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REVIEW: A Passion for Him by Sylvia Day

By Guest Reviewer • Jan 21st, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

This review comes to us from guest blogger, Yapaway Jay who has given up her fiction books for law books. Go Jay, only one semester left?
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Dear Ms. Day,
I fell in love with the first book I read by you, The Stranger I Married, and ever since then you’ve been on my auto-buy [...]



REVIEW: Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

By Guest Reviewer • Jan 14th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, Reviews

This review comes to use from Charlene Teglia whose 2007 book, Wild, Wild West, was a big winner here at DearAuthor. Her next latest release, Satisfaction Guaranteed, is due out March 08.
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Dear Jane:
I love the Vorkosigan series. It’s full of adventure and excitement and clashing cultures, romance, mystery, humor, space battles, diplomatic [...]



GUEST REVIEW: Holding the Dream by Nora Roberts

By Guest Reviewer • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, Reviews

The following guest review/letter comes from author Jenyfer Matthews whose latest release, One Crazy Summer, is available in ebook form.
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The nicest thing my ex-SIL ever did was introduce me to Nora Roberts books. She gave me a box of her castoffs with the warning that they were formulaic but fun. Included in the [...]



GUEST REVIEW: Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon

By Jane • Dec 31st, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, Reviews

Author Julie Leto offers up a guest review of Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon. Boy’s Life was a book challenged by a parent in the Hernando County School District as “inappropriate” because of bad language. Mr. McCammon flew to the Hernando County School Board meeting to defend his book and prevailed.
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At its most [...]



GUEST REVIEW: Cordelia’s Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold

By Guest Reviewer • Dec 24th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, Reviews

Dear Jane,
I would not describe myself as a science fiction fan-and not because I haven’t tried it. Thanks to my college habit of taking only classes that met Tuesday-Thursday, I’ve read the whole SF canon, everything from Left Hand of Darkness to Snow Crash. And while I didn’t hate it all (Because, really, [...]



REVIEW: Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas

By Guest Reviewer • Dec 17th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, Reviews

The following guest review/letter comes from author Ann Christopher whose latest release, Sweeter Than Revenge, is due out on bookshelves soon. It’s a Kimani Imprint release and in some stores that means it will be shelved with the African American books and in others, it will be with the regular romances (where they [...]



GUEST REVIEW: Servant: The Awakening by L. L. Foster

By Guest Reviewer • Dec 10th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, Reviews

Dear L.L. Foster,
I just finished your new book Servant: The Awakening and before I expound on its virtues first let me tell you how excited I was to find out that one of my favorite erotic authors, Lori Foster, had a darker side, L.L. Foster. I even joined the [...]



GUEST REVIEW: Scandalous Lovers by Robin Schone

By Jane • Dec 3rd, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, Reviews

The following is a guest review offered as part of our “Favorite Things” series wherein readers provide a review of one of their favorite books. Please consider writing your own “favorite things” review to share with the Dear Author readership. Send it to jane at dearauthor.com
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Dear Jane:
I’ve always been fascinated [...]



GUEST REVIEW: Bad for Each Other by Kate Hathaway

By Guest Reviewer • Nov 26th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, Reviews

Dear Jane,
You (or maybe Jayne or Janine) asked awhile back for category recommendations. Et voila, I have one for you.
Sometimes you fall in love with a book that you ought to despise. Big Mis, Big Secret, Secret Baby, Marriage of Convenience. Normally, I can deal with one or two of these romance [...]



GUEST REVIEW: The Little Country by Charles de Lint

By Guest Reviewer • Nov 12th, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, Reviews

Dear Readers:
This is the book that cemented my love for the urban fantasy genre and, in particular, my love for Charles de Lint. This man is a master storyteller, who infuses his stories with lifelike characters, evocative settings, and a sense of wonder that I think is sometimes too often missing [...]