posts by Janine:
B Reviews Category / B+ Reviewsbeauty-pageant / class-difference / Contemporary / divorcee / friends-to-lovers / Kathleen-Gilles-Seidel / real-people / Small-Town13 Comments
Dear Ms. Seidel, I've been slowly going through your backlist and have enjoyed most of what I've read so far. Your books aren't flashy, but down to earth. They take their time to get where they are going. There is however, a welcome realness to the characters, surroundings, and events. ... more >
B Reviewsclass-difference / friends-to-lovers / horses / Joan-Wolf / Regency England6 Comments
Dear Ms. Wolf, I had heard many good things about your book, A London Season. Despite having been published twenty-six years ago, it remains loved by many fans of traditional regencies, some of whom consider it a classic of that subgenre. So when a copy of the book came my ... more >
C Reviews Category / C+ ReviewsBDSM / Contemporary / Erotic-Romance20 Comments
Dear Ms. Bradley, Rowan Cassidy, the heroine of your book, The Dark Garden, has a preference for “extreme sex.” Years ago, when she was in college, Rowan suggested that she and her college boyfriend Danny give BDSM a try. Danny agreed, but then took advantage of his dominant position and ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ ReviewsCarla-Kelly / Regency England / Royal-Navy / shipwreck / traumatic-past7 Comments
Dear Ms. Kelly, I have enjoyed several of your books in the past, so I rejoiced to hear that you had a new book coming out. Beau Crusoe is the story of James Trevenen, a naval officer shipwrecked on a deserted island where he spent five years in isolation. To ... more >
A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / erotica / Marriage-in-Trouble / Megan-Hart / real-people / sexual-encounters14 Comments
Dear Ms. Hart, On the first Friday of each month, Sadie Danning, the narrator of your book, Broken, has lunch on an atrium bench. Joe, whose last name Sadie doesn’t know, sits down with his own lunch next to her and tells her a story, and Sadie imagines herself within ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Categorycourtesan / Duke / forced-seduction / Regency England / Scotland4 Comments
Dear Ms. Campbell, Much has been said about your debut, Claiming the Courtesan. Arguments raced round and round the blogosphere; discussions sprouted from here to Jennifer Crusie's blog. After reading comments from people who reviled the book to comments from people who adored it, I decided to read it and ... more >