B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsfeminism / Historical Romances / journalist / POC author / Recommended Reads / Victorian28 Comments
Dear Ms. Milan: It seems very apt that the last book in the Brothers Sinister series is being promoted with a funny tumblr written by one of its characters, because it feels like a book that sprang from the Internet. I’m honestly not sure if that’s a complaint or a ... more >
Classic Romance Reviews1980s / Classic Review / Historical Romances / pirates / Regency / republication / The WindflowerComments Off on Conversational Review: The Windflower by Laura London (aka Tom and Sharon Curtis)
In preparation for our book club on The Windflower, Sunita and Robin undertook a conversational review of the book. Very soon it became clear that in order to keep said review under the actual page limit of the book itself, we’d have to do more of a general commentary that ... more >
B- Reviews19th century / England / Historical Romances / lady's companion / PTSD / Victorian England / war heroes2 Comments
Dear Ms. Callen, Redemption of the Duke was a good, solid read for me. While I’ve gone through a handful of your books, I had not read the other two in this series. I’ll probably pick them up soon, having enjoyed this one. It was a shaky start, with a couple pages ... more >
Conventions / Features / Interviews19th century / Category / Cathryn Parry / Contemporary / Courtney Milan / Dani Collins / Grace Burrowes / Historical / Historical Romances / RWA8 Comments
With reader and writer “conference season” upon us, I thought I’d bring to Dear Author a few authors who also make great presenters on panels and workshops. Grace Burrowes was a wonderful discovery to me last year–I didn’t know her when I went to see a panel of headliner historical ... more >
B- Reviews19th century / Historical Romances / Musicians9 Comments
Dear Ms. Lawson, I finished Sonata for Scoundrel just as Robin’s Reading What You Know post set off an epic discussion of book-trance-killing pet peeves. As I read through all the replies, I realized that my inner red flags were at the ready when I started your story of a ... more >
C ReviewsAmerican historical / Historical Romances / immigrants / self-published1 Comments
Dear Ms. Robinson, It’s like there was a big neon sign on the blurb for this book that flashed “I wrote this just for Kelly.” Young, beautiful Italian mail-order bride Angelina D’Alessandro is married by proxy to an older man she’s never met-her only chance to escape the poverty of ... more >