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REVIEW: Summer’s End by Kathleen Gilles Seidel

In keeping with the Olympic spirit, Amy Legend is a former Olympic gold medalist in figure skating. Not the summer Olympics, but still.

“To their respective families, Jack Wells and Amy Legend are outsiders. A free-spirited man-of-all-trades, Jack takes life as it comes—not at all like his supremely organized mother, the admiral’s widow, and his methodical lawyer sister. Amy, a professional athlete with exquisite taste and golden beauty, has a glamorous career a world apart from her bookish ol...

Recommended Reads of Dear Author for August 2012

Dabney recommends:

The Legendary Playboy Surgeon by Alison Roberts (Contemp). (Review here)
Within Reach by Sarah Mayberry (Contemp). (Review to come)
Broken Harbour by Tana French (Mystery). (Review to come)

Sunita

Her Cowboy Avenger by Kerry Connor (Contemp). (Review to come)
In His Eyes by Emmy Dark (Contemp). (Review to come)
The Chocolate Thief by Laura Florand (Contemp). (Review to come)

Kati D

Breathe byKristen Ashley (Contemp). (Review here)

Jane

Pushing the Limitsby Katie McGarry (Mature YA). (...

REVIEW: Can’t Hurry Love by Molly O’Keefe

Dear Ms. O’Keefe:

Just last month, I wrote an almost giddily positive review of your debut single title contemporary Romance, Can’t Buy Me Love. I still remember reading that book for the first time and feeling both excited and afraid to read Victoria’s story, Can’t Hurry Love, given her pitiably flawed presence in Luc and Tara’s book. Fluctuating between cringing (and cringe-inducing) emotional weakness and raw unlikeability, Victoria was hardly the stuff of romantic heroism, so it was clear...

Thursday News: ABA and Barnes&Noble receive permission to file amicus brief; Harlequin earnings up but sales down

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The Straight Dope: Who decided women should shave their legs and underarms? – “The gist of the article is that U.S. women were browbeaten into shaving underarm hair by a sustained marketing assault that began in 1915. (Leg hair came later.) The aim of what Hope calls the Great Underarm Campaign was to inform American womanhood of a problem that till then it didn’t know it had, namely unsightly underarm hair.”Straight Dope

h/t Ilona Andrews via @ExperimentBL626

The Ex Fa...

Daily Deals: Montana Glory by R.C. Ryan

[image error] Montana Glory by R.C. Ryan. $2.99.

I’ve never tried an R.C. Ryan book but cowboys are all the rage these days. This is the conclusion to the series according to the reviews. Most people liked it but the one two star review I saw said it had a lot of narration.

From Jacket Copy:

The last thing in the world Zane McCord wants is a wife. But after returning home to the family ranch in Montana to help his cousins search for the lost treasure that is their legacy, Zane can’t help notice that love a...

REVIEW: The Games by Patricia McLinn

Dear Ms. McLinn:

In ESPN’s The Body issue (their answer to SI’s infamous Swimsuit edition), an article ran about licentious behavior in the Olympic Village. Put together a thousand young people with high energy levels and incredibly toned bodies and it’s spring break, athlete style.

And on it went for eight days as scores of Olympians, male and female, trickled into the shooter’s house — and that’s what everyone called it, Shooters’ House — at all hours, stopping by an Oakley duffel bag overflo...

Debut Print Book: HELL ON WHEELS by Julie Ann Walker

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Name of debut release: HELL ON WHEELS

Release date: 08/07/2012

Publisher: Sourcebooks

2 sentence summary: A group of ex-military men who pose as simple motorcycle mechanics take on the jobs too hot for Uncle Sam to handle. And Nate “Ghost” Weller, the most dangerous of them all, must fight to keep his dead partner’s kid sister alive while simultaneously battling his attraction for her.

Genre: romance, thriller, suspense, mystery, adventure

Characters: Nate “Ghose” Weller: He’s the strong, silent t...

REVIEW: The Legendary Playboy Surgeon by Alison Roberts

Dear Ms. Roberts–

I am baffled why such a good book has such a stupid title. Really, I am. When I first saw your book The Legendary Playboy Surgeon I snorted. The cover is awful–some dark-haired dude wearing oversized aviators is going for sexy and coming across surly–and the series description, “Heartbreakers of St. Patrick’s Hospital. The delicious doctors you know you shouldn’t fall for!“sounds like an atrocious reality TV show. I was sure, as someone who has worked in hospitals and is marr...

Wednesday News: Princes thick on the ground; Cybersecurity bill aims to felonize violating a terms of service

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Tara Palmer-Tomkinson finds love with prince – Telegraph – “The former lover of, among others, Alexander Spencer-Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough’s nephew, says aspiring princesses would be well advised to look to mainland Europe. “In European countries, there are more princes than dentists.”” Telegraph UK

I thought this piece was kind of hilarious given how many princes there are in Harlequin Presents book but apparently those books are not exaggerating. One of th...

Daily Deals: Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase and a selection of others for the family

[image error] Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase. $1.99.

Any Loretta Chase book priced at $1.99 is a deal. But in all seriousness, this is really a risk taking book by Chase and one that I am proud that is part of the genre. The book has been reviewed here.

From Jacket Copy:

James Cordier is all blue blood and entirely dangerous. He’s a master of disguise, a brilliant thief, a first-class lover—all for King and Country—and, by gad, he’s so weary of it. His last mission is to “acquire” a packet of incrim...