Dear Ms. Kittredge, When I read your debut novel, Night Life, I’m afraid I found myself among that group of readers who considered your heroine Luna Wilder abrasive, obnoxious, and borderline stupid. But even so, the Nocturne City setting stuck with me and while I felt that I might not ... more >
Dear Ms Thomas, I predict quite a few people will be interested in this book. It’s a straight contemporary with none of the stock characters or situations that appear to predominate in that genre. What? No SEALs, no secret agents, no model glamorous heroines? Amazingly enough, not a single one ... more >
Dear Ms. Thomas: Your books remind me acutely how much of the relationship between reader and book depends on some chemical, perhaps even alchemical, reaction, indescribable yet potent in its effect. They also remind me of how possible it is, even now, for a compelling storyteller to make stock characters ... more >
Dear Ms. Laurens: I’ve taking to reading a Laurens book every other release because I find that a year is a good buffer between books. There’s a certain, well, similarity between your novels and while your writing is quite good, sometime the stories seem to be copies (and not in ... more >
Dear Ms. Moore, Having enjoyed one of your medieval Harlequin books a few years ago, I decided to take a chance on this late Regency era story when I read the blurb and discovered the heroine is French. I’m still looking for books featuring French heroes but at least this ... more >
Dear Ms. Kantra: I thought it would be kind of fun to run this review after Jia’s wherein she expresses some, um, discomfort at merpeople as main characters in a romance. While I have not read many books about merpeople, I can say during the ones I have read I ... more >