B Reviews / Recommended ReadsHarlequin / Harlequin Presents / New Zealand / Recommended Reads19 Comments
Dear Ms Hunter, A few weeks ago, I again dipped my toe into the Harlequin Presents pool. Now you have to understand that generally I have avoided this particular pool in favor of other Harlequin lines because the asshole:doormat ratio (as Jane likes to term it) usually drives me bonkers. ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsBad Blood / Caitlin Crews / Harlequin Presents / Notorious Wolfes / publicity / Recommended Reads / shame10 Comments
Dear Ms. Crews: The Disgraced Playboy is the second in the Notorious Wolfe series (or Bad Blood to the UK readers). The first, by Sarah Morgan, was reviewed here. The story treads familiar tropes: low self esteem hero plays at being a dilettante so that no one can see how ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Apple / Barnes & Noble / ereader device / Harlequin Presents / Kobo / Literary Criticism42 Comments
Apple instituted a new rule that was to go into effect last month which disallowed Apps to have a direct link to the retailers purchasing site unless the retailer offered the same products for sale inside the App and allowed Apple to get 30%. Under Agency pricing, of course, this ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsBad Blood / Harlequin Presents / movie-star / Notorious Wolfes / opposites attract / Sarah Morgan29 Comments
Dear Ms. Morgan, I’m always on the lookout for a new book by you, and when I saw that your latest Presents release was the first of a new series featuring a number of prominent authors, I was hooked at once. Released as the Bad Blood series in the UK, ... more >
B Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / Harlequin / Harlequin Presents / Italy / Kate Hewitt / marriage-of-convenience / Ugly Duckling42 Comments
Note: was released in the UK as “The Bride’s Awakening” Dear. Ms. Hewitt, Your post at DA about your hero who deliberately marries his plain heroine caught my attention. A dashing, powerful, dark Italian hero who isn’t going to bed/marry then spurn/reject/humiliate a delicate blonde flower of a heroine? Bring ... more >
B- Reviews / D Reviewsamnesia / Harlequin Presents / India Grey / infertility / Secret-Baby15 Comments
The following are two secret baby stories but very differently portrayed. In Morey’s story, the pregnancy arises out of a botched fertility experiment and in the Grey story, amnesia leading to a lost father. I am always terribly amused when HP authors manage to bring in more than one romance ... more >