Conversationscelebrity likeness / food comparisons / good-description / heroes / metaphor / othering / psychological insights / unappealing descriptions35 Comments
Layla: I’m starting off this conversation about hero descriptions with one anecdote and two questions. The anecdote is about a book I recently picked up, Erin Satie’s Book of Love. Jennie did a fabulous review of it. I usually love Erin Satie’s books, but there was a description of the ... more >
B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / class-difference / Elizabeth Essex / good-description / mistorical / Regency England / virgin hero14 Comments
Dear Ms. Essex: The Danger of Desire opens in the POV of a young woman named Meggs. Meggs, a London street thief, and her younger brother Timmy, are preparing to steal near the Admiralty building. Meanwhile, Captain Hugh McAlden is in the same building, meeting with Admiral Middleton, who tells ... more >
Book Reviews / C ReviewsAfrican American / Contemporary / good-description / POC / POC author / secret / sisters / Texas / Violence / Young-Adult14 Comments
Dear Ms. Reeves, Your debut YA novel, Bleeding Violet, was one of my favorite books of last year, so when you emailed me with an offer to review an ARC of your second book, Slice of Cherry, I jumped at the chance. Slice of Cherry is written in third person ... more >
A- Reviewsgood characterization / good-description / Julie-Anne-Long / Regency England / shipboard29 Comments
Dear Ms. Long, Violet Redmond is young, beautiful, and bored. It seems that no matter what she does, her popularity with the ton will not fade. Suitors flock to her side, even though she once threatened to cast herself into a well when arguing with one of them. In the ... more >
C+ Reviewsalternate-reality / Carolyn Crane / crime / good-description / good-narration / Love-Triangle / psychic powers / Urban-Fantasy25 Comments
PLEASE NOTE: The following review contains a few SPOILERS. If you prefer to avoid spoilers, you might not want to read this review until after you have read the book. Dear Ms. Crane, You've been part of the romance community since at least 2007, and I occasionally lurk on and ... more >
A Review Category / A Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / adultery / Earl / good characterization / good-description / Good-Dialogue / lawsuits / Love-Triangle / rake / widow31 Comments
Black Silk was one of the first two Romance novels I read, and to this day it remains one of my absolute favorites. Submit Channing-Downs, the woman who deeply mourns the husband who was almost three times her age, is so unlike most Romance heroines. Her hair has the quality ... more >