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

Dear Ms. Kantra:

I thought it would be kind of fun to run this review after Jia’s wherein she expresses some, um, discomfort at merpeople as main characters in a romance. While I have not read many books about merpeople, I can say during the ones I have read I have never had a sushi craving. Sea Fever is the second (or third if you count the anthology) in the Children of the Sea series.

The night the only eligible man on the island got married, Regina Barone got drunk.

The opening line says it all. Regina Brone’s life isn’t really going so well. She escaped from World’s End, a small tourist/fishing town in Maine to pursue a career as a chef. She had grown up in her mother’s restaurant but she wasn’t interested in serving eggs, hashbrowns, and clam chowder the rest of her life. She was on a fast track at Perfetto’s in Boston (owned and run by Food Network star, Alain Perfetto) until she got pregnant with Perfetto’s child and he had no interest in her, anymore, or …

Dear Ms. Kantra:

Sea Witch is a departure from the paranormals that I prefer. It’s the real world with a paranormal aspect instead of fully developed alternate reality. This type of paranormal is usually not my favorite but really worked in this situation. I’ve not read a lot of Kantra books. I think the last one I read was Mad Dog and Annie, a Silhouette Intimate Moments. I’m certainly on board for more Kantra’s, though, after reading this one.

The heroine, Margred, is a selkie whose love for the sea is greater than all else. Her husband was taken from her years ago; but while she misses him selkies, by their nature, are very solitary. Her only need is one of physical companionship and this drives her from the water to a small island community. “Your island is between the Arctic current and the Gulf Stream, like . . . a convenient resting place for anyone making the ocean crossing.” Margred informs the hero, Caleb, at one point in the story.

Caleb Hunter is the police chief of World’s End. He’s taken the job to …

Ladies, I’d like to thank all three of you for the opportunity to review your newest novellas in the “Love and Lore” anthology at Samhain. The covers are gorgeous, the stories are hot and the Samhain content warning is, as always, fun in and of itself. Who comes up with those warnings? If I’m reading the site correctly, Samhain is offering all three books together in print or individually as ebooks and there’s a short video as well.

Ms Dawn, your story, “A Fairy Special Gift” starts us out with rowdy fairies, a lovelorn Celtic god, a banshee who needs a makeover and two special humans who can both see them all. Meara Magee hates the nasty little fairies who’ve pestered her since she was a child. I loved the image of her defending herself with flyswatters and putting out wasp traps. Jamison Murphy has come to terms with them and always carries his anti-fairy secret mix with …