D Reviewsfamily-reunion / grieving / illegitimate-child / Love-Triangle / Older-Woman-/-Younger-Man / Regency England25 Comments
The following review contains SPOILERS. The spoilers from late in the book are hidden, but others are visible. If you have never read A Promise of Spring and prefer to avoid spoilers, read this review at your own risk. Dear Ms. Balogh, A Promise of Spring, now being reprinted in ... more >
A Review Category / A Reviews / A- Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas Stories / class-difference / Earl / grief / grieving / holiday setting / joint review / marriage-of-convenience / Regency England30 Comments
Janine: It's been roughly four years since the first time I read Mary Balogh's A Christmas Promise. At the time, I loved the book, so when I heard it was being reissued, I thought this would be a great time to review it. I felt a little trepidation though, because ... more >
B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsArtist / coming-of-age / dreams / grieving / Italy / Maine / music / musician / mystery / Paranormal / professor / romantic-elements / Rome / twins / Womens-Fiction13 Comments
Dear Ms. Walsh, You don’t know me, but I sometimes lurk at your blog, Writer Unboxed, which is one of the best blogs for writers I know of. I’ve been following it since the days when you were writing this book, under the working title of Unbounded, so when Jane ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviews / EbooksContemporary / grieving / Young-Adult12 Comments
Dear Ms. Dessen, I don’t normally read YA books but for some reason I began perusing the new offerings in that category at Fictionwise a few weeks ago. And that’s when this book caught my eye. It looked like it was going to deal with some important issues. But still ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviews / Ebooksdeath / grieving / marriage4 Comments
Dear Ms Didion, I found your account of your first year after the sudden and tragic death of your husband, all while dealing with your critically ill daughter’s many admissions to various hospitals, to be deeply moving yet in some ways offsetting and disjointed. I guess that’s due to intermixing ... more >