B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsamnesia / California / family relationships / near-future / Speculative-Fiction / thriller / Young-Adult19 Comments
Dear Ms. Pearson, I first heard about your YA novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, last December during the Smugglivus event on The Book Smugglers blog. Author Nalini Singh did a guest post recapping her favorite books read in 2009. Her description of the book was brief but, combined with ... more >
B+ ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / Barry Eisler / Military / thriller6 Comments
Dear Mr. Eisler, I was literally in the middle of writing this review when the news broke on Tuesday that an Iranian nuclear physics professor was killed by a bomb left outside his home in Tehran. Now I know that the circumstances of this man’s murder have nothing in common ... more >
A- ReviewsAssassin / Barry Eisler / California / Carolyn Jewel / featured / government / intellectual property / Military / Review / thriller9 Comments
Dear Mr. Eisler: Fault Line was the first book of yours that I’d read. I’ve since read more, by the way. In the past, I have worked at Intellectual Property law firms as well as in the legal department of a Bio-Tech firm, so I am intimate with the portion ... more >
B Reviews Category / B- ReviewsChicago / Christine Merrill / librarian / thriller6 Comments
Dear Ms. Merrill: Someone sent me an email pointing me to this blog post by Lani Diane Rich wherein she lamented that there was a great book out there that no one was reading. I was intrigued. I knew you wrote historicals for Harlequin but I admit to never having ... more >
B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsAvon / romantic-suspense / sports romance / spousal abuse / thriller16 Comments
Dear Ms. Carroll: I picked this book up because I had the jones for a good romantic suspense and when I paged through it I discovered that the hero is a former football player. WIN! I love sports related books. Alas, it wasn’t a sports related book but I still ... more >
B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsromantic-suspense / thriller2 Comments
Dear Ms. Sala: You are another “new to me” author. I may have read you in your category iteration, but not in a long, long time. Cut Throat is apparently the second of in a series of books featuring Cat Dupree, a bounty hunter. The story was at its strongest ... more >