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Book Reviews / Letters of Opinionhome / private and public spaces19 Comments
Note from Janine: Guest poster and romance author Pam Rosenthal, whose novella A House East of Regent Street is being published in digital format for the first time tomorrow, has contributed the lovely essay below. How do you read during a pandemic? For facts or for escape? Survival information in ... more >
Letters of OpinionBillionaire Hero / Dukes / security32 Comments
In spite of its 140-character limitations, Twitter can lead to some interesting conversations. I had one recently that included author Camille Hadley-Jones and Dear Author’s own Janine Ballard, who encouraged me to express my thoughts about it in longer form. That conversation? That one of the goals of romance novels ... more >
B+ ReviewsContemporary / parody / Pride & Prejudice3 Comments
The Bennet sisters have been summoned from New York City to help stop their mother feeding their father steak and donuts after heart surgery, to tidy up their crumbling family home and to haul their three sisters out of various states of arrested development. Then Chip Bingley arrives in suburban ... more >
B ReviewsContemporary / dirty talk / family2 Comments
Dear Ms. Bailey, It’s no secret among your many fans that you are known as the ‘Queen of the Dirty Talkers’. In a romance world awash with billionaire heroes, your blue collar men are down to earth, ‘tell it like it is’ kind of guys, alpha heroes to the core. ... more >
A ReviewsBDSM / male submissive11 Comments
Dear Ms. North, When I saw the synopsis of your recent release, Giving It Up, I was intrigued. A book exploring themes of Dominance and submission but without the extra trappings of a sex club/dungeon sounded very appealing as did the idea of two characters that are wholly inexperienced in ... more >
B+ Reviewsenemies to lovers / Erotic-Romance / post-apocalypticComments Off on GUEST REVIEW: Edge of Obsession by Megan Crane
Dear Ms. Crane: When I started reading your new book, Edge of Obsession, my first thought was that it was eerily familiar. Then I realized that was because my introduction to reading romances was with such classics as The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen Woodiwiss, and Fires of Winter by ... more >