B+ ReviewsMilitary / Penguin / short-story7 Comments
Dear Ms. Fallon: I am a romance reader and rarely read non fiction. While this collection of stories are fictional, they are loosely based on men and women that live in military bases probably across the world. I don’t doubt that these stories have been replayed a thousand times in ... more >
B Reviews / B- ReviewsLiterary fiction / short-story1 Comments
Dear Ms. Pekkanen: According to the Amazon bio, you are an acclaimed fiction writer which would be why your name is unknown to me. I rarely read outside the romance genre. Your publicist sent this to me and as I do with all books sent to me, I opened and ... more >
C Reviews / D Reviews19th century / Dreamspinner Press / m/m romance / novellas / Rape / short-story / Torquere Press / vampires14 Comments
I read a lot of novellas or stories that are even shorter than that. Torquere, for instance, regularly puts out stories that are 10 pages, or 20, or 30, but I don’t bother requesting them because how could I justify a review? But I figure if I review 3-4 shorts ... more >
B- ReviewsEighteenth century / featured / ghost-story / m/m romance / mlr press / short-story2 Comments
Dear Ms. Beecroft. I enjoyed, as I always do, your sublime prose and the beautiful love story. I had more reservations about this story than I have for the previous two of yours I reviewed, though, reservations all revolving around the plot. In addition, I’m pretty much paranormaled out, so ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book ReviewsLesley-Anne McLeod / Regency England / short-story2 Comments
Dear Ms. McLeod, You’ve never let me down with any of the past novellas of yours I’ve read and you don’t do it this time either. I confess that I was slightly dismayed at the length of the story which formatted to 20 pages on my reader. She’s going to ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Category / EbooksK.A. Mitchell / Liveblog / m/m romance / short-story58 Comments
Click Here for a popup window or click below to run the liveblog straight from the DearAuthor website. Summary: We had an interesting discussion about m/m topics given that two of my gay friends came to liveblog with us. I liked Mitchell’s voice in this story and would ... more >