to take refuge in Ellie’s hometown of Dareville, Virginia. There he meets Sue Carmichael, a photographer. Sue and Cal are opposites (the contest entry said think the Odd Couple) and often rub each other the wrong way.

The story is about taking chances and moving outside of one’s comfort zone for both Sue and …

Dear Ms. McKenna:

It’s a bit ironic that I would write the following because yours is a story where I would recommend to readers to skip the story and just read the sex scenes. Because your sex scenes are pretty good. It’s when the three of the characters step outside the bedroom, or dressing room, or car, or . . . well, you get the picture, that the book falls apart. Let’s start with the beginning.

What is most important to Brianna Wyatt is threatened by her father if she does not agree to have sex with Cole Masters and beget a male heir. How would Andrew Wyatt get Cole Masters to agree to this? I have no idea. After all, according to you, “He was rich beyond measure, many times over her father's own wealth, had a powerful corporate drive, and was way younger than most of his competitors.” and “As for the man himself, she had seen him many times in the media. He was a handsome, much coveted bachelor who regularly dated beautiful, sexy women. Women who fawned over him, batting their eyelashes and cooing like imbeciles. Women who had far more experience than Brianna could ever hope to have.” Ultimately, I think that Cole doesn’t agree to it but is struck with instant hard on and must fuck Brianna or die.

Dear Ms Leigh,

Thanks to a friend, I got to read your ebook all about twin wizards, princess consort of same, a dragon (thank God he’s not in on the sex part) and magick. Not magic, mind you, but magick. Blue green magick that erupts whenever the twin wizards and their princess consort get nekkid and boink. What was I thinking?

OK, so you’ve got us on some world that has male wizards and female magick people and they need each other for completion of their magick and to keep it from fading away BUT over a millennia ago, they stopped Joining and ever since things have been going downhill and the lowly humans are maneuvering into power. It cannot be allowed to continue! So, these hunky male wizard twins approach the Queen and ask to Join with one of her daughters, Brianna, who is sort of ordained for them.

Queen agrees but Brianna balks.– Oh, no! I know what happens when a female mates with two wizards. I will be torn apart when you both stick those HICs in me. Nuh-unh, ain’t gonna happen!

The Queen, the Dragon (who caught Brianna looking at the illustrations in the naughty Forbidden Books) and the Wizards …