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REVIEW: To Taste Temptation by Elizabeth Hoyt

By Jayne • May 1st, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Mrs Hoyt,
I love the beginning of a new series. New characters to meet, new situations to explore, new relationships to work out. Everything’s fresh and (hopefully) wide open. “To Taste Temptation” is, I believe, book one in what looks like a four book series if the fable at the start is our guide. Okay, [...]



REVIEW: Manga Review: Epic Adventure and Romance: Basara

By ジェーン(Jān) • Jan 15th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Manga, Reviews

Basara by Yumi Tamura. Published by Viz. Retail: $9.99. Rated T+ for older teens (frank sex and violence. The sex isn’t graphic but the violence can be.) 25/27 volumes published, complete in Japan.
Dear Readers,
Some long running romance manga series are drawing to a close this month, and all deserve mention here. This [...]



REVIEW: The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

By Janine • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Turner,
Since in reality, our reviews are at least as much for readers as they are for authors, let me begin this letter with a warning to readers who haven’t embarked on your YA fantasy series beginning with The Thief. The book I am about to review here is The Queen of Attolia, [...]



REVIEW: DUELING REVIEW: Reader and Raelynx by Sharon Shinn

By Janine • Nov 6th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, C Reviews, C Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Shinn,
I was tired, crabby, and busily packing for a trip when the ARC of Reader and Raelynx arrived on my doorstep. Minutes later, I gleefully sent off an email to my fellow Dear Author reviewers, quoting the little note that said “Sharon Shinn said you would be interested in seeing a galley [...]



REVIEW: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

By Janine • Dec 18th, 2006 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Rosoff,
When a book has won a slew of awards including ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005 and Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year, and has even been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, it hardly needs more accolades from me.
Here I am regardless, writing this open [...]



REVIEW: Independent Heart by Juliet Waldron

By Jayne • Sep 8th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

(Being the account of Angelica TenBroeck’s flight from New York City during the late War of Independence, her would-be lovers, and a bluebird quilt)
Dear Mrs. Waldron,
I’m a sucker for 18th century historical romances and novels so finding your books was a delight for me. So far, I’ve read two but am saving the last. [...]



REVIEW: CB- An Endless Exile by Mary Lancaster

By Jayne • Jul 29th, 2006 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Mrs. Lancaster,
Thank you so much for submitting your book, An Endless Exile, for consideration in our July ebook contest. I’m always looking for a good historical novel and yours is excellent. I had heard of the name Hereward “the Wake” (Hereward the Watchful), the only Englishman to defy and defeat William the Conqueror, [...]



REVIEW: The Morning Gift by Diana Norman

By Jayne • Jul 17th, 2006 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

“A Norman heiress was a chattel to be sold in marriage to the highest bidder. If one husband died she was up for sale again. Only the first of Matilda de Risle’s husbands gives her anything back. His is the customary Saxon morning gift — the present to a wife if her lord finds her [...]