B Reviews / B- ReviewsGuild Hunter series / multicultural / paranormal romance / POC / vampires4 Comments
Dear Ms. Singh, Archangel’s Viper, the tenth book in your Guild Hunter series, begins with a two paragraph prologue in which an unidentified woman gives birth to a child. Something about the child causes the healer to back away. In the next chapter, Holly Chang, once known as Sorrow, parts ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsCEO / Contemporary / Erotic-Romance / family feuds / POC / psychological insights / Reunited Couple / star-crossed lovers / Tattoo Artist2 Comments
Dear Ms. Rai, Every year since the decade-old rift between their once close-families opened up, Nicholas Chandler and Livvy Oka-Kane have met in secret on Livvy’s birthday, each time in a different location, to spend one night together. Every year but the last, when Livvy did not text Nicholas the ... more >
B+ Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readscommunity / friendship / magical powers / Nigeria / POC / YA fantasy6 Comments
Dear Ms. Okorafor, Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue is fascinated by candles. In Nigeria, where Sunny lives, the electrical company turns off the lights at night, and Sunny keeps candles in her bedroom in case she needs light. One night, she lights such a candle and it shows her something—a vision of ... more >
B ReviewsACE-ROC / diversity / ghosts / LGBTQ / New York City / Penguin Random House / POC / Urban-FantasyComments Off on REVIEW: Midnight Taxi Tango by Daniel José Older
Dear Mr. Older, Last year, I read your debut novel Half-Resurrection Blues and loved it. For me, it was a refreshing take on urban fantasy – and long-time Dear Author readers will know how I feel about that subgenre! The narrative voice was beautiful. It was like music captured in ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsACE-ROC / Latina / New York City / POC / Urban-Fantasy4 Comments
Dear Mr. Older, I have an uneasy relationship with urban fantasy. During the subgenre boom some years back, I dove headfirst and devoured everything I could get my hands on. It seemed like I couldn’t get enough of it. But like all things, that phase came to an end and ... more >
B- ReviewsAmerican historical / cowboy / Historical / Interracial / POC / teacher / western13 Comments
Lily looked at the vastness of the plains, full of cattle, and then up at the sky without a cloud in sight. “What’s going to happen, Mr. Sinclair?” she asked. “What do you know?” Fresh off the train from New York City, Lily Carteret arrives in picturesque Wyoming only to ... more >