Dear Kelly Jamieson: This is the fourth book in the Wynn Hockey series, a fact I was unaware of when I started reading it. I read the first two books, and when I saw that For the Win was available for review, I snapped it up. It was only after ... more >
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft I’ve made it a habit over the past six years to try to read a “classic horror” novel around Halloween, starting with 2013’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and going up to last year’s The Fall of the House of Usher. Most ... more >
Dear Ms. Jamieson: When I started reading this book, I wondered if I had missed a previous book or two in your new series. Before Chapter 1, there’s an extensive cast-of-characters run-down of the Wynns. Once the book begins, the reader is almost immediately given backstory on the hero’s recent ... more >
Dear Ms. Jamieson: This is the ninth book in the Aces Hockey series and the fourth that I’ve read. It starts with a premise that I don’t love. Cam Brickley sees Olivia Lockwood in a bar and ends up in a bet with his teammates: he’ll date her for two ... more >
Dear Ms. Jamieson: This is book number seven in the Aces Hockey series. For some reason I didn’t start reading the series until book five; I still need to go back and read the first four (plus book 1.5, a novella). I’ve talked before in previous reviews about how it’s ... more >
Dear Ms. Jamieson, Last year I read one of your previous hockey-related books, Slap Shot. I gave it a C+ and noted in my book log that it was readable but lacking in excitement and had “too much emphasis on sex.” The book had a very unusual hero-only narration until ... more >