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December 14, 2009

REVIEW: The Gladiator by Carla Capshaw

JayneB Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / Ebooksancient-Rome / Carla Capshaw / gladiator / Harlequin / Harlequin Love Inspired Historical / Rome26 Comments

Dear Ms. Capshaw, Thanks for submitting your first historical novel to Dear Author for review and thanks to Michelle Styles, whose first book I read was also a gladiator novel, for suggesting it. Today we use the phrases “thrown to the lions” or “throw ’em another Christian” in all sorts ... more >

December 15, 2006

REVIEW: Liberty by Kimberly Iverson

JayneB Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Ebooksancient-Rome / gladiator / Historical / Roman-Britain17 Comments

Dear Ms. Iverson, This turned out to be a lucky gamble book. And what made it even longer odds that I picked it up to try is that all I initially saw on the shelf at Waldenbooks was the spine. Let’s hear it for great cover/spine artwork. Yes, publishers, it ... more >

September 15, 2006

REVIEW: The Gladiator’s Honor by Michelle Styles

JayneB Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / gladiator / Michelle-Styles6 Comments

Dear Mrs. Styles, After years of Harlequin Historicals that made me think the only past acceptable for romance authors to write about was the Regency time frame, we finally (finally!) seem to be getting more of a range of eras. Praise Him (or Her, if that’s your preference) from whom ... more >

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