A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / Madeline-Hunter3 Comments
Dear Ms. Hunter: So, for many years, I have been bemoaning the state of historicals. Particularly bemoaning the fact that a brilliant author such as yourself seemed to slide from vibrant and emotional books to recycled plots and lackluster characters. I had not bought your most recent two books and ... more >
A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads18th-century / Diana-Norman / England / France / French-Revolution / friends-to-lovers / Historical4 Comments
Dear Mrs. Norman, When I heard you had a new book coming out, I skipped around the house for joy. Your books are like an entire box of dark chocolate covered caramel truffles. I want to eat the whole box at once but I force me to pace myself. It’s ... more >
A- ReviewsEngland / forbidden-love / near-future / survival / war / Young-Adult3 Comments
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 ... more >
A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / Historical / My Favorite Things-2006 / pirates / shipboard8 Comments
Dear Mrs. Canham, I hope that your muse can tempt you back into writing. I keep hearing rumors but what I want is to read another new Canham book! ;) Other reviews have decried the amount of violence and sex in “The Iron Rose.” Yes, it’s violent. Yes, it has ... more >
A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / Erotic-Romance / lawyer / law related / My Favorite Things-2006 / Susan-Johnson18 Comments
Dear Ms. Johnson: Long before there was Jaid Black and Ellora’s Cave. Long before the rise of erotic romance and the publication of lines like Aphrodisia, Spice, and Avon Red, there were authors like you who wrote historically rich, emotionally deep and impossibly erotic romances. There are three of your ... more >
A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / Dragon / good-description / My Favorite Things-2006 / Paranormal / Shana-Abe / shapeshifters / thief14 Comments
Dear Ms. Abé, Imagine a place so ripe and thick with the promise of magic that the very air breathes in plumes of pearl and gray and smoky blue; that the trees bow with the weight of their heavy branches, dipping low to the ground, dropping needles and leaves into ... more >