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November 30, 2020

REVIEW: Take a Look at the Five and Ten by Connie Willis

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsChristmas / Colorado / doctor hero / dysfunctional family / found family / holiday novella / humorous / Memory / novella5 Comments

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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 >

July 22, 2020

REVIEW: Silver Lining by Maggie Osborne

JanineB- 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 >

April 26, 2017

What Janine is Reading and Seeing in the Theater: Werewolf Edition

JanineBook 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 >

January 14, 2016

REVIEW: Sebring by Kristen Ashley

KatiB+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsColorado / Erotic-Romance / Self Pub / Unfinished Heroes Series16 Comments

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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 >

November 16, 2013

REVIEW: Random by Lark O’Neal

JiaC- 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 >

Real Men Will Victoria Dahl
October 25, 2011

TRIPLE PLAY REVIEW: Donovan Brothers Brewery series by Victoria Dahl

JanetB 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 >

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