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 ReviewsJulie-Garwood / medieval / My Favorite Things-200616 Comments
Dear Ms. Garwood: I want you to know that I open myself up to ridicule from any number of blogland sources such as my blogging partners, Jayne and Janine, Keishon, Maili, and who knows else by writing this love letter to you. Alas, I cannot let this week of thankfulness ... 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 >
A Review Category / A Reviews / Book Reviews5 Comments
Dear Mrs. Kelly, Most people know you for your excellent trad regencies but I wish more people would mention this anthology featuring stories about the 19th century frontier Army. This book is fabulous. Just fabulous. Some of the short stories and novellas are told from the hero’s POV and some ... more >