Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Dear Ms. McSparren:
One negative aspect of having titles like the one that is given to your book is that it diminishes the content of the story Bachelor Cop is actually fairly intense emotional story but the title suggests something far more flippant. Perhaps that works in both positive and negative ways. Positive because the [...]

Dear Ms Allain :
Thank you for sending me this book for review. I am a big fan of the traditional regency which is what I would categorize this novel as. The key to a successful traditional regency is the total immersion of the reader into the time period which is well done in Mr. [...]

Dear Ms. Gray (aka Ms. Aguirre):
In reviewing my emails (because my memory, as you know, is terribly spotty), I see I received the book for review from you. I had enjoyed Grimspace and heard that this book was fresh for the romance genre and it is. Kyra is a grifter, working with her [...]

Dear Ms. Enoch:
After finishing the previous trilogy which I believe to contain some of the best work of your career, I was delighted when The Care and Taming of the Rogue arrived on my doorstep, ridiculous title notwithstanding. With the adventurer hero, I thought we might be getting something unique again.
While prose in The Care [...]

Okay people, listen up. This is the last book in the series and the whole thing is a spoiler for the first three books. You have been warned.
Dear Ms Hoyt,
Capturing my attention for an entire series before I’ve even read the first book is something. Me remembering that a new book in a series is [...]

Dear Ms. Lee:
This is the first book in your Three Rich Husbands series (no need for subtlety here).  Honestly the last memory of a Lee book I had was of a weeping doormat heroine who shed more water than rain falls in Seattle.  I had signed up for the HP subscription service and your book was [...]

Naughty Nights in the Millionaire’s Mansion by Robyn Grady.  This book violated the number one HP principle. It was boring.  By chapter five (which is about the half way point in an HP), I noted that there was amost no conflict and that the biggest issue thus far was the heroine being coy about whether [...]