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REVIEW: Archangel’s Storm by Nalini Singh

Dear Ms. Singh,

I’ll be honest, this is a book I’ve been waiting for since your Guild Hunters series began and we first met the Archangel Raphael’s spymaster, Jason. So I started Archangel’s Storm with a sense of great anticipation. What I found was a quieter than expected romance, but one that I found great satisfaction in reading.

[image error] During Dmitri’s wedding to Honor (Archangel’s Blade), Jason receives notification that Eris, the consort of a rival archangel and member of the Cadre of Ten, Neha,...

Dear Author Recommends for September 2012

Historicals

The Ugly Duchess by Eloisa James.Recommended by Jennie. (Review here)
Edited to Add:Midnight Scandals by Carolyn Jewel, Courtney Milan, and Sherry Thomas. Recommended by Sunita and Dabney. (Review to come)

Paranormal

Archangel’s Storm by Nalini Singh. Recommended by Kati and Jane. (review to come)
Riveted by Meljean Brook. Recommended by Jane. (Review here)

Contemporary

Hidden Paradise by Janet Mullany. Recommended by Jennie. (Review here)
All He Ever Needed by Shannon Stacey. Recommended...

REVIEW: Just One Night by Nancy Warren

Dear Ms. Warren:

In flipping through the Blaze ARCs sent to us by Harlequin, I picked up your book first. I’ve read and enjoyed you in the past. For 2/3 of the story, I felt like this was a book I could recommend to Dear Author readers but it kind of fell apart at the end; however, aside from the odd suspense element introduced which served as the relationship ex machina, this was a charming love story.

[image error]Rob Klassen is a photojournalist, injured by a bullet wound during his last excursion near t...

The perils of paid-for reviews

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From I Can Haz Cheeseburger

Despite the regularity and ubiquity with which free speech is invoked in online discussions, it is rarely relevant in the way it is used, as either sword or shield. In the broadest possible sense, our online discussions (at least in the United States) are reflective of the “marketplace of ideas” theory of free speech, but for the most part, we’re not specifically implicating First Amendment protections when we’re making asses of ourselves expressing ourselves online...

Tuesday News: Easier to read MS Agreement; Random House US digital sales 27% of revenue; and Hugo Awards livestream terminated

Welcome back to work, Americans.

Say Hello to Samsung’s Fanboy Factory – The Mobilers Program – I know that the tech blogosphere (along with a few others) have a lot of money attempting to influence them. There are many complaints that Tech Crunch fails to adhere to a journalistic standard (or an FTC standard) about failure of disclosure and conflicts of interest. Samsung has a program called Mobiler which is essentially a tech oriented street team where individuals are leveraged to give cover...

Daily Deals: Carina Press $1.99 deals along with a classic fantasy tale

[image error] Exclusively Yours by Shannon Stacey. $1.99.

From Jacket Copy:

When Keri Daniels’s boss finds out she has previous carnal knowledge of reclusive bestselling author Joe Kowalski, she gives Keri a choice: get an interview or get a new job.

Joe’s never forgotten the first girl to break his heart, so he’s intrigued to hear Keri’s back in town–and looking for him. He proposes an outrageous plan–for every day she survives with his family on their annual camping trip, Keri can ask one question.

The chem...

REVIEW: Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

Dear Ms. Cushman,

The title of this book rang a bell when I saw it for sale. Since it has such a positive reputation and was a Newbery Honor book, I felt confident that it would be worth my time to seek out and try. I immediately fell for Catherine, called Birdy. But I also acknowledge that if a young woman who might act and think like Birdy actually existed in England in the year 1290, she would have been one in a million.

Birdy’s diary faithfully records a year of her life beginning when she...

REVIEW: Riveted by Meljean Brook

Dear Ms. Brook:

“For two people who don’t fit anywhere, we get along well” sums up the romance between two outsiders, David and Annika. This unusual romance between a the volcanic naturalist David and the airship engineer Annika might be my favorite entry in your Iron Seas series. It is one of my favorite books of 2012. My review may be TL;DR for many (Too Long;Didn’t Read) so I’ll provide a short summary. Two outsiders meet, fall in love, overcome impossible conflicts, and confess their love...

Monday News: More Bestselling Fraud; Love iPhone? Buy Samsung; Pentagon threatens action against Navy SEAL author

Happy Labor Day to the U.S. folks.

VoterRegistration – This is an open source web app that is designed to help any person, no matter party affiliation, to register to vote. November is just under 60 days away and a U.S. citizen’s most precious right is the right to have a say in how she is governed. If you haven’t registered to vote or if you are unsure if you are registered to vote, USE THIS. Voter Registration Open Source App

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Daily Deals: Inspiring memoir, romance, science fiction, and inspirational romance

Breaking Night by Liz Murray. $1.99.

From Jacket Copy:

In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.

Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls’ home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when...