A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsChristmas / Colorado / doctor hero / dysfunctional family / found family / holiday novella / humorous / Memory / novella5 Comments
Ori’s holidays are an endless series of elaborately awful meals cooked by her one-time stepfather Dave’s latest bride. Attended by a loose assemblage of family, Ori particularly dreads Grandma Elving—grandmother of Dave’s fourth wife—and her rhapsodizing about the Christmas she worked at Woolworth’s in the 1950s. And, of course, she ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsAmericana / class differences / Colorado / gold rush / historical romance / love triangles / marriage-of-convenience / miner / pregnancy / rancher6 Comments
Dear Maggie Osborne, I enjoyed another of your books in the past and had heard good things about Silver Lining, a 2000 release. Recently, I was in the mood for an absorbing, well-written book, and I trusted you to give me that. The story concerns Louise Downe, who begins the ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews / C+ ReviewsColorado / free-book / Movie / Reading lists / Shifter Falls series / werewolves8 Comments
Rebel Wolf by Amy Green Werewolf Ian Donovan is in prison. Ian was wrongfully convicted following a cage fight, and though the prison is a minimum-security one, Ian needs to run fast to be able to shift and his stay in prison prevents that. Not shifting for a long time ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsColorado / Erotic-Romance / Self Pub / Unfinished Heroes Series16 Comments
Dear Ms. Ashley: Oh, I was uncertain about this book. We met Nick Sebring in your book, Knight (incidentally, the book that launched my reviewing tenure here at Dear Author). Nick is the brother of the hero of Knight, and in that book he puts his hands on a woman (and ... more >
C- ReviewsColorado / Contemporary / New Adult2 Comments
Dear Ms. O’Neal, I’m not quite sure where to begin. This is a very odd book. I’m still dipping my toes into new adult so I’m not as well-versed in the genre as others, but Random struck me as a novel that fails to live up to expectations or even ... more >
B Reviews / B- ReviewsColorado / Contemporary / dysfunctional family / Harlequin19 Comments
Dear Ms. Dahl: I had been planning to review Good Girls Don’t, but by the time I got to it, Bad Boys Do was out and Real Men Will was imminent. So I figured I might as well review all three, since the trilogy’s release dates are so close together. ... more >