Meet Reviewer Kate Garrabrant
About Me Favorite Romance Authors
My love of romance and reading in general began when my mother gave me Gone With the Wind when I was thirteen. Since then there was no turning back. I am obsessed with reading any book I can get my hands on. Even if I am at the mall, the first store I need to stop at is a Borders or a Barnes and Noble. I also work right next to a library so you know I am there almost everyday! People I work with to my own family call me the “book girl”.
I have always been a creative person. I love to write and draw. My professional life is the same as I work in the video/ television industry in Manhattan. I am also a hardcore lover of classic movies and Broadway shows. I love to soak up as much as I can from the world around me to the point I have so much useless information in my brain. I consider myself a very eclectic person in general with one quirk of mine is that I love to collect Coca Cola paraphernalia.
All-Time Favorite Romance Authors
Lisa Kleypas
Best Discovery/Buried Treasure Authors
Sandra Canfield
My Biggest Glom
Lisa Kleypas
Personal Reading Tastes Favorites by Sub-Genre
What I’m a sucker for in a book: The damaged hero or heroine who help each other heal, the less-than-perfect hero and heroine (I hate the stereotypical rich, drop dead gorgeous popular people!), the heroine who makes the hero crazy in a cute way.
What I don’t particularly care for in a book: Those Ton scenarios done over and over, widow heroines who are still virgins, heroes who fight in wars and are beyond emotionally damaged.
What drives me absolutely nuts in a book: Heroines who dont know what sex is (let alone a penis!), main characters who are spies for the government, over-the-top villains who like pain and suffering (very cartoonish).
Favorite Romance Novels
Absolute Favorites
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Favorite Classic
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Contemporary:
Cherish This Moment by Sandra Canfield
Frontier or American Historical:
Annie’s Song by Catherine Anderson
European Historical:
A Rose at Midnight by Anne Stuart
Traditional Regency:
The Duke by Gaelen Foley
Medieval:
The Warlord by Elizabeth Elliott
Alternate Reality:
Heart series by Robin Owens
Category:
Lightning that Lingers by Sharon and Tom Curtis
Favorite Characters Favorites by Plot Type
Favorite Hero
Roarke, In Death series by J.D. Robb
Favorite Heroine
Eve Dallas, In Death series by J.D. Robb
Most Tortured Hero
Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Strongest Heroine
Tatiana Metanova, The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Favorite Couple
Roarke and Eve Dallas, In Death series by J.D. Robb
Best Villain
Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Suspense:
Cry No More by Linda Howard
Funny:
To Die For by Linda Howard
Sexy:
The Real Deal by Lucy Monroe
Favorites by Mood
Comfort Reads:
In Death series by J.D. Robb
Most-Hanky Reads:
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Least-Favorites
Worst Book
Anything by Cheryl Holt
Purple Prose-iest Book
Anything by Bertrice Small or Thea Devine
Authors I Have Given Up On
Julie Garwood (Waaa…)
Authors Others Love That I Don’t
Deborah Smith
Mary Balogh
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Brenda Joyce
Non-Romance Favorites
Favorite Author
Stephen King
Favorite Book
The Stand by Stephen King
Favorite Classic Novel
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Favorite Fantasy
The Promise by Donna Boyd
Favorite Women’s Fiction
Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch by Marsha Moyer
Favorite YA Book
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Book Most Often Reread
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux