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

Dear Mrs Quinn,

Thanks for a fine ending for your Bridgerton series. Or is it? Could you be headed in the direction of Victoriana with all the Bridgerton offspring? Only time will tell.

I’ve always appreciated the way you manage to keep a specific Bridgerton’s personality more or less the same throughout any books featuring that character. Sure, they grow up but I’ve not seen the type of 180 degree personality transplants that readers are sometimes given when a secondary character gets his or her own book. Gregory, the seventh child and fourth Bridgerton son, has always been easy going, fun to be with and happy to tease his younger sister, Hyacinth. If you had suddenly loaded him down with a baggage train of angst and hidden torment, I’d have been pissed. I also like the way that you don’t feel the need to drag each and every past happy couple onto center stage to show how deliriously happy and fertile they are. A brief two to three line update does me just fine.

Call me weird but I love how average all these couples are. No one is the most beautiful, handsome, smartest, funniest, …

Dear Ms. Cook,

I know that authors usually have little control over their covers but I just have to mention the cover for Undressed since it’s so far off base. Way far. If I had just seen this book in a store, I would have immediately thought “contemporary screwball comedy.” If I’d bought it thinking that, I would have been stunned to find out it’s actually a Regency historical. What was the art department thinking here? Since people still seem to be buying Regency historicals, why on earth is this one disguised with a drawing of a cute little cartoon slip?

I was interested in this book for a number of reasons. The potential for conflicts was enormous, it had gotten a good review elsewhere and it wasn’t your basic English aristocrat spying for England story. The plot is that Brenna, the heroine, was stolen as a baby and raised by a Scottish couple. Twenty-six years later the truth comes out and Brenna is whisked away to London by her new found parents to be presented in Society. There Brenna meets with an old friend of her twin brother’s who has been publicly …