B Reviews / C+ Reviews / MangaManga / Young-Adult13 Comments
A Prince Needs a Princess. Story by Barbara McMahon, art by Reiko Kishida.Retail: $7.99.Rated T for Teen, 12 and up, sweet kisses only (I’d say a little younger would be OK too).I believe it’s based on McMahon’s Harlequin Romance The Tycoon Prince, from 2003, but has been reworked into a ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ ReviewsContemporary / First-Person / Lisa-Kleypas / Texas23 Comments
Dear Ms. Kleypas: After 20 plus historical novels, you’ve decided to change course and write a first person contemporary woman’s fiction novel. Sugar Daddy is billed as a big story featuring a plucky innocent heroine and her dilemma between two rich, alpha businessmen. The narrator, Liberty is a charming and ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviewsancient-Rome / marriage-of-convenience7 Comments
Dear Ms Randal, Wow, Harlequin really seems to be getting the message that romance readers want something other than Regency set romances to read. Will wonders never cease? In the past year I think I’ve read more books set during ancient Rome than in the five preceding years combined. After ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviews4 Comments
Dear Ms. Arthur: Kissing Sin is the second book in the Riley Jensen series. Riley Jensen is a half breed: vampire and werewolf. She is working with the Directorate of Other Races to eradicate a lab that is experimenting with crossbreeds to develop the perfect killing machine. Riley doesn’t want ... more >
Dear Ms. Green: Vampire Bablyon is the start of a new vampire hunting series featuring a female stunt expert, Dawn Madison. The story is fast paced and filled with enough gory fight scenes to please the hard core urban fantasy reader but with a surprisingly emotional layer that may appeal ... more >
B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviews / MangaManga / Romance21 Comments
For a long time, I have been badgering a friend of mine who reads manga to do reviews for us at DearAuthor. Manga is one of the fastest growing genres and is read by a broad audience of young girls and boys to adults. ジェーン(JÄn) (Japanese version for Jane) is ... more >