Deborah Macgillivray

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“Brazilian translation of In Her Bed”

Deborah Macgillivray wrote this review Saturday, July 18, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“German Translation of A Restless Knight”

Deborah Macgillivray wrote this review Saturday, July 18, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

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“Book 3 of the Sisters of Colford Hall ™ series”

Deborah Macgillivray wrote this review Saturday, July 18, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

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“One of the hardest things for a writer to do is develop a “voice”. It’s that unique narrative you ’hear’ when you read an author, very similar to a fingerprint, marking that author has developed their own style. Rowena Cherry has that in spades, and it’s spiced with a very special brand of humor, which sets her apart. She creates a strong world for her series (Mating Net, Forced Mate, and Insufficient Mating Material) for Dorchester’s Love Spell. While you will enjoy reading Knight’s Fork alone, I highly recommend you get all the stories and read them in order, to get the full enjoyment out of Cherry world-building Sci-Fi /Futuristic romances, whose titles are based on Chess moves.
Electra, The Queen Consort of Volnoth, is in need of a baby, an heir to the throne. Her choice is a green-eyed knight, who seems perfect for the ‘job’. Only, she isn’t aware that Rhett, the Royal Surian Djinn, is also the son of her greatest enemy. Ah, conflict abounds! Our sexy Saurian lord is in between a rock and a hard place - caught in the middle of Electra’s urgent claim upon his body and a father who is just barely higher than pond scum.

I won’t go into why Electra needs a ‘donor’ to create an heir, since it’s rather vital to the plot, but will say Cherry pens her third novel with the same flair and intelligent writing that has earned her a strong following. She is not an author to ‘skim’ read, but to savor her savvy turn of a phrase and intricate plotting. Cherry is also very attentive to details, showing she thoroughly researches her books. I highly recommend Knight’s Fork for the reader looking for a book that is fresh, original and provokes a good laugh.
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Deborah Macgillivray wrote this review Wednesday, August 20, 2008. ( reply | permalink )

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“Favorite Novella of 2007 - The Readers' Lounge - "Detour for Love"

Winner of LASR Award for Best Novella in print formation 2007 "Detour for Love"”

Deborah Macgillivray wrote this review Friday, May 30, 2008. ( reply | permalink )

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“PEARL Award Nominee - Best Novella - "A Very Special Man"

CAPA Award Finalist - Best Anthology

LASR Award Nominee for Best Novella in Print”

Deborah Macgillivray wrote this review Friday, May 30, 2008. ( reply | permalink )

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“Colleen Thompson is an author waiting to “happen”. Oh, she has been out there, is well respected as a growing talent. She has a solid backlist of amazing tales; only, she just has that presence of an author ready to have that break out novel. The Salt Maiden is that book. Her skill and flow of the prose marks her as a master wordsmith. She weaves an intricate plot into this eerie, sinister tale that kept me spellbound. This simply is Colleen Thompson at her very best.


Dana Vanover is resolute to find her sister. Her determination takes her back to the desert town of Devil’s Claw, where she encounters nothing but resistance to the answers she’s come to find. The strongest stonewalling to her prodding and probing for an explanation about her sister’s disappearance comes from Sheriff Jay Eversole. The sheriff makes no bones about it – he wants her gone for more reasons than one. However, Dana is not leaving without her sister. As she continues the hardheaded pursuit of the riddle of the mystery, Jay causes other problems – namely the passions he provokes in her. Lives are at peril in this deadly sinister story, and under the careful crafting of this very talented writer, the reader is guaranteed a tale that will keep them on the edge of the seat, with temperatures rising, as they turn page after page unable to put this novel down.


Very highly recommended.
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Deborah Macgillivray wrote this review Friday, November 9, 2007. ( reply | permalink )

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“One of the most respected authors in the romance field for two decades, best-selling author Maggie Davis a.k.a. Maggie Daniels a.k.a. Katherine Deauxville has delivered gems, from mysteries to adventures to alien romances, and everything in-between. Possibly, that wide of variety saw it hard for publishers to brand her. However, readers knew of the talented author. I first learned of this marvelous writer when a friend would buy her - whatever the name - on auto-buy. She asked me if I had ever read Davis and I admitted I had not. The woman looked at me like "poor thing". I went out and bought about four or five Deauxville novels. This was my first. The first of many! I am so thrilled to get this is a new collectors edition for my keeper shelf because my copy is really dog-earred! Originally published a decade ago by Kensington Books, it was marketed as Historical Romance. Well, it does have romance - boy does it! But by today's standards this novel is actually Historical Fiction. Maggie Davis is one of the strongest period writers, delivering a richly researched novel that carries the reader back into a rougher time for women, when they were forced to do whatever it took to survive. Beautiful Emmeline is married to a very old man, a product of the period when a woman didn't have many choices in life. Fortunately, the man is well positioned, the head of the Guild. Only, she needs that all-important heir to cement her hold on her life. With a husband that clearly cannot do the deed, she is forced to send a servant out to pay a man to give her what she needs most: a son. She envisioned a quick coming together that would result in a child. Instead, she gets a night of passion and love that touches her soul, her heart. Even so, she knows this newfound love can never be, and steals away in the dawn before the knight can awaken. Niall fitzJulian, the new lord of Castle Morlaix, has been haunted for a decade by the flame-haired beauty who touched his heart, then disappeared. He hunted for her. Wanted to find her. Now, he is a cold man, keeping that heart behind shutters of iron. Only, life comes full circle, and as he is taking the oath from his serfs and villiens, he sees the very woman he has so long desired. Emmaline, now widowed, hopes this fierce warrior has forgotten her as she kneels before him to give homage. She soon learns she's not so lucky and now must pay the piper. A strong novel, a riveting novel, one which burned into my mind, and made me want to write, is now in this special collectors editions for the many fans who kept asking for copies. ”

Deborah Macgillivray wrote this review Saturday, September 15, 2007. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )

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“I've truly enjoyed all of Dawn Thompson's Books (The Ravencliff Bride; The Waterlord; The Falcon's Bride; Blood Moon) and eagerly await each new release. She combines the best roots of historical romance with her own fresh style, very lyrical, poetic. And very quickly she is filling her own keeper shelf! However, with the first release of her Dawn MacTavish books (the name change to alert readers these are pure historicals with no paranormal elements), I must say she hits dead on for Regency lovers, and this is possibly my favourite of her books so far (though I eagerly await Lord of the Dark and The Privateer). A long time member of the `Beau Monde', Dawn knows the period well, and is able to bring in the true ambiance, the details that make this story come alive brimming with the Regency era. But what really hits and steals your heart are the two lead characters. They drive the story - they ARE the story - and WOW...they make you fall in love with them falling in love. Lady Jenna Hollingsworth is so tired of the run around she is getting concerning her father's dead. She believes a notorious highwayman called The Marsh Hawk killed her father. When she receives no justice, she decides to dispense it herself. She plans to bring him to justice, but instead shoots him, and runs off believing she has killed him. Weeks pass, and at a masquerade ball to announce her engagement to Viscount Rupert Marner, she is shocked by a stranger. His vivid blue eyes shine from behind the mask, reminding her of a man she left for dead. At first, she assumes it's The Marsh Hawks ghost come to extract revenge. What else does a lass do in the face of that? Faints! After seeing her fiance reveal his true self, she elopes with the blue-eyed man behind the mask - Lord Simon Rutherford, The Earl of Kevernwood. A marriage built on lies makes for a rocky start for both and a rousing adventure for readers. This is Regency Romance at its purest, perfection wrapped in a perfect cover. Highly recommended for Regency readers, Historical readers and anyone wanting to fall in love! I eagerly look forward to more MacTavish books from Thompson. ”

Deborah Macgillivray wrote this review Saturday, September 15, 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“A Circle of Crows is the debut book for Brynn Chapman and she gives us a dark tale of missing children. In writing, we are often encouraged to distill our books to two movie titles - called the "High Concept". At a writers convention you have a very limited window to snag and agent's or editor's attention. I generally dislike this summing up a novel by defining your work with a couple movie titles. A book should be special, unique. However, now and then, this high concept does pop into my mind when I am trying to review a book. Chapman is a writer who is evocative in this Frank Laloggia's Lady in White meets M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. For once, high concept is dead on target. As in Lady in White, there are children missing from a small rural area, but Chapman quickly moves the mystery into the mysterious with the hypnotic writing that evokes Shyamalan's touch of Hitchockian horror, with her showing great promise as a author. Children of the sleepy town of Rhinebeck are missing. Since the turn of the century, they have vanished. One minute they are there, next they are gone. No evidence to say what happened to them. The Four Season Inn is own by three sisters. And one of the children missing is from the Inn. When she was thirteen, she disappeared while her family slept. Odd things are now happening to the sisters. When it rains there are whispers, like children calling. Then the crows begin to circle the old inn, foretelling of a dark menace that must be stopped. The riddle of where the children have vanished centers on the Inn. In a spiraling tale that keeps the tension palpable from page one and never lets up, Chapman evokes the tension of The Village and the small town family love so wonderfully summon by Laloggia in Lady in White, giving this tale the cohesive power that binds the sisters with the strength to face what is unimaginable. A very welcome addition on my keeper shelf.”

Deborah Macgillivray wrote this review Saturday, September 15, 2007. ( reply | permalink )