September 5, 2013

REVIEW: Uncommon Passion by Anne Calhoun

DabneyA Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary25 Comments

Dear Ms. Calhoun: Uncommon Passion is easily the best book you’ve written. The novel takes the strengths of your earlier works–strong characters, sensual sex scenes, believable redemption–and expands on them. Everything works: the lovers, their back-stories, the setting, the passage of time, the secondary characters, the plot, and the deft insights ... more >

August 29, 2013

REVIEW: Tempting Fate by Amber Lin

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Dear Ms. Lin: Novellas are often an unfortunate way to be introduced to a series. I’ve not read any of your Lost Girls series–Tempting Fate is book three. I think had I read the books that preceded it, I would have seen all three of the major characters in Tempting ... more >

August 24, 2013

REVIEW: Never Kiss a Rake by Anne Stuart

DabneyC- ReviewsHistorical9 Comments

Dear Ms. Stuart: In 2010, you released two enjoyable historical romances in your The House of  Rohan series (not to be confused with the Kings of Rohan). The two books, Reckless and Ruthless, featured classic Stuart heroes: gorgeous, sexy men with power and wealth who nefariously seduce spinster heroines whom they ... more >

August 17, 2013

REVIEW: Undone by Shannon Richard

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Dear Ms. Richard: I confess I am not a great fan of Florida. My family moved there, from the Bay Area, when I was 15 and, to this day, the charms of the Sunshine State escape me. Your book, Undone, is set in the Floridian town Mirabelle. Mirabelle is my ... more >

August 15, 2013

REVIEW: Dark Waters by Toni Anderson

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Dear Ms. Anderson: I picked up Dark Waters because I’d read and enjoyed your 2010 release Sea of Suspicion. As I began to read Sea of Suspicion, I was struck by how much it reminded me of Anne Stuart’s Moonrise, albeit with a less wimpy heroine. Both books have a ... more >

August 3, 2013

The Duchess Hunt by Jennifer Haymore

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Dear Ms Haymore: I’d hoped to like The Duchess Hunt. I enjoyed the first two chapters you released with your novella The Devil’s Pearl. And years ago, I read and liked your debut novel A Hint of Wicked. But The Duchess Hunt didn’t do it for me. The hero’s behavior was, ... more >